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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

One of our two traditional biggest issues of the year of the Observer came out this week, the 2023 Hall of Fame issue:

  • 2023 Hall of Fame voting standings for all candidates
  • Hall of Fame coverage, career highlights of the seven new inductees and one major feature story on a European legend, plus who is off the ballot next year, who will be added to the ballot next year, every first ballot Hall of Famer, every person historically elected with more than 75 percent of the vote and the top 30 in each category for reporters, historians, active pros and retired pros.
  • Match of the week and performer of the week
  • A look at Full Gear and Survivor Series
  • UFC 295 full coverage
  • The end of an era with Bellator and MMA on Showtime
  • Coverage of DDT’s Ultimate Party with Chris Jericho, Hiromu Takahashi and a great title match on top
  • PWG on hiatus and its ever changing role in pro wrestling
  • The most complete ratings report, demo coverage, competition for the shows and segment-by-segment notes, plus comparisons with one year ago.
  • Notes on Flip Gordon becoming a regular in CMLL
  • Newcomers to watch out for including one spectacular newcomer at Arena Mexico
  • Stardom and All Japan tag tourneys
  • New Japan tag tournament notes and this week’s shows
  • Lone Star Shootout from New Japan
  • Women’s wrestling sets all-time attendance mark
  • Tony Khan’s Continental Classic
  • Lots of AEW stars in mainstream acting gigs
  • International TV ratings
  • Upcoming ticket advances for WWE & AEW
  • How times have changed greatly for UFC regarding Conor McGregor
  • Dana White gos on rampages about sponsors and critics of another sponsor
  • UFC’s greatest fighters of all-time
  • New UFC major fights
  • Bellator champion suspended regarding drug test failure
  • Fury-Ngannou PPV update
  • Retired star gets giant money offer to return from Middle East
  • More notes on Vince McMahon’s stock sale
  • Rey Mysterio update and angle update
  • WWE making production changes for Mania week
  • Dwayne Johnson claims he almost went to Pride
  • Why Raw could take a big hit this week

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Wednesday Update

WWE

  • With the two sides having reached a settlement, WWE and Panini have asked the court to dismiss their case with prejudice, meaning that the case will be over and neither side can revisit it in the future. The case was initially dismissed without prejudice when WWE and Panini agreed to their settlement.
  • Greg & The Morning Buzz asked Paul “Triple H” Levesque if WWE had any involvement in A24’s upcoming “The Iron Claw” film:
          • We did not. They came to us recently, looking to do some promotion with us, and they were trying to screen it for us a few weeks ago and we had an international tour going on and a PLE in Saudi, we couldn’t make it work. I’m excited to see it. I’ve heard it’s very good. I listen to Michael Hayes complain to me all the time about how they made a movie with him in it and he never signed off on it or agreed to be in the movie. That’s his point of view. It’s an amazing moment in the industry, that whole thing and the fascination of it. For me, I hope they don’t dwell…there is so much positive in our business in so many ways and yet, a lot of times, no different than anything else in life, people want to focus on negative moments. It’s a tragedy, the family. I just hope that it’s done well. I heard it is. I heard it’s done in a way that is not negative, not a downer, but just tells you about the perils of that stuff. If it’s done in that manner, I think it’s great. If it’s just a sensationalized hatchet job on a tragedy in a family that could have been surrounding a lot of different businesses, I hope it’s not that.
  • The Ringer published a feature story on Jey Uso. Before The Usos split up earlier this year, Jey sent a message to the other top tag teams in the world:
          • If you all want these dream matches, you all going to have to bring your ass to WWE, dog, to the top tier. You all going to have to come. Where we at ain’t dropping down. Young Bucks, everybody, like, bring it, dog. Run it. We the ones for a reason, and I mean that. I stand on that, bro. We the best tag team in the world. And if you want to get detailed with it, I’m talking about on the microphone, the way we dress, the way the gear look, the way we carry ourselves, the swag, the ink, everything. The hair, the grills, the earrings, the chain. All that’s real, Uce. All that is real.
  • Billboard also posted an interview with Jey.
  • William Regal reflected on yesterday being the 10th anniversary of his last-ever wrestling match:
          • It’s 10 years today since my final bout against @ClaudioCSRO. I couldn’t of gone out with a better bout against someone I rated extremely highly and cared for. Thank you very much indeed to everyone who made that 30 years run in the ring and charmed life possible.
  • AEW’s Claudio Castagnoli responded to Regal:
          • One of my favorite matches / moments of my career against someone who advanced my career so much and still keeps me on my toes. Thank you
  • The Battleground podcast has an interview with Johnny Gargano.
  • Jim Varsallone interviewed Declan McMahon.
  • X-Pac and Kazeem Famuyide were the guests on WWE’s The Bump today.

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