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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

The new issue of the Observer is out today.  There are a ton of major stories covered including:

  • Bad Blood coverage
  • Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling update which is a big surprise
  • Crown Jewel and Survivor Series
  • Bill Goldberg notes
  • Business notes on the show
  • What finish was changed
  • What match was also nearly changed and why and notes on head shots with objects
  • AEW goes from the highest of highs to record lows
  • What to learn from this week’s numbers
  • How successful AEW will be financially compared to major  companies like WCW and WWE over the past 30 years
  • Next NXT vs. Dynamite head-to-head is a few weeks away
  • Notes on WrestleDream and positive business notes
  • UFC 307 full coverage
  • Janel Grant’s side asks for WWE to release women from NDAs
  • Unique quote from Ari Emanuel from last year and how it plays into this story
  • The full letter from Ann Callis
  • The most detailed look at the  TV ratings from all the national shows, including placings, competition, demos and segments.
  • CMLL focusing on women’s wrestling this month
  • AAA Heroes Inmortales notes and Guerra de Titanes card
  • Stardom PPV coverage
  • NOAH and New Japan both have major shows this week
  • Vikingo vs. Ricochet
  • International Wrestling Hall of Fame notes
  • More background on Ernie Roth, the Grand Wizard of Wrestling/Abdullah Farouk
  • Bound for Glory news
  • 70s and 80s legend looking to become the oldest male wrestler of all-time
  • Does WBD own a percentage of AEW?
  • Legendary ROH Matches added to the ROH television show
  • What’s notable about AEW’s Mexico TV dal
  • Luchasaururs update
  • Taz update
  • Ticket sales for upcoming WWE and AEW shows
  • Largest streaming numbers
  • Injury updates
  • Fighters talk about health and money issues
  • How much will Anderson Silva get if the Cung Le case gets settled this week.
  • What fighters will make millions of dollars in the settlement.
  • Conor McGregor to stand trial over a 2018 case.
  • Former UFC champion coming  out of retirement
  • How Hurricanes affecting WWE
  • Update on the viewership of Mr. McMahoin and Queen of Villains on Netflix
  • How much  WWE is getting from the government for next year’s SummerSlam and why
  • Newcomers ready to debut
  • International TV ratings
  • Unique wrestling TV special aired

This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter Back Issue

Monday Update

  • We have two weekend shows up, we’ve got a show with Garrett Gonzales talking the news of the week and a Saturday show with Bryan Alvarez talking WrestleDream. Tonight’s show will focus on Smackdown, King of Pro Wrestling and all the news that came out of that show, as well as talk Raw.

Raw tonight was taped last week as WWE is running a house show in Liverpool, England tonight as part of a tour.  Raw has tough opposition as the New York Yankees vs. Cleveland Guardians baseball playoff game is on TBS and New York Jets vs. Buffalo Bills football is on ESPN, both head-to-head:

  • Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill vs. Iyo Sky & Kairi Sane for women’s tag title
  • War Raiders vs. Otis & Tozawa in a tag team tournament match
  • The Miz vs. R-Truth
  • Kofi Kingston vs.  Bron Breakker
  • Rhea Ripley & Tiffany Stratton vs. Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez
  • Smackdown on Friday did 1.65 million viewers and an 0.49, which is a great  number.  It was the top show on  cable and was behind the Dodgers vs. Padres at 7.34 million/1.77 on FOX and the post-game show on all of television.  AEW Rampage did 253,000/0.09.
  • We’re looking for reports on today’s WWE show in Liverpool as well as tomorrow’s show in Newcastle, looking for results, finishes and highlights to dave@wrestlingobserver.com
  • We’re also doing weekend polls on WrestleDream and New Japan King of Pro Wrestling. You can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match for each show to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

WWE last night in Cardiff, Wales:

  • Jey Uso b Bron  Brakker to retain the IC title
  • Naomi b Tiffany Stratton
  • Andade b Santos Escobar
  • Nia Jax b Bayley in a street fight to keep the title
  • Gunther (working as a babyface) b Chad Gable to keep the world title
  • Randy Orton & Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano b Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa  Jacob Fatu
  • LA Knight b Shinsuke Nakamura to keep the US title
  • Cody Rhodes b Solo Sikoa in a cage match to keep the WWE title
  • This Friday at Arena Mexico is the biggest women’s show in the history of Mexico’s leading arena.  There are four women’s matches including Toni Storm vs. Catalina as the main event, Persephone vs. Zeuxis in the finals of the women’s champion of champions tournament plus Tessa Blanchard, Unagi Sayaka, Alex Windsor, Red Velvet and Viva Van are in. A lot of the women will be at all the CMLL arenas over the following week leading to the Women’s Grand Prix show on the 25th.
  • Trailer for the new Netflix series “The Cage” which is a UFC French TV series which will feature appearances by Georges St-Pierre and Jon Jones among others
  • Wrestling Revolver from Saturday night  in Grand Prairie, TX:  Lince Dorada b Ninja Mack, Gave Wilder & Tommy Prince b KJ Reynolds & Ryan Matthaias, VertVixen b Hyan, JD Griffey b Barrett Brown, Moose won over Jake Something and Brick Savage, Exodus Prime won over Braddah Kaimi, Dave Segan, Tatum Manning, Delynn Cavnes and Sam Stackhoiuse, Sky de Lacrimosa b Demo Diamond, Ace Austin b Fuego del Sol, Mike Bailey & Paul Walter Hausen b Matthew Palmer & Rich Swann-DQ, Bailey & Hausen b Palmer & Swann in restarted match.
  • TNA on Thursday has Mike Bailey vs.  Leon Slater, Nic Nemeth vs. Matt Cardona and PCO vs Rhino.
  • We still don’t know anything for Wednesday’s Dynamite past Mercedes Mone vs. Queen Aminata, Lio Rush vs Shelton  Benjamin and that Adam Cole will be doing an interview.
  • The movie “Queen of the Ring” about Mildred Burke will debut tomorrow night at the Buffalo International Film Festival.  It will also play Thursday in Portland, OR at the Portland Film Festival and Saturday in both Newport Beach, CA at the Newport Beach Film Festival and Saturday and Sunday in Indianapolis at the Heartland International Film Festival.
  • Julianna Pena on Ariel Helwani’s show claimed she won four rounds in the fight last week with Raquel Pennington and said that Amamda Nunes wanted to retire so she could take steroids and not get caught.
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi said if he could script the January 4, 2026, Tokyo Dome show, he would challenge for the IWGP title, win, and then continue to wrestle until he loses.
  • Gabe Kidd vs. Kosei Fujita for the New Japan Strong title has been added to the 11/8 show in Lowell, MA.
  • Thom Latimer defends the NWA title against EC 3 on the Samhain 2 show on 10/26 in Tampa.
  • Vaolur Pr Wrestling on 10/19 in York , PA at the Vonie B. Greims Gym.
  • ESW on 10/26 in Erie, PA at the Sage Club.