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We are looking for reports from ROH in Columbus, OH and WWE in Regina, Saskatchewan to newstips@wrestlingobserver.com.

RIZIN IPPV FROM FUKUOKA, JAPAN AT 1 A.M. EASTERN TIME LATE SATURDAY NIGHT

  • Frank Shamrock vs. Kazushi Sakuraba grappling match

Sunday we’re looking for reports from WWE in Yakima, WA.

EVOLVE ON SUNDAY AT 6 P.M. FROM EAST HAVEN, CT

  • Keith Lee vs. Darby Allin
  • Matt Riddle vs. Fred Yehi
  • Zack Sabre Jr. Vs. Tracy Williams for the Evolve title

ROH IPPV FROM CHICAGO SUNDAY AT 7 P.M. EASTERN TIME

  • Silas Young & Beer City Bruiser vs. Chuckie T & Baretta
  • Toru Yano vs. Colt Cabana
  • Kushida & Cheeseburger vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian
  • Jay Lethal & Mark Briscoe & Kenny King vs. Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
  • Will Ospreay vs. Flip Gordon non-title
  • Marty Scurll vs. Hiromu Takahashi
  • Cody & Young Bucks & Hangman Page vs. Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley & Jay White & Jonathan Gresham
  • Kenny Omega vs. Yoshi-Hashi for U.S. title

Raw is Monday night in Portland, OR, with Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman in a cage match as the main event on Raw.

Smackdown and 205 Live will be on Tuesday from Seattle, with Dolph Ziggler vs. Bobby Roode.

FIGURE FOUR WEEKLY:Figure Four Weekly 10/9/2017: Recapping WWE Hell in a Cell

With WWE having an annual pay-per-view built around multiple Hell in a Cell matches, it’s only natural that they mostly just become standard matches that are surrounded by a roofed cage. But that wasn’t the case at this year’s PPV. Sunday night’s show was bookended by two great Hell in a Cell matches where the structure was essential in telling the story that was going on in the ring.

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WRESTLING OBSERVER NEWSLETTER:October 16, 2017 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WWE Hell in a Cell review, Tokyo Dome main event, more

A look at the WWE booking coming out of Hell in a Cell is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Look at the business of the show, update on Neville, other changes on Raw this week, a look at the upcoming shows, as well as a look at match-by-match coverage of Hell in a Cell with business notes, star ratings and poll results.

Read about New Japan coming out of King of Pro Wrestling, the next shows on New Japan World, the direction it looks like things are going as well as match-by-match coverage of King of Pro Wrestling with star ratings, interest levels and poll results.

This issue contains updates on the Brock Lesnar contract situation, the Ric Flair 30 for 30 special and how there are two specials that night on wrestlers from the 80s and 90s, more on what happened with Jimmy Jacobs, update on Dwayne Johnson, the Vince McMahon movie, Conor McGregor and WWE, Ronda Rousey and WWE, Miz hosting a TV show, Nikki Bella Dancing with the Stars notes, weird coincidence of tragedies, Bret Hart talks Eric Bischoff, new WWE Network series, and UK ratings.

Coverage of UFC 216, the plight of Demetrious Johnson, the business notes on the show, some very surprising numbers, the direction things are going, plus poll results and match-by-match coverage, as well as pay for each of the fighters on the card, in this issue.

Read about the Santino Marella/Jim Cornette story, how it got started and everything thathappened this weekend between the two of them.

Have a look at summer business comparisons to see how WWE, ROH and Impact are doing as compared with the previous year in various categories.

Look at details on the ratings for all the national shows over the past week, including breakdown of who was watching all of the WWE shows.

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WON BACK ISSUE: September 18, 2000 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Raw/Nitro ratings war, NJPW vs. AJPW, more

In what was the most significant, and closest Monday night ratings race so far this year, a heavily criticized edition of Nitro on 9/11 scored the highest rating for the show in its regular opposed format since 1/10 and the closest margin between the two shows since 12/20. Nitro finished with a 3.20 rating (3.47 first hour; 2.93 second hour) and a 4.8 share. Raw did a 5.90 rating (5.36 first hour; 6.38 second hour) and an 8.9 share.

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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE

WWE

Pro Wrestling

  • Austin Aries posted a tweet today claiming that he’s going to make more money in his first six weeks back on the indies than he did in his last four months in WWE: “Upcoming 6 weeks of ‘bingo hall’ $ >> Last 4 months of ‘big league’ $. Awesome to see the #prowrestling scene thriving around the [world].”
  • In his interview with the AV Club, Joe Koff said that an ROH streaming service is in development and that they’re hoping it will debut on the first of next year or a little after that. Koff also spoke about ROH and NJPW having a mutually beneficial relationship, wondering if the press in Japan similarly asks if they’re why NJPW is so great because of all the ROH wrestlers succeeding in the promotion.
  • Mark Briscoe thanked everyone for their thoughts and prayers after he dislocated his elbow at last night’s Global Wars show in Pittsburgh.
  • The Bullet Club has been invoking the “Bullet Club rule” on ROH’s Global Wars tour, which means that any combination of members from the stable can defend The Young Bucks & Hangman Page’s six-man tag titles. The Bucks & Kenny Omega defended them against The Kingdom in Buffalo on Thursday night, then Will Ospreay, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI challenged Omega, Cody & Marty Scurll for them in Pittsburgh last night.
  • Despite tough competition from the MLB playoffs and Thursday Night Football, ratings for Impact were up this week. The show averaged 279,000 viewers after doing 251,000 the week prior.
  • Kazuchika Okada is coming to Australia to wrestle for Melbourne City Wrestling at their “November Rain” show in Essendon on November 11th. He’ll be wrestling Slex at the show.
  • Cultaholic, which is Adam Blampied, Adam Pacitti, Ross Tweddell, Jack King, and Sam Driver’s newest venture after leaving What Culture, put out a video hyping that they’ll be launching on November 1st.

UFC/MMA

Today in Professional Wrestling History: Sting wins TNA World title at Bound for Glory 2007

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