Daily Update: Being the Elite, weekend notes, PFL
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Friday Update
– We’ve got a busy weekend coming up with shows. Garrett and I will be doing our week in review, looking at the major news in the Observer this week which also talks the future. Bryan and I will be back tomorrow night covering Survivor Series along with the weekend WWE & AEW shows.
– The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is up on the site right now:
- What did people think of Full Gear as compared to the other AEW PPVs of late
- Performers and match of the week
- Lots of good and bad thoughts on Swerve Strickland vs. Adam Page
- A look at WWE vs. AEW when it comes to free agent signings of late
- What Will Ospreay will and won’t mean for AEW
- Full details of why Ronda Rousey appeared on the ROH show this week and it’s not what you think
- Who is the top free agent out there right now
- Thoughts on the MJF/Cole/White/Gunns storyline
- Realities of AEW’s enemies and how the Strickland vs. Page match fits into that discussion
- Logic issues and creative license in wrestling
- Impromptu and using instinct in reacting when things mess up in a match
- Why Ospreay signed with AEW and why it was announced this week
- PPV numbers early on and what is says about more PPV shows
- Live show business notes
- Theater business notes
- Full match coverage
- Sorting out the Bellator/PFL deal and looking at the business aspect, top talent, show plans, next two PPV show ideas and more
- Company talks 2024 schedule plans for Bellator and PFL
- The top fighters under contract at this point to the new group
- Hall of Fame updates and reaction to last week’s issue
- Greatest tag teams of all-time
- A look at a likely 2024 ballot
- A look at Survivor Series plans, plus public demand and interest level
- A look in depth at the Continental Classic, the good and bad of it
- A look at this last week’s UFC show and notes about future shows
- The most detailed look at the TV ratings over the past week, the segment-by-segment, changes in each group, competition, and where wrestling stands in the weekly numbers
- World title match doesn’t get over on major show and why
- Promotion running a business deal with major company to get major discount on a famous product
- New team will be taking over the name of one of the best tag teams in history
- Major changes in Stardom hierarchy and what happened to lead to it
- Stardom titles vacant and steps on filling those vacancies
- Stardom PPV rundown
- Fantastica Mania 2024 notes
- What dream match was planned for January in California and where it stands right now
- New Japan tag tournament notes
- All Japan tag team tournament notes
- A look back at one mystery in the death of WCW
- Wrestlers suspended for working an unlicensed show
- Full details on Ronda Rousey’s appearance at AEW show in Los Angeles
- Young Bucks repackaging
- Darby climbing Mount Everest and details
- What day will a number of new free agents be available
- Looking at the ones AEW could sign
- Two new rulings in Cung Le case and what kind of money figures are being bandied about
- A look at WWE arena business and future show ticket sales, has it peaked, what does future say
- AEW future ticket sales
- International TV ratings and streaming numbers
- Reigns next match and who it’s not with
- Levesque booking philosophy
- A look at the WWE & NXT house shows over the past week
- Notes on December television schedule for both AEW and WWE including a show not airing, and a double taping planned
– A few weekend notes: There is no Rampage tonight due to an NHL game on TNT, AEW has three hours from 7-10 p.m. tomorrow night head-to-head with Survivor Series.
SmackDown tonight is the Survivor Series go-home show. It’s on FS1 from the Allstate Arena in Chicago. If you have a season ticket pass, you may have to manually record this show as my DVR didn’t pick it up. Also, on the Wet Coast, the show airs at 5 p.m. rather than 8 p.m. With the smaller stage in use it will be the largest legit crowd for a WWE TV shoot this year. As of last night there were 15,720 tickets out. Announced is Damian Priest & Finn Balor vs. Street Profits for the tag titles and Kevin Owens on the Grayson Waller Effect.
– We’ll write more about it this coming week, but BTE is not on hiatus, it’s actually done. As of this point in time, there are no plans to bring it back.
– Katsuyori Shibata vs. Wheeler Yuta for the ROH Pure title has been added to tomorrow’s first hour [Rampage] at 7 p.m. on TNT. Eddie Kingston vs, Brody King and Daniel Garcia vs. Claudio Castagnoli will be on the last two hours [Collision] in the Continental Classic.
– We are doing a poll this weekend for Survivor Series, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
– We’re looking for reports from these weekend events
- Smackdown tonight in Chicago (dark matches only)
- Collision tapings tomorrow in Pittsburgh (only need stuff not on the live show)
- Sunday WWE house show in Peoria, IL
We’re looking for results, finishes and highlights to [email protected]
– WWE is doing a 30 percent off ticket sale for the 12/26 holiday tour house show in Madison Square Garden using the code FRIDAY. It’s a one-day sale.
– We have another new book out for Christmas covering the first part of 1991. It’s available on Amazon in the U.S., Canada and U.K.
– The PFL has a PPV show tonight from Washington, DC. It is mostly the $1 million finals of the company’s tournaments this year.
- Jesus Pineda (145) vs. Gabriel Braga (144.6) for the featherweight $1 million final
- Derek Brunson (185.8) vs. Ray Cooper III (186,8) – Cooper missed weight by 0,.6 pounds
- Kayla Harrisoin (150.4) vs. Aspen Ladd (150)
- Josh Silveira (202.6) vs. Impa Kasanganay (202.4) for he light heavyweight $1 million final
- Magomed Magomedkermiv (170) vs,. Sadibou Sy (169.8) for the welterweight $1 million final
- Larissa Pacheco (145) vs. Marina Mokhnatkin (144) for the women’s featherweight $1 million final
- Denis Goltsov (244.6) vs, Renan Ferreira (261.2) for the heavyweight $1 million final
- Clay Collard (154.8) vs. Olivier Aubin-Mercier (154.8) for the lightweight $1 million final
– Will Ospreay talks this past year for him.
– New Japan tag team tournament continues with an A Block show in Fujisawa tomorrow morning
- Shota Umino & Ren Narita vs. Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona
- Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs, Alex Coughlin & Gabe kidd
- Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa vs, Evil & Yujiro Takahashi
- Great O’Khan & Henare vs. Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste
– Eve results from Sunday in London:
First show: Su Yung defeated Skye Smitson, Alex Windsor defeated Lizzy Evo, Millie McKenie defeated Emersyn Jayne, Nina Samuels defeated Safire Reed-DQ, Miyu Yamasthia defeated Chantal Jordan, Yuu defeated Rhio to retain the International title
Second show: Rhio won over Alexxis Falcon and Emersyn Jayne, Royal Aces won the Eve tag titles in a four-way over champions Nina Samuels & Chantal Jordan, Aleah James & Kanjji and Skye Smitson & Nightshade, Su Yung defeated Kasey, Yuu defeated Rhia O’Reilly to keep the International title, Safire Reed defeated Miyu Yamashita to win Eve championship.
Dave Meltzer is the founder and lead writer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the weekly constant when it comes to news and reviews in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts for more than 40 years. Dave also co-hosts Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and had had bylines for The National, Yahoo Sports, MMA Fighting and others.