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Latest News
- New match official for TNA Bound for Glory
- Update on Jade Cargill after WWE SmackDown injury
- Eddie Kingston announced for indie show next month
- AEW & DC Comics announce new Justice League crossover comic book series
- Jack Perry opens up about Luchasaurus 2024 health battle: ‘He could have just died’
- Shayna Baszler announced for new indie date
- TNA finalizes schedule for remainder of 2025
- Tony Khan says 2025 has been AEW’s ‘most consistent run’ of TV and pay-per-views
- The Rock describes difficult transformation for ‘The Smashing Machine’ role
- Orange Cassidy on Tony Khan: ‘It’s nice to have your boss understand what you’re doing’
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is out with the fallout of three major shows this past weekend and what key things we learned from them:
- Reader polls on the weekend shows
- Key points we learned from WWE going after AEW
- Numbers for all three shows and how they did
- Does the price make a difference, how is afternoon vs. evening?
- What we’ve learned about AEW that goes against the grain of 30 plus years of PPV numbers
- Mistico vs. MJF looked at as well as Mistico’s place in Lucha Libre history
- Misconceptions about John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar
- The next big shows from WWE & AEW
- Lots of injury updates
- Advanced ticket sales for the major shows over the next month
- Odds for last weekend and next weekend
- Where wrestling shows stood in the weekly ratings and comparisons with the same week in 2024 and 2023
- Exactly how much the audience makeup has changed for AEW on television this past year
- For every major TV show, what percentage of viewers were women this past week
- Blue Panther wins title at 65 years old
- Big head-to-head battles in Mexico City on Saturday and Sunday this week
- Lineup for the women’s Grand Prix match in Mexico City with talent from RevPro, Stardom and AEW/ROH
- Notes from the Pokemon CMLL crossover event
- Story about the changes in the crowds at Arena Mexico and leading reporter opposes the story
- Lots of health updates
- Real American Freestyle signs first woman gold medalist
- Masha Slamovich controversy
- Zuffa Boxing close to announcing TV deal
- Former WWE developmental talent signs with UFC for November debut
- International promotion in talks with ESPN Unlimited
- Jake Paul vs. Tank Davis silliness
- Cody Rhodes talks Paul Levesque’s successor
- Mark Shapiro talks how WWE & UFC will decide on locations for big shows
- ESPN review of Wrestlepalooza and the controversy allows ignoring the far bigger story
- Jazmyn Nyx turns down WWE offer, says it’s too low
This Week’s Back Issue
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Wednesday Update
WWE
- WWE uploaded the full Showdown Summit segment that headlined NXT last night.
- Linda McMahon told The Sage Steele Show that her grandson Declan – Shane McMahon’s oldest son – worked an internship at ESPN this summer.
- In a video for Sports Illustrated, The Rock and MMA legend Mark Kerr looked back at some of the biggest moments from their respective careers.
- “The Smashing Machine” director Benny Safdie was a guest on Impaulsive with Logan Paul.
- Randy Orton interacted with social media star IShowSpeed at the launch party for Speed’s “Speed Goes Pro” series.
Other Wrestling
- Amid her ongoing absence from AEW programming, Britt Baker sent out the following message on X/Twitter yesterday: “We’re always so quick to burn the trolls on this app, but never quick enough to appreciate the true fans who show love every day. Thank you”
- Tony Khan spoke to Forbes about AEW introducing Women’s Tag Team titles:
- I’m very excited about the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship coming to AEW this year. Throughout 2025, the women’s division has been delivering more great matches and rivalries than ever before, and so many top stars have continued to emerge.
- We’ve had amazing signings, like Mercedes Mone, who came in as a free agent and is now the TBS Champion, and if you look back a few years, Toni Storm joined AEW and went on to become one of our greatest champions. Along the way, we’ve added so many talented faces. Kris Statlander, who’s been here from the early years, has become a top star in her own right.
- More recently, we’ve also seen the rise of some very interesting and very talented women’s tag teams. With the roster at its strongest, the highest quality it’s ever been, I think now is the perfect time to introduce the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships. Women’s wrestling in AEW is the best it’s ever been, and these titles will make it even stronger.
- During an interview with Undisputed, Anthony Bowens listed the five best moments he’s ever had on AEW Dynamite:
- Winning the tag team titles [September 2022] – ‘We won the belts on Dynamite, a night I’ll always remember.’
- Dynamite debut [December 2020] – ‘Our first match ever has to belong on this list, and that was against SCU.’
- Main-eventing against the Young Bucks [December 2020] – ‘The fans got to see our entire journey, beginning from when we were paired together on DARK and didn’t have the same gear yet. This was a big step for us, a tag team title shot a couple months into the company.’
- Main-eventing against Sting [January 2022] – ‘Sting is one of my heroes, so wrestling him in Washington, DC was very significant for me.’
- National Scissoring Day [October 2022] – ‘This would be incomplete without National Scissoring Day. That was a very interesting day. It was trending all day, and it cemented us as stars.’
- Will Ospreay named his Mount Rushmore of cruiserweight wrestlers: Rey Mysterio, Hayabusa, Naomichi Marufuji, and Dragon Kid.
- Ricochet also listed his choices: Mysterio, Hayabusa, Jushin Thunder Liger, and Amazing Red.
- Without revealing her destination, IWGP Women’s Champion Sareee posted an image teasing that she’s heading overseas for something.
- Go Shiozaki spoke to Tokyo Sports about his future now that he’s departed Pro Wrestling NOAH:
- I still don’t know where I’ll go. However, Go Shiozaki’s matches will remain the same, even if they evolve. I want to find a ring where I can bring out Go Shiozaki. I think that no matter which promotion I go to, I’ll be able to feel a fresh fight. That’s why I want to do things that can only be experienced as a freelancer.
- An MLW Middleweight Championship match is set to take place on the TV taping portion of Slaughterhouse 2025 in Long Beach, California on October 4. It will be Templario defending his title against Virus.
- Tommy Dreamer and Rhyno have been announced for GCW’s Dream On show at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey on November 22.
- Busted Open Radio has an interview with new TNA Hall of Famers The Beautiful People (Angelina Love & Velvet Sky).
- SoCal Val interviewed Bishop Dyer for WrestlingNewsCo.
Joseph Currier
Joseph Currier is the lead editor of F4WOnline.com, directing daily news coverage and writing articles on professional wrestling. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, obtaining a journalism degree in 2016. Joseph joined F4W during his time at UMass and has now been writing about the industry for nearly a decade.
In addition to his work with F4W, Joseph has previously contributed to Sports Illustrated's wrestling coverage. He lives in Massachusetts and is a diehard fan of the Boston sports teams and Liverpool Football Club.