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Daily Update
Latest News
- AEW star Adam Copeland books new movie role
- Injury forces change to MLW Opera Cup tournament
- ‘20 Years Ago on TNA Impact’ debuts on The Bryan & Vinny Show tonight
- Update on WWE NXT offer turned down by Jazmyn Nyx
- Tag team match announced for WWE SmackDown
- Jack Perry wants to bring ‘darker vibe’ to AEW team
- AEW announces date and location for next Blood & Guts event
- WWE files trademarks for new Americano names
Latest Audio
- WOL: Cena and Tanahashi final matches, RAW, Blood and Guts
- WOR: Go Shiozki departure, RAW report, New Japan, CMLL
Latest YouTube Video
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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Tuesday Update
WWE
- NXT announced that new NXT Champion Ricky Starks will appear on tonight’s show.
- CM Punk narrates a Chicago Cubs hype video.
- Stephanie McMahon & Triple H were present at The White House today as President Trump signed an executive order on using AI to improve treaments for childhood cancer.
- A24 and Letterboxd present The List with The Rock.
- Cappuccino Jones will defend the WWE ID Championship at Elite Pro Wrestling’s Masterclass Camp Showcase on October 26.
- Recently added to the WWE Vault channel are a compilation of wild Hardcore Championship brawls, Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle from Unforgiven 2001, Batista vs. Great Khali in a Punjabi Prison match from No Mercy 2007, and a compilation of WWE stars on the independent scene featuring footage from FIP and Evolve.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- In an interview with The Sportster, Orange Cassidy said he didn’t consider himself a pillar of AEW: “I don’t see myself as a pillar or whatever. That’s like… I think MJF used that term pillar, and I don’t think he really understood what it meant.”
- Big Bill talks to WiLD 94.1.
- A new Jurassic Express hoodie is out now on ShopAEW.com.
- Swerve Strickland is celebrating a birthday today.
- AEW added Will Ospreay vs. Ricochet vs. Konosuke Takeshita from WrestleDream 2024 on their YouTube channel.
- Lee Moriarty joins Renee Paquette on this week’s AEW Closeup.
- NJPW has released a teaser for an upcoming documentary focusing on Konosuke Takeshita.
- The company has also announced that their next training camp at the Los Angeles dojo will take place on November 1 and 2. Additional information will be coming next week.
- IGN has a trailer for the film Trap House starring Batista.
- Donovan Dijak is confirmed for this weekend’s MLW Slaughterhouse event on October 4.
