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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
A larger than usual issue with a wide variety of stories and tons of history:
*The fixed fight accusations from Saturday’s UFC show, what happened, how Dana White and UFC handled it, fixed fights in the early days of MMA and the different motivations then vs. now, and a look back at history with a former world heavyweight boxing champion who later became one of the biggest stars of his era in pro wrestling.
*A look at the third quarter TKO business, covering mostly UFC and WWE. How each category is doing and explanations as to why.
*Nick Khan talks WWE ticket prices and booking decisions on live events
*Full coverage of Saturday Night’s Main Event and business notes on the show
*Hiroshi Tanahashi’s Farewell in Gifu and 30 minutes that capsulized the best aspects of the past, present and future of pro wrestling
*Notes on the Tokyo Dome advance
*Finals of the Best of the Super Juniors tag team tournament
*Notes on the upcoming heavyweight tag team tournament
*Lots of notes regarding AEW Full Gear
*The real history of the original NWA national heavyweight championship
*Matches likely to happen at Full Gear
*The final installment of our Hall of Fame series, covering international and non-wrestlers, where we talk about the cases of people including Spyros Arion, Dominic DeNucci, George Gordienko, Ted Boy Marino, Billy Joyce, The Royal Brothers, Dave Brown, Zane Bresloff, Bobby Bruns, Bob Caudle, Joe Higuchi, Jim Johnston, James Melby, Bill Mercer, Gorilla Monsoon, Rossy Ogawa, Reggie Parks, Morris Siel, Tony Schiavone, George Scott, Kevin Sullivan, Mike Tenay, Ted Turner, Jesse Ventura, Roy Welch, Stanley Weston, The Grand Wizard and Koichi Yoshizawa.
*Notes on the death of Victor Conte Jr.
*Tank Davis kills his last payday and Netflix’s big fight for the fall is out the window and thank God for that
*DDT has one of its biggest shows of the year
*Betting odds for pro wrestling matches last week and this week
*The most complete look at the television ratings of wrestling shows over the past week. How these numbers compare in placings to past years, where other than pro wrestling is hurting with the new ratings, competition for each show and placings for the time slot
*CMLL has four straight sellouts and coverage of the main matches including a major return this week
*What wrestler is having the best year for someone their age in wrestling history
*Notes on a very confusing tournament coming up
*What young wrestler sold out in a singles with Mistico this past week
*Notes from the last AAA tapings
*AAA booking huge arena for a taping
*Stardom big show plus notes on the tag team tournament
*Will Vince McMahon write a book?
*Former pro wrestling star elected Mayor
*How network, cable and streaming numbers have affected NASCAR in 2025
*Update on Blue Demon Jr.
*More on Smashing Machine including Dwayne Johnson comments
*Jerry Lawler returns to WMC
*Athletic commission in trouble over a sponsored women’s championship
*El Hijo del Santo retirement tour hits Europe
*More WBD sale talks
*Blood & Guts news
*A poll on AEW viewership and how people watch the TV and PPV shows
*Advance ticket sales for WWE, AEW, TNA, MLW and RAF
*BJ Penn arrested again
*WWE sets gate records
*Paul Levesque’s booking
*How much Dwayne Johnson’s TKO stock is worth
*Notes on the WWE arena business going forward
*The Ridge Holland story
This Week’s Back Issue
- February 20, 2008 Observer Newsletter: WWE scores record profits, Georgia looks to regulate pro wrestling
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Dominik Mysterio was unhappy following his loss on Monday, asking where his Judgement Day friends were.
- Finn Balor this morning on social media: “I woke up and I’m having a wonderful day!”
- John Cena gets his side plates put on following his Intercontinental title win.
- Joe Hendry has a new music video titled ‘Ethan and Chelsea Got Pied,” playing off the show-closing segment from last week’s NXT.
- WWE released a video commemorating Veteran’s Day.
- Chelsea Green spends the day at Nine Line K9 Academy.
- A first look at Sid Justice in WWE 2K25.
- Tatum Paxley’s NXT Halloween Havoc vlog.
- R-Truth is holding a concert on November 16 in New York City.
- Zombie Sailor is releasing a limited glow-in-the-dark ‘Radioactive’ Larry the Dog action figure. Proceeds will benefit PAWS Chicago, which aims to build no-kill communities by saving and rehoming homeless cats and dogs in the area.
- Recent WWE Vault additions include a Mid-South Wrestling event from November 11, 1985 featuring Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer, Team Mickie James vs. Team Michelle McCool from Survivor Series 2009, and a compilation of six-man tag team bouts.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- This week’s Speedball Mike Bailey vlog.
- AEW has a Timelines video on their Blood & Guts event.
- Behind the scenes of AEW’s recent Thanksgiving commercial.
- Dustin Rhodes on social media: “When you get an opportunity to perform on television, you say yes! You do exactly what the company wants/WITH A GREAT ATTITUDE. Otherwise, good luck in ur future endeavors.”
- West Coast Pro Wrestling announced that they will be moving their live shows away from a paywall and will be uploading past events to YouTube for free.
- Juggalo Championship Wrestling is giving away a free turkey at their next television taping on November 22 in Detroit.
Bryan Rose is an editor from California that has been covering professional wrestling for well over a decade. He officially joined F4WOnline as an editor in 2017.