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Daily Update
Latest News
- AJ Styles WWE contract update
- Dave Meltzer on Monday’s WWE Raw Netflix viewership, last week’s numbers
- Wrestling Observer 2026 Las Vegas Convention tickets now on sale
- Kenny Omega on his AEW role: ‘We need to trust our future’
- Jesse Ventura ‘very angry’ Donald Trump is in WWE Hall of Fame
- WWE Raw returns to Netflix global top ten with strong showing
- Seth Rollins praises ‘fellow WWE superstar’ Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- February 9, 2026 Observer Newsletter: WWE Royal Rumble review & notes, AJ Styles retires?, wrestling ratings get a boost
The new issue of the Observer is up on the site today:
*Road to WrestleMania including the booking changes and injury changes that have caused several changes of plans since they were first in place. We discuss the evolution of this year’s two main events.
*We look at how the Royal Rumble show changed on the last day
*Full Royal Rumble coverage
*Status of different matches
*AJ Styles and is this his final match
*Business notes on the show
*Plans for Elimination Chamber
*How Royal Rumble did on Netflix
*What changes in Nielsen have meant to the TV ratings and why this has happened, and how it will happen multiple more times in 2026 to a lesser degree
*Has the increased in reported viewership helped pro wrestling in the TV world
*Full UFC 325 coverage
*Death of Frankie Cain/Great Mephisto, one of the most intriguing pro wrestling characters of the 60s and 70s with ties to many different worlds
*Death of Bob Lueck, a former Stampede Wrestling headliner who was a CFL All-Star and how he was responsible for getting one of the most important and most influential wrestlers of all-time into the industry
*The most detailed look at the ratings of the pro wrestling shows this past week including placings, demos and silliness
*Box office record set
*CMLL star arrested
*AEW stars spend the week in CMLL
*Major Arena Mexico shows coming
*Reyes del Aire report
*Hiromu Takahashi leaving
*New Japan major show this week
*Fantastica Mania cards announced
*Best matches of 2025
*AEW booking direction
*New AEW signings
*Advance ticket sales for all the major WWE & AEW shows
*Dana White’s testimony regarding his job
*Pride star passes away
*Ava departure from WWE
This Week’s Back Issue
- October 10, 2005 Observer Newsletter: ‘Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior’ DVD fallout, all the truths, lies & in-betweens
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Shawn Michaels announced that new NXT Champion Joe Hendry will kick off tonight’s NXT.
- Roxanne Perez shared a ‘get well soon’ care package on social media given to her by members of the Judgement Day. She didn’t appear on last night’s Raw.
- LA Knight cut a post-show promo following his win on Raw.
- CM Punk “took over” WWE 2K26’s socials and posted the entrances of Roxxane Perez and Roddy Piper.
- The WWE 2K26 Showcase Mode trailer featuring CM Punk has also been released.
- WWE is selling a Liv Morgan ‘Hot Girls Love Dominik Mysterio’ t-shirt.
- Ivy Nile, under her real name, has launched a YouTube channel.
- While YouTube TV plans launch this week, it was noted that ESPN Unlimited in the Sports Plan won’t be part of the service until this fall.
- Recent WWE Vault content includes a dark match from October 1992 pitting Bret Hart & Ultimate Warrior vs. Papa Shango and Kamala, Razor Ramon vs. 1-2-3 Kid in a crybaby match from In Your House 6, another compilation of battle royals, and Roman Reigns & Daniel Bryan vs. Seth Rollins, Kane, Big Show, and J&J Security from the February 9, 2015 edition of Raw.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- AEW ‘Who Is..?’ profile on Kevin Knight.
- A top 10 compilation of Stadium Stampede moments.
- Andrade El Idolo is heading to Georgia for 1FW’s Rumble in Rome event on March 21.
- Ariel Helwani is launching a new podcast called The Uncrowned Wrestling Show with Jason Solomon as host.
- This week’s TNA Xplosion.
- Masashi Takeda, Miyu Yamashita, Royce Issacs, Matt Mako, Ray Jaz, Angel Verduzco, and Joe Dashou have been announced for Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XV.
- Dani Luna will face Senka Akatsuki at West Coast vs. The World on April 16 in Las Vegas.
- ELP vs. KJ Orso is set for GCW The Coldest Winter 4 for February 14.
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.