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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

• September 29, 2025 Observer Newsletter: AEW All Out, WWE Wrestlepalooza & CMLL 92nd Anniversary show reviews

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

• January 9, 2008 Observer Newsletter: ROH Final Battle tapings, Triumph & Tragedy of WCCW DVD review

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Thursday Update

WWE

• Lexis King (Brian Pillman Jr.) announced the passing of his brother Jesse Morgan:
  • I lost my brother today.
  • He was a badass, highly intelligent, witty and charismatic dude who grew up in the 90s.
  • He loved video games, Warhammer, R.A. Salvatore, among many other cool bro stuff.
  • Recently we had been on Discord playing StarCraft 2 co-op together and he was enrolled in classes at the University of Cincinnati.
  • He was a veteran who suffered from issues after surviving some traumatic events while serving in Afghanistan.
  • He loved his country, his last Facebook post was this:
  • ‘Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.’ —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Some words to live by…
  • The battle with your demons is now over brother.
  • Rest in Peace Jesse Morgan
• In recognition of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Bret Hart shared a video from his daughter Jade, who successfully completed cancer treatment in 2024:
  • I’m so immensely proud and joyful that my daughter Jade has triumphantly battled breast cancer with a courage and strength that will always define her. As a cancer survivor myself, I can’t begin to express how grateful I am, that my beautiful daughter Jade has won her fight. She proved that faith and love can beat anything when one’s heart is full. I am so proud beyond words. 
  • I wanted to share this video she made for #breastcancerawarnessmonth as a reminder to everyone that early detection is the best protection. Please remember to self examine and schedule your mammogram.
• Charlotte Flair appeared on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football today and will be attending tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers. At the game, Charlotte and her father Ric Flair will serve as honorary Rampede Captains:
  • Retired professional wrestler RIC FLAIR and second-generation professional wrestler Charlotte Flair will get fans on their feet and kick off the game as the honorary Rampede Captains.
• AFL Today interviewed Bronson Reed.
• Fashion designer Kristin Juszczyk was the guest on the latest episode of “What’s Your Story?” with Stephanie McMahon.

Other Wrestling

• AEW aired a video package on Dynamite last night celebrating the show’s anniversary and its first six years.
• Will Ospreay thanked chicken restaurant Nando’s for sending him a care package as he recovers from neck surgery:
  • Never cried over food before…
  • Didn’t expect such a lovely gift from someone that works in @NandosUK near me.
  • Whoever done this…genuinely thank you so much for the love
  • Super hard right now but this hit me in the feels.
  • Your chicken gives me strength.
• TNA President Carlos Silva spoke to TV Insider about the NXT-TNA relationship and next week’s Showdown special:
  • Working with the NXT folks as well as WWE folks has been very easy. There has been great coordination. We’ve kind of supported each other with last-minute asks on both sides, which I think is a testament to a good partnership. It’s not just one asking. We might ask, or they might ask, and we always find a way to move things forward. This big Showdown episode of NXT happening down in Orlando is going to be great. You saw it on The CW live with the teams sort of aligning. I think the theme is building. There is also intrigue and maybe a little strangeness the way certain teammates are on each team, but they have certain alliances and allegiances to the other organization. Whether they’ve come from that organization or been there or holding the belt from one organization even though they work for the other. I think all of that there. I think as a result it’s going to be awesome Tuesday night on NXT down in Orlando.
• Silva reiterated that he wants TNA Impact to air more live episodes in 2026:
  • All of us that are new to the organization are live sports and entertainment executives. I brought in a new executive producer in George Veras, and he is working closely with Eric Tompkins (VP of TV production and executive creative director) and our team down in Nashville. We all want to do more live. We’re all live guys. So, I think building TNA and continuing to be healthy as an organization gives us the ability to do more live. In a perfect world, I’d love to be live every week. But there are different operational implications and budgets to being live every week including a place to do some of them because you’re probably not going to be traveling 52 weeks a year. The short answer is we’re going to continue to do more live in 2026 and lay out that schedule right now. The talent responds to live in a way that is great also. They all tell us, so we want to continue to build this all together and do more live in 2026.
• German promotion wXw has ended its relationship with wrestler Marius Al-Ani after he posted a social media video using a Nazi marching song. Along with cutting ties with him, wXw has vacated the European Championship at Al-Ani held.
• In an interview with Tokyo Sports, Tetsuya Naito gave an update on how he’s feeling after working back-to-back dates for wXw and RevPro at the end of September:
  • After leaving New Japan, I did feel like I wasn’t wrestling enough. This time, wrestling back-to-back matches brought back that familiar ache in my body. It felt nostalgic. That’s when I realized, ‘This is what being a pro wrestler is all about.’ I want to get back in the ring soon, and there are so many countries that haven’t seen pro wrestling yet. I want to show people all over the world the real Tetsuya Naito.
• Naito has matches coming up in Hong Kong this month and Singapore in November, with Tokyo Sports writing that more are “expected to be added, primarily in Asia and Europe.”
• Daisuke Sekimoto is out of action with a broken leg.
• Women’s promotion Genesis Premier League announced that it has signed Leyla Hirsch and Abaddon to its roster.
• Indi Hartwell will be defending her House of Glory Women’s Championship against Zayda Steel at With Glory Comes Pride in Queens, New York on October 10.
• Chris Van Vliet interviewed MMA legend Mark Kerr on a new edition of Insight.