Daily Update: Mr. Stone, Shotzi, Katsuhiko Nakajima
Daily Update
Latest News
- WWE Raw ratings down for Crown Jewel go-home show
- Tony Khan to make ‘important announcement’ on AEW Dynamite
- WWE star Becky Lynch to appear on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’
- Eddie Kingston wishes things worked out differently between CM Punk & AEW
- WWE announces UK tour dates for April 2024
- Alex Shelley taking ‘a little bit of time’ to recover from calf injury
- AEW Collision ratings down despite MJF vs. Omega title match
- NJPW Super Junior Tag League night seven results, updated standings
- WWE Raw video highlights: Cody Rhodes delivers a message to Damian Priest
- Number one contender’s match announced for next week’s WWE Raw
- Sami Zayn vs. JD McDonagh set for WWE Crown Jewel kickoff
- Kenny Omega & Chris Jericho to team on AEW Dynamite
Latest Audio
- Wrestling Observer Live: RAW report, Danielson update, Halloween Havoc preview, MJF vs. Omega ratings
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Observer is up on the site right now covering these stories:
- Match and performers of the week
- The history of UFC and WWE together
- How Vince McMahon is responsible for UFC taking off and why
- Dirty tricks McMahon tried to play on UFC and blasting it when it got popular
- Dana White talks about his prior and current changes in relationship with McMahon
- How Vince McMahon viewed UFC when it first broke through
- The first attempt at Undertaker vs. Lesnar at WrestleMania and why it didn’t happen
- How things have changed since the merger and what Vince’s role in UFC is now
- Jon Jones injury, why Stipe Miocic is off, and what are the different possibilities going forward in the heavyweight division
- A look at the Aspinall vs. Pavlovich fight
- Business notes on what was expected to be a record setting show
- Preview of Crown Jewel and Full Gear and matches announced and other things built up
- WWE goes with more international major shows in 2024
- Rundown of Impact changing to TNA and what it will and won’t mean
- The decline of TNA and change to Impact years ago
- What changes to expect with the move back to TNA
- The story behind the Bound for Glory main event
- Business notes on Bound for Glory
- Match-by-match coverage
- Hall of Fame ceremony
- UFC 204 coverage and what next for the top stars of the show
- Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou, and how once again Saudi Arabia has changed the economic necessities of a big fight
- The most detailed look at the ratings for all of the wrestling shows, as well as segment-by-segment and comparison and where shows were up and down
- Blue Panther 45th anniversary event
- Stardom bad injury situation
- All Japan annual tag team tournament
- Why two Japanese wrestlers disappeared in April
- Great Triple Crown title match
- Future of Will Ospreay
- New Japan Super Juniors tag tourney
- Cain Velasquez first interview
- Mexican legend survives scary hospital stay
- British J Cup
- Wrestling star expects to announce a new TV series in November
- Ric Flair in AEW
- AEW December PPV and its competition
- Jon Moxley on battles with addiction
- Ticket advances for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
- International TV ratings and streaming numbers
- Pitch for independent star to AEW
- How many matches top AEW stars have done
- Controversy over UFC business deal
- Peacock subscription number and financial losses
- Memo all WWE employees received and how this has changed the stock price
- Tickets now available for Survivor Series and why
- WWE NIL talent in college wrestling notes
- A look at the WWE shows over the past week
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Mr. Stone talked to PWInsider ahead of his match against Bron Breakker at NXT Halloween Havoc on Tuesday. “So, this you know, when I first heard getting back in the ring, the first thing is excitement,” he said. “You know, I can still do this. I’m still in great shape. I could get it done. But then when reality sets in, I am not going to lie that I’ve had my moments of okay, this is Bron Breakker. He’s, you know, almost half my age. He’s a former NXT world champion. He almost ended my best friend’s career, you know, is this the right guy that I should be going in the ring with? I don’t know but it’s happening. And you know now I’ve gotten to a point where I’m kind of empty minded about it. I’m just, I’m excited about it. I’m going to see what happens and I think I am going to be able to perform at my best. And I think, you know I think I’m gonna shock a lot of people.”
- Seth Rollins eats his last meal on Mythical Kitchen.
- LA Knight will appear on The Bump Wednesday in a sit-down interview. Lex Luger will be in the studio.
- WWE has a video showing the timeline of Knight’s time on the main roster.
- Rhea Ripley stars in a commercial for Dish Network.
- Austin Theory was interviewed by WWLP 22 News ahead of WWE’s house show in Springfield, Massachusetts on Sunday.
- Karl Anderson and his wife have welcomed a new son.
- Carlito’s new theme is now on YouTube.
- The Boogeyman and Scarlett star in a Halloween-themed video on WWE’s YouTube.
- WWE’s YouTube also has a playlist of every match featuring Finn Balor’s demon persona.
- Bayley, Scarlett, and Shotzi visit the Winchester Mystery House.
- Sports Illustrated interviewed Shotzi about hosting Halloween Havoc. “Halloween means so much to me, I couldn’t miss it,” she said. “I’ve always been drawn to the spookier side of things. I’ve always loved horror movies, and I think I inherited that from my dad. I love this too much not to be involved.”
- Full matches added to WWE’s YouTube today include the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match from the June 27, 2017 episode of SmackDown, Booker T vs. The Boogeyman from WrestleMania 22, and Kane vs. The Undertaker from WrestleMania XX.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- AEW has a five-hour playlist of MJF’s AEW World Championship title reign.
- In a statement, NJPW has asked for fans to refrain from contact with NJPW stars outside of “officially designated fan meeting events”.
- Former Stardom star Mariah May is teasing something for Wednesday called Mariah May: Portrait of a Wrestler.
- Athena will appear at Wrestling Revolver’s Unreal event on November 16.
- After leaving Pro Wrestling NOAH, Katsuhiko Nakajima appeared in AJPW and has issued a challenge for the Triple Crown Championship. The match was later made official for November 5 in Sapporo.
- Nakajima has also opened his own web store.
- Sports Illustrated interviewed Tetsyua Naito ahead of his match against SANADA at WrestleKingdom 18, teasing he may do the Stardust press.
- GCW confirmed that the 2024 Collective event will take place April 4-6 at The Auditorium in Penns Landing Caterers.
- Josh Alexander vs. Timothy Thatcher is set for Prestige Wrestling’s Roseland 7 event on January 5.
- PWInsider spoke to WOW’s Erica ‘Jungle Girrl’ Porter, who is battling stage 4 breast cancer.
- Bill Apter interviewed Torrie Wilson.
