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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
–The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is up on the site now
*Full coverage of WrestleKingdom
*Thoughts on the booking decisions
*How the PPV did and other business notes
*Polls on the show
*The unique situation of AEW in St. Louis
*Saturday Night’s Main Event update and depth in WWE right now
*The life and times of Bobby “Mo” Horne, from Men on a Mission who passed away this past week.
*The Hall of Fame case for Sabu
*Odds for upcoming major pro wrestling matches
*The most detailed look at the ratings for all the wrestling TV shows this past weeks, placings for the night and the week, annual comparisons and more
*The largest crowd for an all-women’s pro wrestling show in more than seven years
*More on the AEW talent in Mexico this week
*WWE talent in Mexico this week
*Notes on Kento Miyahara vs. Go Shiozaki
*New Japan Super Juniors tournament
*Lots of health issue updates for those in the wrestling business
*Lots of WWE injury updates
*Andrade update
*Fantastica Mania U.K. notes
*More on potential sale of WBD and how this affects AEW
*What wrestlers have had the most great matches in 2025
*Advance ticket sales for WWE & AEW shows over the next two months
*What show is expected to break the all-time arena gate record
*More on the debate over the new version of the Ali Act
*Death of Duke Roufas
*WWE value to ESPN as far as selling subscriptions
*Lots of WWE news regarding non-compete and a look at various situations including that of Brock Lesnar, Samantha Irvin and Renee Paquette
*More on AI and WWE creative
*WWE international tour notes
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Natalya’s new memoir, ‘The Last Hart Beating: From the Dungeon to WWE’ is out today. She talked to The New York Post and Fox News promoting the book.
- She told Fox News: “Wrestling is like the backdrop of my story, but the book is so much more about just matches that I’ve had or how I got started in it. People who are reading it, they can’t wait to get to the next chapter because it’s a storyline. They can’t wait to see what’s going to happen in the story, and it’s a story that people don’t know.”
- WWE’s YouTube channel added Jey Uso vs. Gunther from WrestleMania 41.
- Latest WWE Vault additions include The Undertaker’s Ministry of Darkness entrance video, The Undertaker putting Steve Austin on his symbol from the December 7, 1998 edition of Raw, a Best of the Firefly Funhouse compilation, The Boogeyman eating Jillian Hall’s mole from the January 13, 2006 edition of SmackDown, and the WWE Mega Matches home video release featuring Ultimate Warrior vs. Randy Savage.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- Kota Ibushi showed off his surgical scars on social media.
- Outsports has an article on real-life couple Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize, who made their debut this past weekend on AEW Collision.
- Bryan Danielson stopped by Second Chance Academy in San Antonio, Texas for a roundtable with middle school students to discuss staying drug free.
- AEW’s new commercial spoofing the old SportsCenter commercials.
- Leila Grey recently ran the Las Vegas Marathon.
- Rikishi wrote on social media he’s grateful to be alive after undergoing emergency surgery recently: “God Is Amazing. Grateful to be alive. We share blessings today and forever more. I’m proud of my boys ( missing few more ) #FatuAnoai Stay safe and know theres More work to do.”
- PWInsider reports that 2 Cold Scorpio is scheduled to be at a court hearing tomorrow stemming from charges after he allegedly stabbed a man during an altercation.
- CMLL livestreamed their Monday show in Puebla in full for free on YouTube.
- Mascarita Dorada has been announced for GCW Dream On for November 22.
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.