Daily Update: Nate Diaz, Ronda Rousey, AEW All In

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Ronda Rousey makes a surprise appearance at AEW Revolution. (Image credit: JJ Williams)

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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Among the topics covered:

  • Preview and business notes on AEW Revolution
  • Updates on WrestleMania, how we got to Rhodes vs. Orton and feuds that are starting
  • A look at the UFC White House show and how we got here
  • Full UFC 326 coverage including the most viewers of a TV UFC show since Paige Van Zant vs. Michelle Waterson
  • A look at the new AEW streaming service
  • NXT Vengeance Day coverage and poll results
  • Odds on upcoming pro wrestling matches
  • Logan Paul’s grandstand challenge to football players gets several takers, including some big names, but nothing can transpire and how it ended
  • Full coverage of the 16 Carat Gold tournament in German featuring many of the best independent wrestlers in the world
  • A complete look at the TV ratings from all the pro wrestling shows over the past week, including breakdowns in various categories, placings, how Raw did on Netflix, competition and more
  • CMLL’s lineup for its No. 2 show of the year next week
  • Full rundown of the CMLL all women’s show onFriday
  • Konnan news
  • Behnid the Nino Hamburguesa firing
  • Rey de Reyes notes
  • Stardom Cinderella tournament news
  • New Japan Cup and anniversary show news
  • Pro wrestler and MMA star looks back at a fixed fight and more comments including the Japanese attempt to get a major WWE star to job in an MMA match to theri guy
  • Notes on a new promotion debuting
  • Attendance updates for future WWE, AEW, TNA and other shows including Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano.
  • Giant weekend in Europe including the two big Eve shows and the controversy
  • TNA future direction
  • Notes from the Tony Khan media call
  • Putting recent Collision numbers into perspective
  • How Zuffa boxing’s biggest show did
  • Rousey vs. Carano and Rousey’s promotional tactics as well as responses from other fighters
  • Lots of new UFC fights
  • Jake Paul’s women’s boxing group makes ESPN deal
  • Changes to the WWE writing team
  • ESPN reporting side does exactly what they said they wouldn’t do regarding pro wrestling
  • More vacant WWE titles

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Monday Update

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— Bryan and I will be back tonight talking more about last night’s Revolution show, Raw, New Japan Cup, CMLL, Ronda vs. TKO and more.

— Mike Perry vs. Nate Diaz has been added to the 5/16 MMA show on Netflix headlined by Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano. This Will be a five round fight at 170 pounds. They are listing this fight as part of a triple-headliner with Rousey vs. Carano and Francis Ngannou vs. Philipe Lins.

— Rousey wrote about this, “Welcome to the revolution Nate Diaz. It’s fighters vs. establishment — and we’re gunhna win! May 16 only on Netflix. PS Hunter Campbell pissed off the wrong bitch. I’m coming for your job motherf***er.” So I guess it was Campbell who made the call not to guarantee Carano and Rousey what their original idea of what they’d make from PPV was, and led to them not doing the fight in UFC. Exactly how much being anti-TKO led to Rousey showing up last night, I don’t know. Rousey hasn’t said or posted anything. Tony Khan was vague. The impression I have from those who know is that this was not a one-shot, but I can’t even imagine Rousey doing a match until after the Carano fight.

— Raw is tonight in San Antonio with both Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar on the show, so I expect real news coming out of it. AJ Lee vs. Bayley for the IC title, Stephanie Vaquer vs. Raquel Rodriguez for the WWE women’s title, Nattie vs. Maxxine Dupri and Grande Americano Kaiser vs. Grande Americano Gable are announced. They were sold out with 14,400 tickets out as of this afternoon.

— We’re looking for your thoughts on last night’s AEW Revolution show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]

— The presale for All In on 8/30 at Wembley starts for those with a link given out for registering early starts tomorrow and there will be another presale for those who have been given a code on Thursday. What Will Ospreay did last night and its proximity to these dates are not coincidental. The All In sale number after they go on sale to the public is one of the most important numbers of the year. It’s AEW’s biggest show by far of 2026 and more will be made of that number, either good or bad, than any attendance number from any promotion this year.

— WWE is honoring today’s date, 3/16, with 31.6 percent off tickets for US events including WrestleMania, but all shows starting Friday in Raleigh through 6/19 in Kansas City. It’s a one-day sale.

— Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Paul Heyman’s WWF debut. It’s not 25 years straight. There was a notable several year break in there.

— TNA and iHeartMedia announced a multi-platform collaboration where IHeartMedia will be promoted on all TNA platforms while iHeartMedia will promote TNA and will sponsor all of its PPV shows for the remainder of 2026. iHeart will promote TNA’s PPV shows and live shows with the partnership launching for the 4/11 Rebellion show in Cleveland.

— In the New Japan Cup, tomorrow in Fukushima it’s Shota Umino vs. Zack Sabre Jr., and Hirooki Goto vs. Callum Newman. The Two winners go to the semifinals on Friday night. The other semifinal on Friday is Oleg Boltin vs. Yuya Uemura.

— As noted yesterday, NXT will be out of its normal time slot in Chicago tomorrow. It will be on tomorrow night but not until election coverage is over.

— TNA Impact on Thursday did 259,000 viewers and an 0.04 in 18-49. It was its best viewer number to date on AMC.

— CMLL tonight in Puebla was the third sellout in four days, and Mistico was not even on any of those shows. This is El Homenaje a Dos Leyendas week so Puebla tonight and Guadalajara tomorrow night both should be sold out, just like Friday at Arena Mexico one would think is a lock for a sellout. Friday has Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hechicero for the CMLL heavyweight title and Mistico’s return, teaming with Mascara Dorada & Neon against Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta & Daniel Garcia for the CMLL trios tiites plus the retirement of El Satanico should be an easy sellout. Tonight’s show is Atlantis Jr. & Templario vs. Soberano Jr. & Voador Jr. plus Angel de Oro & Niebla Roja defend the CMLL tag titles against Dorrada & Neon and Xelhua & Stigma vs. Yutani & Okumura.

— With his trios title win last night, I believe Mistico will become the first person to be trios champion in two different major promotions at the same time.

— Pandemonium Pro Wrestling had to pull Soberano Jr. off its WrestleMania week show. The SlamFest shows at the Palms ended up getting an exclusive for CMLL talent over Mania week.

— They are building up a Penta vs. El Hijo del Vikingo IC title match in AAA.

— Chris Jericho will be playing the lead villain on Sunday’s episode of Tracker on CBS at 9 p.m. Eastern. Last Sunday’s episode did 8,339,000 viewers and an 0.69, so as far as viewers, more people watch that show than just about any actual televison show.

— Impact on Thursday has The Nemeths vs. The Righteous, Brian Myers vs. Moose, Xia Brookside & Lei Ying Lee vs. Dani Luna & Arianna Grace, Mr. Elegance vs. 76 year old Mike Jackson and Jada Stone vs. Eleyna Black.

— Alex Hammerstone suffered a knee injury at the MLW tapings in Atlanta.

— Among those celebrating birthday today are Hall of Famer Mark Lewin (89), Mike McGuirk (71), Kenny Bolin (66), Henry Godwinn/Mark Canterbury (61), Steve Armstorng (61) and Kenn Doane (40). Today is also the birthday of Don Owen, the Hall of Fame promoter born on this day in 1912, Rudy Kay, born in 1914, Hall of Fame announcer Lance Russell (born in 1926) and Lorenzo Parente (born in 1935). Gary Hart was 66 when he died on this date 18 years ago.

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Dave Meltzer

Dave Meltzer is the founder and lead writer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the weekly constant when it comes to news and reviews in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts for more than 40 years. Dave also co-hosts Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and had had bylines for The National, Yahoo Sports, MMA Fighting and others.