Daily Update: New WWE NXT Speed tournament set, Sol Ruca, Royal Rumble
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is up on the site right now. Some of the key stories being covered:
- Royal Rumble thoughts, odds and direction
- The business of UFC to Paramount, the numbers that were released, what they mean, and how much revenue does this mean vs. how much they paid for rights
- Coverage of Saturday Night’s Main Event
- UFC 324 coverage, the fights, the future and the business
- The life and times of Kim Wood, football, weightlifting, perception of people, Ken Shamrock and Brian Pillman
- How Smackdown and NXT did throughout 2025 on Netflix, the ups and the downs
- The most complete look at the ratings for all the pro wrestling TV shows over the past week, demos, comparisons, drops from last year factoring out why it would and should drop with big data
- A new record set for most sellouts by a main eventer in a given month
- Huge CMLL business week and great matches
- Major shows upcoming
- Big events coming for New Japan
- Fantastica Mania coming
- Mayu Iwatani’s 15th anniversary show
- Jesse Ventura suggest Minnesota should leave the U.S.
- Chris Jericho on TV show
- Jimmy Jacobs talks working for Vince McMahon
- Mick Foey on his mother’s death
- Controversial independent angle makes mainstream attention and gets wrestler fired
- Former WWE champion in talks to become a weekly TV character elsewhere
- Former WCW attitude era announcer about to come back to wrestling
- Ticket sales for upcoming WWE, AEW and TNA shows
- Looking at the AEW business with Triller
- AEW executive there from the start leaving
- Issues with spoliation of evidence in UFC case
- More on the White House show
- Lots of notes on Zuffa boxing contracts
- Notes on WWE international deals
- Injryu updates
- New AEW & WWE signings
This Week’s Back Issue
- April 28, 2008 Observer Newsletter: Presidential candidates & parodies appear on WWE TV, Ultimate Warrior resurfaces
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- A new men’s Speed tournament will start on tonight’s NXT. Elio LeFleur will battle Charlie Dempsey, while Josh Briggs will face Eli Knight. The winners will move on to the finals, with that winner facing champion Jasper Troy.
- WWE has a video of wrestlers reacting to their elimination from the Royal Rumble during their ride to the backstage area.
- Sol Ruca noted on TikTok that she came up with her gear for the Royal Rumble at the last minute: “Had some miscommunication with the whole gear situation so I had to make this in a rush. But I ended up getting basically everything from Amazon except for the pants I got from Fashion Nova.”
- TKO announced that Mark Shapiro will participate in the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on March 3.
- Matt Cardona rates US and British snacks.
- Recent WWE Vault additions include an unseen AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens house show match from July 7, 2017 at MSG, The Mega Powers vs. The Twin Towers from the February 3, 1989 Saturday Night’s Main Event including the Mega Powers split, a compilation of arm wrestling contests, and Stone Cold Steve Austin, Cactus Jack, Chainsaw Charlie, and Owen Hart vs. D-Generation X and Savio Vega from No Way Out 1998.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- Tommaso Ciampa talks about his new AEW theme song.
- Hulk Hogan’s mansion in Florida is now up for sale with a $10,989,000 price tag.
- Trey Miguel will be in action this Thursday on Impact.
- This week’s TNA Xplosion.
- During an interview on Off the Ropes, Karl Anderson revealed he and Luke Gallows will return to NOAH in April.
- Gallows will be teaming with his son for SECW on Friday.
- Marie Malenko, the daughter of Dean Malenko, has been announced for two Marigold dates this coming Saturday and Sunday.
- Shane Haste noted on social media he is currently a free agent.
- Crowbar Press has an obituary on The Great Mephisto, who recently passed away.
- Maple Leaf Pro is releasing a documentary this Friday on referee Jeff Kavanaugh, who is battling cancer.
Bryan Rose
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.