Daily Update: Nikki Bella, MJF, Paul Walter Hauser
Daily Update
Latest News
- Pro Wrestling Tees releases 2025 top sellers list
- Tony Khan credits Samoa Joe for saving the day at AEW All In 2023
- Tony Khan on AEW Grand Slam Mexico return, potential dual contracts
- Tony Khan explains different approaches to booking AEW Dynamite and Collision
- Jeff Jarrett on William Regal’s safety concerns: ‘Wrestling is not going in reverse’
- Gunther to face El Grande Americano at WWE house show
- Tony Khan: Cody Rhodes has been ‘very positive’ in our interactions since AEW departure
- Report: Potential timeline for Chad Gable’s return to WWE
- Matt Hardy calls for ‘generational dream match’ at WWE WrestleMania
Latest Audio
- WOL: Regal, Omega and Jarrett on safety, RAW report
- WOR: McMahon lawsuit update, injuries, RAW report
Latest YouTube Video
This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Observer is up on the site today. Sorry for the delay but there were a number of things having to do with Christmas travel and the weather that basically cost me a full day. But it’s a very heavy issue with two major stories, one on AEW going forward business wise and the many key aspects of media rights and different ways it can go in 2027. The other is a story on Roland Bock, who had one of the most famous pro wrestling matches of the 70s with Antonio Inoki, the famed Stuttgart Massacre, and was one of the most intriguing and controversial pro wrestlers of that era.
*Where AEW stands today, and the key out of the ring and out of their hands challenges that will face them between now and the end of 2027
*AEW’s ratings growth outside the U.S. this past year
*AEW’s television ratings decline with the different factors involved
*Key aspects of the WBD sale and what it means to AEW
*What AEW didn’t do in 2025 as far as new deals that were talked about one year ago
*Estimating using different methods how many U.S. viewers AEW Dynamite really gets
*How things have changed greatly in the past year
*Business of AEW Worlds End
*Gambling odds for matches
*A look at AAA Guerra de Titanes, one of WWE’s best shows of the year
*Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul and business numbers and record level manipulation of numbers
*Ric Flair and Mike Tyson file lawsuit against former business partner
*The life and times of Roland Bock, one of the most intriguing pro wrestling characters of the 1970s, his famous matches with Antonio Inoki, the reality of those matches, his tough guy reputation, the legendary tough guy whose career he ended and just how different pro wrestling was back then. We go from being tortured as a child, to developing a street fighter rep, going to the Olympics in wrestling, his attempt to pioneer a promotional style that got big in Japan several years later, why his career didn’t explode in Japan and everything from wrestling bears to bulls
*Who is eligible for the 2025 Rookie of the Year award
*The most detailed look at the ratings over the past week
*Update on 2025 Arena Mexico attendance
*A look at CMLL Dream Match Night
*Ozawa talks awards
*WrestleKingdom updates
*A look at the life and career of Mark Wolf
*Rick Link goes into hospice care
*Jerry Lawler returns to WMC
*Grandson of Hawaiian pro wrestling legend is starting QB at USC, headed to a bowl game an an NFL prospect
*Ticket sales to upcoming WWE,AEW and TNA shows
*Lots of AEW news notes
*Jim Ross responds to DVon Dudley
*Updates on multiple lawsuits against TKO and judges concerns about evidence in two different cases
*WrestleMania ticket sales as well as the next two AEW PPV sales
This Week’s Back Issue
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Dominik Mysterio on social media: “I’ll be back soon.”
- After people pointed out Nikki Bella paid tribute to John Cena during her match on Raw, she wrote on social media: “You all kept wanting a tribute from me geeezz so here ya all go… but… that’s the Fearless Lock.”
- WCW’s YouTube channel posted an untelevised rematch for the WCW Championship between Ron Simmons and Vader from December 30, 1992.
- WWE Vault this week is celebrating Golden Week, posting new content from the 80s and early 90s. New content includes a dark match between Mr. Perfect and Dusty Rhodes from February 23, 1990, ‘Amazing’ Ultimate Warrior footage found in the WWE Vault, Hulk Hogan & Gene Okerlund vs. Mr. Fuji and George ‘The Animal’ Steele from August 26, 1984, and Craziest Golden Era Talk Show moments.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- MJF wrote on Tuesday morning that his X account was hacked: “My Twitter got hacked. If you were messaged by me that I needed money, my apologies. However if you were messaged by me and you were dumb as fuck enough to believe that. My Venmo information is below.”
- Yota Tsuji did an in-character interview with NJPW’s website ahead of his title unification match against Konosuke Takeshita at Wrestle Kingdom 20.
- KUSHIDA is holding a seminar at the NJPW LA Dojo on February 1. More details here.
- This week’s TNA Xplosion.
- The former Javier Bernal in NXT spoke to PWMania.
- Paul Walter Hauser will face Mad Dog Connelly in a strap match at Orange Crush’s Superpower Slam event on February 1.
- Dave Sahadi, who previously did work for WWE, WCW, and MLW and is now directing Real American Freestyle, told PWInsider that he can never work in “professional” wrestling again: “This is the most excited and creatively inspired I have felt about anything in television production in at least fifteen years, if not longer. And I fell my best work is yet to come. I am heartened by our initial success. Traveling o hometowns and producing ”personality profiles” with the athletes in their hometowns is fun. We do this so that the audience gets to know the person beyond the athlete, the real-life stories from childhood to career, ones many viewers can relate to. And creative compelling video packages has always been my passion, but nowadays I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes (most times, actually) with an idea and get right back at it. It’s not a job; it’s a joy.”
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.