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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
We have the largest issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in our history up on the site today because we are covering two very newsworthy weeks:
*Full coverage of Full Gear. The good, the bad, the reaction, the business notes, reasons for the surprisingly good PPV number, thoughts on the world title change, long title reigns and how they create legends, and early Continental Classic thoughts.
*Notes and odds regarding upcoming matches
*UFC announces its first two shows of 2026, changes that the company is making and why the first two main events are so controversial
*Full coverage of UFC 323
*The life and times of Bob Caudle, the voice of Mid Atlantic wrestling and a Hall of Fame candidate
*A detailed look at how and why the ratings have changed, why the explanation makes no sense, exactly how much the new panel and big data ratings have hurt each show and in particular where.
*The most in-depth look at the ratings for all the shows over the past two weeks, placings for the week, placings in the time slot, men vs. women, how the placings compare to 2024 and 2023, and each show compared with the prior year and prior week, as well as the leading competition for each show.
*Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia, Komander, Mortos, Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight go to CMLL, draw big crowds and a look at their key matches
*CMLL ready to honor a milestone it is close that no company has ever done in history
*Notes on AAA’s new TV deal in Mexico and Latin America and who they are pushing as the top stars
*WWE tag team taking the name of one of Mexico’s greatest tag teams in history
*Updates on tag team tournaments in Stardom, New Japan and All Japan.
*Wrestler suspended after getting in car accident and messing up a tournament
*Update on Tokyo Dome ticket sales
*Fantastica Mania 2026 notes
*Battle of the Generations
*RAF new philosophy and update
*Santo’s final matches
*Sting’s son has first singles match
*Headbangers farewell tour
*The oldest male wrestler in history has a match last week
*Opera Cup notes
*TNA business notes as well as notes on the next PPV show and the last major show
*AEW TV changes
*Final Battle updated card
*Tony Khan on multiple subjects
*Ticket sales for upcoming WWE, AEW and TNA shows
*Two best in the world at their specific sport athletes are on UFC’s radar
*Becky Lynch’s comments
*Update on stockholders lawsuit against WWE
*New WWE signings
*WWE star talks about her domestic violence issue
*WWE engagements
*Bret Hart talks McMahon and Michaels and our thoughts on it
This Week’s Back Issue
Monday Update
–Bryan and I will be back tonight talking about Raw, Ronda Rousey, Survivor Series fallout and the ridiculous weekend upcoming for events.
–Due to Thanksgiving, ratings are not out yet. At this point, the last ratings out are for last Monday, so seven days ago. I expect a big data dump tomorrow that would include last Monday’s Raw on Netflix, NXT, and both Dynamite and Collision from Wednesday and Thursday. Smackdown could be out tomorrow but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s Wednesday or Thursday.
–Zootopia 2 which includes voice work from Dwayne Johnson, Roman Reigns and CM Punk, opened at $156 million over the four-day weekend, beating Wicked For Good that did $93 million in its second week of release. Zootopia 2 also did about $400 million outside the U.S. and Canada.
–Raw is tonight in Glendale, AZ. Paul Levesque promised a great show as a follow-up from Survivor Series. The semifinals of the John Cena tournament are Gunther vs. Solo Sikoa and LA Knight vs. Jey Uso. AJ Styles & Dragon Lee defend the tag titles against The New Day There were 8,400 tickets out as of earlier today.
–Becky Lynch is doing a worked boycott of Raw unless she’s reinstated as IC champion.
–We’re looking for your thoughts on Survivor Series, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
–Nikki Bella’s role will be changing shortly. She is still figured into the plans.
–ROH will be doing an episode of its TV show tomorrow night at 7 p.m. on the ROH YouTube channel. This will likely help finalize Friday’s ROH Final Battle show. They will air the Queen Aminata vs. Deonna Purrazzo and Billie Starkz vs. Yuka Sakazaki semifinals in the women’s Pure title tournament I believe, since the finals are Friday.–Daria Berenato, the former Sonya Deville, is in ahorro movie called “Zombois” which starts filming in Atlanta this month.
–Ken Anderson will be working the 12/13 Wrestling Revolver show in Clive, IA.
–Mick Foley has a European tour of shows that are all sold out.
–The funeral for wrestling photographer George Tahinos will take place on Saturday at the Fair Lawn Athletic Club in Fair Lawn, NJ. Tahinos, who was the main photographer for ECW and did photos for a number of magazines, passed away at the age of 63 two weeks ago.
–Advertised for tomorrow’s NXT is DarkState vs. Leon Slater & Je’Von Evans & Myles Borne & Joe Hendry, Josh Briggs vs Tavion Heights plus The Culling explain why they turned on Tatum Paxley.
–There is a great detailed article on the retirement of Hiroshi Tanahashi and the last year of New Japan. We should have more on this in the next few days but it really goes into the politics of AEW vs WWE and how it affected this show.
–Bill Apter sent us this interview with Jim Duggan
–A podcast interview with Ben Askren
–A story on ESPN being in bed with WWE and how much they were promoting Survivor Series
–Noriyo Tateno of the JB Angels tag team turned 60 today. There was just this past week a successful event in Japan for the 40th anniversary of the team and a lot of the big stars from that era appeared at it. Trinity from TNA, not Trinity Fatu but Stephanie Finochio, turns 54 today. Miguel Blackie Guzman, the brother of El Santo and the top star in Texas in the early 50s, passed away 52 years ago today at the age of 57.
(thanks to Tony Richards)
–Super Strong Heavyweight Wrestling on 12/7 in Mount Holly, NJ at 22 King Street. The show will benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Center. Tommy Cairo will be promoting the show.
–The New Japan tag team tournament continues with an A block show tomorrow with Oleg Boltin & Toru Yano vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens, Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Evil & Don Fale, Desperado & Shuji Ishikawa vs Yota Tsuji & Gabe Kidd and Taichi & Satoshi KIojima vs. Shingo Takagi & Drilla Moloney.
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.