Daily Update: Santos Escobar, Stephanie Vaquer, Santino Marella
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is up on the site today:
*Updates on Crown Jewel and WrestleDream, interest level , lineups and what could be added
*Notes on Tuesday’s AEW/NXT head-to-head battle
*Odds regarding upcoming big matches
*Tokyo Dome ticket sales and notes from Hiroshi Tanahashi and Aaron Wolf
*NXT No Mercy coverage
*New Japan Destruction in Kobe notes
*CMLL Noche de Campeones notes
*Fuerza Guerrera retires with a look back at his career
*Television ratings are crazy this week and what is the change
*One of the most impressive attendance streaks in history has ended
*CMLL’s focus on wmens’wrestilng in October
*Tessa Blanchard back in CMLL
*AAA goes head-to-head with CMLL featuring AEW and WWE stars on each show
*Saya Kamitani becomes double champion
*Go Shiozaki leaves NOAH
*King of Pro Wrestling shw final.zied
*Mistico vs. Bandido singles match this past week
*Bret Hart talks his career and we look back at what he said
*New wrestling documentaries
*European star may have cost himself his career with full details as to what happened
*MLW makes comment on WWE business on its TV show
*Upcoming TNA TV news
*Thoughts on Andrade’s return to AEW and what happened
*History of pro wrestling on the SuperStation
*Zuffa Boxing TV deal and notes on the promotion
*Dana White on 60 Minutes coverage
*How UFC went from almost dying to a $15 billion business, the moves it made and how Vince McMahon killed one of its biggest TV deals
*What happened with Wanderlei Silva’s boxing match after it was over
*Notes on stockholder lawsuit against TKO
*WWE top star to take time off for major movie role
*WWE headed to Japan for big shows
*Injury updates
*Updates on Edris Enofe and Jazmyn Nyx leaving the company
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Santos Escobar has been moved to the alumni section of WWE.com, indicating he’s officially a free agent. A social media post on Monday featured the world “Palante,” which means forward.
- Triple H was recently featured on a Ted Talk with Patrick Talty.
- Zoey Stark posted a video of her recent baptism. Brian Cage was in attendance.
- PWInsider interviewed Stephanie Vaquer, who talked about a possible dream match: “I think everyone in the WWE Women’s Division is amazing. But I really want to wrestle Rhea Ripley. She’s amazing. She’s amazing and I love her because she is amazing person too. I always watched her on TV and said she’s amazing, but now I know she’s amazing person too. She has a really nice style and she has a really big experience in WWE, so I I’m sure I’d learn a lot about her if we had a match.”
- Recent WWE Vault additions include Drew McIntyre’s old titantron with his ‘Broken Dreams’ theme, a 1989 match between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in London, Seth Rollins vs. Bray Wyatt from Crown Jewel 2019, and a compilation of champion vs. champion matches.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- AEW stars joined the Jaguars on the sidelines for Monday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Swerve Strickland met Ryan Clark at the game.
- This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.
- Thekla posted a behind-the-scenes look at a new Collision commercial airing soon.
- Mustafa Ali was interviewed by Last Words on Sports about Bound for Glory and NXT Showdown.
- Santino Marella, 52, told Metro UK that he thinks he can wrestle for another decade: “I have to wrestle, let’s see – at least have the ability for 10, 12 years. I wanna tag team with my son, he’s turned seven, so if he’s 18 that’s 11 years away. And my little one, she’s four, so I gotta keep active and mobile … Whatever it takes, we gotta keep this high mileage vehicle on the road.”
- TNA is currently streaming a Bound for Glory marathon with shows from 2013 through 2016.
- The Good Brothers will make their NWA debut at Samhain Part 3 on October 17.
- Killer Kross & Scarlett were interviewed by Chris Van Vliet.
- Paul Walter Hauser was on TMZ’s Inside the Ring.
- West Coast Pro Wrestling announced that they will begin streaming for free on YouTube starting on October 12.
- GCW is heading to Wichita, Kansas for the first time on January 18.
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.