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Notes from the new issue which apparently has been the talk of the social media wrestling world:
*Seth Rollins injury and how this will lead to numerous changes in  booking plans, including what was scheduled short and long-term for Rollins through Mania and after.
*Full coverage of Crown Jewel, business notes and match coverage
*The Media Ratings Council has questions about the new numbers
*Just how far Smackdown has dropped with younger viewers based on the new sampling and NXT isn’t much  different, nor is AEW
*Konosuke Takeshita beats Zack Sabre Jr. to win the IWGP title, a look at King of Prm Wrestling, WrestleKingdom, first thoughts on Aaron Wolf, and the angles on the show
*WrestleDream preview, business notes, as well as Saturday Night’s Main Event in Salt Lake City needs the entire show revamped
*Odds for upcoming big matches
*TNA Bound for Glory notes
*A detailed story on WWE cuts focusing on Ridge Holland and WEs Lee
*Pro  Wrestling NOAH at Sumo Hall
*A huge story on the 2025 Hall of Fame U.S. & Canada candidates
*What the awards voting over the last 45 years says about those who fare better not  in than those who are in.  
*The most detailed look at the ratings for all the wrestling shows of the past week
*It women’s month at Arena Mexico but one person is still the star, a look at  the recent main events
*A look at two PPV shows from Arena Mexico coming
*Who is the obvious choice for tag team of the year that nobody is talking about
*Best of the Super Juniors tournament
*Japanese referee dies in bear attack
*Update on Smashing Machine business
*They named a bridge after Stu Hart and more notes
*NFL star copying Ric Flair
*Fantastica Mania UK
*The Andrade situation
*Lots of background details on similar stories
*Kota Ibushi update
*Notes on Chris Jericho and Britt Baker
*Darby Allin talks about the cancers that used to be in AEW
*Update on  a training camp for AEW in Asheville, NC
*Rematch of a match of the year candidate coming to AEW show in Edinburg, TX
*Updates on YouTube numbers for September
*Debate over the new and old Ali Act
*Details on Zuffa Boxing deals
*How much UFC makes in profit per Saturday show
*New UFC fights
*Sad BJ Penn story
*Stories on fighters getting screwed by promoters
*Ticket demand for John Cena’s ast show
*New WWE hire, usage of AI for wrestling storylines and some are worried about their jobs
*AJ Styles talks retiring
*WWE injury updates

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Monday Update

–A quick note regarding our Apple and Spotify feeds for audio: Today’s internet outage appears to have impacted both feeds and we will have today’s WOL posted there as soon as possible.

–Bryan and I will be back tonight with Wrestling Observer Radio.  We” be taking the fallout of a show that will have a lot of news including how they are going to crown a new WWE champion, and how they handle the Rhea Ripley broken nose from Saturday’s show in Tokyo.

–Very sorry to hear of the death of Bobby Horne,  who wrestled as Sir Mo and Mo of Men on a Mission as well as Bobby Knight and many other names.  He wrestled 1993-96 in WWF and later promoted independent wrestling.  He had many health issues over the past decade and was only 58 at the time of his death yesterday.  We will talk more about him tonight and have a story on him in the next Observer.

–Raw tonight is from Sacramento, CA, back to the normal 8 p.m. start time.  More than 10,000 tickets are out so  it’s still a very good crowd even though the advance was down from recent trips to the city.  The biggest thing will be the announcement of what they are doingr  about the WWE title.  I presume it’ll be CM Punk vs. someone for the vacant title on 11/1 in Salt Lake City, but that’s just speculation.  But they will be explaining all that tonight.  Plus it’s Dominik Mysterio vs. Rusev for the IC title, Becky Lynch vs. Maxxine Dupri for the IC title, Finn Balor & JD McDonagh vs. AJ Styles & Dragon Lee for the world tag team titles and Stephanie Vaquer vs. Roxanne Perez.  The NFL has Tampa Bay vs. Detroit at 7 p.m. on both ESPN and ABC.  There is a Seattle vs. Houston game at 10 p.m. tonight in ESPN+.  It will be very interesting to see how ESPN+ does as compared to television.

–We’re looking for reports from Sacramento tonight with anything not on the live show such as Main Event or dark matches to [email protected]

–We’re also doing our weekend poll on AEW WrestleDream, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]

–AEW on Wednesday from San Antonio has announced Kazuchika Okada vs. Bandido for the Unified title, The Opps vs. Hurt Syndicate for the trios titles, and they will be announcing the brackets for the women’s tag team titles.

–Killer Kross will be debuting a documentary at 10:15 p.m. called “One Big Work” on YouTube tonight about his life after WWE.

–The Smashing Machine was No. 16 at the box office this weekend with $329,751 putting it at $11,121,428 after three weeks.  It was down to 819 theaters this week.

–Mercedes Mone will next defend the CMLL women’s title against Olympia.  They did the challenge Friday night but said the match would take place in the U.S.

–Arn Anderson will be debuting for a meet and greet with MLW as part of its 11/20 show in Charleston WC at the Music Hall.

–Dustin Rhodes will be doing his RWA one year anniversary show on 11/23 at 5 a p.m. at Wild West in Cedar Park TX with Deonna Purrazzo, Billy Gunn and Zilla Fatu.

–Riho returned to Japan on today’s Starlight Kid tenth anniversary show at Shin=Kiba.  The PPV of that show that took place earlier today was canceled due to a giant global network outage.  All customers will be refunded.  The show instead is available for free on YouTube.

–XICW had its 25th anniversary show before a sellout in Clinton Township, MI before a sellout crowd with a main event of Killer Kross & Scarlett Bordeaux & Jimmy Jacobs over AdamWick & Maxximillian & Heather Blue.  Also on the show were Trey Miguel, Jake Crist and Simon Gotch.  They return on 11/8 at the Premier Events Center in Clinton Township with Rhino & Jimmy Jacobs appearing.

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