Daily Update: WWE notes, MyAEW, Mike Santana

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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Among the topics covered:

  • Crazy hyperbole for the UFC White House show
  • The arrests of people looking at ruining the show and worse
  • Explaining all the misleading viewership numbers
  • The best real comparisons to Rousey vs. Carano and Gaethje vs. Pimblett
  • The lessons that the viewership number taught us
  • Who paid for what and what the taxpayers had to cover from the show
  • The Josh Hokit situation
  • Gavin Newsom responds to the show
  • Sean Strickland silliness
  • Celebrities who came and didn’t come
  • The Daniel Cormier/Eric Trump twitter show
  • What the public thought of the show
  • A look at next weekend’s big shows, business notes, and big show business for AEW & WWE PPV shows the next few months
  • Updates on Forbidden Door and what is and isn’t there
  • Full coverage of UFC at the White House
  • Full coverage of NewJapan Dominion and the G-1 Climax tournament
  • The life and career of Pete Doherty, the Duke of Dorchester
  • The most detailed look at the ratings of all the major shows this past wek
  • CMLL gets new international PPV home
  • A look back at another big week for Komander, a week of sellouts and big crowds, and Komander mad at Guadalajara fans
  • All Japan big show coverage
  • NOAH tag tournament finals
  • Tiger Mask’s farewell notes
  • Maple Leaf Wrestling TV tapings
  • Out of control brawl at RAF show
  • The story behind the birth of King of the Ring
  • Layfield out of retirement
  • Death of Van Hammer update
  • Big names coming to European indies
  • MLW TV taig notes
  • Departures of Tommy Dreamer and Tessa Blanchard from TNA looked at
  • More on the Paramount/Skydance purchase of WBD and how it affects AEW
  • Sareee explains missing AEW show
  • Mistico teaes ROH title match
  • Advanced ticket sales to upcoming WWE & AEW shows
  • Fallout of the Conor McGregor New York Times story
  • More on UFC officials deleting evidence agauisnt lawyers advice in regard to Kajan Johnson case
  • Allegations against Alex Pererira
  • Former Pride star charged in sexual assault case
  • Former UFC star charges dropped in beating daughter
  • Janel Grant speaks about her case, and depositions in the shareholders lawsuit
  • Kaiser case updated
  • George Barrios defends voting for Vince’s return

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Thursday Update

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Triple H hypes up the WWE Raw crowd. (Image credit: WWE)

WWE

  • While hyping the card for Night of Champions, Paul “Triple H” Levesque told The Stephen A. Smith Show that he thinks it could be an “epic” night for Bron Breakker, who is facing Seth Rollins in a steel cage match:
    • Between Seth Rollins and Bron Breakker, I’m looking for Bron Breakker to show me what he really can do when it’s just on him and he’s just in there with Seth Rollins. I really feel like this is going to be an epic night for him.
  • WWE posted a video with Breakker training in the gym with Big E in advance of Saturday.
  • The company also uploaded an interview with Liv Morgan that will air on the Night of Champions Countdown show.
  • WrestleVotes reports that there’s “locker room speculation” Raw’s go-home show for WrestleMania 43 in 2027 could take place at The O2 in London. That venue also hosted Raw and a SmackDown taping this week prior to WWE heading to Saudi Arabia for Night of Champions.
  • On The Pat McAfee Show, IShowSpeed was asked about potentially doing more with WWE in the future after competing at WrestleMania 42:
    • It makes sense. I genuinely think at some point in my career, I will take WWE a bit more serious and actually like deliver my full self into it and immerse myself into it. But right now, I’m still figuring out what I really want to do, you know?
  • False Finish reports that NOAH’s Ulka Sasaki, who is on excursion to the United States, will be appearing on an episode of WWE Evolve in the coming weeks.
  • William Regal reflected on this week being the 42nd anniversary of him moving to Blackpool to begin his wrestling career:
    • It’s 42 years this week that I left home and moved to Blackpool to became an apprentice Wrestler for World Wide Wrestling Promotions Of Blackpool. For the next two years I spoke when spoken to, put up rings for 400 + shows, wrestled, trained how I was told, carried the older wrestlers bags and fetched the teas and sandwiches. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Thank you to everyone that was a part of that time. And thank you to @visitBlackpool as everything that’s been good in my life started with living there for the next 10 years.
  • John Cena appeared on NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin.
  • Stephanie McMahon had sportscaster Rich Eisen as a guest on her “What’s Your Story?” podcast.
  • WWE Vault uploaded a full Mid-South Wrestling episode from November 9, 1984, which includes a young Shawn Michaels teaming with Mike Jackson against Chavo & Hector Guerrero.
  • WCW’s YouTube channel put together a compilation video of Sting tag team matches.

Other Wrestling

  • Q93 Radio asked Tony Khan about his vision for MyAEW:
    • We are trying to create our own platform for international distribution. Of course here in America, all of our pay-per-views and shows, you can go watch them on HBO Max, so we’ve got a great streaming home for the library and the live events. Internationally, it’s great to have an app and a place to put these events in other countries, in territories where HBO is still growing and developing.
    • And also on the FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channel, that’s a huge thing now, having 24-hour streaming and having a channel always running where people can tune in anytime and watch the classic events and utilize the library that we’ve built. So I think that the FAST channel is a really great development for AEW where you can go back and watch on the different streaming services and get caught up ahead of the live events [like Dynamite and Forbidden Door].
  • AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla was interviewed by Adrian Hernandez ahead of Forbidden Door.
  • Deonna Purrazzo posted a new picture with her right foot still in a boot and still using a crutch after being injured at ROH’s taping in Jacksonville on Monday night.
  • Amid rumors that his TNA contract is coming up next month and he could be headed to WWE, Mike Santana told Undisputed that his focus right now is solely on Slammiversary:
    • I’ve heard the rumors. I’m defending the world title this Sunday in Boston at Slammiversary. That is my focus. Literally all I’ve been thinking about and preparing for is this match against Nic Nemeth.
    • Nic Nemeth and me are going to go after it. Especially with all the transition and changes in TNA, this is the time for us to show what’s most important–it’s all about what happens in the ring. I want people leaving talking about the show and how great it was. Slammiversary, that’s all I’m thinking about.
    • Whatever happens after that happens after that. My focus is Slammiversary.
  • TV Insider asked Matt Hardy what it’s been like to have TNA on a bigger platform on AMC:
    • It has been great. The fact we’re on AMC where not only do we have the advantage of being on a major network that is in so many homes and almost every hotel and everything else. There is also a huge streaming reach as well, so it’s a very sprawling company when it comes to that. Between that and the TNA+ app, which has been doing well itself, we’re really out there now. We’re in new households with a lot of new eyeballs, so that is great. I think since we’ve begun we’ve been building. We had the “Wicked Garden” match, and last week we got the numbers, and they are up. The rating system has sort of changed where at one point it was more in favor of the show and skewed back to more viewers and then less. Who knows? It’s a little inconsistent, but the main thing we are excited about is that our attendees are growing. There is still a lot of enthusiasm about TNA. And as a brand, TNA is getting bigger and bigger and better.
  • NJPW shared the lineup of merchandise that will be available at night one of the G1 Climax in Chicago on July 11.
  • On July 6, Dark Side of the Ring is hosting a screening of its season seven premiere at the Metrograph in New York City. The episode is focused on TNA & Jeff Jarrett, and Jarrett will be doing a Q&A following the NYC screening with Dark Side of the Ring co-creator Evan Husney.
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Joseph Currier
Joseph Currier

Joseph Currier is the lead editor of F4WOnline.com, directing daily news coverage and writing articles on professional wrestling. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, obtaining a journalism degree in 2016. Joseph joined F4W during his time at UMass and has now been writing about the industry for nearly a decade.

In addition to his work with F4W, Joseph has previously contributed to Sports Illustrated's wrestling coverage. He lives in Massachusetts and is a diehard fan of the Boston sports teams and Liverpool Football Club.