Daily Update: WWE Raw, AEW Dynamite anniversary, The Rock
Daily Update
Latest News
- Sting’s son to make pro wrestling debut next month
- WWE Raw live results: The Usos vs. Bron Breakker & Bronson Reed
- New WWE NXT wrestler name revealed after ‘PJ Vasa’ trademark filing
- NXT wrestler Edris Enofe announces WWE departure
- AJ Styles offers huge praise for WWE stars IYO SKY, Asuka
Latest Audio
- WOL: Fun look at all the news and top matches of the weekend
- JNPO: ‘The Smashing Machine’ review & a talk with Bas Rutten
- WOR: Weekend news recap, reviews of WWE, AEW, NXT, TNA & more
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is out with the fallout of three major shows this past weekend and what key things we learned from them:
- Reader polls on the weekend shows
- Key points we learned from WWE going after AEW
- Numbers for all three shows and how they did
- Does the price make a difference, how is afternoon vs. evening?
- What we’ve learned about AEW that goes against the grain of 30 plus years of PPV numbers
- Mistico vs. MJF looked at as well as Mistico’s place in Lucha Libre history
- Misconceptions about John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar
- The next big shows from WWE & AEW
- Lots of injury updates
- Advanced ticket sales for the major shows over the next month
- Odds for last weekend and next weekend
- Where wrestling shows stood in the weekly ratings and comparisons with the same week in 2024 and 2023
- Exactly how much the audience makeup has changed for AEW on television this past year
- For every major TV show, what percentage of viewers were women this past week
- Blue Panther wins title at 65 years old
- Big head-to-head battles in Mexico City on Saturday and Sunday this week
- Lineup for the women’s Grand Prix match in Mexico City with talent from RevPro, Stardom and AEW/ROH
- Notes from the Pokemon CMLL crossover event
- Story about the changes in the crowds at Arena Mexico and leading reporter opposes the story
- Lots of health updates
- Real American Freestyle signs first woman gold medalist
- Masha Slamovich controversy
- Zuffa Boxing close to announcing TV deal
- Former WWE developmental talent signs with UFC for November debut
- International promotion in talks with ESPN Unlimited
- Jake Paul vs. Tank Davis silliness
- Cody Rhodes talks Paul Levesque’s successor
- Mark Shapiro talks how WWE & UFC will decide on locations for big shows
- ESPN review of Wrestlepalooza and the controversy allows ignoring the far bigger story
- Jazmyn Nyx turns down WWE offer, says it’s too low
This Week’s Back Issue
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Monday Update
–We have part one of our Hall of Fame show from the weekend with Garrett Gonzales and Bryan and I were up last night talking the news. Bryan and I will be back up tonight talking tody’s news, and there is a ton of it, as well as Raw and more from the weekend.
–Raw started one hour earlier today at 7 p.m. Eastern for the third week of the three-week experiment. Right now with the rating for just the first week in, it would show 8 p.m. as the best time but there are two more ratings to come. There are 7 p.m. starts scheduled for the November Raws from Boston and Madison Square Garden but it goes back to 8 p.m. next week. Announced are the Usos vs. Bron Breakker & Bronson Reed in a tornado match, Dominik Mysterio vs. Rusev for the IC title,Bayley vs. Raquel Rodriguez, AJ Styles & Dragon Lee vs. Los Gran Americanos (presumably Tyler Bate & Pete Dunne) plus Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley are advertised. The show is from Raleigh. They had 9,673 tickets out as of this morning. I don’t think it will sell out but it’s still a very big crowd.
–We’re looking for reports from Raleigh tonight as far as anything not on the live show such as Main Event or dark matches to [email protected]
–We’re looking for your thoughts from Saturday’s NXT No Mercy, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
–The updated card for Wednesday’s two-and-a-half hour Dynamite sixth anniversary show from Hollywood, FL has Kyle Fletcher vs. Orange Cassidy for the TNT title, Adam Page & Samoa Joe & Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli & Daniel Garcia, Kris Statlander & Darby Allin vs. Marina Shafir & Wheeler Yuta, Brody King & Bandido & Kenny Omega vs. Young Bucks & Josh Alexander, the return of Jurassic Express plus Toni Storm.
–Dwayne Johnson will be on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night to promote “The Smashing Machine,” which gets released on Friday.
–If it wasn’t made clear, the WWE web site evidently screwed up and listed it as Lainey Reid who helped Jacy Jayne retain her title against Lola Vice on Saturday. They later corrected it and removed the name. Reid was pulled from the Sol Ruca match on the show and then inserted into the main event angle. There has been talk of her as the third member of Fatal Influence.
–Titan is headed to New Japan during the October tour.
–There will be live wrestling matches on 10/3 and 10/10 at the 52 Walker Gallery , an art Gallery in Downtown Manhattan, featuring Darby Allin and live music. Among those who will be on the events are Killer Kross, AR Fox, Timothy Thatcher and the debuting Steven Borden, who is the son of Sting who appeared at last year’s Revolution show. Allin has been training Borden.
–Neon & Volador Jr. beat Mortos Bandido in the main event at Arena Mexico last night. It was a rudo and tecnico team on both sides.
–Regarding Edris Enofe leaving WWE as he announced a few hours ago, those in WWE have confirmed it was his decision to go and not a company decision, even though he had not been booked for a match since July.
–Faby Apache was added to the 10/25 Flammer vs Natalya Reina de Reinas title match in Mexico City because she beat Flammer in a non-title match on Saturday night.
–Electronic Arts was sold to the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Affinity Partners and Silver Lake (the money behind Endeavor/UFC’s purchase) in what was said to be the largest deal ever for a company in that genre.
–Bad Bunny was announced as one of the halftime stars at the Super Bowl this year. This news brought about some of the worst dregs of society commenting negatively about a foreigner (Puerto Rico is a US territory) being allowed to perform at the Super Bowl.
–Brian Solomon’s book on the life of Gorilla Monsoon, “The Irresistible Force,” will be released tomorrow. I expect it to be excellent.
–Maple Leaf Wrestling on 10/27 in Toronto at the New Age Experience Center, on a Monday night, to benefit REENA, a nonprofit supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. Matt Hardy, Carlito, Micorman and Gisele Shaw have been announced.
–Austin Aries vs. Paul London in an Opera Cup match will take place on Saturday for the MLW show in Long Beach at the Thunder Studios ARena.’
–Under the L Productions out of Chidago will be doing a follow up series after Netflix’s Wrestlers, caled “The Herro’s Journey A Pro Wrestling story” built around Ohio Valley Wrestling and coach Al Snow.
–Collider has reported that Adam Scherr, the former Braun Strowman, has said he’s in talks to play Jason Voorhees in the new Friday the 13th movie.
