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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
This Week’s Back Issue
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Monday Update
–Bryan and I will be back tonight with Wrestling Observer Radio, covering WWE future plans, Raw, the week upcoming, Rikidozan vs. Masahiko Kimura, Bandido vs. Hechicero and much more.
–Raw tonight is from Dallas. It’s back to the 8 p.m. Eastern start time after the three week experiment at 7 p.m. That experiment was not a ratings success but there are two more 7 p.m. shows in November. Becky Lynch vs. Maxxine Dupri and Lyra Valkyria vs. Roxanne Perez were both announced plus Roman Reigns and CM Punk are on the show. I expect the set up for Reigns’ next match. They are just shy of 11,000 tickets as of the latest tally.
–Tonight in Puebla has The Sky team defending the CMLL trios titles against Barboza & Difunto & Volador Jr.
–Most are of the belief that the Bandido injury on Friday is storyline, particularly now that he’s wrestling on Tuesday night.
–Tomorrow is a huge head-to-head battle. NXT is on CW for a two hour show and AEW is on TBS for a two-and-a-half hour show, I guess hoping that people will shift over for the last half hour. It’s a notable thing if that in fact happens or not. Remember ratings won;t be out until Thursday.
NXT has TNA vs. NXT Survivor Series elimination matches with Ricky Starks & Trick Williams & Myles Borne & Je’Von Evans vs. Mike Santana & Leon Slater & Frankie Kazarian & Moose with Joe Hendry as referee and Jacy Jayne & Sol Ruca & Jaida Parker & Lola Vice vs. Kelani Jordan & the Iinspiration & Mara Sade with Jordynne Grace as referee, plus Dion Lennox & Osiris Griffin vs. The Hardys with both the TNA and NXT titles at stake, and Ethan Page vs. Mustafa Ali for the North American title.
AEW from Jacksonville has:
Brody King & Bandido vs. Konosuuke Taekshita & Kazuchika Okada with if King & Bandido win, the winner of the fall gets a shot at Okadsa’s unified title, but it Okada & Takeshita win, they get a tag title shot, Ricochet & Gates of Agony vs. Hurt Syndicate in a street fight, Kyle Fletcher vs. Kyle O’Reily for the TNT title, Jon Moxley vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Pac vs. Orange Cassidy, Mercedes Mone vs. ? for the TBS titel, and Luchasaurus & Jack Perry team together for the first time in three years.
–AEW announced an 11/15 Collision taping in Erie, PA and a 12/10 Dynamite taping in Atlanta at the Gateway Center Arena.
–Former ECW ring announcer Stephen DeAnglis is the casting director for a new play about Saturday Night Live.
–Merab Dvalishvili is trying to become the first UFC world champion to defend the title four times in a calendar year. He said he wants to defend in December, perhaps against Petr Yan, coming off his win over Cory Sandhagen on Saturday night. Dana White has indicated that he’s up for that idea.
–Kyoji Horiguchi said that he would face Tagir Ulanbekov on the 11/22 show in Qatar.
–Today would have been the 90th birthday of Bruno Sammartino. It also would have been the 79th birthday of Don Ross/Ripper Savage, a bodybuilder turned wrestler who died young, and Rip Oliver would have turned 73. I used to bump into Ross/Savage (he idolized Randy Savage) in the weirdest places since he lived in this area. Barry Darsow turned 66 today and Dixie Carter turned 61. Gorilla Monsoon died 26 years ago today. The Kevin & Kerry Von Erich double hair match win over Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez that drew 26,000 fans to the Cotton Bowl took place 40 years ago today. (thanks to Tony Richards)
–The cast of TLC’s 1,000 pound sisters will be at the 10/18 Hooligan Championship Wrestling taping in Evansville, IN. Shane Mercer defending the HCW title against Tim Bosby headlines the show.
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.