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- Ortiz says he has ‘about a year’ left on AEW contract
- WWE Raw live results: CM Punk & Jey Uso face-to-face
- First match announced for MLW x Don Gato Tequila: Live Special
- Chris Bey marks one-year anniversary of neck injury: ‘Today, I celebrate life’
- Clarification on AEW Double or Nothing & Battle of the Belts inclusion in WBD media release
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
–The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is up on the site now
*Full coverage of WrestleKingdom
*Thoughts on the booking decisions
*How the PPV did and other business notes
*Polls on the show
*The unique situation of AEW in St. Louis
*Saturday Night’s Main Event update and depth in WWE right now
*The life and times of Bobby “Mo” Horne, from Men on a Mission who passed away this past week.
*The Hall of Fame case for Sabu
*Odds for upcoming major pro wrestling matches
*The most detailed look at the ratings for all the wrestling TV shows this past weeks, placings for the night and the week, annual comparisons and more
*The largest crowd for an all-women’s pro wrestling show in more than seven years
*More on the AEW talent in Mexico this week
*WWE talent in Mexico this week
*Notes on Kento Miyahara vs. Go Shiozaki
*New Japan Super Juniors tournament
*Lots of health issue updates for those in the wrestling business
*Lots of WWE injury updates
*Andrade update
*Fantastica Mania U.K. notes
*More on potential sale of WBD and how this affects AEW
*What wrestlers have had the most great matches in 2025
*Advance ticket sales for WWE & AEW shows over the next two months
*What show is expected to break the all-time arena gate record
*More on the debate over the new version of the Ali Act
*Death of Duke Roufas
*WWE value to ESPN as far as selling subscriptions
*Lots of WWE news regarding non-compete and a look at various situations including that of Brock Lesnar, Samantha Irvin and Renee Paquette
*More on AI and WWE creative
*WWE international tour notes
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Monday Update
–Bryan and I will be back up tonight talking Raw, the weekend shows, Raw, Tom Aspinall, Iyo Sky vs. Mayu Iwatani and more with Wrestling Observer Radio.
–We’re looking for your thoughts on NXT Halloween Havoc, so please leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
–CM Punk and Jey Uso opened the show. Cody Rhodes is on the show. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss defend the women’s tag team titles against Bayley & Lyra Valkyria, Nikki Bella vs. Roxanne Perz and Rusev vs. Penta for a shot at the IC title are also on the show. I’d expect they still have one spot left for Saturday’s SNME card so that would have to be made either tonight or Friday. As of earlier today they had 11,500 tickets out so it will either be a sellout in Anaheim or close to it.
–Game three of the World Series started at 8 p.m. Eastern. The NFL game has the Kansas City Chiefs vs Washington Commanders on both ABC and ESPN. U.S, numbers for Raw will be impacted greatly by this.
–Netflix is involved in negotiations for the Floyd Maywether Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight in 2026. I don’t know how that impacts the prior announcement of Mayweather vs. Mike Tyson. The Jake Paul vs Tank Davis’ numbers for 11/14 will probably impact Netflix doing these freak show fights in 2026. Historically this stuff works short-term but not long-term.
–Julia Hart & Skye Blue & Thekla beat Jarochita & Reyna Isis & Zeuxis on Saturday Night at the CMLL show at Arena Coliseo in Mexico City.
–This week in CMLL they are doing Cibernetico matches for the Rey del Inframundo championship. This title comes into play during Halloween week every year. Difunto is the defending champion and he’ll defend it in a four-way on Friday night against the winners of three different Ciberneticos held tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight in Puebla it’s Stigma, Arkalis, Xelhua, Pegasso, Rayo Metalico and Guerrero Maya Jr. Tomorrow night at Arena Mexico it’s Rugido, Magnus, Villano III Jr., Valiente Jr., Max Star and Dragon de Fuergo. Tomorrow night in Guadalajara it’s Furia Roja, Demonio Maya, Principe Daniel, Fantastico, Bestia Negra and Adrenalino
–Mr. Iguana and La Parka, after working Saturday night in Prescott Valley, AZ, missed an afternoon booking in Merida on Sunday when their flight was canceled (thanks to The Cubs Fan).
–The Smashing Machine was down to 86 screens this past weekend and grossed $43,994.
–Today is the one year anniversary of the accident that led to Chris Bey being paralyzed for a period of time. Bey is now walking on his own and was at the TNA Bound for Glory show.
–The New Japan Best of the Super Juniors tournament continues tomorrow in Sado, Japan at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time with A block matches with Ryusuke Taguchi & Dragon Dia vs. Templario & Jakob Austin Young, Master Wato & Yoh vs. Hiromu Takahashi & Gedo and Douki & Sho vs Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai.
–Real American freestyle announced for 11/29 in Chicago at the Wintrust Arena, Michael Chandler vs. Chad Mendes. Both were college All-Americans in the 00s who became stars in MMA. Mendes retired from MMA seven years ago. Chandler, a year younger, is still in the UFC but is well past his prime. UFC does allow its fighters to participate in BJJ or freestyle wrestling but not boxing or kickboxing.. Another retired MMA fighter, Darion Caldwell, is there to put over Bo Bassett, a high school senior who is a favorite for the Junior Hodge Trophy this season, plus Holly Holm will wrestle.
–Subscriber Mark Pink noted that he’s had DirecTV for 20 plus years, had ESPN+ for UFC and Peacock for WWE. He said with WWE moving, he canceled Peacock but decided to wait to get ESPN Unlimited until the Rumble to see if he could get it for free through DirecTV by then. The belief is that it’ll happen by the end of the year. He then canceled ESPN+, deciding to skip the next two UFC PPV shows. A week later DirecTV offered him Peacock for free and two days later DirecTV offered to activate ESPN Unlimited for free and he said it works fine and he can now see WWE PPV shows free.
–The Georgia High School Sports Hall of Fame announced they were inducting the 1976 Warner-Robins football team of which Ron Simmons was the defensive star making 130 tackles. Simmons as an individual was already inducted into the Georgia High School Sports Hall of Fame and the NCAA College Football Hall of Fame.
–Maple Leaf Wrestling tonight in Toronto has the Reena Rumble at the New Age Experience Center with Josh Alexander & Gisele Shaw vs. Kris Chambers & Taylor Rising, Rohan Raja vs Rhino, Mike Santana vs Sheldon Jean, Carlito vs. Richard Holiday, plus Micro Man and Matt Hardy.
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.