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- WWE Raw draws best ratings since start of NFL season
- Beth Phoenix voices opening of Adam Copeland’s AEW theme music
- Adam Copeland expects to end full-time career with AEW
- AEW Collision draws record low ratings against NXT No Mercy
- Eddie Kingston title defense booked for NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed
- WWE Raw video highlights: Johnny Gargano returns
- Viking Rules match announced for next week’s WWE Raw
- Becky Lynch not medically cleared for WWE Raw, title match postponed
- Cody Rhodes & Jey Uso to appear on WWE SmackDown
- Undisputed Tag Team title match added to WWE Fastlane
- WWE reveals bracket for NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament
- North American title rematch set for WWE NXT
- WWE Raw live results: Gunther & Tommaso Ciampa contract signing
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- The new Observer is out right now. Among the key stuff covered:
- Match of the week and performer of the week
- The plight of the recently fired WWE wrestlers and where many can or will wind up
- What is a key point about wrestlers who come from WWE and their ability to adapt to other companies and what things need to be considered
- XFL/USFL merger talks and why
- More on Terry Funk including his career title history and biggest awards, some of the biggest and most notable title change matches of his career, the only HBO wrestling special and the only time Vince McMahon did a broadcast announcing with Gordon Solie, why Funk’s proposed lengthy reign with the biggest regional title in the countr6 ended in a few weeks, the amazing Funk Brothers legacy in Japan, Funk’s NWA title reign and booking behind his biggest matches
- Preview of the NXT & AEW shows, lots of talk by Bryan Danielson about Zack Sabre and his retirement, strange things about the show, AEW PPV airing on free TV in the U.K., and early notes on WWE Fastlane
- Destruction in Kobe and the next few NJPW shows
- More on the All In attendance mark
- The dismissal of the landmark Mark Hunt suit against Dana White, UFC and Brock Lesnar and the judges ruling
- Full UFC weekend coverage
- The most detailed look at the ratings for the past week, the segments, the competition and where audiences were up and down
- The KeMonito story in Mexico that is mainstream news there regarding his retirement
- Lots of injury updates
- Stardom Grand Prix updates
- Junior Battle of Glory
- Katsuhiko Nakajima update
- How Jericho vs Takeshtia was put together
- Two former WWE stars talk their steroid use
- wXw major tag team tournament weekend
- FantasticaMania notes
- More on MLW and its relationship with CMLL and NJPW
- GCW continues to tour overseas
- Imapct Bound for Glory notes
- PCO talks his departure from Impact and who Impact is looking to sign
- Lots of thoughts on Tony Khan’s recent press conference
- FOX and AEW comments, streaming comments, more PPV, ownership talk
- How Dynamite changed this week and why
- Kyle O’Reilly update
- Title Tuesday
- Notes on AEW DVR numbers for Grand Slam
- Ticket sales for upcoming WWE and AEW shows
- Jade Cargill to WWE
- WWE back broadcasting in Japan
- Shawn Michaels talks lots of WWE subjects
- International TV ratings and streaming notes
- WWE market value
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Johnny Gargano talked about the reunion of DIY on X: “Real talk. I saw ALL your theories and hopes for #DIY these past 6 months. From dream matches to just genuinely wanting us back.. I know how excited y’all are. We are, too. Thanks for believing and holding out hope for us, and now that it’s finally time.. let’s freaking kill it!”
- Gunther vs. Tommaso Ciampa for the Intercontinental title from Monday’s Raw has been uploaded in full on YouTube.
- Other matches added to YouTube today include Alexa Bliss vs. IYO SKY from the October 3, 2022 edition of Raw, AJ Styles & Rey Mysterio vs. Finn Balor & Damian Priest also from the October 3, 2022 edition of Raw, and Alexa Bliss vs. Randy Orton from WWE Fastlane 2021.
- Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn talked about the upcoming Undisputed WWE Tag Team title match at Fastlane in a WWE digital exclusive.
- WWE’s X account showed Ilja Dragunov entering the NXT Performance Center with the NXT Championship.
- Chad Gable has posted Alpha Academy’s live schedule.
- Ring announcer Samantha Irvin was interviewed by Chris Van Vliet.
- A&E has uploaded the entirety of their Biography episode of Shawn Michaels on YouTube.
- Rey Mysterio on Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls show.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- David Bixenspan has an article detailing a sexual misconduct incident that took place in independent promotion PWX prior to Riddle signing with WWE, where he allegedly changed clothes in the women’s locker room in front of other women at a independent show, with Malia Hosaka confirming the incident.
- “We were all in there, our show was going on,” Hosaka told Bixenspan. “I didn’t know who he was, but I was sitting with my feet propped up and eyes closed. When I opened them[,] he was on my right stripped down to his underwear and I got mad at the lack of respect from today’s generation. For him to come into the locker room to change while the women had the room[,] and to strip down and change was disrespectful. There was a bathroom down the hall that fans couldn’t get to that he could have used. [In m]y generation[,] the men and women respected each other enough to at least ask if it was ok or to ask for privacy. It pissed me off[,] and then his attitude that he had underwear on and that it wasn’t a big deal pissed me off more[,] so I told him how I felt about the lack of respect.”
- Riddle responded to the allegations in the article. “The PWX thing wasn’t even an incident[.] [T]here was only one locker room (which isn’t uncommon on the indies unfortunately) [and] the promoter told me to change in there[,] so I did. Malia confronted me on my way out, I explained that the promoter told me to go change in there and she talked to the promoter and that was the end of it.”
- AEW has uploaded footage showing Adam Copleland celebrating following his debut at WrestleDream.
- Following WrestleDream, Zack Sabre Jr. has challenged Bryan Danielson to a rematch.
- A Terry Funk mural has surfaced in Amarillo, Texas.
- This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.
- NOAH has uploaded the finals of the N-1 Victory tournament where Katsuhiko Nakajima faced KENOH.
- Nikki and Brie Garcia will host Twin Love, a new reality show that will air on Prime Video on November 17.
- Netflix has announced that a show on the story of Japanese women’s star Dump Matsumoto will premiere on their platform in 2024.
- The obituary for Joyce Grable, who passed away last week at 70. The stream of her funeral can be seen here.
- Hiroshi Tanahashi spoke to FanNation about being a fan of MLB player Masataka Yoshida.
- Impact has uploaded their Bound for Glory 2006 event on YouTube.
- Josh Alexander spoke to WhatCulture Wrestling.
- Mike Santana joined Fightful Overbooked.
