Daily Update
Latest News:
- WWE Raw ratings hold up well against NBA and NHL playoffs
- Report: WWE reaches deal to allow wrestlers back on Twitch
- AEW’s Hangman Page clarifies comments on willingness to take advice
- Goldberg ‘very much leaning toward’ self-promoted four-city retirement tour
- WWE on A&E ratings: Biography steady, Rivals down
- Samoa Joe vs. Colt Cabana TV title match set for ROH TV
- Seven matches announced for AEW Dark
- WWE & Fanatics announce expanded merchandising partnership
- Two title matches added to NJPW Wrestling Dontaku
- Impact TV taping spoilers: Rebellion fallout, Under Siege main event set
- Stardom’s Giulia wants double title match against Mercedes Mone
- Bad Bunny return set for next week’s WWE Raw
- AEW Dark Elevation results: Emi Sakura, Maki Itoh in action
- Cody Rhodes vs. Brock Lesnar official for WWE Backlash
- Bloodline vs. Owens, Zayn & Riddle set for WWE Backlash
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- Figure Four Daily with Lance Storm: WCW memories, plus WWE business and why wrestlers shouldn’t shoot Twitter angles
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
Highlights include:
*Where the C.M. Punk situation with AEW stands.
*Update with more details on the proposed new AEW television show and if it happens, probable time slot, potential issues, and how the roster will be handled.
*Update on AEW at Wembley Stadium, different standards of numbers to break, ticket pricing, AEW’s goals for the show, signups and how that compares to Clash at the Castle and what it means.
*Sanada wins the IWGP title after a character change and the questions that opens up, plus notes on the next several months of New Japan major events, including G-1, Dominion and Forbidden Door.
*Full coverage of the Sakura Genesis show
*Full coverage of UFC 287, what happens next for the headliners, business note and fight-by-fight coverage
*Major article on the life and career of The Sheepherders/Kiwis/Bushwhackers with the death of Butch Miller. We follow Miller’s life both in and out of wrestling, the territory days, fan attacks, crazy angles, their days of bloodbath matches and the 180 at the end of their careers that made them the most famous. We go through everywhere from New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Oregon, Southwest, Stampede, Mid South, Puerto Rico and of course WWE, the politics, the craziness and Miller’s later fights for his life.
*WWE attempts once again to get the MLW lawsuit thrown out. A look at their response and strategy in the case
*The most detailed look at the ratings for all the pro wrestling shows of the past week, what the ratings mean, placings, yearly trends, and how different segments did.
*Update on the Champion of Champions tournament.
*The celebrity angle that fell apart in so many ways and a look at why.
*Notes on the next season of Dark Side of the ring.
*NWA PPV coverage.
*The story behind Bob Backlund becoming WWF champion.
*How wrestling ratings will be affected the next two months and why
*Lots of injury updates.
*International TV ratings and streaming numbers.
*Ticket sales for all the upcoming WWE & AEW events.
*UFC Hall of Fame notes.
*Lots of new major UFC fights.
*Update on Vince McMahon and creative.
*Dana White talks WWE/UFC merger
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- Big E will be the emcee for the USFL’s Michigan Panthers at Ford Field for the 2023 season.
- WWE announcer Megan Morant ran the Boston Marathon on Monday in under three hours. “People ask me all the time why I run marathons,” Morant wrote. “The two people hugging behind me sum it up perfectly. These moments are what life is all about. Working together to achieve something bigger than ourselves.”
- In a press release, WWE announced that they have extended their relationship with Fanatics to include “all global event retail and merchandise operations” beginning on May 1.
- Nick Khan is speaking at the CAA World Congress of Sports on Tuesday.
- Kelly Kelly spoke to ET on her pregnancy journey.
- Rhea Ripley is the guest this week on After the Bell.
- Bianca Belair is the guest on Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls.
- Matches added to WWE’s YouTube channel today include Sami Zayn vs. Braun Strowman from Roadblock End of the Line 2016, Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar from Extreme Rules 2013, and Sheamus vs. Batista from the April 18, 2014 edition of SmackDown.
AEW
- This week’s AEW Road to Pittsburgh, which focuses on Wardlow vs. Powerhouse Hobbs for the TNT title and Britt Baker returning to her hometown.
- RJ City will hold a Twitter Spaces event with Renee Paquette at 5 pm ET on Wednesday.
- Chris Jericho showed a new tattoo inspired by David Bowie on Instagram.
- Tony Khan met with longtime wrestling superfan Vladimir. “At age 8, on the first ppv I ever watched live, I saw a fan who seemed to be having such a great time at the live event,” Khan wrote. “At age 12, I joined the IWC, and learned that his name is Vlad, + he’s a very nice guy. It was an honor to meet him in person. Thank you Vlad, you’re the man!”
- Willow Nightingale, Colt Cabana, and Orange Cassidy were on the The Best Show with Tom Scharpling.
- This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.
Other Wrestling
- Impact has a mini documentary on the Can-Am Wrestling School.
- Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tony Deppen has been added to GCW’s Brooklyn Fight Night event on May 11.
- On her Instagram stories page, Mercedes Mone wrote: “Definitely moving full time to [Japan]”.
- Stevie Richards shared an update on his health on YouTube.
- MLW has released a promo for their War Chamber event for Tuesday.
