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Daily Update: Survivor Series odds, UFC weigh-ins, weekend shows

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WON NEWSLETTER: November 22, 2021 Observer Newsletter: AEW Full Gear review, WWE cuts eight more wrestlers

In this week’s issue: 

  • Full coverage of AEW Full Gear, poll results, star ratings, how much money it drove
  • Match of the week
  • Update on Kenny Omega’s future
  • Details of recent Tony Khan interviews regarding the future
  • Jim Ross details his medical treatment
  • Update on WrestleMania ticket sales
  • Survivor Series preview, ticket sales, overall interest level going into the show
  • Latest round of WWE cuts, whys and wheres
  • Most popular segments to stream from this past week’s WWE television
  • Updated ticket sales for all major WWE & AEW shows including how both groups ran Norfolk & Indianapolis the same week
  • A major sports rights story that may tell the future about WWE & AEW’s next round of negotiations
  • Ratings coverage, where wrestling ranks on cable this past week, segment by segment numbers including where Dynamite beat Raw and vice versa
  • NJPW Battle in the Valley
  • New Japan plans 50th year big shows
  • Coverage of both NJPW tournaments, its last US TV tapings, new stars and future US plans
  • Juice Robinson talks his future
  • Stardom tag team tournament finishes up
  • Full coverage of Saturday’s UFC show
  • UFC business predictions for 2021 and how UFC and WWE numbers and business compares
  • Iron Head Jose Tarres, Hall of Fame candidate and his credentials 
  • Death of Estrella Blanca and his most noteworthy wrestling claim to fame
  • Marty Scurll wrestling in Germany, the promotion explains its side and rival promotion responds

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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

Garrett Gonzales and I talked with Brian Blair today talking about his incredibly rough year, but also going through hilarious and crazy stories of his wrestling days and his new autobiography “Truth Bee Told” on today’s Observer Radio.  We also talk about the latest group of WWE cuts. Bryan and I will be back Sunday night after Survivor Series.

Smackdown tonight from Hartford, CT has Shotzi vs. Sasha Banks and Sheamus vs. Ricochet vs. Cesaro vs. Jinder Mahal for the final Smackdown spot on the men’ team.  205 Live has Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter vs. Valentina Feroz & Yulisa Leon, Malik Blade vs. Edris Enofe and Amari Miller vs. Tiffany Stratton

Rampage tonight taped from Norfolk, VA:

  • Darby Allin vs. Billy Gunn
  • Red Velvet vs. Jade Cargill for the TBS title tournament
  • Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus vs. Adam Cole & Bobby Fish

I was told the main event was really good.

UFC on ESPN+ starting at 3 p.m. tomorrow from Las Vegas at the APEX Arena:

  • Luana Pinheiro (116) vs. Sam Hughes (115.5)
  • Shayilan Nuerdanbieke (145) vs. Sean Soriano (146)
  • Aori Qileng (126) vs. Cody Durden (126)
  • Terrace McKinney (155.5) vs. Fares Ziam (156)
  • Loopy Godinez (115.5) vs. Loma Lookboonmee (115.5)
  • Rafa Garcia (155) vs. Natan Levy (154)
  • Pat Sabatini (145) vs. Tucker Lutz (145.5)
  • Davey Grant (135.5) vs Adrian Yanez (135)
  • Joanne Wood (126) vs. Talia Santos (125.5)
  • Rani Yahya (135.5) vs. Kyung Ho Kang (136)
  • Michael Chiesa (170.5) vs. Sean Brady (170.5)
  • Miesha Tate (135.5) vs. Ketlen Vieira (136)

Odds from www.BetOline.ag for Survivor Series:

  • Roman Reigns -500 vs. Big E +300
  • Becky Lynch -400 vs. Charlotte Flair +250
  • Men’s Team Smackdown -200 vs. Men’s Team Raw +150
  • Women’s Team Smackdown +100 vs. Women’s Team Raw -140
  • Riddle & Orton -250 vs. Usos +170
  • Damien Priest -200 vs. Shinsuke Nakamura +150  

The ratings high point of Wednesday’s Dynamite show was during the MJF/C.M. Punk altercation with 1,160,000 viewers and 592,000 (0,.46) in 18-49.

James Curtin, the former Drake Maverick, talks about his getting the word he was released last night in a video you probably should watch.

For this weekend, we’re looking for reports from Smackdown tonight in Hartford with any dark matches or anything not on the live show, and from the WWE house show tomorrow night in Syracuse, NY to [email protected].

New Japan’s biggest tour card of the week is tomorrow night at 2 a.m. Eastern and 11 p.m. Pacific (late Saturday night) on New Japan World from Dolphins Arena in Nagoya for the Super Juniors tournament:

  • Yuto Nakashima vs. Ryohei Oiwa non-tournament
  • Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Douki
  • Master Wato vs. Taiji Ishimori
  • Yoh vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
  • Sho vs. Bushi
  • El Phantasmo vs. Robbie Eagles
  • Desperado vs Hiromu Takahashi

We’ll be doing polls on Survivor Series and this show over the weekend, thumbs  up, down or middle, best and worst match to [email protected]

Combate Globo, coming off the second highest rated TV show in its history last week, will be live on Univision and Paramount Plus tonight at 11 p.m. Eastern with a main event of flyweights with Gerardo Graniel (7-2) vs. Ernesto Ibarra (5-1)

WWE

  • Rey Mysterio plays himself in a guest appearance on the Victor & Valentino show on 11/27 on Cartoon Network. The show airs at 10 a,m.
  • Big E just appeared on Cincy 360, a radio show on ESPN 1530 based out of Cincinnati. He was on to promote the Raw show on 1/31/22, the first show after Royal Rumble.
    Put over how proud he is of Xavier Woods and how he’s legit wanted to win King of the Ring for years, and he just kept pushing when everyone said he was too small, or not good enough to get it done. Said he loves him and gave him a big hug at the gorilla position in Saudi Arabia when he won KOTR.
    When asked who he wants to win Royal Rumble and challenge him at WrestleMania, he immediately said Cesaro. Said he can do it all and has been one of the best for years and hasn’t gotten his due.
    Said the match vs Roman at Survivor Series is the biggest of his career. Said Roman has been at the top of the mountain for years and has only upped his game in his current run.
    Called going back to Iowa where he played college football, for the game against Penn St the highlight of the cool stuff he’s gotten to do outside of the ring since becoming champion. Also put over being part of Fury/Wilder and his love for college football.
    Said it’s a tough balancing act honing his craft in the ring and his outside opportunities like being on the Stephen Colbert show, but if he doesn’t stay focused, this could all go away. Said this current run kind of came out of nowhere, but he feels blessed. Said getting the title changed his life and he doesn’t see himself going back to the way things used to be. (thanks to Adam Blecher)
  • Roman Reigns on the Michael Kay show. 
  • 2K on Wednesday unveiled the new WWE SuperCard season eight.

UFC

  • The 13th annual World MMA Awards show will take place on 12/10 in Las Vegas at Wore Studios.
  • Punahele Soriano vs. Nick Maximov is slated for the 2/5 show.
  • Brendan Allen vs. Roman Dolidze has been added to the 12/4 show. Dolidze replaced Brad Tavares who pulled out of the bout.

OTHER NOTES

  • Wrestle Pro on 2/5 in Rahway, NJ announced Killer Kross vs. Flip Gordon, Dan Maff vs. Matt Cardona and Scarlett Bordeaux vs. Harley Cameron.
  • Kevin Eck talks about this week’s ROH news.
  • Dragon Gate’s Ho Ho Lun debuts for MLW on the 1/21 show in Dallas.
  • Game Changer Wrestling announced the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame ceremony on 1/22 in New York City at the Cutting Room on FITE TV. GCW will run New Year’s Eve and 1/1 in Atlantic City, NJ at the Showboat.
  • Eighty three years ago today, November 18, 1938, Jim Londos defeated Bronko Nagurski to win the World Heavyweight Title at Convention Hall in Philadelphia. Londos took the title in a one-fall match lasting 47:11. Attendance 10,000.  (thanks to Paul Sosnowski)
  • Northeast Wrestling has its annual Toys for Tots holiday event on 11/27 at the New Arena in Bethany, CT.n  They ask that fans bring an unwrapped toy to be donated for the toy drive.  Mike Bennett, Flip Gordon, Vincent, Dan Maff  and Matt Taven headline.
  • Lince Dorado is taking bookings after 2/2 through Bill Behrens at showbis@aolcom  He is based in Orlando. Others who can be booked through him are Griff Garrison, Marcus Kross, Brian Pillman Jr., Julia Hart, Christopher Daniels, Logan Creed (Mads Krugger, Luke Hawx, Perry Hawx, Slim J, Sal Ranauro, Mark & Jay Briscoe, Moose, Jim Mitchell, Caprice Coleman, TJP, Brian Cage, Lance Archer, Matt Sydal, Jay Lethal, Famous CB, Jonathan Gresham, Delirious, Rhett Titus, Silas Young,  Famous CB, Sane Taylor, Shanon Moore, Mecha Wolf, JTG, Matt Striker, Tommy Dreamer, Al Snow, DDP, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Rick Steiner, Hernandez, Stevie Richards, Blue Meanie, Nuzio, Boogeyman, Wes Brisco, Johnny Swinger, Josh Woods, Mike Posey, the former Fandango, Eric Bischoff, Earl Hebner and Gerald Brisco
  • Combate Global announced a one-night eight-man tournament for $100,000 on 12/12 from Miami in the bantamweight division.  The participants are David Martinez of Mexico, Kevin Cordero from Spain, Leo Muniz from the U.S., Franz Miambo from Ireland, Jose Zarauz of Peru, Cristian Barraza of Chile, Luciano Ramos of Argentina and Pierre Daguzan of France
  • GAMMA announced that due to new COVID measures in Germany, they are postponing their tournament until the spring. The tournament was scheduled for 12/7 to 12/11 but with new regulations athletes from outside Europe wouldn’t have been able to attend.
  • KSW announced one of the biggest fights in its history with middleweight champion Mamed Khalidov (35-7-2) vs. welterweight champion Roberto Soldic (19-3) for 12/18 in Gliwice, Poland at the Gliwice Arena.  
  • AAW runs 11/26 in Merrionette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street:
    Fred Yehi vs. Mat Fitchett for the AAW heavyweight title
    Allysin Kay vs. Skye Blue for the AAW women’s title
    Ace Austin & Myron Reed vs. Hakim Zane & Karam in a street fight
    Charli Evans vs. Christi Jayes vs. Lady Frost vs,. Sierra
    Silas Young vs. Manders
    Russ Jones vs. Larry D
    Ladder match, winner can pick a title match with Davey Vega, Ren Jones, Schaff, Jake Lander, Brayden Lee, Gringo Loco, Storm Grayson and Jah-C
    Rich Swann vs. Alex Zayne vs. Josh Alexander vs. ? – winner gets an AAW title match
  • The CFFC event tonight on UFC Fight Pass in Tunica, MS at the Horseshoe Tunica Hotel & Casino is sold out.  DeAndre Anderson (5-0) vs. Da’Mon Blackshear (10-4) headlines. C.M. Punk announces the show.
  • Defy Wrestling on 12/16 at Highland Parks, CA  at the Lodge Room with Christopher Daniels, Kevin Blackwood, Josef Samael, Jacob Fatu, Viva Van and Brody King.
  • ISPW tonight in Totowa, NJ at the Totowa PAL featuring appearances by Tammy Sytch, Titoo Santana, Maven, Crowbar, Bull James, Miranda Gordy, Danny Doring, LSG, Famous CB and others.  They will also be giving lifetime achievement awards to Sunny Beach, Tommy Cairo, King Kaluha and Surfer Ray Odyssey.

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Daily Update: Big weekend preview, Sasha-Bianca, betting odds

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WON NEWSLETTER: August 23, 2021 Observer Newsletter: Big weekend preview, AAA Triplemania review

In this week’s issue:

  • TripleMania coverage including the story behind the AAA title finish
  • Update on one of the biggest weekends in years, updated ticket sales, secondary market tickets, lineups, Punk teases, updates on All Out, WWE in MSG, Extreme Rules, Ashe Stadium
  • Wrestler and Match of the week and major show polls for the week
  • WWE settles nine lawsuits out of court
  • Coverage of New Japan Resurgence, story behind stars not being in G1 this year
  • CMLL Anniversary and the ridiculous machinations over the National heavyweight title
  • New Japan business updates
  • Numerous stories regarding COVID and pro wrestlers infected, and major Japanese figure from the past battling for his life
  • UFC business updates, lots of fighters talk pay
  • Nick Khan talks the TV sports business going forward
  • Detailed look at ratings for the past two weeks, quarterly breakdowns, demo numbers and the why behind the numbers
  • How WWE & AEW are doing internationally in ratings
  • Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week

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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

Garrett Gonzalez and I will be doing our show tomorrow. Mick Foley and Pat Laprade will be guests and we’ll be talking about Dominic DeNucci as well as tonight’s show, SummerSlam and more.

We’re doing polls this weekend on both SummerSlam and Takeover, thumbs up, down or middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]  

Nick Khan’s mention about WWE up for listening to offers about buying yesterday got some news. He didn’t say anything that hasn’t been said multiple times since 2016. In fact he used almost the exact words George Barrios, in the same position, had used.  But it did help the stock price which rose to $48.51 per share, up $1.26.

As noted in the current issue, we’ve received conflicting reports on whether the Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks match would take place at SummerSlam. WWE is still advertising it and there were reports both were cleared.  PWInsider reported Banks was not in Phoenix tonight for the Smackdown tapings. Bianca Belair was in Phoenix. Their matches this past week were canceled due to a medical issue.

Something is happening at Rampage at the United Center in Chicago. C.M. Punk is not advertised but it’s a virtual certainty he makes his first televised appearance in seven years.  Jon Moxley vs. Daniel Garcia, Jade Cargill vs. Kiera Hogan and Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus vs. Private Party in the four-team tournament first round are scheduled for the show.

For those in Canada, Rampage will air on TSN on a one-hour delay at 11 p.m.

Smackdown tonight has Rey Mysterio vs. Jey Uso and John Cena and Roman Reigns will talk, plus Edge is on the show.

A woman who was there for the accident where former UFC fighter Brendan Schaub saved three children, mad at people thinking he made it up, talked about the situation.

UFC tomorrow night from the Apex in Las Vegas:

On ESPN at 10 p.m. Eastern

  • Jared Cannonier (185) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (186)
  • Clay Guida (155) vs. Mark O. Madsen (156)
  • Parker Porter (262) vs. Chase Sherman (256)
  • Trevin Jones (135) vs. Saidyokub Kakhramonov (138.5)
  • Vinc Pichel (155.5) vs. Austin Hubbard (156)
  • Alexandre Pantoja (126) vs. Brandon Royval (125.5)

On ESPN 2 and ESPN+ at 7 p.m. Eastern

  • Austin Lingo (145.5) vs. Luis Saldana (146)
  • Brian Kelleher (136) vs. Domingo Pilarte (136)
  • Bea Malecki (135) vs. Josiane Nunes (136)
  • William Knight (206) vs. Fabio Cherant (205)
  • Roosevelt Roberts (154.5) vs. Ignacio Bahamondes (154)
  • Sasha Palatnikov (170) vs. Ramiz Brahimaj (171)
  • Kakhramonov missed weight and forfeits 20 percent of his purse to opponent Trevin Jones.

Bellator tonight on Showtime at 9 p.m. Eastern:

  • Jomel Lugo (137.4)  vs. Keith Lee (140)
  • Marcelo Golm (252) vs. Billy Swanson (265.6)
  • Logan Storley (170.4) vs. Dante Schiro (170)
  • Cheick Kongo (247)  vs. Sergei Kharitonov (264.8)

The scheduled Adam Borics vs. Jay Jay Wilson semifinal is off because Wilson missed weight by 4.4 pounds.

Kayla Harrison vs. Taylor Guardado will be the women’s 155 pound final for the PFL on 10/27 for $1 million as both won last night. Harrison beat Genah Fabian via first round TKO in 4:01 to move to 11-0 while Guardado beat Marina Morais by close split decision in last night’s semifinals on ESPN.  In the heavyweight  tournament, Bruno Cappelozza vs. Ante Delija will be the heavyweight final.  Cappelozza beat Jamelle Jones via second round TKO and Delija beat Denis Goltsov via straight 29-28 scores.  The winner of that fight on 10/27 also gets $1 million.

NXT odds for Sunday fr Sunday at www.BetOnline.ag:

  • Karrion Kross +200 vs Samoa Joe -300
  • Raquel Gonzalez -250 vs. Dakota Kai +175
  • Walter +125 vs. Ilja Dragunov -175
  • LA Knight +150 vs. Cameron Grimes -200
  • Adam Cole +180 vs. Kyle O’Reilly -270

Odds on the first opponent for Bryan Danielson in AEW: C.M. Punk +175, Kenny Omega +450, Darby Allin +500, Sting +500, MJF +600, Chris Jericho +700, Sammy Guevera +700, Orange Cassidy +800, Cody Rhodes +900

Odds for C.M. Punk’s first opponent: Darby Allin -200, Bryan Danielson +275, Christian Cage +375, Orange Cassidy +600, Matt Hardy +700, Chris Jericho +800, Cody Rhodes +800, Jungle Boy +900, Sting +1000

Over/under star ratings for SummerSlam from Kambi:

  • Alexa Bliss vs. Eva Marie was not put on the boards
  • Drew McIntyre vs. Jinder Mahal **
  • Edge vs. Seth Rollins ****1/4
  • Styles & Omos vs. Orton & Riddle **3/4
  • Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Nikki ASH ***1/2
  • Usos vs. Mysterios ***1/2
  • Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks ****
  • Sheamus vs. Damien Priest ***1/2
  • Roman Reigns vs. John Cena ****1/4
  • Bobby Lashley vs. Bill Goldberg **

For results:

  • Eva Marie +250 vs. Alexa Bliss -400
  • Jinder Mahal +225 vs. Drew McIntyre -350
  • Seth Rollins +175 vs. Edge -250
  • Riddle & Orton -455 vs. Styles & Omos +280
  • Nikki Ash -118 vs. Charlotte Flair +130 vs. Rhea Ripley +400
  • Usos -500 vs. Mysterios +300
  • Bianca Belair -182 vs. Sasha Banks +130
  • Sheamus +175 vs. Damien Priest -250
  • Roman Reigns -650 vs. John Cena +350
  • Bobby Lashley -800 vs. Bill Goldberg +400

ROH Glory by Honor tonight from Philadelphia on Honor Club:

  • Bandido vs. Flip Gordon for ROH title
  • Jonathan Gresham vs. Rhett Titus for Pure title
  • Homicide & Brody King & Chris Dickinson & Tony Deppen vs. Rush & Dragon Lee & Kenny King & Bestia del Ring
  • Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. The Righteous
  • Danhausen vs. PJ Black vs. Mike Bennett vs. Demonic Flamita vs. Eli Isom & Dak Draper
  • Brian Johnson vs. EC 3
  • Rey Horus vs. Silas Young
  • Mandy Leon & Angelina Love vs. Vita Vonstarr & ?

Impact has a taped Emergence PPV on Impact+ and Fite TV tonight:

  • No Way & Fallah Bahh & Tasha Steelz & Savannah Evans vs. Crazzy Steve & Black Taurus & Rosemary & Havok
  • Madison Rayne vs. Taylor Wilde
  • Matt Cardona & Chelsea Green vs. Mahabali Shera & Rohit Raju
  • Petey Williams vs. Steve Maclin
  • Sami Callihan vs. Moose vs. Chris Sabin vs. Ace Austin for the No. 1 contender to the title
  • Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows vs. Rich Swann & Willie Mack vs. Rhino & Joe Doering
  • Deonna Purrazzo & Matthew Rehwoldt vs. Melina & Trey Miguel
  • Josh Alexander vs. Jake Something for X title
  • Christian Cage vs. Brian Myers for the Impact title

WWE

  • Drew McIntyre talks to ET Canada. 
  • A story on WWE signing Faith Jeffries, formerly Lioness Faith in WOW. (thanks to Mike Kuzmuk)
  • A correction from Monday. While the Rock Concert segment with The Rock running down Vickie Guerrero on the January 14, 2013 Raw was cut out, it was a musical rights issue and not a content issue and was off the WWE Network version as well.

UFC

  • Nina Nunes vs. Amanda Lemos has been added to the 12/18 show.

OTHER NOTES

  • Kevin Eck’s weekly ROH news rundown.
  • Rick Martel is doing his first private signing in 15 years for signedbysuperstars.com  They are accepting mail order questions contact them at Facebook.com/signedbysuperstars.
  • If you ever want to see a legitimate women’s six person tornado match, here one is.
  • A story on an independent group out of Fort Myers, FL. (thanks to Lee Wall)
  • In a SlamWrestling.net column, Australian women’s wrestling star Shazza McKenzie shares her personal story, her struggles with body image, and the discovery that lipedema was the root cause of many of her issues. It’s a riveting read.
  • Full Impact Pro on 8/29 in Clearwater, FL at the OCC Road House with Jon Davis vs. JD Drake in the main event.
  • LFA on 9/24 in Oshkosh, WI at the Menominee Nation Arena with a light heavyweight title match as the main event. Josh Silveira (5-0) will be one of the participants.  The opponent hasn’t been named yet.
  • Bare Knuckle Fighting on 9/10 in Omaha, NE at the Ralston Arena has Dakota Cochrane vs. Mike Richman as the main event plus Houston Alexander vs. Wes Combs.
  • Bellator on 10/1 at the SSE Arena in London has Douglas Lima (32-9) vs Michael Venom Page (19-1) and Leah McCourt (5-1) vs. Jessica Borga (3-3) as the top two fights. The show will air live on Showtime in the U.S.
  • AAW on 9/2 in Chicago at the Logan Square Arena, which is the Thursday of the week AEW is in town.  Masks are required for all in attendance. Myron Reed defends the Heritage title against Ace Austin, Allysin Kay defends the women’s title against Jody Threat and Laredo Kid vs.Arez are announced, plus Fred Yehi, Juice Robinson, Josh Alexander, Davey Vega, Jake Something, Daniel Garcia and more.
  • Pro Wrestling Eve returns on 8/27 in London at The Venue on Great Portland Street with a 30 woman Rumble.  
  • ICW in Scotland has its first event back with fans on 8/29 in Glasgow, Scotland at The Asylum.
  • 90s AAA woman star Martha Villalobos is hospitalized currently due to COVID.  
  • Trey Miguel has a seminar in Cleveland on Sunday at 1 p.m. For more info you can email [email protected]
  • Premier Championship Wrestling on Sunday at 5 p.m. At Turners Hall in Cleveland.

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WON NEWSLETTER: January 13, 2021 Observer Newsletter: More on the death of Brodie Lee, Wrestle Kingdom 15 review

A look at what happened in the last two months of the life of Jon Huber is the lead story in this week’s edition of the Wrestling Observer. We look at how the situation was handled, when the talent found out, why Huber didn’t get a lung transplant, and a look at comments from a number of people in WWE in particular as well as Jim Ross and Amanda Huber’s extensive writing on the subject.

Also in this issue:

Extensive coverage of Wrestle Kingdom and New Year’s Dash. We have match-by-match, star ratings and poll results.  We also have business notes, the story of Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega, the effect of COVID on the show and of wrestling in Japan going forward, Jay White, goal of Hiromu Takahashi, the new main event programs and international television news.

Full year television notes, Linda McMahon’s donations to Donald Trump, Dusty Rhodes tag team tournament, next Takeover show, A&E documentary notes, update on Damien Priest and others earmarked for Raw & Smackdown, lots of booking notes, new WWTV deals, Sonya Deville return, Hulk Hogan talks, head of a rival promotion sets up WWE production person’s engagement, amateur wrestling standout about to start training with WWE, how wrestling shows this past week did compared to sports, international television ratings, who was creative told a few years ago not to even think of ideas for, upcoming TV bouts, WWE market value and the most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network.

A story on Irwin Rivera, the UFC fighter who is being accused of stabbing two of his sisters.

A story on Bobby Davis, one of the first of the modern managers.

What wrestlers had the most four star matches in 2020, as well as in history the top 25 of all-time.

Detailed look at the television business, looking at stats not available elsewhere to get the deepest read into how shows are doing, what categories are doing well and how shows compare with previous weeks and one year ago.  

Results of all the major pro wrestling events around the world over the past week.

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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE

Bryan and I will be back tonight with Wrestling Observer Radio covering the latest pro wrestling and MMA news. You can send e-mail questions to the show to [email protected]. Our weekend show with Garrett Gonzalez talking a ton of different subjects is also up.

For the first week I can recall this happening, nothing from pro wrestling, MMA or boxing cracked the top 20 as far as searches for the day.  UFC wouldn’t be expected to with no show.  Pro wrestling usually only does for a WWE PPV and perhaps an AEW or NXT big show. Wrestle Kingdom has done so in the past but the interest level in the U.S wasn’t there this year as compared to a few years back.

This is the last slow weekend for a long time. UFC will start running every Saturday for a while going forward.  Impact has a PPV this coming week, with UFC having the Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier show on 1/23 which could end up as the biggest number of the year, and Royal Rumble coming the weekend after.

From BetOnline.ag some Royal Rumble odds favorites:

  • Daniel Bryan -125
  • Keith Lee +400
  • Big E +500
  • Edge +500
  • Brock Lesnar +600
  • Bill Goldberg +800
  • A.J. Styles +1000
  • Dwayne Johnson +1000
  • Kevin Owens +1200
  • Roman Reigns +1200

For the women:

  • Bianca Belair +450
  • Rhea Ripley +500
  • Alexa Bliss +600
  • Ronda Rousey +800
  • Shayna Baszler +800
  • Becky Lynch +900
  • Bayley +1000
  • Charlotte Flair +1200
  • Sasha Banks +1400
  • Nia Jax +1600

WWE

  • A CNBC story noting the group that helped organize the violent break-in at the Capitol on Wednesday was donated to by the Linda McMahon led SuperPac.

UFC

  • Hakeem Dawodu is out of his 1/23 fight with Shane Burgos due to a shoulder injury. Burgos is no longer scheduled to fight on the card.
  • With Mike Grundy out of the scheduled 1/23 fight with Nik Lentz, Lentz will now face Movsar Evloev. At this point it has not been reported why Grundy is out of the show.
  • Yancy Medeiros, who lives in Hawaii, was on Friday’s episode of Magnum P.I. He played a trainer of a woman who was being forced to throw a fight by a branch of the Yakuza.  In the original Hawaii 5-O, show based in Hawaii, several episodes had pro wrestlers on it for fight scenes and the like.  There is a funny Pampero Firpo story where he was supposed to be in an episode, but he came in with ideas for creative for his character and I think they just wanted him as an extra to get beat up and suffice to say he never appeared on that show. (thanks to Grant Zwarych)

AEW

  • There was a Rest in Peace Jon Huber graphic on Thursday night’s TV show “Impractical Jokers.”

OTHER NEWS

  • Shawn Daivari was announced as the new Contra member with Jacob Fatu andSimon Gotch in MLW. On Wednesday’s show, Salina de la Renta is supposed to reveal a special surprise for Konnan.

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Big shift in odds for WWE Payback match

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

There was a huge shift in the odds today on the Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss Raw Women’s Championship match in San Jose.

Between 3 a.m. and 7:35 a.m. Eastern time today, Bayley went from a 36-to-1 favorite to retain her championship at Payback, to Alexa Bliss now being a 45-to-1 favorite to win the match (not necessarily to win the title, but most likely).

With such giant odds and such a quick and giant swing, that is almost assuredly smart money coming in after a change in plans.

The first smart money backing Bayley came in between 11 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. yesterday.

Up until that point, there weren’t long odds, meaning that a final decision on the outcome wasn’t known internally. There is a Vince McMahon doctrine, completely the opposite of almost everyone else in wrestling, and the opposite of everyone who books stars in combat sports, where he will usually beat or humiliate performers in their hometown. The mentality behind it is that it’s great for heel heat, which is difficult to get.

There has been no significant movement in any of the odds reported on yesterday, past them becoming even longer in all other matches.

UPDATE: The Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss match has had a change once again since our last update.

As of two hours ago, tons of money has come in on Bayley and Austin Aries to win their matches this afternoon.

Bayley had a big rush coming in at about 6 p.m. to where she went from a 45-to-1 underdog to a favorite, but right now Bliss is back to being a 15-to-1 favorite to win the title. These odds updates came in after the daily update was completed so are more current than those.

Austin Aries has gone from a 92-to-1 underdog to a 20-to-1 favorite over the past few hours.

All the other favorites listed yesterday remain the same.

This indicates a lot of changes have been going on in the last 24 hours.

Thanks to David Taylor at wweleaks.org for the updates on how the money has been coming in.

Huge movement in WWE Payback betting odds

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

There has been huge movement in the betting odds for tomorrow’s Payback show, including a surprise with heavy money coming in on Chris Jericho in his match with Kevin Owens.

It is also possible that would be a DQ finish because odds are all about who gets their hand raised, and not necessarily a title change.

According to WWEleaks.org, the odds from 5dimes are:

  • Enzo Amore & Big Cass are -7500 against Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson
  • Bayley is -4500 against Alexa Bliss
  • Seth Rollins is -7500 against Samoa Joe
  • Braun Strowman is -2600 against Roman Reigns
  • Neville is -3000 against Austin Aries
  • Bray Wyatt is -5400 against Randy Orton
  • The Hardys are -5400 against Sheamus & Cesaro
  • Chris Jericho is -1200 against Kevin Owens

Odds that long, with the exception of the Jericho match, almost surely indicate smart money coming in, particularly since there has been heavy movement in the last few hours. That doesn’t mean Vince McMahon won’t change his mind tomorrow, but it’s a lock those in the company who need to know, already do.

Updated betting odds for tomorrow’s WWE TLC show

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

With some long odds now out, it is possible the smart money has already come in for tomorrow’s TLC show.

Usually the “smart money,” which comes in on most, but not all shows, lead to major odds swings usually an hour or two before the WWE show starts. In most cases it would be afternoon production meetings because for those in the know, they know things often change even on the day of the show.

But a few hours ago, there were major odds movements and one-sided odds that are usually not the case until the smart money comes in.

The biggest odds movement was in the A.J. Styles TLC match with Dean Ambrose, where Styles went from -870 to -2750.

Alexa Bliss went from -195 to -1140, which is a big move, for her women’s title match with Becky Lynch. That doesn’t mean she wins the title, only that she’s the one getting her hand raised when the match is over, although tables matches don’t end via DQ so in this case it’s would indicate a title change.

The Miz went from -160 to -825 in his ladder match for the IC title with Dolph Ziggler.

Baron Corbin went from -400 to -1580 in his chairs match with Kalisto.

Bray Wyatt & Randy Orton went from -565 to -1200 in their tag team title challenge to Rhyno & Heath Slater.

The only match that has even close odds at this point is Nikki Bella vs. Carmella, where Nikki Bella moved from -165 to -280.

Thanks to David Taylor and wweleaks.org