Another DragonKingKarl mega-show in our “Saga” series takes a look back at a tag team many consider the greatest of all time: the Midnight Express.
But if you think the Midnight Express is only Dennis Condrey, Bobby Eaton or Stan Lane, or if you think Jim Cornette has always been part of the formula, think again. The Midnight Express was already a highly decorated veteran unit before Cornette ever came along.
With founding members Condrey, Randy Rose, and Norvell Austin, the Midnights ran rampant as the top heels in two different territories long before Mid-South.
Plus, you will learn about all the Midnight Express members including (yes) the Mongolian Stomper, the Honky Tonk Man, and more.
Click below for part one with part two coming next Tuesday.
The latest set of WWE cuts and the more important political battle and changes in what WWE wants out of developmental
Going through all of the WWE talent cut, who can benefit where, why decisions were made
Life of Dominic DeNucci, the biggest drawing babyface ever in Australia and trainer of many top stars
Gable Steveson wins gold medal, looking at the big decision Steveson has to make, AEW star challenges Gable Steveson and Steveson’s response
Hall of Fame season, what top draws are not in
Full coverage of UFC 265
CMLL loses four major names, another talks his problems, and the big picture of what is leading to the decline of the world’s oldest and formerly most stable promotion
WWE & AEW business, how ticket sales are going, lineups for the big events, secondary market demand, what shows scalpers overbought which shows they under bought
Preview of this year’s TripleMania
A look at all the ratings of the past week and analysis
Name changes of wrestlers coming
A number of COVID positives in Japan and others having to quarantine
Previewing NJPW’s show in Los Angeles, Jr. tag tourney standings, frustrations with COVID impacting New Japan
Peggy Lathan – The Queen of Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling
Lots of news regarding Rampage carriage outside the U.S.
Update on Max Caster
McGregor melts down regarding Cormier’s criticism
Adam Cole update
WWE & AEW International TV numbers
Former controversial WWE performer running for public office and complains about WWE COVID policies
What WWE segments on television were the most watched after the fact
More detail on the ratings than any other source, how many different viewers the shows had, breakdown of who watches the shows, how they watch, DVR numbers and how long the average fan watches
Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week
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MONDAY NEWS UPDATE
Bryan and I will be back tonight with Wrestling Observer radio covering a ton of topics including Raw, COVID in Japan, and the U.S., and much more.
Raw is in San Antonio tonight. There will be a Bill Goldberg-Bobby Lashley face-to-face as Raw does exactly what Smackdown did on Friday plus Randy Orton vs. Omos and Drew McIntyre vs. Veer & Shanky. It’s the SummerSlam go-home show for the Raw brand. We’re looking for reports on anything from the show not televised as well as from the Impact tapings in Nashville and New Japan tapings tonight in Long Beach, CA. We’re also looking for your thoughts on the weekend’s AAA TripleMania and New Japan Resurgence shows, thumbs up, down or middle, best and worst match to [email protected]
The Showbuzz Daily web site has returned with notes on Friday programming. This will enable us to get more details on the ratings of all sports.
Some notes from Friday. Smackdown did 2,084,000 viewers and 0.58 in 18-49, winning the night in the key demo. The number is actually artificially low because several markets aired NFL football on FOX and it probably would have ended up closer to 2.2 million and probably be the most demo number except for 7/16 in a long time. The debut of Rampage did 740,000 viewers and 0.31, finishing third on cable behind the two NFL games on the NFL Network. Head-to-head, the NFL only beat Rampage .36 to .31. It actually beat the NFL game head-to-head in women 12-34. It was up 113% from what TNT averages in the time slot in 18-49and up 30% in what TNT averages with movies in total viewers. Given the time slot, it’s an excellent number but it was promoted like crazy all week by WarnerMedia so this is not likely where it’s going to stay. IIt may do even bigger this Friday so it probably won’t be until about week four before we know what level it will end up at.
“Our goal was to come out of the gate strong and establish Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on TNT as the place to catch the hottest commodities in professional wrestling,” said Tony Khan, CEO, GM and Head of Creative of AEW. “Coming off our red-hot debut episode of ‘AEW: Rampage’ last Friday that featured Dr. Britt Baker retaining her AEW Women’s World Championship against Red Velvet in the main event match, we’re all excited for The First Dance this Friday night at the sold-out United Center in Chicago. It will be a special episode of ‘AEW: Rampage’ that will be enshrined in wrestling history as a night that fans will remember for a very long time.”
The final WWE PPV show of the year will be 12/12 at the All-State Arena in suburban Chicago. Chicago will be loaded as AEW not only runs there Friday, three times the first week of September and will return the night before Thanksgiving as well.
Funeral services for Bobby Eaton will be on 8/24 at 2 p.m. at the New Generation Funeral Home at 2930 Murfreesboro Pike in Antioch, TN.
WWE
In Canada on Friday, Smackdown was preempted until midnight on SportsNet and did 40,000 viewers. SportsNet did stream the show live.
The entire concert performance from the January 14, 2013 Raw where Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson insulted Vickie Guerrero, insinuating she was a prostitute and not attractive, has been removed by Peacock.
AEW
Dark Elevation tonight
Pac vs. Anthony Bowens
Penta & Fenix vs. Jack Evans & Angelico
Hikaru Shida vs. Kiera Hogan
2.0 vs, Duke Davis & Ganon Jones
Diamante vs. Julia Hart
Brian Cage vs Joey Keys
Jade Cargill vs Katie Arquette
Lance Archer vs. Reggie Collins
Joey Janela vs,. 5
Thunder Rosa vs. Rae Lyn
Sammy Guevara vs Serpentico
The movie “Jakob’s Wife,” which features Phil Brooks (C.M. Punk) will premiere on Shudder, a horror film streaming service this coming Thursday.
The company sent out a press release that Sting will have his first match on TNT since his 2001 match with Ric Flair this coming Wednesday on Dynamite. Sting & Darby Allin face 2.0 in a tornado match.
UFC
UFC fighters Thiago Santos and Yana Kunitskaya announced on Sunday that they are having a child. The funny part is that the couple first announced the pregnancy on 4/1, and then said it was an April Fool’s joke. But this is apparently legit. Kunitskaya has said that she will fight at some point in 2022.
OTHER NOTES
Kalyl Silva, the 22-year-old son of Anderson Silva made his kickboxing debut on a show in California scoring an eight second knockout with a head kick. The fight was at 159 pounds. Gabriel Silva, another son, is expected to start kickboxing as well.
An interview on TV in New Zealand with Aaron Henare talking about his Warrior Wrestling company is at
The Mikey Nicholls vs. Kiel Steria match had an insane spot where Steria could have broken his leg at https://youtu.be/_W7Bsfve_sA
Melbourne’s lockdown has been extended another two weeks. This puts the 9/11 date for Melbourne City Wrestling in jeopardy again. Deathmatch Downunder have already moved their Deathmatch tournament shows back to 2nd October. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
AIW has shows 8/27 in Cleveland at the Odeon Concert Club, 8/28 in Parma, OH at First Stop and 9/10 in Cleveland at the Odeon Concert Club with Tammy Pattersonr>
Zakary Hebert, the 21-year-old son of Montreal book author Bertrand Hebert made his pro wrestling debut on Saturday night in St-Jean, Quebec wrestling as Zak Patterson, beating Mike Bailey, his coach. Hebert wrote Pat Patterson’s autobiography with him as well as a number of books in both French and English including the award winning Montreal history book with Pat Laprade.
Bobby Eaton, one of the all-time greatest between the ropes
Jody Hamilton and the legend of the Assassins
Bray Wyatt and Ric Flair’s WWE departures
An update on how the biggest WWE & AEW shows upcoming are doing
WWE says AEW isn’t competition publicly and at the same time what was happening not publicly
Dragon Gate’s biggest shows of the year and the retirement of Masato Yoshino
A.J. McKee and the problems with the current set up in MMA
PWG returns
More detail on the ratings than any other source, how many different viewers the shows had, breakdown of who watches the shows, how they watch, DVR numbers and how long the average fan watches
Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week
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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE
We had two major shows the last two nights, one with Garrett Gonzales and the other with Bryan Alvarez going over the WWE cuts and the much bigger backstory of the cuts, up on the site.
Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the third match in the greatest modern amateur wrestling rivalry in winning the gold medal match yesterday over Kyle Snyder at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba Japan. Sadulaev, considered by many as the greatest wrestler in the world, stopped 2016 gold medalist Snyder by a 6-3 score. Sadulaev and Snyder were the stars of the 2016 Olympics, winning gold medals at 189 and 213 pounds respectively. Sadulaev moved up a weight class in 2017 for the world championships to beat Snyder, but Snyder won. In the 2018 world championships, Sadulaev scored a first round pin. Sadulaev went up 6-0, but Snyder got a takedown and push out to make it 6-3 and Sadulaev defended him the last 28 seconds. All five male freestyle wrestlers ended up medaling with Snyder getting the silver medal. Russia won the team championship over the U.S., which came down to that match.
Sara Hildenbrandt of the U.S. captured the bronze medal at 110 pounds with a tech fall win over Oksana Livach of Ukraine in the second round.
UFC 265 last night did 550,000 searches, which put it No. 2 on the list for yesterday. That’s the lowest number for a PPV show in a long time and there have been Fight Nights in the same realm. It doesn’t appear creating a fake title the way they did made a difference, but then again, there wasn’t a marquee fight on last night’s show either. Jose Aldo was No. 14.
For the rest of the week, on Thursday, Suicide Squad was No.. 1 with two million searches, Gable Steveson was No. 14 with 100,000 and Bobby Eaton was No. 17 with 100,000. The only other combat sports related number was Tymara Mensah-Stock, who won a gold medal and has interest in WWE, No. 12 with 100,000. Ric Flair did not crack the top 20 but Bray Wyatt when he was released last week hit 200,000.
Pickering will be at ringside on English commentary on 8/15 for NOAH with Stewart Fulton with Takashi Sugiura v Masato Tanaka for both the NOAH National Championship and the ZERO-1 Heavyweight title, Great Muta teams with a face-painted up Marufuji, STINGER defend their GHC JNR HVT titles v Kongoh and Kaito Kiyomiya rematches NOSAWA Rongai. It will be live on FITE TV.
Bobby Eaton’s family announced this funeral information. A service for Eaton, one of the greatest in-ring performers in pro wrestling history, will be held on 8/24 at 2 p.m. at the New Generation Funeral Home at 2930 Murfreesboro Pike, Antioch,TN 37013.
In kind of an amazing stat, 63 percent of the tickets for last night’s WWE show in Estero, FL were sold after the announcement of John Cena on the show. Thus far Cena’s name has led to anywhere from 18 to 63 percent new ticket sales, with Louisville, Milwaukee, Detroit and last night all having greater than 50 percent increases (thanks to William Zdon)
Notes from last night’s show. John Cena and Roman Reigns got the biggest reactions but the crowd was hot all night. Notably they are keeping Drew McIntyre away from Jinder Mahal at house shows as McIntyre faced Veer and Mahal did a run-in after the match. John Cena & Mysterios over Reigns & Usos headlined, doing the same match they are doing every night with Cena pinning Jey with an Attitude Adjustment. (thanks to Michael Washington)
Emi Sakura did a farewell last night at Cocopro and said she was leaving. She said she had a one-way ticket to the U.S. and is staying there and will be working full-time for AEW. The belief is she will be both a wrestler and a coach. Another Chocopro wrestler, Lulu Pencil, noted she was also coming to the U.S.
OTHER NOTES
Aaron Pico announced the arrival of his first child, a son named Valentino, on 7/31.
Mark Henry will make an appearance as Anthony Green will wrestle for a Don Bucci show on 10/9 in Lacey Township, NJ at the High School with the BWO vs. Coralluzzo Collection Agency as the main feud.
Stardom Five Star Grand Prix results from Saturday in Osaka: Mina Shirakawa won three-way over Starlight Kid and Hina, Momo Watanabe & Saya Kamitani b Konami & Rina, Mayu Iwatani & Koguma & Hanan b Maika & Natsupoi & Lady C, Tam Nakano b Ruaka, Saki Kashima b Giulia, Utami Hayashishita b Unagi Sayaka, AZM b Syuri (thanks to JoshiSunTimes.com)
Stardom Grand Prix results from today in Osaka: Unagi Sayaka won three-way over AZM and Lacy C, Mayu Iwatani & Koguma & Hanan b Momo Watanabe & Utami Hayashishita & Hina, Giulia & Syuri b Konami & Rina, Maika b Ruaka, Mina Shirakawa b Saki Kashima, Natsupoi DCOR Starlight Kid, Saya Kamitani b Tam Nakano
Lance Archer came to Memphis for Championship Wrestling from Memphis on 7/11 and taped stuff for three weeks of television that finished up yesterday He did promos the first two weeks. On the show that aired yesterday, he came out during the first match and choke slammed Precious, and grabbed Dustin Starr. At the end of the show he came out and was jumped by the tag team champs the Skimahorns and Uncle Mickey. Archer made his own comeback and Brett Michaels, the top babyface came out. Michaels hit a lariat sending Archer over the top rope.
Championship Wrestling from Memphis last night in Memphis before a sellout crowd: K-Toomer b Chris Hayes, Bret Michaels b Carlos Alexander Rios, Danny B b Derrick King-COR, James Storm b Uncle Mikey, Alan Steel b Lil Chris in a street for for the Memphis Heritage title, Aaron Roberts & Zay Washington b Skimahorns to win the tag titles. Chase Stevens was backstage. Chris Harris did a run-in to save James Storm from a post-match beatdown. Teddy Long was there as the commissioner and raised the hands of Roberts & Washington after they won the titles.
AAW from last night in Merrionette Park, IL before 470 fans: Shane Mercer b Isaiah Moore, Jody Threat won over Skye Blue and Christi Jaynes, Ace Austin won over Hakim Zane, Jah-C and b Davey Vega to get a shot at the Heritage title held by Myron Reed on 9/2 at the Logan Square Auditorium, Russ Jones b Hartenblower, Allysin Kay b Melanie Cruise to keep the women’s title, Schaff b Jake Something, Robin Steel & Joeasa b Jake Lander & Brayden Lee to keep the tag titles, Colt Cabana b Larry D, Eddie Kingston & Mat Fitchett b Fred Yehi & Curt Stallion Rogers when Fitchett pinned Rogers. Kingston got a huge reaction and everyone tore it up.
Robert Lee Eaton, one of the nicest guys and best performers inside the ropes in pro wrestling history, passed away on 8/4 at the age of 62.
Best known as Beautiful Bobby Eaton of the Midnight Express, Eaton was noted as a tag team specialist, but he was just as adept at singles wrestling when his number was called.
Eaton was one of the most complete and versatile performers inside the ring in history. His bumps, selling and carrying a match was equal to the best world champions. His offense was flawless, with some of the best timing, flying, high spots and punches that you would ever see. The Midnight Express versions with both Dennis Condrey and Stan Lane would have to rank near the top of any reputable list of the greatest tag teams of all-time.
His weaknesses were all outside the ring. He had the long bleached blond hair and wore nice ring jackets, so he did present himself like a star. But he was otherwise normal looking. He didn’t appear to be much into weight training or steroids in an area when that was a major part of the business, so his body, while he had enough size to be credible against all but the biggest guys, was below par for the time. He was very nice, but also shy, which didn’t translate well to interviews.
“I never wanted to have to post this, but my Little Brother Beautiful Bobby Eaton passed away last night,” she wrote. “When I find out all the details I will post them. Bobby was the kindest, loving person you would ever meet. I loved him so much and am going to miss him, please say a prayer for my [niece] Taryn. She found him. And she just lost her Mom a little over a Month ago.”
Bodyslam.net reported back on July 25 that Eaton was hospitalized after suffering a fall that left him with some broken fingers and a banged up hip.
Eaton started wrestling in 1976 for NWA Mid-America and later wrestled in the Memphis territory in the early 1980s. In 1983, he went to Mid South Wrestling, where he joined The Midnight Express with Lover Boy Dennis Condrey and Jim Cornette. Condrey and Eaton were best known in Mid South for their feud with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson), which would later be reignited in Jim Crockett Promotions.
The Midnight Express joined Jim Crockett Promotions, later known as World Championship Wrestling, in 1985. After Condrey left JCP in 1987, he was replaced by Stan Lane. Lane and Eaton continued to wrestle as a team through 1990, when Lane and Cornette left WCW. Eaton remained with the company on and off through 2000, winning the WCW Television title once and also teamed with Steve (William) Regal, where they were known as The Blue Bloods.
After WCW folded, Eaton continued to wrestle on the independent scene through 2015.
More than two months removed from the first women’s WrestleMania main event, the WWE women’s division is struggling to regain the momentum it had earlier this year.
In a rematch from Money in the Bank, Becky Lynch will defend her Raw Women’s Championship against Lacey Evans at Stomping Grounds. Bayley and Alexa Bliss will look to improve upon their underwhelming feud from 2017 as they face off for the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the pay-per-view.
A look at what we can learn from the ticket sales to AEW’s All Out show, the ticket demand, how it compares with WrestleMania’s and major UFC events, details on the number, why the secondary market tickets are so limited, why ticket demand was so strong out of the block, reaction of the ticket industry, details on the process used for selling the ticket and what the number mean, and rate of sales for the biggest WrestleMania.
Also have a look at WWE Stomping Grounds, including ticket demand, lineup, thoughts on the matches, interest in Super Showdown and more.
Read a preview of the G-1 Climax tournament, with the lineups, who are the favorites, different storyline directions, what matches will air on television, live broadcast times of every show on the tour and more.
Take a look at Adrian “Lionheart” McCallum and his recovery from a broken neck to become a U.K. star, and the sad ending of his life.
Also look at cities being considered for WrestleMania, what city is a favorite for the next two years, value of WWE to FOX and FOX Friday numbers, WWE gets an Espy, full card for next Takeover, update on XFL, death of AAF and how they are related, more Ric Flair legal issues, funny stories on WWE names, new movie with WWE stars, new TV deal, WWE salaries and revenue, and a WWE star honored.
This issue has a complete rundown of Bellator in Madison Square Garden, the plight of Aaron Pico, notes on the new fighters, pushed fighters who lost and match-by-match coverage.
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THURSDAY NEWS UPDATE
Bobby Eaton, 60, has been hospitalized since Friday with heart issues. Jim Cornette reported that congestive heart failure led to fluid buildup in Eaton’s chest, legs and other parts of his body, forcing his heart to have to pump harder. He’s being treated with medication and diuretics and his heart rate is now down and his pacemaker is working well.
Shawn Michaels spoke to Challenge Mania about his new movie, 90 Feet from Home, how taxing the role was, transitioning to acting and his decision to snip off the hair.
NXT this weekend has shows tonight in San Antonio, tomorrow night in Houston, Saturday night in Dallas and Sunday in Oklahoma City.
Paul Heyman has gotten into a Twitter battle with Ranveer Singh, an actor from India, who used the phrase, “Eat. Sleep. Dominate. Repeat.” Heyman wrote he’s litigious and then Eat. Sleep. Deposition. Repeat.
UFC
UFC is working on a stadium show in Australia for the Robert Whittaker vs. Israel Adesanya middleweight title match.
UFC also runs an 8/3 show at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
Alexey Kunchenko vs. Laureano Staropoli has been added to the 8/10 show in Montevideo, Uruguay.
MISCELLANEOUS
Bret Hart and Corey Feldman will be starring in a horror movie “Tales From The Dead Zone” about a medical examiner conducting autopsies on the victims or a horrible car crash, who imagines how they may have lived their lives. (thanks to Joe Puccio)
Colt Cabana is out of action with a hematoma on his thigh which has left his with weakening of the leg so he had to pull himself off his bookings this week.
Jim Ross has announced live shows on 7/12 in Jacksonville, the night before Fight for the Fallen, and 7/14 in Philadelphia, before the Extreme Rules show.
The Von Erichs & Tom Lawlor vs. Jacob Fatu & Simon Gotch & Josef Samael will headline Saturday night’s MLW TV show, plus Richard Holiday vs. Teddy Hart and Jordan Oliver vs. Isais Velasquez.
Barbi Hayden is claiming she has signed somewhere. She pulled out of a show in the U.K. because of her signing. She has also worked as Abilene Maverick with WOW. (thanks to Shannon Walsh)
Kevin Eck reported a former ROH tag team champion will be returning next weekend at the Baltimore PPV or Philadelphia TV tapings and that a former ROH star from outside the U.S. will be returning full-time in the near future.
AAW on 6/28 in Merrionette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street has LAX vs. Besties in the World vs. Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz, Jake Something vs. Trey Miguel for the AAW Heritage title, Jimmy Jacobs vs. Mance Warner loser leaves town, Kris Statlander vs. Priscilla Kelly, Eddie Kingston & Curt Stallion vs AR Fox & Myron Reed plus Sami Callihan,Fatu, Ace Austin and Clayton Gainz. They also run 7/12 in Milwaukee at the Turner Hall Ballroom.
Silas Young vs. Josh Woods and Angelina Love vs. Jenny Rose vs. Tasha Steelz vs. Stella Grey for a shot at Kelly Klein’s WOH title have been added to the 6/29 ROH TV tapings in Philadelphia.
Dean Malenko will be doing a seminar on 7/21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the CZW Wrestling Academy in Voorhees, NJ. The seminar cost is $75. It’s open to pro wrestlers of any experience level. Check here for more info.
J.D. Drake defends the WWN title against Babatunde of WWE on the 6/30 Evolve show in Brooklyn. Bobby Fish won’t be wrestling on that show but will be doing a meet and greet, along with Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly.
O’Reilly vs. Josh Briggs takes place on the 6/30 show as well.
Newcomers headed to Evolve are John Silver, Brandon Watts, Randy Summers, Milk Chocolate and Steven Pena.
Roderick Strong will be doing a seminar as part of the 6/30 Evolve tryout in Brooklyn. This is open to wrestlers, referees and managers.
Evolve on 6/29 in Queens, NY:
Austin Theory vs. Leon Ruff for Evolve title
Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly vs. JD Drake & Anthony Henry
Josh Briggs vs. Arturo Ruas
Brandi Lauren vs. Shotzi Blackheart
AR Fox vs. Stephen Wolf
Plus Eddie Kingston, Joe Gacy and Babatunde
Gouge on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Fuquay Varna, NC at the Fainting Goat Brewery.
CWE on 6/29 in Morden, Manitoba at the Access Event Centre with Lanny Poffo & Sam Davidson vs. Jay Walker & Gabriel Lestat.
Tickets are on sale for the Fighters Only Awards on 7/3 at the Pearl at the Palms in LasVgas at Ticketmaster.
IPWA on 8/26 in Lehavot Haviva, Israel features Rabbi Swiss vs. Joey Ryan and promises to convert Ryan in the match. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
MWE on 7/12 in St. Louis Park, MN at the Rec Center’s ROC featuring an appearance of Nikita Koloff.
Action Wrestling on 6/21 in Tyrone, GA with Marko & Logan Stunt.
Shine announced they have canceled their 7/12 show in Philadelphia. They announced it was due to conditions beyond our control. Shine is still running an 8/24 show in Livonia, MI at 4 p.m. before an Evolve show in the same building. Shine is also running 6/29 at La Boom in Queens, NY at 3 p.m.
