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Dave Meltzer and I are back talking about Terence Crawford’s victory over Canelo Alvarez on Saturday night.
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Dave Meltzer and I are back with the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Here were some of the things we discussed:
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Dave Meltzer has a new article on WWE moving their premium live events to ESPN starting next month and what this means for the rest of their content on Peacock including the future of Saturday Night’s Main Event and WWE’s archives.
Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with our post-UFC 319 episode of Wrestling Observer Radio.
Paul Fontaine joined us to go over the show as well as the news coming out of it.
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Here were some of the things we discussed:
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
*More on the death of Hulk Hogan
*The ugliness of the aftermath of the death
*An article talking about the aftermath of the death
*Those close to him talk about his death
*Those not remotely close to him get harassed about his death
*Documentaries coming on Hogan
*A look at the biggest names in history when it comes to drawing and how Hogan compares with them domestically and internationally
*Hogan’s WWF peak
*WWF business under Hogan and Austin
*Hogan’s live show magic
*The Andre match on NBC
*Gorgeous George, The Rock, Sammartino, Londos, Rikidozan and Santo
*Wrestling in the U.S. pre-Hogan and the myths that have been created
*Hogan vs. Londos
*Hogan’s family talks
*SummerSlam story and interest levels
*WWE, AAA and CMLL in Mexico this past week
*Lots on WWE’s plans for AAA
*TripleMania thoughts
*Alberto, Dominik, Vikingo and Grende Americano in Mexico
*A classic match at Arena Mexico with Neon vs. Mascara Dorada
*Update on the G-1 Climax tournament
*The life and times of Gerry Morrow, a Canadian wrestling journeyman who is one of the most underrated inflential wrestler of the st 40 years with comments by those he inflenced
*Conor McGregor’s appeal of the sexual assault civil cse
*The most detailed look at the ratings for all the TV wrestling shows
*MJF to Arena Mexico
*Five Star Grand Prix opens up
*The Hogan vs. Andre match that never happened
*Santo and Fuerza Guerrera retirement show notes
*The first major ethnic draw in the U.S.
*TNA looking for new TV deal
*Will Ospreay update
*Forbidden Door update
*Details of the WBD split
*Tony Khan has already made belts for a new title
*Tag team tournament AEW update
*TKO Boxing notes
*Update on ringboys lawsuit against the McMahons and WWE
*Vince McMahon auto accident details
*Levesque and Trump
*Thoughts on WWE Unreal
*An original Mania show
*Cody Rhodes on Bill Simmons
*Lots of notes on the WWE tryouts this week
This Week’s Back Issue
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Garrett Gonzales and I did our show today talking about SummerSlam, Hulk Hogan, why the most important company to learn about wrestling from today is not a U.S. company and why. Bryan and I will be back Saturday, Sunday and Monday night the next three days with shows with SummerSlam tomorrow.
SummerSlam takes place at 6 p.m. Eastern tomorrow with Day One
–Sami Zayn vs. Karrion Kross
–Raquel Rodriguez & Roxanne Perez vs. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss for women’s tag titles
–Tiffany Stratton vs. Jade Cargill for WWE women’s title
–Randy Orton & Jelly Roll vs. Drew McIntyre & Logan Paul
–Roman Reigns & Jey Uso vs. Bronson Reed & Bron Breakker
–Gunther vs. CM Punk for World title
Gunther has a nose issue that may require him to take time off
Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns will be filming Street Fighter shortly
We are doing polls this weekend for SummerSlam, you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match for each night to [email protected]
Averno defends the CMLL light heavyweight title against MJF tonight at Arena Mexico. Neon & Templario & Titan vs. Barboza & Difunto & Zandokan Jr. is the semi. If they sell out this show with Mistico, Mascara Dorada, Ultimo Guerrero, Hechicero and Atlantis Jr. being in Tijuana, that would be unreal. Douki also teams with Okumura & Yutani against Capitan Suicida & Star Jr. & Flip Gordon.
Mistico vs. Mascara Dorada vs. Bandido and Ultimo Guerrero vs. Mortos headlines the Auditorio in Tijuana tonight.
In 2025, Blue Panther, career revitalized by Bryan Danielson, will headline Arena Mexico on 8/8 challenging Ultimo Guerrer For the MLW Openweight title.
CMLL also announced a fan voted card on 9/26 at Arena Mexico. There will be seven title matches on the show and fans will vote for who the challengers in each title match will be.
UFC is at the Apex tomorrow at 6 p.m.Eastern. All six hours will be on ESPN and ESPN+.
–Piera Rodriguez (116) vs. Ketlen Souza (116
–Felipe Bunes (125) vs. Rafael Estevam (130). Estevam forfeits 25 percent of his purse for missing weight
–Austin Bashi (145.5) vs. John Yannis (145.5)
–Nick Klein (186) vs. Anmdrrey Pulyaev (185.5)
–Roldolfo Vieira (185) vs. Tresean Gore (189.5) – Gore forfeits 25 percent of his purse for missing weight
–Rinya Nakamura (136) vs. Nathan Fletcher (135.5)
–Danny Silva (144.5) s. Kevin Valejos (146)
–Neil Magny (170.5) s. Elizeu Zaleski (171)
–Karol Ros (136) vs. Nora Cornolle (136)
–Elves Brener (155.5) vs. Esteban Ribovics (155.5)
–Mateusz Rebecki (155.5) vs. Chris Duncan (156)
–Tatsuro Taira (126) vs. Hyun Sung Park (126)
New Japan in Kagawa for A block G-1 bouts
–Callum Newman b Sanada with Prince’s curse
–Evil b Ryohei Oiwa with the scorpion deathlock
–David Finlay b Oleg Boltin with a headlock takeover
–Taichi b Yota Tsuji with Black Mephisto
–Yuya Uemura b Hiroshi Tanahahsi with the deadbolt suplex
A block right now has
–Tsuji, Evil and Uemura at 4-3
–Boltin, Oiwa, Taichi and Newman 3-4
–Tanahashi, Finlay and Sanada 2-5
B block is at 3 a.m.Eastern and midnight Pacific from Hiroshima with Shota Umino vs. Yoshi-Hashi, Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo, Drilla Moloney vs. Knosuke Takeshita and Great O’Khan vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Mick Foley and Daria Berenato (Sonya Deville) are in a movie shooting now called The Heart Brake. Hunter Sansone is the lead.
A new MMA promotion called Victory Fighting League has a show scheduled outdoors at Times Square in New York.
Dwayne Johnson’s TKO stock as of today is worth $57,300,894.
For Thursday, this would be the specific market rankings among Netflix TV shows for WWE Unreal:
6. United States
4. United Kingdom
10. Saudi Arabia
4. New Zealand
5. Canada
4. Australia
Unranked in India and Mexico
Alberto El Patron, billed as Alberto Del Rio, voiced over the character Jorge El Guapo in the animated movie The Bad Guys 2 which premiers today in the U.S. and debuted yesterday in Mexico. This is for the Spanish language release. I’m not sure if he’s involved in the English version of the movie. Roberto Figueroa, a close friend of Alberto’s and current AAA television announcer, voices over the ring announcer in the movie in Spanish and Hugo Savinovich does the voice of the ring announcer in the English version.
A correction on the official title of Jeremy Borash from today’s issue. We wrote he was Director of Latin America operations stemming from a Figueroa interview. Borash’s official title is Vice President of Content and Development.
Stars of Wrestling presents Grapplr’s Paradise at the Alameda Point Gym in Alameda,CA on 8/9 at 4 p.m. with Moose, Steve Maclin, KC Navarro, Tasha Steelz, Deonna Purrazzo, Fred Rosser, Diamante, Ruthie Jay and Ray Lyn.
TKO just released a document regarding Vince McMahon and he currently owns 7.88 percent of TKO stock right now.
Kirk White’s Big Time Wrestling on 8/8 in Newark, CA at the Pavilion has Aaron Solo vs. Jordan Cruz for the Big Time WRestling title,Matt Cardona vs. QT Marshall plus Viva Van & VertVixen vs. Shotzi Blackheart & Beatrice Domino, Alan Angels vs. Bad Dude Tito,LJ Clearly vs. Starboy Charlie, and more. Bret Hart will be appearing at their 10/3 show.
Justin Credible will be on Memphis Wrestling tomorrow morning.
AIW on 8/23 in Cleveland at 11213 Detroit Avenue. The JT Lightning Cup will be 9/20 in Lakewood,OH at The Roxy.
Our Dave Meltzer talked to CTV in Canada on Thursday on the passing of Hulk Hogan. The video can be seen below:
Dave also talked to NewsNation following the news:
Dave also talked to CNN last Thursday, the clip of which can be found here.
Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with our Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
For the first part of the show, we talked about Dave’s story on Hulk Hogan. Dave also talked about the media that he did as well as how big this story was from a non-wrestling fan perspective.
We also talked about Netflix’s engagement report with the WWE viewership numbers, AEW Dynamite ratings from Wednesday and new information on the HBO Max numbers, as well as Will Ospreay.
Then, Mark Briscoe joined the show. He talked about the Player’s Tribune documentary Two In One: The Briscoe Story.
You can also watch our interview with Mark on the free YouTube section of our channel.
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with our post-UFC edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, but we also talked about all the big news from Friday’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Here were some of the other things we discussed:
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, subbing for Bryan Alvarez tonight, are back to recap WWE RAW which featured the return of Roman Reigns and also set up three more matches for SummerSlam.
Here were some of the other things we discussed:
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with our Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio. We didn’t get to too much that was in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, but you should still give it a read. The reason is because Marc Raimondi, author of the new book Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Professional Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America, joined us to talk about the nWo era of WCW.
After the interview, Dave and I stuck around and discussed:
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with our Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Here were some of the other things we discussed:
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with a very recap heavy episode of Wrestling Observer Radio.
We talked about the news of the day including the following:
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We then recapped both WWE Money in the Bank and Worlds Collide. Then, Paul Fontaine joined us to go over UFC 316 and the news coming out of the show.
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Dave Meltzer and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back with our Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Here were some of the other things we discussed:
Click here to listen (sub needed) or watch on YouTube (video sub needed)
