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WON NEWSLETTER: August 9, 2021 Observer Newsletter: Bobby Eaton & The Assassin pass away, WWE releases Bray Wyatt

In this week’s issue:

  • 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.

Pro Wrestling NOAH announcer Mark Pickering has a story on Gable Steveson.

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.

Michael Chiesa explains his loss to Vicente Luque.

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)

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  • 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.

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Snyder wins NCAA championship in front of record-breaking crowd

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Kyle Snyder became the fifth heavyweight in history to win three NCAA championships Saturday night as he defeated Michigan’s Adam Coon by a 3-2 score with a takedown with 23 seconds left in the match.

Snyder, who weighed in at 226 pounds, was giving up 57 pounds to Coon, who weighed in at 283. It was one of the biggest size differences in an NCAA championship match in history.

The two men spent most of the match cautious, with neither wanting to make a mistake. Each scored points on quickly escaping from the down position, Snyder at the start of the second round and Coon in the third. Neither made a strong attempt at a takedown until Snyder made a move in the third round that Coon was able to block, which would have been a success with just about any other opponent.

Snyder’s next major attempt succeeded to go up 3-1. Coon quickly escaped but had little time to get what would have been a match winning takedown, and wasn’t able to do so.

Snyder became the first heavyweight since Carleton Haselrig to win three Division I titles. Haselrig holds a record that will likely never be broken with six NCAA titles, as he won both the Division I and II championship for three straight years.

Snyder’s win wasn’t enough for Ohio State to win the team title. The team race was close going into the final session, but Penn State put five men in the finals and had four winners. Ohio State only had Snyder and Myles Martin in the finals.

The match that made the difference was at 184, when Penn State’s Bo Nickal pinned Ohio State’s Myles Martin, which won the title for Penn State. Had Martin won the match, Ohio State would have won the team title.

The crowd of 19,776 fans at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland was both the largest in NCAA tournament history and also the largest indoor crowd for a collegiate wrestling match of all-time. There were two outdoor events that have drawn bigger crowds in recent years.

In something completely unprecedented, with six sellouts in three days, and one other dual meet at the Bryce Jordan Center in State College, PA, seven of the eight largest wrestling crowds in the U.S. in 2018 will be for collegiate matches as opposed to pro matches, with WrestleMania as the exception to that rule.

Zain Retherford of Penn State also captured his third NCAA title, at 149 pounds, beating Ronnie Perry of Lock Haven, who had scored upset after upset in the tournament.

Final results:

  • 125 — Spencer Lee (Iowa) def. Nick Suriano (Rutgers), 5-1
  • 133 — Seth Gross (South Dakota State) def. Steve Micic (Michigan), 13-8
  • 141 — Yianni Diakomhalis (Cornell) def. Bryce Meredith (Wyoming), 7-4
  • 149 — Zain Retherford (Penn State) def. Ronnie Perry (Lock Haven), 6-2
  • 157 — Jason Nolf (Penn State) def. Hayden Hidlay (North Carolina State), 6-2
  • 165 — Vicenzo Joseph (Penn State) def. Isaiah Martinez (Illinois), 6-1
  • 174 — Zahid Valencia (Arizona State) def. Mark Hall (Penn State), 8-2
  • 184 — Bo Nickal (Penn State) def. Myles Martin (Ohio State) via pin in 2:29
  • 197 — Michael Macchiavello (North Carolina State) def. Jared Haught (Virginia Tech), 3-1
  • 285 — Kyle Snyder (Ohio State) def. Adam Coon (Michigan), 3-2

One of the biggest NCAA heavyweight matches of all time set

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Kyle Snyder has won two world championships and an Olympic gold medal in wrestling, and a few months ago, when he defeated Abdulrashid Sadulaev for the world championships in Paris, France, he was talked about as being the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world.

But a few weeks back in collegiate wrestling, Snyder, who competes on the world stage at 213 pounds and in collegiate wrestling at 235, was in a situation where pound-for-pound didn’t matter. Matt Coon of Michigan, at 6-foot-5, who cuts weight to make 285 pounds, defeated Snyder in a dual meet, although Snyder won a double overtime win two weeks ago in their rematch at the Big 10 finals.

Aside from those two matches, neither man has lost this season.

Snyder vs. Coon was announced last night as the main event for tonight’s NCAA wrestling finals, to no surprise, even with Zahid Valencia and Mark Hall at 174 going into the finals unbeaten.

After both, as expected, went through the toughest heavyweights in college wrestling, they will meet in the main event tonight at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland in what will be one of the three biggest heavyweight collegiate matches of all-time.

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because two years ago, Snyder’s win over the much larger Nick Gwiazdowski was talked about ahead of time, and even more after, as the greatest heavyweight final of all-time. Prior to that, the most talked about final involved two future pro wrestling world champions, when Verne Gagne defeated Dick Hutton, handing the Oklahoma A&M star his only collegiate loss.

Tonight will be Snyder’s last collegiate match, as he attempts to become only the fifth three-time NCAA Division I heavyweight champion in history, joining pro wrestling Hall of Famer Earl McCready (1928-1930), Hutton (1947, 1949, 1950), Jimmie Jackson (1976-78), and Carleton Haselrig (1987-89). McCready was an international superstar, considered the best Canadian heavyweight of all-time, and was a main eventer for decades all over the world, from Europe to Australia and all points in between. Hutton was an NWA champion from 1957-59, at the time when it was pro wrestling’s biggest title. Jackson briefly did pro wrestling, while Haselrig ended up as an NFL star, and in his 40s, went into MMA.

With a big showing last night, and sending five men to the finals, Penn State now leads Ohio State 120.5 pounds to 109 in going for the team title.

Besides Snyder, two others, Zain Retherford of Penn State at 149 and Isaiah Martinez of Illinois at 165, both undefeated, are also going for their third NCAA title.

Tonights’ finals air live at 8 p.m. Eastern on ESPN 2:

  • 125 — Spencer Lee (Iowa, 25-2) vs. Nick Suriano (Penn State, 29-0)
  • 133 — Seth Gross (South Dakota State, 32-1) vs.; Stevan Micic (Michigan, 30-2)
  • 141 — Bryce Meredith (Wyoming, 378-1) vs. Yianni Diakomihalis (Cornell, 37-1)
  • 149 — Zain Retherford (Penn State, 34-0) vs. Ronald Perry (Lock Haven 36-3)
  • 157 — Hayden Hidlay (North Carolina State, 30-0) vs. Jason Nolf (Penn State 29-1)
  • 165 — Isaiah Martinez (Illinois, 22-0) vs. Vincenzo Joseph (Penn State 27-3)
  • 174 — Zahid Valencia (Arizona State, 35-0) vs. Mark Hall (Penn State 36-0)
  • 184 — Bo Nickal (Penn State, 34-0) vs. Myles Martin (Ohio State 35-2)
  • 197 — Jared Haught (Virginia Tech, 34-2) vs. Michael Macchiavello (North Carolina State 25-3)
  • 285 – Kyle Snyder (Ohio State, 20-1) vs. Adam Coon (Michigan, 33-1)

Kyle Snyder wins amateur wrestling World Championships for US

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

In one of the most dramatic endings to a world championships in history, Kyle Snyder took down Russia’s Abdulrashid Sadulaev with 24 seconds left to not only win the world championship at 213 pounds, but win the team championship for the United States, and essentially earn his spot as the consensus pound-for-pound best wrestler in the world in the first match of what could be a decade-long series.

Snyder, 21, who is a two-time NCAA champion at Ohio State, took Olympic gold at 213. Sadulaev was considered the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world, a 21-year-old who hasn’t lost a match since the age of 17, and took world titles against adults at the age of 18 and 19 before winning a gold medal at 20 at 189 pounds in Rio de Janeiro.

Sadulaev moved up a weight class this year, with the goal of beating Snyder.

The match was somewhat expected to be the headliner in Paris, but both had to get through a tough tournament and it wasn’t until a few hours earlier in the day that the match was even official, at which point it was widely being called “The match of the century” in amateur wrestling.

Snyder had already been in similar situations, as his 2016 NCAA heavyweight title win over Nick Gwiazdowski was considered the biggest heavyweight championship match in the history of that tournament As it turned out, the US and Russia were in such a close battle for the team title that it came down to this match. Sadulaev was ahead most of the way, up 5-3 with two minutes let. Snyder got a push-out point to close the gap to 5-4, and then a takedown with 24 seconds left to go ahead 6-5, in a heated and dramatic battle. Jordan Burroughs also captured a world championship for the US at 163 pounds, beating Russia’s Khetig Tsabalov, a match that was also a necessary win for the US, to take the team title. Tsabalov was up 6-5 going into the final minute, but Burroughs got two takedowns to win 9-6.

The third American in the finals tonight, James Green, lost 8-0 to Frank Chamizo of Italy.

Kurt Angle tweeted his congratulations to the US team: “Congrats to Team USA in freestyle wrestling for their Gold medal in the 2017 world championships, led by @Snyder_man45 and @alliseeisgold”

Dream match set for amateur wrestling World Championships

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

While McGregor vs. Mayweather dominates the sports world, when it comes to combat sports, something under the radar is a dream match this afternoon in Paris, France.

Two wrestlers who could dominate the sport for some time to come are meeting in the finals of the world championships.

Kyle Snyder, who was a world champion at 19 and won the Olympic gold medal last year at 20, reached the finals and will face “The Russian Tank,” Abdulsalim Sadulaev, who won the gold medal at 189 pounds and was only 18 when he captured the world title in 2014 at that weight.

Sadulaev is considered the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world and hasn’t lost in competition since he was 17 years old, competing against adults. When he was 16, he won a bronze medal, against the powerhouses of a top wrestling country, in the Russian championships.

Because the two have been in different weight divisions, they have never met, but this could be an historical first meeting of two men who could possibly dominate the sport for the net decade.

The U.S. men’s team is currently in first place at the freestyle wrestling world championships in Paris, France, with a slight lead over Russia, and has three wrestlers left for today’s finals.

The team’s two biggest men stars, Snyder and Jordan Burroughs (163 pounds) and James Green (154), are in the championship matches.

Sadulaev moved up one weight class with the idea of challenging Snyder, who won his first world title at 19, and first Olympic gold medal at 20.

Earlier today, Snyder scored a 10-0 tech fall win over Mamad Ibragimov of Kazakhstan, and followed with another 10-0 tech fall over Naoya Akaguma of Japan. Snyder then defeated Astanbek Alborov of Azerbaijan 9-2 to reach the finals.

Burroughs faces 2014 world champion Khetig Tsabalov of Russia in the finals at 163 pounds.

Burroughs opened with a 7-5 win over Ali Shabanau of Belarus, then defeated Sohsuke Takatari of Japan via tech fall by a 12-2 margin, and followed with a 13-2 tech fall win over Zelimkhan Khadjev of France.

He reached the finals with a win over Bekzod Abdurakmanov of Uzbekistan, who defeated him in the 2016 Olympics, winning 6-5.

James Green,at 154 pounds, is the other American in the finals, facing Frank Chamizo of Italy.

The only other U.S. wrestler in action this morning, Zain Retherford, the Penn State star, via knocked out of competition losing in the second round. by Adam Batirov of Bahrain 6-4.

Snyder vs. Sadulaev starts at 1 p.m. Eastern and will air live on The Olympic Channel (624 on DirecTV, on most cable systems). It’s also streaming on iPPV for $9.99.

Kyle Snyder advances to finals of NCAA Wrestling Championships

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder needed a cortisone injection in his ribs shortly before his match tonight, after suffering an injury this morning, but that didn’t help Jacob Kasper who had said that he was going to go right after Snyder and punch him in the mouth.

Snyder, after winning 19-6, said that it’s good to hype a match, but when you talk like that, you have to back it up. Snyder, a junior at Ohio State who has only lost one match in his college career, goes for his second heavyweight championship against Connor Medberry of Wisconsin, who defeated Ty Watz of Virginia Tech by a 4-3 score in the other semifinal.

Snyder, who weighed in a 226 pounds, will be giving up 39 pounds against the 265-pound Medberry. He is attempting to become the first American wrestler in modern history to win an NCAA championship after winning an Olympic gold medal.

The most unique season in history, with ten different undefeated wrestlers, all contending for the Hodge Trophy, came to an end in the semifinals with the upset losses of Thomas Gilman of Iowa, who came into tonight’s event 30-0, Nathan Tomasello of Ohio State, who came in  22-0 and Zahid Valencia of Arizona State, who came in 36-0.

A crowd of well over 18,000 fans sold out the Savvis Center for the fourth time in two days.

Cael Sanderson’s Penn State is running away with the team title, going 5-0 tonight, placing five wrestlers in the finals. Penn State has 121 points to Ohio State’s 89.5 and Oklahoma State’s 86.

Seven wrestlers will go into the finals with a shot at being undefeated national champions, Dean Heil of Oklahoma State at 141 (31-0), Zain Retherford of Penn State at 149 (27-0), Jason Noff of Penn State at 157 (26-0), Isaiah Martinez of Illinois at 165 (31-0), Gabe Dean of Cornell at 184 (34-0), J’Den Cox of Missouri at 197 (27-0) and Snyder of Ohio State at 285 (16-0).

Martinez, Dean and Cox are all going for their third NCAA championship. Dean and Cox are both seniors, but should Martinez go to the finals he will join the small select group of four-time NCAA champions (there are only four in history).

Retherford comes into the finals with a 62 match winning streak.

Saturday night’s matches are —

  • 125 – Darian Cruz (Lehigh) vs. Ethan Lizak (Minnesota)
  • 133 – Cory Clark (Iowa) vs. Seth Gross (South Dakota State)
  • 141 – Dean Heil (Oklahoma State) vs. George DiCamillo (Virginia)
  • 149 – Zain Retherford (Penn State) vs. Lavion Mayes (Missouri)
  • 157 – Jason Nolf (Penn State) vs. Joey LaValleee (Missouri)
  • 165 – Isaiah Martinez (Illinois) vs. Vincenzo Joseph (Penn State)
  • 174 – Mark Hall (Penn State) vs. Bo Jordan (Ohio State)
  • 184 – Gabe Dean (Cornell) vs. Bo Nickal (Penn State)
  • 197 – J’Den Cox (Missouri) vs. Brett Pfarr (Minnesota)
  • 285 – Kyle Snyder (Ohio State) vs. Connor Medberry (Wisconsin)

Kyle Snyder wins Olympic gold in wrestling

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Kyle Snyder became the youngest American gold medalist in history on Sunday when he scored a close 2-1 win over Khetag Goziumov of Azerbaijan in the gold medal match in Rio de Janeiro.

Snyder captured the gold at 97 kilograms, or 213 pounds.

Snyder, who is 20, followed on the footsteps of being America’s youngest world champion in history, last year, at the age of 19. He followed up by winning the NCAA heavyweight championship, moving up a weight division to face Nick Gwiazdowski in one of the most thrilling heavyweight title matches in NCAA history. The previous youngest gold medalist was current UFC fighter Henry Cejudo, who took gold in 2008 at 121 pounds.

The match was the two powerhouses pushing for position. The only actual offensive point scored was by Snyder, when he pushed Goziumov out of bounds for a point in the first period. Each were put on the shot clock and unable to convert, which accounted for each man’s other point.

In the waning seconds, Goziumov desperately went for a push out which would tie the score, but Snyder did a great job of defending.

Snyder is expected to return to wrestle next season for Ohio State and go for a second gold medal in 2020.