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Daily Update: RevPro referee incident, MLW, Junior dos Santos

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ROH GLOBAL WARS SUNDAY IN MILWAUKEE AT THE POTAWATOMI CASINO AT 6 P.M. EASTERN ON HONOR CLUB 

  • Caristico & Stuka Jr. & Volador Jr. vs. Okumura & Hechicero & Rey Bucanero
  • Angelina Love & Mandy Leon vs. Kelly Klein & Stacy Shadows
  • Flip Gordon vs. PJ Black vs. Triton
  • Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham vs Silas Young & Josh Woods
  • Marty Scurll vs. Joe Hendry
  • Brawler Milonas & Beer City Bruiser vs. PCO & Brody King
  • Mark & Jay Briscoe & Cavernario vs. Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams & Bandido
  • Matt Taven & Vincent (Vinny Marseglia ) vs. Rush & Jeff Cobb

F4W NEWSLETTER: Chris Jericho becomes first AEW World Champion Joseph Currier gives his thoughts on AEW choosing Jericho as their inaugural champion. Plus, Vinny’s TV reviews. 

When AEW debuts on TNT on October 2, they’ll be doing so with Chris Jericho as their champion.

Saturday’s All Out pay-per-view ended with Jericho defeating Hangman Page to become the inaugural AEW World Champion. After Jericho kicked out of the Dead Eye, Page hit a Buckshot Lariat and went for the Dead Eye again. The finish saw Jericho reverse the move and then connect with his Judas Effect elbow strike to win the title.

The match was very good, but it fell short of being the epic main event you’d want to crown your first World Champion with. The dynamic just didn’t work quite as well as AEW wanted. The fans would ideally have been desperate for Page to defeat Jericho and become champion. But people weren’t all that interested in booing Jericho — and Page didn’t have the momentum that he needed going into the match. The way Page won his way into getting the title shot was probably a misstep. It’s understandable that AEW wants to create their own unique match concepts and give them meaning, but Jericho defeating Kenny Omega at Double or Nothing felt like a far bigger deal than Page earning his spot in the title match through winning the Casino Battle Royale. While Page got wins at Fyter Fest and Fight for the Fallen, they weren’t against big enough opponents and they weren’t strong enough victories for people to see him as being one of the top two wrestlers in the company.

Jericho was an obvious choice to become AEW’s first World Champion. He’s an easily recognizable star that lapsed and casual fans will already be familiar with. There will inevitably be criticism over a new company choosing a 48-year-old wrestler as their initial champion, but AEW isn’t at any risk of being seen as a nostalgia promotion. It’s fine to have one wrestler in their late 40s in a top spot. Signing Jericho and pushing him heavily is a no-brainer for any start-up company. Jericho is still wrestling at a high level, helps bring credibility to the promotion for those who aren’t already fans of The Elite, and has protected his image by only working in main event-level matches with great opponents since departing WWE.

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WON NEWSLETTER: AEW All Out review, Chris Jericho title saga, more

A full review of AEW All Out, and the saga of Chris Jericho’s stolen belt are the lead topics of discussion in this week’s double issue Wrestling Observer Newsletter. 

We have complete coverage of All Out from a live perspective, as well as the television version of the show. We talk about what worked, what might not have, and what we can learn about match order when laying out a card. We have the latest on the business of the show, including preliminary pay-per-view numbers. 

We have coverage of AEW and WWE running the same markets, and have notes and numbers on how each promotion is doing in selling tickets there. We also have all the details on the Chris Jericho AEW title story. 

NJPW Royal Quest is covered as well in the new issue. We have star ratings for the matches, as well as business notes for the show. 

The upcoming WWE Clash of Champions show is covered in detail. We have a preliminary card for the show.

We also cover the WWE writing team shake-up that took place this week. 

NXT U.K. TakeOver: Cardiff is covered in detail as well, with everything from match reports and star ratings, to attendance and what we can learn from the show. 

We have a story on Cris Cyborg signing with Bellator, and talk about potential opponents for her. 

The new issue also has a history piece covering Harley Race’s St. Louis wrestling history. A lot can be learned from the piece, thanks to the late Larry Matysik’s Wrestling at the Chase Record book.

We also have Ryan Frederick’s coverage of the 8/31 UFC event in Shenzhen, China. 

The passing of Australian wrestling legend, Norman Frederic Charles Lowndes, known as Sir Norman Frederich Charles III, is covered as well. We have notes on his life and career. 

We look at AEW’s hype show that aired on TNT, and break down the viewership for the show, and what can be learned from it. 

We also have news and notes on all of the top wrestling and MMA promotions in the world. 

We have full coverage of all the WWE television shows from the past week.

As always, we have in-depth looks at the ratings of all the major shows,the key demos for the WWE shows and what can be learned from them.

We also have the results of all the major pro wrestling events around the world over the past week.

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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE

Our weekend Observer radio show is up on the site covering all the weekend news including all the news from yesterday’s UFC PPV.

There was a big controversy in last week’s RevPro Wrestling show at York Hall.  During Aussie Open vs. Josh Bodom & Sha Samuels, referee Aaren Wilde evidently ended the match early, saying a few days later that a post-match attack on him was a shoot. He said he was slammed by Samuels and the rest was a blur. RevPro released a statement on Sunday that they had not heard from Wilde during the week nor knew any of the allegations before he went on Twitter to discuss it. They did not respond until Sunday because they said they were gathering all the facts. After speaking to everyone, they said Samuels made a horrible error of judgment but did his best to protect the referee.  They said they are confident he knows what he did wrong and under no circumstances is he allowed to touch a non-wrestler without consent. He will be disciplined and they will have a zero tolerance policy regarding any future incidents. “However, we are confident, given his track record, he will respond to this in the most positive manner possible.”

Regarding Bodom, RevPro said his actions did not match his recollection of events and they have no option but to cut ties with him.  They said they hope Bodom will be able to learn and grow from this. The two have been stripped of their British tag team titles immediately. They said that not being aware of this for several days made them realize there is an issue and they have to change that, adding they will be instituting an internal incident report policy specific to performers. A simple form can be filled out and emailed to management if there are any concerns or any official complaints, somehing they feel will be better in dealing with these types of things in a more timely fashion. The company also said they are publicly apologizing to Wilde and said that if he can’t referee going forward, they hope to continue to work with him in other areas of business if he wants to keep working with them.

A correction from last night’s WOR: the reason Shane McMahon wasn’t on television this past week was he was serving jury duty.

MLW announced at its War Chamber show Saturday in suburban Dallas that Jacob Fatu vs. L.A. Park for the MLW title will headline its first PPV show on 11/2 from Chicago. That is not exactly the best night for a promotion that caters to a Latino audience as boxers Canelo Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev are in talks to finalize a fight in Las Vegas plus there’s the UFC at MSG show headlined by Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal. It really shows how quickly things have changed when Alvarez, the biggest draw in boxing, and UFC PPVs are only available on streaming services while MLW is on traditional television PPV.

WWE

  • Jessamyn Duke returned to action at Saturday’s NXT show in Gainesville, FL, after being out with an injury.
  • Andrade missed WWE’s Friday show in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which caused the show to be shuffled around from the night before. We don’t know any more than that.   
  • PW Insider’s Mike Johnson reported WWE has filed trademarks for “Yowie Wowie,” “Firefly Funhouse” “Legit Boss” and “Monster Among Men”.
  • Kofi Kingston, Bayley, and Big E will be at the New York Mets game Monday night at Citi Field as part of a benefit for Connor’s Cure, doing a meet and greet with a portion of each VIP package going to the charity. That means they will likely not be in Syracuse for that night’s house show.

UFC

  • UFC 242 did two million Google searches, meaning it had major interest. However, we actually got very little feedback compared to most shows, perhaps due to it being an early show. Bellator did not crack the top 20, but I wouldn’t expect it to given the NFL season kicking off.
  • Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos vs. former Bellator heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov will be the main event of the 11/9 UFC Fight Night event in Moscow, Russia.

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Ric Flair canceled an appearance scheduled for this weekend at the Little Rock (AR) Comic Con which sounded more like a transportation issue.  It’s definitely not a health issue as he’s fine and scheduled everywhere else including on the 10/4 WWE SmackDown Fox show.
  • Limitless Wrestling’s 4th anniversary show from Friday in Portland, ME:  Ace Romero b Dan Maff, Christian Casanova b Leyla Hirsch, New Hart Foundation b Workhorsemen, Kevin Blackwood b JT Dunn, Maine State Posse b Brandon Kirk & Alexander Lee in a street fight, Butcher & The Blade b Chris Dickinson & Tom Lawlor, DL Hurst won five-way over John Silver, Puf, Harlow O’Hara and Jody Threat, Kris Statlander & Ashley Vox b Skylar & Jeremy Leary in a career vs. hair mach, Anthony Greene b MJF for the Limitless title (thanks to Josh Nason)
  • Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae will be doing meet and greets at both the 9/20 Evolve show in Brooklyn and the 9/21 Evolve show in Queens, NY.  The Brooklyn show has Austin Theory vs. Babatunde, Josh Briggs vs.;JD Drake, AR Fox vs; Joe Gacy, Anthony Gutierrez vs. Karam vs. Sean Maluta vs Stephen Wolf, Antony Greene vs. Brandon Taggart vs. Curt Stallion vs. Daniel Garcia and Arturo Ruas vs. John Silver.  The Queens shoe has Theory vs. Josh Briggs, Drake vs. Anthony Henry and a 2/3 fall 10 man tag match.
  • MPW from Friday night in Chatsworth, GA:  Brandon Devine b Dustin Daniels, Renegade b Master Flame, Great Zumbi & Piranha & Sweet Robin Shaw b Frankie Frank & Bulletproof & Dr. Feelgood, Ray Rosas b Pinky Santino, Luchasaurus b Danny Devine, Diego Valens b Jack Mercer (thanks to Scott Walton)
  • CWE at Rookie’s Sports Bar in Winnipeg on 10/25 featuring Vampiro wrestling on the show in his first match with the promotion.
  • Rise on 11/1 in Berwyn, IL at the Eagles club in a show called La Escalera has Big Swole vs. Delilah Doom for the Phoenix of Rise title, Allysin Kay vs. Taya Valkyrie, Cassandro vs. Saraya Knight with Colt Cabana as referee, Rosemary vs. Shotzi Blackheart and a ladder match with Laynie Luck, Jake Atlas, Priscilla Kelly, Hyan with the winner getting a hot at the Rise Legendary title in 2020.
  • I Believe in Wrestling from Friday night at Team Vision Dojo in Orlando:  Cauis Wolfe & Chris Ramirez b Ricky Anderson & Owen Mitchell, Josh Dawkins won three-way over Djokovic Rabbit and Jarrett Diaz, Mike Reed b Cisco Sucio, Gia Roman NC Christina Mills, Kwame Nas b JD Amazing, Aaron Epic b Remi Danilo, Kaci Lennox retained women’s title in a three-way over Lexi Gomez and Sofia Castillo, Andrew Merlin & Carlos Gabriel b Jake Shadows & Jay Sky, Deon James b Chasyn Race to win Florida title.  Next show is 10/4 (thanks to Al Haft).
  • NHPW from last night in Perth, Western Australia:  Rory Holmes b Kenicki Wheeler, Aaron O’Malley b King Shahil, Salem Sixx b Creek Murdoch, Jebediah b Matthew Pace, Lena Kross b Su Yung to keep Indy Gurlz Australia title, Rory Holmes b Aaron O’Malley in tournament final for NHPW Hybrid title, Homicide & Hernandez won three-way no DQ match over Michael Morleone & Kiel Steria and Julian Ward & Ryan Karguis.  Homicide sang Happy Birthday to Low Ki after his match.  Yung challenged Kross to a rematch. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
  • Stardom Five Star Grand Prix from yesterday in Tokyo at Shinkiba:  Konami won five-way over Saya Iida, Rina, Andras Miyagi and Saya Kamitani, Saki Kashima & Riho & Starlight Kid b Utami Hayashishita & Leo Onozaki & Hina, Hazuki b Natsu Sumire,. Hana Kimura b Avary, Momo Watanabe b AZM (people have been raving about this match to me since it ended), Kagetsu b Jamie Hayter, Jungle Kyona b Natsuko Tora, Mayu Iwatani b Tam Nakano, Arisa Hoshiki b Bea Priestley (thanks to Shannon Walsh and wrestlingwithdemons.net)
  • Stardom from today also in Tokyo at Shinkiba:  Utami Hayashishita announced she was dropping out of the tournament due to a hand injury.  Riho b Leo Onozaki, Bea Priestley & Momo Watanabe & Hina b Konami & Rina & Saya Kamitani, Jamie Hayter & Natsuko Tora & Natsu Sumire b Tam Nakano & Starlight Kid & Saya Iida,
  • Saki Kashima b Avary, AZM b Hana Kimura, Jungle Kyona b Kagetsu, Hazuki b Mayu Iwatani, Arisa Hoshiki b Andras Miyagi
  • Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling from last night in Cahokia, IL:  Shawn Santel & Mauler McDarby b Frankie D & Damion Cortess, Big Texan & Waco b Moondog Rover & Chris Kade, Mac Godeker & Tyler Grey b Big Texan & Waco to win Multi-state tag titles, Ken Kasa b Roy Lewis, King Christopher Hargas b Bobby D, Gary Jackson b Attila Khan-DQ, Ricky Cruz & Billy McNeil b Curtis Wylde & Kowalski in 2/3 falls (thanks to Patrick Brandmeyer)
  • During today’s Redskins-Eagles game, an announcer said one of the assistant coaches looked like Jim Neidhart (thanks to Brian Henke)

Daily Pro Wrestling History: NWA strips Ric Flair of World Title

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RevPro Summer Sizzler results: Rey Mysterio vs. Marty Scurll

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Submitted by reader Peter Hitchcock

Revolution Pro Wrestling presented their Summer Sizzler 2017 event at York Hall in London on Thursday night. It was a fun and enjoyable evening despite an odd looking card on the surface for a York Hall show, although there were no classic matches.

– Martin Stone defeated Eddie Dennis

This was two unrelated storylines coming together. Stone has a feud going with Sami Callihan, who was recently injured, while Dennis is looking for his first win in RevPro and has recently gone full-time as a wrestler.

The match was a fun opener. Stone won in a somewhat underhanded manner but cut a promo after putting over Dennis and how that first big win will be worth it.

– Bully Ray defeated Sha Samuels

This was a no DQ, falls count anywhere match, but it ended in the ring after a top rope splash from Bully Ray. There was a nice moment after as RevPro trainee Rob Lias jumped both and ended up being hit with the “Wassup” by both Bully Ray and Samuels (playing D-Von) and put through a table.

Bully Ray then invited a kid into the ring and gave him a big piece of the broken table in a cool moment.

– Zack Gibson defeated Dalton Castle

As usual, Gibson got a lot of heat. He worked the arm in a fun match. After Castle went into the ring post, Gibson locked on the Shankly Gates for the surprisingly clean submission win.

– The Briscoes defeated Ryan Smile & Shane Strickland

This was the final match before intermission. I think the crowd was ready for a break as they were definitely quieter for this.

– Jay White defeated Travis Banks

Banks is a tag champ in RevPro and White has done a number of shows as part of his excursion. They had a good technical match with hard chops, though it suffered by being the first match after intermission. White won with the Liontamer.

– RPW Undisputed British Cruiserweight Champion Josh Bodom defeated Jushin Thunder Liger to retain his title

Good match that played off of their earlier bout at the British J-Cup, with Bodom winning this time. Liger was incredibly over and got a standing ovation after the match despite Bodom winning clean.

– RPW Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Chris Brookes to retain his title

They had the best match of the night in my view. It was a good technical bout. Brookes is a tag champ with Travis Banks and this was probably his highest profile singles match to date. He did very well, but Sabre won with a gnarly submission with elbows and kicks thrown into the mix.

– Marty Scurll defeated Rey Mysterio

Mysterio absolutely still has it, though he’s obviously older and works smarter. It was a fun match with Scurll winning clean with a finisher I hadn’t seen before, not the chicken wing.

Scurll has always been too over to be a heel, but since joining the Bullet Club he was on another level at this show. He was more over than Mysterio and was probably the most over guy on the show.

Scurll and Mysterio cut promos after putting each other over as an inspiration and hero (Mysterio) and part of the future (Scurll) for a nice feel good ending to the show.

RevPro British J-Cup results: Matt Riddle vs. Tomohiro Ishii

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Image: @RevProUK. Report submitted by reader Nick Wright.

– Marty Scurll defeated Tiger Mask IV in a British J-Cup tournament match

This was a fun match. Scurll had the crowd in the palm of his hand, with them loving and hating him whenever he wanted them to. There were lots of good comedy spots and they both got their big moves in before Scurll won.

– Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Josh Bodom in a British J-Cup tournament match

Liger was really over, though everyone expected Bodom to move on given that he’s RevPro’s British Cruiserweight Champion. But to the delight of the crowd, Liger shocked Bodom within three minutes and won with a brainbuster.

– KUSHIDA defeated Kyle O’Reilly in a British J-Cup tournament match

You could tell that this was going to go long after the last match, and it ended up being 20 minutes of intense action. KUSHIDA is just so awesome and O’Reilly played a subtle heel in this one. It had lots of chain wrestling and back-and-forth action. KUSHIDA hit the Back to the Future to win a high-quality contest.

– Will Ospreay defeated Ryusuke Taguchi in a British J-Cup tournament match

This was another fun match that had a lot of comedy, especially around Taguchi’s posterior-based offense. There was a great bit where Taguchi was running the ropes for a lariat and Ospreay kept ducking. Taguchi eventually got tired and Ospreay gave him a Red Bull, then he ran the ropes again and Ospreay ducked again.

Ospreay ended up advancing after hitting the OsCutter.

– The Tempura Boyz (Yohei Komatsu & Sho Tanaka) defeated Kurtis Champion & Josh Wall

The match had decent action, with Champion playing a good face in peril. But there was a big gulf in class and the Tempura Boyz picked up the win with a combo piledriver.

– CCK (Travis Banks & Chris Brookes) defeated Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI by DQ

Another decent bout here. Takahashi is great and so charismatic. It ended when Banks got misted by BUSHI and the ref called for the bell.

– Tomohiro Ishii defeated Matt Riddle

There was brutal, brutal action in this one. It had one of the most electric starts that I’ve ever seen. There was a chop fest and Ishii followed with an awesome German suplex, then Riddle popped up and Ishii gave him a German suplex of his own. Ishii popped up right after and the place became unglued.

There were so many chops, forearms, big suplexes, and it was utter carnage. Ishii eventually won with a brainbuster. They have to have a rematch because everyone loved it.

– Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Marty Scurll, Will Ospreay, and KUSHIDA in a fatal four-way elimination match to win the British J-Cup

You could have expected this to have a hard time following the last match (and there were a few technical issues with the introductions), but it was a great contest. There were lots of clever spots.

Scurll superkicked Liger about five times to leave him out of the action for the majority of it. Scurll first eliminated KUSHIDA to the disappointment of the crowd, but they were picked up by a few fantastic sequences between Ospreay and Scurll. Eventually, Scurll pinned Ospreay to leave him with a wounded Liger.

Just when you thought Liger was done, he found something extra and emerged as the first winner of the British J-Cup after a Liger Bomb and a brainbuster.

Bodom attacked Liger after and then had a pull-apart with the legendary Marty Jones (who was giving Liger the trophy and had given a great speech earlier in the night). Half of the roster for the show came out to get Bodom out of the ring. It will be Bodom vs. Liger at RevPro’s Summer Sizzler in August.

Revolution Pro Wrestling live results: Matt Riddle vs. Shibata

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Submitted by reader Abdulkerim Unal from York Hall

–  Josh Bodom def. Ryan Smile to win the interim cruiserweight title

Pretty good match for what it was with good action throughout. At one point there was a “knockoff Lesnar” chant at Bodom.

– RPW Tag Champions Charlie Sterling and Joel Redman def. War Machine

WM got a pretty big pop while Sterling and Redman got no response. There was some good back and forth action with WM having the upper hand for most of it. There was a point when Hansen had Sterling and Redman in opposing corners and proceeded to uppercut them for about a good minute. The crowd chanted “one more time” so he proceeded to do it again for another 30 or so seconds. Eventually, Sterling and Redman took over and won the match. Afterwards CCK came out and took out Sterling and Redman.

– Yoshi Hashi def. Pete Dunne

Dunne came out to a pretty big pop and the biggest up to that point. This was a pretty good match with Dunne taking off his mouth guard a few times which got some good crowd reaction. Dunne was more over than Yoshi although there was good support for Yoshi. The crowd chanted a few times “please don’t go” at Dunne. Hashi won in what was a good match.

– Zack Sabre Jr. def. Marty Scurll

Scurll was probably the most over guy on the whole show and got a bigger pop than Zack. This was a great match with constant back and forth action and a lot of submission holds. At one point, Zack was hurt in the ring and Marty stepped outside and appeared to be grabbing something from under the apron. It turned out to be some rope which he then used to pull back on Zack’s finger with Zack selling his hand as being really hurt.

Ref teased DQ’ing Scurll but decided against it. Sabre took out the ref which led to Scurll getting his umbrella and attacking Zack. Later, both guys were outside and the ref was holding Scurll back which gave Zack time to bandage up his bad hand. There was more back and forth and the crowd was really into the match with everyone on their feet. Scurll had the upper hand but in the end, Zack managed to pick up the win in a 40+ minute match.

– Trent Seven def. Trevor Lee

Lee challenged Seven to a dance-off. Lee did some dancing and Seven started to dance but was jumped, getting some boos. This was a fairly short match with some good action. Lee shouted “I’m a TNA superstar” which led to anti-TNA chants. He kept doing the “delete” chant but the crowd didn’t really do it. Seven picked up the win after hitting a rainmaker and a tombstone piledriver. 

– Jay White def. Martin Stone

– RevPro Champion Shibata def. Matt Riddle

Riddle was extremely over with constant singing throughout and lots of “bro” chants. Shibata got a good reaction as well. This was a very good match with Riddle having the upper hand to start, but Shibata made a comeback. Eventually, Matt gave Shibata a hard chop in the corner with Shibata no selling it which led to another hard chop with absolutely no selling by Shibata and with him just casually walking to the next corner and telling Matt to do it again.

Another chop again with no selling and walking to the next corner which he did for another two corners, eventually leveling Matt. The crowd started really getting into the match by this point. Matt hit Shibata wih a Bro 2 Sleep. Back and forth elbows for a good while and eventually Shibata got Matt in a chokehold and got what for me was a surprise tap in around 10 minutes.