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Daily Update: Tony Khan on Vince Russo & Coach’s podcast, Taka Michinoku

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Among the topics covered:

  • The most detailed update on the Janel Grant case, with her new filing and claims, a look at those claims in detail, what is net for the case, the key thing regarding the future of the case and why it really comes down to the judges ruling, and timeline for all of this. We cover new cais and the arguments for and against binding arbitration or continuing the civil case.
  • Update on WrestleMania, the card as of this point, reasons for some of the new matches, when matches changed and why, as well as the business for the show, how far behind are ticket sales and interest in the show as compared to the same period last year.
  • Chris Jericho returns to AEW and as much detail as we have on the decision
  • AEW Dynasty update and updated major event ticket sales
  • The death of J Robinson, a college coaching legend and his connections with a number of key figures in pro wrestling, including the recruiting of Brock Lesnar by WWE and the politics behind why WWE waited an extra year to offer him a deal.
  • The most detailed look at the television ratings for all the pro wrestling shows this past week, including competition, comparisons with one year back, Raw vs. Dynamite and how close it has become, and more.
  • It’s CMLL tournament of champions month starting this week
  • Anniversary shows at Arena Mexico and Arena Coliseo this week including a look back at the first show in each building
  • A look at the four title match show at ArenaMexico on Tuesday
  • A super hot match to watch on AAA
  • A look at Stardom’s biggest stipulation of the year and Yokohama Arena show
  • Current Tiger Mask retires
  • Best of the Super Junior tournament update
  • Largest crowd of the year for women’s wrestling in Japan
  • Hodge trophy winner looked at
  • Maple Leaf Wrestling announces new TV deal and a look at the weekend shows
  • Stabbing at a pro wrestling show
  • Very interesting political match will take place with TNA champion vs. AEW star
  • American gold medalist challenges UFC undefeated champion
  • Rebellion notes
  • Lots of injury updates and business notes
  • Wrestler complaining about AEW not booking them enough
  • Kenny Omega talks his and Kota Ibushi’s health
  • Brody King talks the chants
  • Tony Khan and his enemies
  • Kayla Harrison on why her next bantamweight fight will be her last and why she should never have fought at bantamweight to begin with
  • Crazy Dana White story
  • Will Mayweather-Pacquiao II take place and what are the issues
  • Fedor Emelianenko wants to return to combat next year
  • Nick Khan acquires TKO stock
  • Bret & Ross Hart talk Badnews Allen in WWE Hall of Fame

This Week’s Back Issue

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Monday Update

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— Bryan and I will be back tonight talking Raw, Pat McAfee, Thursday ratings, WrestleMania, Best of the Super Juniors, Wrestling Dontaku, Sakura Genesis and more tonight with Wrestling Observer Radio.

— Paramount Skydance just received nearly $24 billion in funding from Saudi Arabia ($10 billion), Qatar and Abu Dhabi as reported today by the Wall Street Journal. This money was needed for the $111 billion purchase of WBD. They are now hopeful the deal closes by the end of July.

— WWE will announce what matches for WrestleMania will be on Saturday and what matches on Sunday on ESPN’s Get UP show at 9:35 a.m. tomorrow.

— The Hulk Hogan Netflix documentary will be released on 4/22. The trailer came out today featuring an interview with Hogan shortly before his death. Linda Hogan, Jimmy Hart and Kevin Nash were among those talked with for the documentary.

— For Wrestling Dontaku in Fukuoka on 5/3, Yota Tsuji faces Gabe Kidd for the global titel, Ren Narita vs. Oleg Boltin for the Never title, Aaron Wolf vs. Don Fale and Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens. For 5/4, Callum Newman defends the IWGP title against Shingo Takagi, Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi & Boltin defend the trios titles against Will Ospreay & Great O’Khan & Henare, Takeshita vs. Owens for the TV title and Mistico & El Desperado vs. Ichiban Sweet Boys.

— Raw tonight is from Houston with Finn Balor vs. JD McDonagh, LA Knight vs Austin Theory, Rhea Ripley & Iyo Sky vs. Michin & B-Fab and CM Punk, Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Seth Rllins, Gunther, Jade Cargill and others are on the show. They had 12,673 tickets out earlier today.

— We’re looking for live reports from the show with any matches not on the Netflix show to [email protected]

— There isn’t really a lot to take out of the Thursday night ratings. AEW did not carry their audience gains over to Thursday and did a number lower than they’ve been doing on a more competitive Saturday. They did 373,000 viewers and 0.07 in 18-49. TNA in its regular time slot on AMC did 200,000 viewers, down about 20-23 percent from recent weeks, but stayed even at 0.05 in 18-49.

— MJF and Pat Buck did an angle Saturday night at the WrestlePro show in Rahway, NJ, to build to a match between the two on 5/31. Among those who wrestled on Saturday’s show were Scotty 2 Hotty and son Keagan Garland, Lady Frost, Dan Maff, Gates of Agony, Ricochet (beating Sidney Akeem) and Anthony Bowens beating Max Caster.

— We’re looking for your thoughts on NXT Stand & Deliver and NJPW Sakura Genesis, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match from each show to [email protected]

— Taka Michinoku was involved in an auto accident. He was coming home after a match and a car crashed into him. The airbag deployed and he took a hard hit to the face and was bleeding. An ambulance was called. His car was damaged enough that it didn’t work. He later said he suffered a concussion but he wrestled the next night.

— Tom Aspinall confirmed that he still hasn’t been cleared to start sparring after the eye pokes in his fight with Cyril Gane in November.

— Tony Khan will be appearing on Jonathan Coachman and Vince Russo’s podcast tomorrow.

— Puebla tonight sold out hours ago with a main event of Mistico & Mascara Dorada & Atlantis Jr. vs. Ultimo Guerrero & Gran Guerrero & BlackTiger plus Templario & Esfinge vs. Angel de Oro & Niebla Roja.

— There will be a 1980s wrestling convention in Parsippany, NJ at the PAL on 5/16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Names appearing are Jake Roberts, Ted DiBiase, Mil Mascaras, Koko B.Ware, Wendi Richter, Jacques & Raymond Rougeau, Brian Blair, Jim Brunzell, Demolition, Ken Patera, Tatanka, Nikita Koloff, Tito Santana, Tommy Rich, Tony Atlas, Boris Zhukov, Cheryl Roberts, Steve Keirn, Austin Idol, Johnny Rodz, Bugsy McGraw, Jimmy Valiant, Baron Von Raschke, Paul Ellering, John Laurinaitis, Dan Spivey, Jose Luis Rivera, Bill Apter and more.

— VICE ran a story on celebrities who are wrestling fans, listing Margot Kidder, Danielle Fishel, Vanesse Hudgens, Timothee Chalamet, Freddy Prinze Jr., Matthew McConaughey, and Cardi B.

— Brian Adias turned 66 today. Hall of Fame promoter Johnny Doyle, a longtime partner of Jim Barnett, was born on this day in 1909. Pampero Firpo was born on this day in 1930. Peter Maivia was born on this day in 1937. Dr. Sam Sheppard, famous for the TV series The Fugitive, who later became a pro wrestler and invented the mandible claws that Mick Foley and Bray Wyatt used, died 56 years ago today at the age of 46. Roberto Cruz aka El Solitario, one of the five biggest stars in Lucha Libre history, died 40 years ago today at the age of 39. Jack Veneno, the biggest star ever in the Dominican Republic and a national hero for his NWA title win over Ric Flair, died five years ago today at the age of 79.

— Lady Frost debuts in AIW on 5/15 in Cleveland at the Globe Iron.

— There will be a press conference at the Palladium Theater in New York on 4/15 for both the Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano show on Netflix and the 4/17 Alycia Baumgardner vs. Bo Me Re Shin boxing match at the Theater in Madison Square Garden which will be the ESPN debut of MVPW, Jake Paul’s women’s boxing promotion.

Taka Michinoku to challenge for indie title on rare US trip

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Taka Michinoku will be working a title match in March when he makes a rare trip to the United States.

Last month, Michinoku — who spent years working in the U.S. when he wrestled for WWE in the late 1990s/early 2000s — put out a call saying he would be in Indiana on March 27-28 and wanted to wrestle. Black Label Pro has now announced that Michinoku will challenge Kevin Ku for the BLP Championship at their Squared Circle Expo VI event that weekend.

The show is being held at The Wyndham Indianapolis West on Friday, March 27 as part of the Squared Circle Expo fan convention. Others set to appear include Deonna Purrazzo, Gangrel, and Davey Boy Smith Jr.

Michinoku is a former WWF Light Heavyweight Champion and was a long-time member of the NJPW roster. He still wrestles occasional matches for NJPW but mostly competes for his Just Tap Out promotion in Japan.

“I’m going to Indianapolis on March 27th and 28th,” he wrote last month while putting out a call for bookings. “If I go all the way to US, I’d like to wrestle around that time. I went to England and Australia in the last few years, but it’s been seven years since I went to the U.S. Please make an offer to DM.”

Daily Update: WWE 2K26, PWI Awards, Taka Michinoku

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Among the topics covered:

  • A look at Saturday Night’s Main Event, the interest level, the Royal Rumble and Rumble odds
    Big Bad Bobby Duncum, a look at the career of a worldwide headliner who worked on top with almost every major babyface of the 70s, including big WWF and AWA runs and Japanese major tournaments
  • CMLL has a big business week with Bandido, Ricochet, Komander, Gates of Agony and Lee Moriarty.
  • A look at some of the best matches so far this year and the craziness that ruined what could have been the best of all of them.
  • A look at prior plans for 2025 PPV shows that changed
  • A look at Netflix numbers over the past six months, as well as how every PPV in 2025 did and some surprises in that direction, as well as how SmackDown did internationally as well as NXT, and how shows that went head-to-head with AEW PPVs drew.
  • Notes on the TNA ratings for the first show on AMC and what they tell us.
  • TNA Genesis coverage
  • 2025 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards ballot
  • More AEW stars to CMLL next week
  • AAA TV taping notes
  • Thoughts on the current AAA product and how it relates to Lucha Libre and WWE
  • Stardom makes claim against Marigold
  • Saya Kamitani returns early
  • Notes about a mainstream model who became one of the first big stars in Stardom and women’s MVP
  • Best tag team match of the year
  • New Japan next major show lineup
  • Eight promotions combine for a singles tournament
  • The potential best actual wrestler in the world signs with RAF
  • Feast or Fired thoughts
  • More on AEW’s future with the WBD sale to Netflix
  • Trey Miguel situation
  • Ticket sales for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
  • The most detailed look at the TV ratings over the past week
  • UFC returns to action with first big show of 2026
  • Top exec since the inception of  PFL leaves
  • More notes regarding a lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE
  • WWE headliner talks bowing out
  • WWE and AEW injury updates
  • Punk movie box office
  • Talent coming and going from promotions
  • TKO and WWE execs get millions this quarter

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  • Mercedes Mone was chosen as Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Woman of the Year for 2025, with Toni Storm taking home the award for Most Popular Wrestler of the Year.
  • Harley Cameron thanked the readers of PWI for naming her their Most Improved Wrestler:
    • Thank you to the readers of PWI for voting me Most Improved for 2025. And thank you @aew and @tonyrkhan for allowing me to live out my dream! I vow to continue improving…my improvement!
  • Mike Santana reacted to being chosen as PWI’s Most Inspirational Wrestler of the year:
    • Huge shoutout to all the readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated and every person who’s walked this path with me. 
    • Blessed and humbled that my journey has connected with so many. You all have played a huge role in motivating me to push forward every single day. 
    • THANK YOU.
  • Shotzi Blackheart was named PWI’s Indie Wrestler of the Year.
  • Evil Uno has been announced for DDT Pro Wrestling’s 29th Anniversary show on March 22.
  • Taka Michinoku noted that he’ll be in the United States at the end of March and is looking for bookings around Indianapolis:
    • I’m going to Indianapolis on March 27th and 28th. If I go all the way to US, I’d like to wrestle around that time. I went to England and Australia in the last few years, but it’s been seven years since I went to the U.S. Please make an offer to DM.
  • CMLL wrestlers Persephone and La Catalina were featured in a documentary from L’Oreal Groupe:
    • What’s the secret behind the Olympian Noah Lyles’s record-breaking sprints? How do star lucha libre wrestlers Persephone and La Catalina prepare their game face ahead of a match? And how does the FC Barcelona soccer player Jules Kounde achieve greatness through routine?
    • ‘Meeting the Moment’ is a documentary narrated by the basketball legend Sue Bird that follows four athletes as they prepare for a major sports competition, revealing how physical training, mental fortitude and self-care rituals make up their winning formula.
  • Madison Rayne discussed her in-ring retirement on AEW Unrestricted.
  • Daria Rae (the former Sonya Deville) appeared on a new episode of TMZ’s Inside the Ring podcast.

NJPW reveals participants for World Tag League 2021

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NJPW has announced the teams for this year’s World Tag League.

12 teams will compete in a round robin tournament, with the top two teams with the most points meeting in the finals December 15 in Sumo Hall along with the finals of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament. The winners of the World Tag League tournament will meet IWGP Tag Team Champions Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. at Wrestle Kingdom 16.

Taka Michinoku, who has not been seen in New Japan since the end of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament in 2019, will return as part of this year’s World Tag League. He will be teaming with Minoru Suzuki, who will make his return to the company after spending most of the last two months in the United States.

Tetsuya Naito confirmed in a press conference Monday morning that he would be part of the tournament as well, returning from a knee injury that he suffered back in September during his first match in the G1 Climax 31 tournament. He will be teaming with SANADA.

The full list of teams is as follows:

  • Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano
  • Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)
  • Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima)
  • Yuji Nagata & Tiger Mask
  • Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI
  • Tetsuya Naito & SANADA
  • Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr.)
  • Minoru Suzuki & Taka Michinoku
  • Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare
  • Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa)
  • EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi
  • Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens

The first World Tag League card will take place on November 14. The show will be headlined by Naito & SANADA taking on Goto & YOSHI-HASHI. Other tournament matches include Tanahashi & Yano vs. EVIL & Yujiro, Henare & Great-O-Khan vs. Fale and Owens, Honma & Makabe vs. Guerrillas of Destiny, Tencozy vs. Nagata & Tiger Mask, and Dangerous Tekkers vs. Suzuki & Michinoku

TAKA Michinoku to miss remainder of NJPW BOSJ tour due to injury

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TAKA Michinoku’s injury will cause him to miss the remainder of NJPW’s Best of the Super Juniors tour.

NJPW has announced that Michinoku is off the rest of the tour and will forfeit the two remaining tournament matches he has left. Michinoku was scheduled to face Marty Scurll and Yoshinobu Kanemaru in those matches.

Michinoku also missed Sunday’s Best of the Super Juniors show and forfeited his tournament match against Dragon Lee.

NJPW noted that Michinoku suffered a right foot injury at their show this past Friday.

Michinoku was part of the B Block in the Best of the Super Juniors and went winless in his tournament matches.

There are four shows left until the Best of the Super Juniors finals, which will take place at Sumo Hall in Tokyo on Wednesday, June 5. Shingo Takagi and Taiji Ishimori are still in contention in the A Block, while El Phantasmo, Robbie Eagles, Will Ospreay, and Ryusuke Taguchi are in contention in the B Block.

TAKA Michinoku to miss NJPW BOSJ night 10 due to injury

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Due to injury, TAKA Michinoku has been pulled from his match at Sunday’s NJPW Best of the Super Juniors show.

NJPW has announced that Michinoku is unable to compete at night 10 of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament due to a right leg injury. The show is taking place in Chiba tomorrow (May 26).

Michinoku was scheduled to face IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Dragon Lee in a tournament match on the show. Michinoku will instead forfeit the match, with Lee receiving two points.

With their match being canceled, Lee also won’t be wrestling at tomorrow’s show. It will proceed with nine matches instead of the scheduled 10. NJPW noted that Lee will still be taking part in his autograph session.

Michinoku has lost all six of his tournament matches thus far and is already out of contention in the A Block. Lee is third in the block with eight points (not counting the two he’ll get for Michinoku forfeiting their match), coming in behind Shingo Takagi and Taiji Ishimori. Takagi has 12 points, while Ishimori has 10.

There are five shows remaining before the Best of the Super Juniors finals take place on June 5.

Daily Update: SmackDown notes, Tetsuya Naito, Taka Michinoku

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Smackdown, 205 Live and Mixed Match Challenge were taped earlier today in Manchester, England (TJP vs. Gran Metalik, Buddy Murphy vs. Mark Andrews, Bobby Lashley & Mickie James vs. Finn Balor & Bayley and R-Truth & Carmella vs. Jimmy Uso & Naomi) and there was a Raw house show in Leeds, England.

F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Recapping WWE Evolution

An incredible amount of devotion from all involved resulted in WWE’s first all-women’s pay-per-view being a special night and a strong contender for the company’s best show of the year. Evolution wasn’t just an event that was worthy of its place in history — it elevated it. The wrestlers who competed in the ring, everyone involved with putting the PPV together, and the fans in attendance all worked in unison to make Evolution a show that exceeded all reasonable expectations.

WON NEWSLETTER: October 29, 2018 Observer Newsletter: Roman Reigns diagnosed with leukemia

Look behind-the-scenes at the decisions regarding Crown Jewel as the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Find out about the decision making process, how the last week went down, why the show almost didn’t happen, negative media reaction, why WWE can survive negativity more now than in the past, what happened with John Cena, Daniel Bryan and Hulk Hogan, and different plans thrown out for Bryan vs. A.J. Styles and why they didn’t happen.

Read full coverage of WWE Evolution with notes on the business, notes on mainstream interest, match-by-match coverage with star ratings as well as poll results from the show.

Go in-depth on WWE business. Look at where the declines took place that led to the stock falling, and what is and isn’t significant about them. Look at the network numbers and compare the post-WrestleMania drop with last year.

Look at the house show business, including Vince McMahon’s comments on the decline, as well as a breakdown on the merchandise business, NXT ticket sales and full 2018 attendance numbers for the main brands and for NXT.

Also look at WrestleMania tickets, WWE content production, a Roman Reigns story, more on Reigns’ diagnosis, the WWE/Evolve relationship, changes to Evolve through usage of WWE talent, plans for the next Takeover show, injury updates.

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TUESDAY NEWS UPDATE

WWE

  • Here’s the lineup for tonight’s SmackDown from Manchester, England: Jeff Hardy vs. Samoa Joe for a spot on SmackDown’s Survivor Series men’s team, Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade “Cien” Almas, Becky Lynch issuing an open challenge and The New Day vs. The Usos to determine the captains for a Raw tag teams vs. SmackDown tag teams match at Survivor Series.
  • AJ Styles & Daniel Bryan defeated Randy Orton & The Miz in a dark match main event at today’s tapings.
  • Edge & Christian and The Riott Squad (Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan) will appear on the season finale of WWE Ride Along.
  • WWE Network News reported that collections on the nWo and WWE’s Matches of the Year from 2018 are scheduled to be added to the Network in December.
  • 2K released two new content packs today for WWE 2K19. One is a “Woooo! Edition Pack” that unlocks Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, new attire for Ric Flair and Charlotte and the 1983 Starrcade arena. The other pack, “Ronda Rousey & Rey Mysterio Pack” lets you play as both wrestlers plus also unlocks new Towers: Ronda Has Arrived and Rey Returns. Both are available now for $7.99.
  • WWE is looking for a creative writer’s assistant.
  • Over the weekend, WWE uploaded a nine-minute behind-the-scenes video from Evolution.
  • Sportbible talked to Nia Jax about Roman Reign’s battle with leukemia.

Pro Wrestling

  • In an interview with Tokyo Sports, Tetsuya Naito revealed that he was offered a WWE contract after Dominion this past June, but turned it down. “I didn’t even give it thought,” he told them. “This New Japan ring is already the world’s number one stage. The fans know this. That’s why I think we should focus on our home crowd before looking international.”
  • Taka Michinoku is facing a scandal in Japan after Japanese magazine FLASH revealed that he has been having an extramarital affair for the last eight years. Michinoku took to Twitter to apologize for his actions. New Japan has not commented on the matter yet. Kaientai Dojo (which was founded by Michinoku back in 2002) have responded to the report, saying that they would take appropriate action.
  • Matt Jackson tweeted about The Young Bucks not being on NJPW’s World Tag League tour: “Truthfully we were never even offered the tour. But yes, it wouldn’t make sense to leave our families for close to 4 weeks during the holidays for many reasons; finances only being one amongst many.”
  • NJPW released the official poster for Wrestle Kingdom 13. It features Kenny Omega, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tetsuya Naito, Kazuchika Okada, Jay White, KUSHIDA, and Kota Ibushi.
  • Masato Yoshino vs. PAC for the Open the Dream Gate championship will take place on 12/4 at Korakuen Hall.
  • Impact Wrestling is partnering with House of Glory for Culture Clash 19 in Queens, New York during WrestleMania week.
  • This week’s episode of Being the Elite was filmed on the Jericho cruise and includes an appearance by “H” at the end.
  • The latest Ten Pounds of Gold looks at everything from the NWA 70th anniversary show, including the 2 out of 3 falls main event.
  • Mauricio Rios, who most recently was an executive at Telemundo, has been named VP of programing and acquisitions for the El Rey network.
  • MJF will defend his Middleweight title against Marko Stunt, Kotto Brazil, and Jason Cade in a four-way ladder match at the second night of MLW’s tapings in Miami, Florida next month. The tapings are being held on December 13 and 14.
  • Today is NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis’ 32nd birthday.
  • Here is a trailer for the third night of PWG’s Battle of Los Angeles.

UFC/MMA

  • Ben Askren talked to FloCombat about the reported match between he and Robbie Lawler that is said to be taking place in January. He said that he’s a bad matchup for anyone, including Lawler.
  • Paige VanZant will face Rachael Ostovich in a flyweight bout on January 19, the first show to air on ESPN+.
  • Belal Muhammad vs. Geoff Neal has also been added to the 1/19 card.
  • Chad Mendes vs. Alex Volkanovski has been added to the UFC 232 card in Las Vegas.
  • Anthony Johnson, who hasn’t fought since April of 2017, is expressing interest in returning to MMA, but only if he gets to face Jon Jones for the heavyweight title.
  • Ali Abdelaziz told Ariel Helwani that Khabib Nurmagomedov only has one fight left in his UFC contract.
  • Sage Northcutt, who has been a free agent since July, is headed to a ONE press conference this Friday.

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