This story has been updated from its original run date of March 27.
The AEW and Triller era has come to an end.
After taking away the ability to sign up for the AEW Plus subscription service on March 27, Triller made it official on Tuesday, sending an email to current and past AEW PPV purchasers:
“We’re writing to let you know that AEW Plus is being discontinued. AEW and ROH PPVs are also no longer available for purchase on TrillerTV.
If you have an active AEW Plus subscription, it will end on your next billing date. You’ll have full access until that date.
Any PPVs you have previously purchased will remain available to watch in your account.”
Triller and AEW had been partners since 2019. The service gave international viewers the ability to watch weekly Dynamite & Collision episodes and archive AEW content in addition to a discount on AEW pay-per-views — all for a monthly fee.
Triller has been under financial duress for some time, perhaps portending AEW’s apparent exit and decision to launch MyAEW.com in March with a partner. In new SEC filings released earlier this year, Triller reported that AEW accounted for approximately 19% of their consolidated revenue in 2023 ($10.3 million) and then 24% in 2024 ($6.6 million). 2025 filings have not been released.
Dave Meltzer has looked at the latest numbers revealed by Triller in new 2023 and 2024 financials released Monday, and what they explain (or attempt to explain) about AEW’s international business.
The ongoing financial tribulations of Triller have provided some insights into the importance of AEW to their past business.
Triller was delisted by Nasdaq at the end of 2025 due to not providing two financial reports by a deadline of December 24, the latest issue in a growing list that includes funding problems and investments that didn’t come to fruition.
The company did file quarterly reports and its annual 10-K filing for 2024.
In those reports, Triller reported that AEW accounted for approximately 19% of Triller’s consolidated revenue in 2023 ($10.3 million) and then 24% in 2024 ($6.6 million). Triller’s revenue in 2023 was just over $54.1 million and just over $27.4 million in 2024.
Through TrillerTV, they host AEW Plus — a service for international viewers that gives them live access to Dynamite and Collision and a discounted rate on AEW pay-per-views in addition to the option to buy them. Since 2023, other buying options for AEW PPVs increased which included YouTube, PPV.com and even Triller domestically which began in April 2024. Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max also became options, but in 2025 which isn’t covered in the Triller financials.
Triller is also the home of indie promotions like GCW, House of Glory, helping power their Triller+ subscription add-on, in addition to being a gateway to buy TNA PPVs.
Dave Meltzer and I are back with the Friday edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about the big news from today’s issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Here were some of the things we discussed:
Business stories we’ll be watching in 2026
Hiroshi Tanahashi’s last match
WWE shareholder lawsuit
Triller woes
Tony Khan on the difference between booking AEW Dynamite and AEW Collision
The new issue of the Observer is up on the site covering the following topics:
Where AEW stands today, and the key out of the ring and out of their hands challenges that will face them between now and the end of 2027
AEW’s ratings growth outside the U.S. this past year
AEW’s television ratings decline with the different factors involved
Key aspects of the WBD sale and what it means to AEW
What AEW didn’t do in 2025 as far as new deals that were talked about one year ago
Estimating using different methods how many U.S. viewers AEW Dynamite really gets
How things have changed greatly in the past year
Business of AEW Worlds End
Gambling odds for matches
A look at AAA Guerra de Titanes, one of WWE’s best shows of the year
Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul and business numbers and record level manipulation of numbers
Ric Flair and Mike Tyson file lawsuit against former business partner
The life and times of Roland Bock, one of the most intriguing pro wrestling characters of the 1970s, his famous matches with Antonio Inoki, the reality of those matches, his tough guy reputation, the legendary tough guy whose career he ended and just how different pro wrestling was back then. We go from being tortured as a child, to developing a street fighter rep, going to the Olympics in wrestling, his attempt to pioneer a promotional style that got big in Japan several years later, why his career didn’t explode in Japan and everything from wrestling bears to bulls
Who is eligible for the 2025 Rookie of the Year award
The most detailed look at the ratings over the past week
Update on 2025 Arena Mexico attendance
A look at CMLL Dream Match Night
Ozawa talks awards
Wrestle Kingdom updates
A look at the life and career of Mark Wolf
Rick Link goes into hospice care
Jerry Lawler returns to WMC
Grandson of Hawaiian pro wrestling legend is starting QB at USC, headed to a bowl game an an NFL prospect
Ticket sales to upcoming WWE, AEW and TNA shows
Lots of AEW news notes
Jim Ross responds to DVon Dudley
Updates on multiple lawsuits against TKO and judges concerns about evidence in two different cases
WrestleMania ticket sales as well as the next two AEW PPV sales
Wishing you all the best New Year! We focus so much on what we want, what we believe should be that we forget about what is. Life is so good. Smile. Laugh. Enjoy. Pass that on to someone. To anyone. To everyone. We ain’t sh*t. But we can do more for others. Let’s try together. I’m with you.
At WWE’s house show in Detroit last night, Drew McIntyre taunted Brandi Rhodes and her family as they were in the front row. The main event of the show was Cody Rhodes defeating McIntyre in a street fight to retain the WWE Championship. Rhodes won by splashing McIntyre through a table.
Closing out the year coming off one of the greatest achievements and moments in my career so far. I appreciate everyone who stayed down and welcome everyone who just jumped on. Enjoy the ride, we going up
When I watched John Cena and AJ Styles wrestle at Crown Jewel, I wished they’d both never retire. The match was that good. I love that we’re celebrating a diversity of age in WWE. Asuka is in her mid-40s, she is a mother, she’s been wrestling for decades, and no one talks about her age. She’s also doing the best work of her career. She’s captivating, she’s intriguing, and the audience connects with her.
That’s the biggest thing in storytelling, the emotional connection with the audience. I’m not thinking about when she’s going to retire–I’m just thinking about when I can see her wrestle again.
I don’t think it’s something anybody can get used to, heheh. But I’ve gotten to know what it takes. You have to have your mind in a few different places at once, but at the same time you have to have your focus on the thing that’s right in front of you, and once you do that the mental aspect gets a lot easier. If you think too far ahead then everything gets on top of you.
Takeshita noted that all three promotions have different styles – and he brings his own style to the table as well:
They’re definitely all different, and the way the fans of each see pro-wrestling is very different. So there’s my own style and then there’s adapting that to the different tastes. It’s been about three and a half years since I went to America, and at first it really was a difficult change of gears. Now I wrestle much more in America than in Japan, so when I’m in Japan I have to change modes the other way.
Takeshita noted that, by wrestling overseas, he hopes to bring more of a spotlight to Japanese wrestling:
I am a Japanese wrestler, you know. I debuted in Japan. And now I’m wrestling in America, gained a ton of experience there, and I think that I can really bring Japanese pro-wrestling into the spotlight in a major way. I see my work overseas as my way of repaying the Japanese scene.
Ahead of appearing in his retirement match for Beyond Wrestling tonight, indie wrestler Dan Barry thanked everyone who supported him as he chased his dream
Today is my last day as a professional wrestler. Thank all of you who supported me as I chased a dream I’ve had since I was a little kid.
I’ve been blessed to meet tons of people, see hundreds of cities, and chase a dream that was thought to be unobtainable.
Triller Group Inc. ( ‘Triller Group’ or ‘the Company’) today announced that it received a determination letter from a Nasdaq Hearings Panel on December 26, 2025, confirming the suspension of trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market effective at the open of the market on December 30, 2025 and delisting of the Company’s securities. This decision stems from the Company not having been able to file two periodic reports by a deadline of December 24, 2025 set by the Hearings Panel.
The Company’s operations have been progressing in a normal manner, and no deficiencies or irregularities have been identified that materially affect the Company’s financial position or operational integrity. The filing delay is attributable primarily to one remaining technical matter involving the consolidation of accounts for a U.S.-based operation within Triller Group. Management is highly confident that the Company will regain full filing compliance within weeks, positioning the Company for robust revenue growth, product development, and expansion in 2026.
The imposed timeline does not account fully for the substantial remediation efforts that the Company has already achieved in resolving non-recurring integration challenges following the October 2024 business combination with legacy Triller Corp. The Company’s team, in collaboration with its advisors and auditors, has spent more than a year addressing all accounting and audit matters related to legacy Triller Group’s pre-merger operations. Prior to the merger’s closing, the Company (then operating as AGBA) was in full compliance with all Nasdaq listing requirements.
The Company is also in the final stages of implementing a comprehensive upgrade to its accounting systems and processes in partnership with a leading accounting and finance consulting firm in Los Angeles.
Triller Group is fully committed to exhausting all available appeal avenues. We intend to pursue an appeal through the Nasdaq process, and to the Securities and Exchange Commission and United States Court of Appeals if necessary. We expect to regain full filing compliance and return to regular trading on a major Exchange soon. The Company has retained Jacob S. Frenkel with Dickinson Wright PLLC as counsel to appeal the decision of the Hearings Panel and pursue all possible legal challenges to the Hearings Panel’s decision and the Nasdaq’s suspension of trading and delisting of our securities. On December 29, 2025, Mr. Frenkel filed an emergency application to the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’) requesting, among other things, that the SEC stay (prevent from going into effect) the trading suspension.
This procedural issue has no bearing on the Company’s ongoing operations, strategic priorities, or underlying financial strength.
The Company looks forward to achieving key growth milestones in 2026 and will provide timely updates to the market regarding progress on its financial filings and the Nasdaq appeal process and challenges to the Nasdaq’s decisions.
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including all the shows coming up this weekend, an update on Triller, Arena Mexico notes, RAW ratings and what they mean, AEW and NXT TV reviews, Double or Nothing, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
Timestamps: Start: A very busy weekend ahead, Tom Lawlor update 3:19: Triller/AEW update 7:13: Arena Mexico notes 13:37: Ratings, anniversary of Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit vs. Steve Austin & Triple H on Raw 28:04: Pat Miletich arrested for DUI, UFC notes 32:30: AEW Dynamite review 54:12: WWE NXT review 1:03:07: AEW Collision spoilers for Thursday
With more streaming providers now offering AEW pay-per-views, Triller is attempting to lead the pack by rolling out two separate PPV bundles that will save money for fans.
Officially announced on Monday, the former FITE.tv is packaging together this month’s All In from London’s Wembley Stadium with September’s All Out from Chicago for $84.99 — a 15% discount from buying the two separately at their $49.99 price point.
They also announced plans to offer a triple pack bundle for the final three AEW PPVs of the calendar year: October’s WrestleDream, November’s Full Gear and December’s Worlds End.
While the price hasn’t been announced, the release states, “The bundles provide a significant discount of over 25% compared to buying the individual pay-per-views separately, making them an excellent way to enjoy All Elite’s slate of regular PPV programming on TrillerTV.”
The bundles are also available for international buyers via AEW Plus.
It’s unknown if other AEW PPV providers like WBD-owned Bleacher Report, YouTube and PPV.com will also be able to offer bundled pricing.
In June, Triller announced that fans could buy past AEW PPVs individually or in bundles at a discount.
– Regarding the AEW rating, which is a huge story, my front page story goes through it in depth and I talked a lot about it, as well as news of the week, Willie Mays, WWE, Fantastica Mania, SummerSlam, Who Killed WCW?, and more with Garrett Gonzales on today’s Wrestling Observer Radio. Bryan and I will be back Sunday night.
WWE sets gate record at Clash at the Castle, as well as a look at other metrics
Running down the news of the show
The Drew McIntyre angle
A look at the next two PPVs
What the other metrics tell us about the interest level for Clash
Why the Cung Le lawsuit that was thought to be settled hasn’t been ratified
What worried the Judge
What worries the lawyers on both sides
The real world and real life issues regarding the settlement
Update on Forbidden Door, All In and the Owen Hart tournament
Kevin Kelly talks suing AEW
The G1 Climax tournament
Key news notes on the tournament
Review of TripleMania in Tijuana
A look at this week’s episode of Who Killed WCW
The most detailed look at the ratings this past week for all the shows, quarters, competition and placings
CMLL Anniversary show note
Mistico anniversary week notes
Former WWE star now agent for AAA
Update on Giulia, Marigold and WWE
Notes on the death of one of Argentina’s top stars from the heyday
Shocker rehab notes
More on the shooting involving Shannon Ritch
Life of James Castle
TNA PPV rundown
AEW’s new Triller deal
Details on the Shane McMahon story going around
Attendance advances for all the upcoming WWE & AEW shows
Streaming numbers for the week
International ratings
Update on McGregor vs. Chandler
Thoughts on Jake Paul’s next fight
New Wyatt Sicks news
Injury updates
Timeline of Hulk Hogan coming to WWF from AWA
– A lot of people have talked about the Kendrick Lamar concert on Wednesday and AEW numbers. Like all things, it was a factor. The concert was the largest musical audience in the history of Amazon. What that means with viewers, well, that information hasn’t been released.
– In today’s Observer and on Wednesday’s show when we talked about the Triller deal for AEW historical PPVs and how that would affect or come about because of how media rights negotiations would be going, we’re told they are different situations. AEW PPV shows from the past have always been available through Bleacher Report, but were not marketed well. Since AEW has added many other places carrying the PPVs, including Triller, they are marketing the old shows on Triller. It’s not giving away rights while in negotiations that could include archival content. The reality is those rights can still be part of negotiations since none of that would go into effect until 2025 anyway.
– More on the story of Indianapolis bidding for major WWE events. Some expect the deal to be announced as soon as Monday if possible but this story in the Indianapolis Business Journal indicates the deal isn’t officially finalized yet. Based on a number of WWE sources, this story is accurate.
– The idea of a major fourth NBA package that TNT would get appears to be dead. TNT getting the NBA isn’t 100% dead, but that news makes it less likely.
– Teila Tuli, who lost to Gerard Gordeau in the first-ever UFC PPV fight in 1993, passed away yesterday at the age of 56. Tuli famously got his tooth knocked out by a kick from Gordeau in immediately and the fight was stopped at :28. The 400 pound former Japanese sumo star from Hawaii, who trained for pro wrestling under Tatsumi Fujinami, never fought again. He changed his name to Taylor Wily and became an actor, with a role in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall and was a regular on Hawaii Five-O as Kamekona Tupola and also played the same role as his Five-O character on several episodes of Magnum P.I. and MacGyver.
– UFC debuts in Saudi Arabia with no women’s fights tomorrow.
Noon Eastern on ESPN
Xiao Long (136) vs Chang Ho Lee (136)
Magomed Gadzhlyasulov (205) vs. Brendson Ribeiro (205)
Kyung Ho Kang (136) vs. Muin Gafurv (136)
Rinat Fakhretdinov (170.5) vs. Nicolas Dalby (171)
Muhammad Naimov (145.5) vs. Felipe Lima (145.5)
Nasrat Haqparast (156) vs. Jared Gordon (156)
ABC at 3 p.m. Eastern
Johnny Walker (206) vs. Volkhan Oezdemir (206)
Shara Magomedov (185.5) vs. Antonio Trocoli (185.5)
Kelvin Gastelum (184.5) vs. Daniel Rodriguez (184)
Sergei Pavlovich (260) vs. Alexander Volkov (258)
Robert Whittaker (186) vs . Ikram Aliskerov (184)
– Fantastica Mania is tonight in Mexico City with Mistico vs. Hiromu Takahashi on top. Mercedes Mone will be at ringside watching the Stephanie Vaquer vs Catalina match for the New Japan Strong women’s title. Three guesses who is winning that one.
– Reader Neil Trama noted to us that the ad for last night’s AEW show in Allentown, PA, listed photos of Kris Statlander, Jay White and Bryan Danielson the largest as well as Pac, Daniel Garcia, Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale, Malakai Black and Penta. The only one who wrestled on the show from that list was Black.
– Arena Coliseo in Mexico City tomorrow has the Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Hechicero dream match plus Mistico & Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiromu Takahashi & Volador Jr., along with Rocky Romero vs. Angel de Oro.
– Monday in Puebla has Mistico & Mascara Dorada vs. Romero & Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi vs. Templario, Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Virus and Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Neon for the Mexican national middleweight title.
– CMLL announced the first week of Leyenda de Plata on 7/12 with Volador Jr., Mascara Dorada, Flip Gordon, Angel de Oro, Brillante Jr., Futuro, Villano III Jr., and Stigma.
– The Collision main event of Kazuchika Okada vs. Ultimo Guerrero was a total mess according to multiple people who saw it. Guerrero, who lost his mask ten years ago to Atlantis in a very famous match, found out that AEW had promoted him with a mask. He hadn’t brought one. So they had to scramble to find one and ended up with one that kept falling off during the match. We were told it was very lucky this didn’t air live. (thanks to The Cubs Fan)
– Rampage tonight at 10 p.m. on TNT
Private Party vs. Komander & Metalik
Shingo Takagi vs. AR Fox
Rey Fenix vs. Turbo Floyd
Serena Deeb vs. Willow Nightingale in the Owen Hart Cup tournament
– PFL is tonight on ESPN at 9 p.m. Eastern with matches in the lightweight and light heavyweight tournaments
Antonio Carlos Jr. vs. Alex Polizzi (light heavyweight)
Doviet Yagshimuradov vs. Simon Biyong (light heavyweight)
Rob Wilkinson vs. Josh Silveira (light heavyweight)
Patricky Pitbull Freire vs. Bruno Miranda (lightweight)
Impa Kasanganay vs. Jakob Nedoh (light heavyweight)
Clay Collard vs. Mads Burnell (lightweight)
– The start of the G-1 Climax qualifier tournament is tomorrow morning US time from Fukushima with Callum Newman vs. Yujiro Takahashi and Yoshi-Hashi vs. Chase Owens
– Matt Riddle is scheduled to face El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. in the main event of AAA’s TV taping tomorrow at Juan de la Barrera Gym. Riddle suffered a concussion last week and we haven’t heard anything about him in a few days.
– Nic Nemeth makes his first defense of the AAA Mega title tomorrow, but in Puerto Rico against Eddie “Primo” Colon, not in AAA.
– People were raving about the Kyle Fletcher vs. Lee Johnson 2/3 fall match that aired on ROH television last night. Also heard good things about the Mark Briscoe ROH title defense against Fletcher that was taped last night in Allentown, PA presumably for this coming Thursday’s show.
– Charlotte Flair has started rehabbing her knee and she’s ahead of schedule as far as her quad strength in the knee she had surgery on.
– Bellator on MAX tomorrow at Noon Eastern time from Dublin:
Darragh Kelly (155.7) vs. Mathas Poiron (155.1)
Norbert Novenyl (185.8) vs. Dalton Rosta (185.1)
Sinead Kavanagh (146.0) vs. Arlene Blencowe (145.4)
Paul Hughes (155.7) vs. Bobby King (156.0)
Jason Jackson (169.9) vs. Ramazan Kuramegomedov (169.8) for the welterweight title
Rosta appeared on many episodes of Dynamite a few years back when they were doing the Dan Lambert angle.
– Roman Dolidze replaces Carlos Ulberg to face Anthony Smith on the 6/29 UFC 303 PPV from Las Vegas. Dolidze’s name was expected but it wasn’t officially announced until today.
– MLW is doing a Minoru Suzuki Meet and Greet before the 7/12 show at the St. Petersburg Coliseum at 6 pm.
– Insane Wrestling Revolution from last night in Monroe, MI: Ace Austin b Zeeko, Dub Club b Alienated Youth, Mila Moore b Kayla Kassidy, Silas Young b Jake Something, Buckeye Sam b ?, Jason Hotch b Madman Fulton to keep the US title Death Threat Army b Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel, Thom Latimer & Sam Beale b Eh Team Special Forces, Monsters of Destruction over Fear & Loathing Saint brothers and Gold Standard, Rhino b Steve Maclin to keep IWR title. Next show is the Insane Rumble on 8/1 with Danhausen announced.
While the future of an all-inclusive streaming service appears to still be some time away, AEW has made important parts of its history — past pay-per-views — available for purchase on Triller in the interim.
Announced on Tuesday, fans can now purchase past PPVs either ala carte or by packs by complete year, dating back to the compnay’s beginning in 2018. Triller (the former FITE.tv) is a longtime partner with AEW, offering AEW+ to international viewers in addition to becoming an pay-per-view buying option for U.S. buyers which started this past April.
It’s the first time AEW has discounted past PPVs in this format as previously, the only way to watch older PPVs for those that had not previously purchased them was to buy them at their full price.
While the ala carte pricing is $10 per shows, the packs vary in price from $29.99 to $59.99, giving purchasers a discount when they buy in bulk:
2018/2018 pack ($34.99): All In, Double or Nothing, All Out, Full Gear, Fyter Fest and Fight for the Fallen
2020 pack ($29.99): Revolution, Double or Nothing, All Out and Full Gear
2021 pack ($29.99): Revolution, Double or Nothing, All Out and Full Gear
2022 pack ($34.99): Revolution, Double or Nothing, Forbidden Door, All Out and Full Gear
2023 pack ($59.99): Revolution, Double or Nothing, Forbidden Door, All In, All Out, WrestleDream, Full Gear and World’s End
AEW head Tony Khan has mentioned in the past that in the impending new TV rights deal he hopes to sign that streaming will be an option with that package. He has mentioned AEW’s library as part of that offering, but it’s unclear if any new deal would include past PPVs in addition to past episodes of AEW TV similar to how WWE, TNA and others offer their past content.
AEW is currently in their exclusive negotiating rights window with WBD that is expected to expire in the next few weeks according to reports.
After years of B/R Live being the sole domestic streaming source to buy AEW pay-per-views from, the next three AEW PPVs will also be available to purchase on Triller, the former FITE.
That change in availability will begin with next month’s AEW Dynasty and will continue with May’s Double or Nothing and June’s Forbidden Door. It’s unknown what will happen after that point as it was described as a “right now” situation.
On Tuesday, the ability to purchase Dynasty went live on Triller for the traditional $49.99 PPV price. The ability to purchase all three PPVs as a Triple Pack bundle as international buyers are able to do will not be an option for domestic buyers.
The news comes on the heels of last month’s Revolution which was marred by so many technical issues early on that the PPV was made available to buy on Triller for the U.S. audience as the show was going on.
Triller and AEW have been in business together for years as the former offers AEW Plus for international audiences — a monthly subscription package that includes Dynamite, Collision and Rampage. Additionally, that is where AEW PPVs can be purchased.
B/R Live is owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery who holds both AEW’s domestic TV rights and PPV streaming rights through what’s believed to be the end of 2024. Dynasty is currently available to purchase on that service.
After months of teasing a comeback against a former UFC champion, boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has apparently found his man in former light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort.
The Athletic’s Mike Coppinger first reported the news Thursday, saying the fight will be an exhibition held on Saturday, September 11th, likely in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be promoted by Triller who did the Ben Askren vs. Jake Paul boxing match.
Georges St. Pierre and Eddie Alvarez were other names rumored to take on De La Hoya throughout this year.
The 44-year-old Belfort (seen above) was last under contract with Asian-based MMA promotion ONE, but never fought for them. He hasn’t competed since May 2018 when he lost to Lyoto Machida at UFC 224 and retired afterward. He has 18 knockouts in 41 career MMA fights but hasn’t scored once since November 2015.
He does have one professional boxing match: an April 2006 first round TKO over Josemario Neves in Brazil and actually discussed going into business with De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions in 2008. At one point, he was going to box on this weekend’s now-postponed Triller fight card and has also talked about fighting Evander Holyfield this year.
The 48-year-old De La Hoya hasn’t competed since a December 2008 loss to Manny Pacquiao.
Belfort is the latest former MMA fighter to take advantage of the last celebrity boxing craze following in the footsteps of Askren, Floyd Mayweather and Tyron Woodley who will face Jake Paul later this year. Anderson Silva will step into the boxing ring this Saturday against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on the same card as his famous father.
How the NHL deal affects both WWE and AEW is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
We look at the deal, have Tony Khan’s comments on it, update on AEW and TNT, AEW vs. NHL ratings, declining ratings equals larger right fees, notes on the next WWE and AEW deals, and key contract years for AEW and WWE.
Also in this issue:
A complete rundown of UFC 261, background of the show, match-by-match coverage, poll results, business notes, as well as what categories UFC won in television ratings this past week.
Peacock subscribers, Supreme Court ruling on a WWE case, WWE going back on the road, Mickie James talks her issues with her final run, why no second Evolution PPV show, front office changes in WWE, Daniel Bryan talks his future goals, Paul Levesque talks physical Hall of Fame, new WWE announcer, new WWE signings, how wrestling fared as compared with other sports on television, former headliner says he’s returning to WWE, upcoming major TV matches and the most-watched segments on YouTube of recent shows.
CMLL and ROH relationship falling apart, how Mexico is changing with a new promotion, the question a lot of the CMLL and AAA wrestlers have to ask themselves and money figures the top talent is getting with the new promotion.
What other wrestlers held three major world titles in three different companies besides Kenny Omega and details of that.
Impact Rebellion with match-by-match coverage, star ratings and poll results, as well as early PPV notes, where the company is going forward and what happened in the Omega vs. Swann match.
WWE’s highest stakes television match in a long time with Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan.
A feature on Jake Paul, Triller’s lawsuit, and Paul challenges involving Daniel Cormier, Nate Diaz and Kamaru Usman.
PPV numbers from television from every company over the past six months.
More on last week’s feature about historical world title unification matches from different companies, including a reference to Babe Ruth.
How long the average fan watches the key wrestling shows, how many different people are actually watching, what show is watched live the most and what show is time delayed the most.
More into detail on the ratings than any other source, how every segment on NXT and AEW did as well as how it did with different age groups, genders and more, plus a look at all other wrestling shows of the past week.
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 talking Raw, New Japan, Randy Savage and perhaps Brian Pillman. You can send questions to the show to [email protected]
What could be one of the best matches of 2021 takes place in a few hours with the New Japan show tonight at 2 a.m. Eastern time from Fukuoka in the second night of Dontaku:
Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi & Douki vs. Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa & Jado
Kazuchika Okada & Sho vs. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Tetsuya Naito & Sanada & Bushi vs. Jeff Cobb & Great O’Khan & Aaron Henare
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato vs. Dick Togo & Evil & Jay White & Toru Yano & Taiji Ishimori
Desperado vs. Yoh for the IWGP jr. title
Will Ospreay vs. Shingo Takagi for the IWGP title
One of Dragon Gate’s biggest shows of the year, Dead or Alive, takes place at 3 a.m. early Wednesday morning headlined by Yamato & Kai vs. Dragon Kid & SB Kento where the losing team then has a singles match and the loser of that match loses their mask or their hair.
Triller has announced they are giving one month’s amnesty for any person or entity who illegally streamed the 4/17 show. Anyone who pirated the PPV can pay the original cost for the show before 6/1 and obtain a release from a lawsuit by Triller. After 6/1, the company will be pursuing all individuals for a maximum penalty of $150,000 per illegal stream. Matt St. Claire, the Head of Piracy for Triller said that all the actual IP addresses of everyone who streamed the fight from an illegal source will be turned over in discovery, even if they used VPN’s as each stream has a unique fingerprint embedded.
Raw tonight has Bobby Lashley in a non-title match against either Drew McIntyre or Braun Strowman, A.J. Styles & Omos vs. The New Day for the tag titles and Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler defend the women’s tag titles against Lana & Naomi.
NXT tomorrow night has Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart vs. Indi Hartwell & Candice LeRae in a street fight for the NXT women’s tag titles, Leon Ruff vs. Isaiah Scott falls count anywhere and Timothy Thatcher & Tommaso Ciampa vs. Grizzled Young Veterans.
The PFL show on Thursday night is moving from ESPN 2 to ESPN which means the PFL will be in front of the largest audience in the history of the promotion. It airs from 7-11 p.m. Eastern:
Vice will be doing a Dark Side of the Ring marathon on Thursday starting at 8:30 a.m. leading to the 9:30 p.m. episode on Brian Pillman. Owen Hart is at 3:30 pm. and Chris Benoit is at 7:30 p.m., the Road Warriors is at 10 a.m. and Von Erichs at 2:30 p.m.
Both WWE and AEW are part of the Huntington Disease Society of America online auction that takes place from now until 5/15. Huntington Disease is a brain disease passed down from generation to generation. WWE donated two virtual VIP tickets to the Thunderdome and the winner can get a virtual meet and greet with a WWE star of their choice. AEW donated signed turnbuckles with signatures of most of its biggest stars. Brandi Rhodes, Colt Cabana, Jungle Boy and McKenzie Mitchell also did awareness videos.
The WWE Network was nominated for a Sports Business Journal award for Best in Digital Sports Media. The award winners will be announced on 6/23.
AEW
Dark Elevation for tonight
Private Party vs. Duke Davis & Ganon Jones
10 vs. D3
Red Velvet vs. Reka Tehaka
QT Marshall vs Dillon McQueen
Ryo Mizunami vs. Abadon
Nick Comoroto vs Baron Black
FTR vs. Terrence & Terrell Hughes
Thunder Rosa vs. Willow Nightingale
Miro vs. Will Allday
Matt Hardy & Blade vs. Colt Cabana & 5
Nyla Rose vs. Madi Wrenkowski
Jon Moxley vs. Andrew Palace
OTHER NOTES
“The Claw,” a documentary on the life of James “Baron Von” Raschke, makes its worldwide debut on 5/14 at 8:20 p.m. as part of the Minneapolis-St.Paul International Film Festival. The premiere will air outdoors at the Como Lakeside Pavilion in St. Paul and then be available for online streaming from 5/15 to 5/23. More on that here.
SWE results from Saturday night in Dallas, TX before 250 fans: Rodney Mack b Action Jackson to keep the TV title, Christi Jaynes b Ivelisse, OMGs b Niles Plonk & Flex Berry, Blood Hunter b Pac Ortega, Charlie Haas b Moonshine Mantell to keep SWE title
International Big Time Wrestling from yesterday in Trenton, NJ: Royce Carney III won The Bug Memorial Battle Royal, Justin Tyme & Solo b Sean Tyler & Jorge Bravo, Rod Street b Mysterious Movado, David Lauren Jones b Justin Dream, Revenge of the Nerds b Sam Beale & Kenny Urban, Malcolm Monroe III b Billy Ray Daniels, DBA b Rick Cannon, Xavier Walker b Kongo Kong (thanks to Leonard Brand)
United Wrestling Coalition on 5/15 in Wrightstown, NJ at Kelly’s Banquet Hall
IWTV will be airing a live broadcast of Paradigm Pro Wrestling on 5/21 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. The show will be under UWFi (Japanese 90s shootfighting group) rules. These will be combination of UWFi and hardcore style with Bobby Beverly vs. Mo Atlas, Matt Makowski vs. Matt Justice, John Wayne Murdoch vs. Reed Bentley and Dominic Garrini vs. Akira. There are 13 matches totla on the show, which takes place at the American Legion Hall in Sellersburg, IN.
MLW Fusion Wednesday at 7 p.m. on YouTube has Lio Rush vs. Myron Reed for the middleweight title and Richard Holliday in action.
PWP from Saturday night in Omaha: El Bigote b Nino Hatchet, Mack Riggs b Xander McIntosh, Tim Boston b JD Parker, Los Bollos b Omar Pachecco, Seto Kobara b Pat Powers, Pat Powers & Los Bollos & JD Parker b Branden Juarez & Seto Kobaara & Tim Boston. The next show is the 16th anniversary show on 5/20 at the Waiting Room Lounge in Omaha.
We have a loaded issue of the Wrestling Observer this week, with business and history features.
We update WWE financials, with comments from Nick Khan, Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon and Kristina Salen talking about the state of the company, the state of sports business, what media companies are looking at right now, AEW, plus a look at WWE revenue and profits. We also look behind the numbers at what they mean, how every category is doing and what categories the company is no longer reporting on. We also look at the decline of WWE ratings as compared to that of cable television and network television.
Also in this issue:
The new attempt at a unique concept PPV with the Triller promotion and Ben Askren vs. Jake Paul, the show, the match, the blitzed announcers, Ric Flair, comparisons to other similar things and long-term sustainability.
Kenny Omega vs Rich Swann match, followed by a story on famous title unification matches throughout pro wrestling history. We look at some of the biggest and most important matches of all-time that were two champions unifying a world title from 1920 to the present.
WrestleMania business numbers when it came to the two live shows, with real attendance, real gates and what it means.
New Smackdown announcing team, Pat McAfee talks his debut, Daniel Bryan talks his current situation and contract, thoughts on Daniel Bryan’s future, new hires and departures at WWE, change in show distribution, former star talks coming out of retirement, how the WWE & AEW shows rank among sports programming, WWE star bio released, Damien Priest talks Bad Bunny, more on Kalisto being let go, Dr. Wagner Jr. talks WWE, political reason for a winning streak, and most-watched YouTube segments on his week’s WWE programming.
A major feature on the career of Steve Austin and the A&E special, his background, how he got into wrestling, the WCW years, the Stone Cold name, life after wrestling, and what were key things not talked about on the documentary.
Mickie James garbage bag situation and the firing of Mark Carrano.
MLW’s new television deal, who else was in talks about that deal, MLW returning to shows with fans and a spinoff planned.
Coverage of this past week’s UFC show, business notes, where the top fighters are headed plus match-by-match coverage.
More detail on ratings than any other source, we have how every segment on NXT and AEW did as well as how it did with different age groups, genders and more, plus a look at all other wrestling shows of the past week.
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 talking Raw, New Japan, what the NHL deal means as far as pro wrestling goes and much more. You can send questions for the show to [email protected]
The second NHL contract looks like it will end up with Turner Broadcasting, a seven-year deal at $225 million per year. This has a ton of ramifications when it comes to both pro wrestling rights fees, as well as time slots. We’ll talk a lot more about that tonight and there is an article already written in the Observer regarding what this means for wrestling and MMA. Fox & FS 1 were thought to be the frontrunners, while NBC/USA pulled out officially today. WWE President Nick Khan on Thursday said that he thought NBCU would not be getting the NHL deal. When NBC dropped NBC Sports Network, part of the deal was to add sports programming, with the key being the NHL and NASCAR, to USA, but evidently they didn’t want to bid as high as the numbers got for a partial package.
We’re looking for your thoughts on last night’s UFC show as well as tonight’s Impact Rebellion, you can leave a thumbs up, down or middle, best and worst match for each show to [email protected]
Daniel Cormier, on his show with Ariel Helwani, said that he wanted to smash Jake Paul on Saturday but he can’t do that at work and would have gotten into trouble. He challenged Paul to an MMA fight, saying he has no interest in boxing him but if he wants to fight him, fight in mixed rules. He said he would cut to 205 and would come out of retirement for such a fight. That is not going to happen.
Raw tonight has Drew McIntyre & Braun Strowman vs. T-Bar & Mace, Miz & Elias & Jaxson Ryker vs. Damien Priest & Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods and Nia Jax & Shyana Baszler & Rhea Ripley vs Asuka & Lana & Naomi. Bobby Lashley is also scheduled for an interview.
Tickets for AEW’s Blood and Guts went on sale this morning. We don’t know how many tickets were put on sale. It was not 2,500 but they will open up to 2,500 if they have the demand. They put about 1,500 tickets on sale, or that could be off by 100 or so in either direction, and the last time I checked they were 353 tickets shy of a sellout.
Triller filed a lawsuit against 11 streaming companies and 100 individuals (not named) claiming piracy in both offering and selling their PPV. They claimed there were two million people at least who streamed it illegally and that cost them $100 million.
The company released a statement saying:
It’s shocking to think a theft so grand can be done so blatantly and brazenly and with no remorse. There is zero difference between what they did and walking into a market stealing tons of a product and selling it at a discount in the parking lot. It’s neither civilly nor criminally any different, and we are prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law. There were more than two million illegal streams, akin to hundreds of millions of dollars. Sites, mostly using Google’s YouTube, such as FILMDAILY.COM, ACCESSTVPRO.CO, enONLINE2LIVESTREAM.US, CRACKSTREAMSLIVE.COM, SPORTS-TODAY.CLUB, MY-SPORTS.CLUB, BILASPORT.COM, TRENDY CLIPS, MIKE, YOUR EXTRA, ECLIPT GAMING, ITSLILBRANDON, and others are causing significant damage not just to Triller Fight Club but content creators overall. People put a lot of hard work, time and money into creating a product for the consumer, and having it stolen and resold is terribly damaging. The good news is they are not protected by VPN masking or other firewalls as their activities are criminal and grand theft, so we will ultimately find them and prevail not just for us but for content creators in general.
Ryan Kavanaugh, co-controlling shareholder, Triller
Vice announced that the trailer for the 5/6 two-hour Dark Side of the ring season premiere on Brian Pillman will be out tomorrow.
WWE
Next week’s A&E biography will be about Randy Savage. The A&E Biography website has both the Steve Austin and Roddy Piper documentaries up.
Mickie James will be doing an interview on her Grown Ass Women podcast on YouTube on Wednesday at 5 p.m.talking about her being let go and the garbage bag story.
OTHER NOTES
A sad story about two brothers who won the New Jersey state high school tournament and their grandmother dying right after is at (thanks to Barry Werner)
Memphis Wrestling from Saturday’s TV show: Bam Bam Malone NC Action Jackson, Diana Taylor b Paris Kelly, Da Russell Twins b Ryan Rembrandt & Precious, Norman Meklakov b Justin Cole, Chris Lexx b Carter Matthews, Austin Lane b Van Vicious. They are building the 5/15 television show called the Grind City Rumble. They are doing a taping with Jerry Jarrett as a guest. The show airs at Noon every Saturday on CW 30 and on YouTube. The Twitch review show with longtime Observer subscriber Brian Tramel and RynoJB is at 1 p.m. every Saturday called Rollin Into Mempho.
Combate Global announced an all women’s show on Univision this coming Friday night called Combate Latina starting at 12:30 a.m. late Friday night. The show takes place at the Univision studios in Miami. It airs on Televisa In Mexico at 5 p.m. local time Saturday. The main event has Criszaida Adames (4-0) vs. Karen Cedillo (4-1). In the co-feature, Dulce Garcia (2-0) faces Claudia Diaz (0-2). Dulce Garcia is much better known as pro wrestler Sexy Star of AAA and Lucha Underground fame.
El Hijo de L.A. Park vs. Bu Ku Dao was announced for MLW Fusion on Wednesday night.
AAW results from Saturday night in Villa Park, IL: Ace Perry b Jake Lander, Skye Blue b Katie Arquette, Mat Fitchett b Thomas Shire, Schaff b Davey Vega, Myron Reed b Brayden Lee to keep the Heritage title, Hyan b Skye Blue 2/3 falls, Fred Yehi b Matt Justice. Next show is 5/7 at 115 Bourbon Street in Merrionette Park, IL with Mance Warner vs. Fred Yehi for the AAW heavyweight title, Myron Reed vs. Mat Fitchett for the Heritage title, Davey Vega vs. ACH, Skye Blue vs. Allysin Kay plus Ace Austin, Mad Man Fulton, Lio Rush, Laredo Kid, Jake Something, Manders, Bryden Lee, Ace Perry, Matt Justice and more.
ONE will air after Dynamite at 10 p.m. Wednesday night on TNT with Aung L N Sang (26-11) vs. Reinier de Ridder (13-0) for the light heavyweight title, Eddie Alvarez (30-8) vs. Rae Yoon Ok (14-3) and Kirill Grishenko (3-0) vs. Oumar Kane (3-0). Notable is that Shinya Aoki’s fight with Eduard Folayang will be airing on B/R Live, and not on TNT.
The Brady Roberts podcast MINT CONDITION MUSCLE has a new interview with NXT’s Franky Monet, talking about her background in fitness competitions, training under Lance Storm, being discovered by Shad Gaspard and marrying John Morrison.
World Wrestling Entertainment gave a very enthusiastic look at its future on the 4/22 investors conference headed by President Nick Khan, with Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon and Chief Financial Officer Kristina Salen.
Like with the last call, Vince McMahon opened, said a few words and was never heard from again, with Khan impressively handling the questions.
The key with Khan is his knowledge of the sports media industry is so impressive, as he talked about the NHL deal and that he doesn’t believe NBC will get the second half of the package, Amazon Prime and Apple TV being players going forward and how the big players, and he considers WWE a big player, will thrive in this marketplace but that unproven companies will be hurt because the big media companies are spending so much on the big players and there’s only so much money going around.
For example, he said the Southeast Conference was in great shape with its television deal, talked about the NFL getting a 79 percent increase, but even more impressively, the NHL, with ratings down 25 percent, has already doubled its television deal from $200 million to $400 million with ESPN/Disney and still has another package to sell. But he also said that the Big 10 will have challenges.
Our annual WrestleMania issue of the Observer is out this week with full coverage of pro wrestling’s biggest event.
We go through all the news of the show, including the booking, the title changes, the finishes, the direction, what did and didn’t work, the difference between the two nights, after four examples how does two shows work vs one, the big money WrestleMania main events, the returns, the celebrities and business notes on the show. We also look at next year.
Also in this issue:
Match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results from both nights of WrestleMania and both nights of Takeover, to see how people saw all four of the WWE’s big events.
Stone Cold Broken Skull Sessions with Chris Jericho. We talk about the stories told, Jericho’s career, what they did talk about and what was avoided, how this went against usual McMahon policy and why we probably won’t be seeing another show like this very soon. We look at what was said about AEW, New Japan, WWE, some of Jericho’s frustrations with WWE that he talked about, the formation of AEW and much more.
The sale of FITE TV to Triller and why it happened this week.
Anthem Entertainment’s purchase of Invicta, plans for Invicta on AXS, and a sale that was talked about for Invicta that didn’t happen.
WWE cuts, person by person, their strengths and weaknesses and where they would fit in.
WWE international plans, hiring of Adnan Vink as an announcer, new members of the WWE Board of Directors, how much WWE’s top executives earned in 2020 and where it came from, Edge and Paul Heyman building Mania, changes in WWE announcing, WWE International numbers and where Raw & Smackdown rank with sports shows of the past week. We also look at WWE’s most-watched streaming clips and a star about to return, as well as the current market value of WWE.
Coverage of Saturday’s UFC show, comments on the winning fighters and upcoming booking, along with business notes on the show.
A feature on John Da Silva, who was the biggest babyface and a national hero in New Zealand in the 70s.
More on Ethel Johnson and sister Babs Wingo, who integrated women’s pro wrestling in the Billy Wolfe stable in 1951.
More detail on ratings than any other source, we have how every segment on NXT and AEW did as well as how it did with different age groups, genders and more, plus a look at all other wrestling shows of the past week.
Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week.
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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE
Our weekend show with Bryan Alvarez and I is up on the site right now covering last night’s Triller show, the UFC, Smackdown and WWE cuts. Garrett Gonzalez and I also have a Friday night show talking about the news of the last week.
The Triller show was ridiculously popular, even as totally unprofessional as it was. Right now it appears there were 7.2 million searches on Google, which is gigantic, basically that beats anything in combat sports except for Ronda Rousey’s biggest fights or something like McGregor-Mayweather. Both days of WrestleMania combined did 750,000. AEW Revolution did 200,000 as a comparison. The UFC show last night head-to-head had 200,000 last night with Robert Whittaker, Tracy Cortez and Jeremy Stephens all cracking the top 20. For the rest of the week, WWE releases had 20,000 searches on Friday. Bad Bunny causing a Ticketmaster crash had 1 million searches on Thursday. Jake Paul had 100,000 searches on Tuesday.
A&E is airing two WWE-themed shows tonight. At 8 p.m. will be the first of the eight weeks of WWE profiles, covering Steve Austin. At 10 p.m. will be the new show starring Paul Levesque and Stephanie McMahon covering looking for WWE treasures. The Andre the Giant HBO documentary was the lead-in. Jason Hehir, who did The Last Dance and the Andre HBO documentary did the Austin show.
The Ultimate Fighter returns after a few years on ESPN+ on Tuesday nights starting 6/1. Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega will coach, to build to a featherweight title match. These are the cast of fighters:
Men’s bantamweights:
Daniel Argueta (5-0)
Brady Hiestand (4-1)
Dustin Lampros (5-0)
Vince Murdock (11-6)
Mitch Raposo (5-0)
Joshua Rettinghous (16-5)
Liudvik Sholinian (9-1)
Ricky Turcios (10-2)
Men’s middleweights:
Aaron Phillips (5-1)
Andre Petroski (5-1)
Bryan Battle (4-1)
Ryder Newman (3-1)
Tresean Gore (3-0)
Miles Hunsinger (7-0)
Kemran Lachinov (10-3)
Gilbert Urbina (6-1)
Greg Schimizzi, a longtime Michigan area timekeeper, passed away on Friday after battling a chronic illness. He had worked on area shows for decades.
Regarding the close scores in a number of last night’s UFC fights, here are media scores:
Tracy Cortez got 54% of media scores to 38% for Justine Kish and 8% even. Cortez won via split decision.
Luis Pena got 31 percent of the media scores to 69 percent for Alexander Munoz, however Pena won the split decision
Alexander Romanov got 0% of judges’ scores even though he won a split decision over Juan Espino. Espino got 75 percent and 25 percent had it as a draw.
Jessica Penne won a split decision over Loopy Godinez. Media scores had 35 percent for Pena and 65 percent for Godinez.
OTHER NOTES
SWE Fury April 17th house show results: SWE Fury had a small card after a charity rodeo event April 17th in Belton TX at the Bad Dog Rodeo Arena, SWE Fury TV Champion Rodney Mac and Texas Champion The Blood Hunter fought to a no contest in a bunkhouse match when Blood Hunters manger Salina De La Renta started lighting hay bails on fire with kerosene fluid referee James Beard threw the match out, Rudy Gonzalez won a 20 man Battle Royal and Moonshine Mantell defeated a local. Blood Hunter also rode a bull to open the rodeo. The next SWE event is a FITE TV PPV and SWE Fury TV taping this Friday at Southern Junction in Irving TX featuring Sabu, Big Cass, Melina, Gangrel, The Boogeyman, Mark Henry among other stars. More info at SWEFury.com
A story on the C.M. Punk movie “Girl on the Third Floor”. (thanks to Chuck Langerman)
EPW from last night in Perth, Western Australia: Aaron hawk b Davis Storm to win EPW Coastal title, Julian War b Kaz Jordan, Del Cano & Zenith won over Stella Nyx & Chadwick Johnson, Casey Johns & James Hartness and Dan Moore & Jesse Lambert, Damian Slater b Bruno Nitro, Marcius Pitt b Gavin McGavin, Kiel Steria b Tyler Jacobs, Mikey Nicholls b Robbie Eagles to retain EPW title. Was told this show was tremendos and Pitt vs. McGavin was a great match. Next show is 6/12 with Slater vs. Mchael Morleone in a submission match and Edith Night vs. Casey Johns in a street fight.
Deathmatch Downunder from last night in Melbourne, Australia: JXT & FOX b Kid Valiant & Zane Zodiac, Aysha & Murdoch b Mitchell Wright & Hector Jones, Jake Navara b Magnificent Mitchell, Caveman Ugg b Tommy Knight, Joel Bateman b Atlas Whittaker in a light tube death match, Callen Butcher & Michael Weaver & Zuzu the Clown b Gweedo & York & Mike Kaos in a fans bring the blocks death match, Tyson Baxter b Shazza McKenzie, Gore b Ritchie Taylor, Aysha & Murdoch b JXT & FOX to become the first tag team champions in tournament final (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
Pro Wrestling Diana from today in Kanagawa: Dash Chisako & Hanako Nakamori b Nanami & Nagisa Nozaki, Madeline & Asuka (Venny) b Andras Miyagi & Ami Miura, Jaguar Yokota & Shinobu Kandori b Kaoru Ito & Takako Inoue, Haruka Umesaki & Miyuki Takase b Ayame Saasamura & Rina Shingaki to win the Diana tag team titles, Kyoko Inoue b Ayako to to win the Diana title. Bull Nakano made a surprise appearance to put the belt around Inoue’s waist.
Tokyo Joshi Pro from yesterday in Tokyo at Korakuen Hall: Marika Kobashi & Seana Shiori b Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo, Miu Watanabe & Raku & Pom Harajuku b Yuna Manase & Mahiro Kiryu & Haruna Neiko, Miyu Yamashita b Hikari Noa, Mirai Maiumi & Suzume won three-way over Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki and Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao, Yuki Kamifuku b Nao Kakua to keep International Princess title, Sakisama & Mei Saint-Michel b Nodoka Tenma & Yuki Aino to win the Princess tag team title, Rika Tatsumi b Maki Itoh to retain Princess of Princess championship
Stardom from yesterday in Takazaki: Mina Shirakawa b Lady C, Tam Nakano & Unagki Sayaka b Konami & Rina, Maika & Himeka & Natsupoi b Utami Hayashishita & Saya Kamitani & Hina, Giulia & Syuri d Momo Watanabe & AZM 15:00, Fukigen Death & Natsuko Tora & Ruaka b Mayu Iwatani & Starlight Kid & Hanan (thanks to Shannon Walsh)
