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Wrestling Observer Live: The latest on CM Punk returning to AEW
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This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
April 24, 2023 Observer Newsletter: CM Punk scheduled to return to AEW, big event updates
Highlights include:
*Update on C.M. Punk. AEW's new television deal, issues a Saturday show has to deal with and pluses of a Saturday show
*Lots of news on WWE & AEW major shows the next few months, including All In, SummerSlam, Double or Nothing and Backlash.
*Nick Khan talks the WWE/UFC merer and what it means, upcoming negotiations, how Endeavor can help WWE grow, WWE budget cuts and more
*Full coverage of AAA TripleMania, the good, the bad, the angles and more
*Full coverage of New Japan's U.S. tour in Washington, DC and Philadelphia
*Ted DiBiase Jr. indicted on 13 counts in welfare fraud cause, and updates on it
*Full coverage of Saturday's UFC show
*The most detailed look at the TV ratings from the past week, including where wrestling ranks with sports an with entertainment programing, competition, segment by segment, comparisons with last year and more
*Continuation of the CMLL champion of champions tournament
*Mercedes Mone in Japan, negotiation updates, her comments on Japan and more
*Details of the biggest women's show in Japan in decades this weekend at the Yokohama Arena
*Ticket sale update on the show
*Cinderella tournament finals
*Champion Carnival update
*Notes on major NOAH show
*Will Ospreay talks future
*John Morrison's boxing debut and comments form that
*Lots of notes on he death of Butch Miller
*Bill Goldberg and a retirement tour
*Abdullah the Butcher and financial issues
*NCAA looking at changes to wrestling rules and scoring and why
*Concert/wrestling joint promotions
*Major European show this weekend loaded with top international stars
*Impact major show rundown
*Lots of fallout to C.M. Punk returning to AEW
*Great lesson for AEW wen getting a big sports lead-in going forward
*Lots of injury updates
*Advanced ticket sales for WWE & AEW upcoming show
*Streaming numbers for WWE & AEW
*International TV ratings
*What milestone did Raw achieve this past week
*What milestone did AEW achieve this past week
*Lots of new UFC major fights
*What were the most in-demand sports tickets so far in 2023
*Former UFC fighter arrested in a $200,000 burglary
*More details on the new WWE Twitch deal
*WWE performer goes into another major sports competition next week and attempts to make the 2024 Olympic team
*Notes on two WWE signees that a betting site already has odds that one of them will be world champion by 2027
*Notes on all the WWE live events on the road over the past week
This Week's Retro Observer Newsletter:
March 8, 2006 Observer Newsletter: Big months ahead for pro wrestling, WWE details new substance abuse policy
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Sunday Update
We did a show on Saturday that a lot of people have praised to us with Pat Laprade and Garrett Gonzales talking Andre the Giant, Bruno Sammartino , the Vince McMahon book, Dino Bravo and more. Bryan and I will be back tonight talking all the news from the weekend including more on Sammartino, Nate Diaz and Stardom.
I haven't seen the Stardom show in its entirety but a lot of people have talked about it as show of the year. It was easily the biggest show in the history of the company. Mercedes Mone was heavily praised by those backstage and it has been noted she signed an extension and will remain with Bushiroad although we don't have details on the length of the extension yet. But her next show will be 5/21 in Long Beach, CA at the Walter Pyramid.
We're looking for your thoughts on the Stardom show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
The Tank Davis vs. Ryan Garcia boxing match last night, won by Davis, was gigantic with the general public. It got 3.5 million searches on Google which with how they do it now, is an unreal number. That's ten times WrestleMania for a comparison. Aside from Climate Change, it's the most searched for topic for a one day period of anything in April. The only other stuff related to boxing, wrestling or MMA that cracked the Google lists were yesterday with Nate Diaz at No. 18 due to the brawl and Sergei Pavloivich at No. 19, both at 50,000. Pavlovich won the UFC main event over Curtis Blaydes yesterday.
Jeff Shell, the CEO at NBCU, was forced out of the company after an investigation of what was called an inappropriate workplace relationship was finished. Shell today said today was his last day with the company due to an inappropriate relationship with a women and said "I'm truly sorry I let my Comcast and NBCUniversal colleagues down, they are the most talented people in the business and the opportunity to work with them the last 19 years has been a privilege. Mike Cavanagh, the President of Comcast, will now run NBCU Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast, said "We built this company on a culture of integrity. Nothing is more important than how we treat each other."
Nate Diaz was in a brawl Friday night on Boubron Street in Las Vegas after a boxing match that Chris Avila, a teammate, was in that night. Here is the footage. The person Diaz allegedly choked out in that brawl, Rodney Petersen, who resembles Logan Paul to the point that some thought it was Logan Paul choked out. Petersen vowed to knock Diaz out the next time he sees him.
We're looking for reports from tonight's WWE house show in Toledo, OH and today's 1PW show in Doncaster, England to [email protected]
Kevin Owens appeared to injure his ankle last night in Fort Wayne, IN. It came during an Owens & Sami Zayn vs. Usos tag team title match. We're not sure where but multiple people brought up that it was hurt during the match, he was limping and needed help to the back. He did come back, still limping, for the Cody Rhodes vs Solo Sikoa main event. We've heard nothing official on whether it was storyline or legit at this point. We'll probably know if it's serious based on if he works in Toledo tonight.
Results from last night in Fort Wayne, IN:
Ricochet b Ivar
Shotzi b Sonya Deville
Sheamus b Karrion Kross
Sami Zayn & Kevin Oewns b Usos to keep the tag titles when Zayn countered the 1-D into a sunset flip for the pin
LA Knight b Mustafa Ali – Ali played babyface
Natalya b Shayna Baszler
Cody Rhodes b Solo Sikoa in a match where the Usos interfered after a ref bump but Owens & Zayn attacked the Usos (thanks to Dean Michael Theriaul)
UFC officially announced Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Pena for the women's bantamweight title on 6/10 in Vancouver, BC. Aside from scattered singles, the show sold out as soon as tickets were put on sale to the public on Friday.
TNT will be airing a documentary on the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker on their TV show "Rich & Shameless." No date was announced for the airing past it being in May.
The WWE is claiming Tuesday at the 60th anniversary of the WWE championship, claiming the first champion, Buddy Rogers, was champion on April 25, 1963. That's the date they are using. The actual story is that Buddy Rogers was NWA world champion and on January 24 , 1963, in Toronto, the NWA, over the dissent of Vince McMahon Sr., ordered Rogers to drop the title to Lou Thesz, which happened. McMahon quit the NWA and continued to recognize Rogers as champion. His idea was just to pretend the match in Toronto never happened. But the media would not go along with that. Then he claimed Rogers beat Argentina Rocca in March in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in a fictitious match, to become the world champion so that's well before the April date. There are historians who can give a week by week on it. On May 17, 1963, Rogers lost what was called the WWWF title to Bruno Sammartino in Madison Square Garden.
WWE will have two WWE Rivals shows on A&E tonight. The season for Biography ended last week with the Iron Sheik and Rivals ends tonight. At 9 p.m., it'll be Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart and at 10 p.m. will be Austin vs Shawn Michaels.
This is the announced lineup for the Raw tour of Europe which is Wednesday in Birmingham, England, Thursday in Manchester, England, Friday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Saturday in Paris, France: Cody Rhodes vs. Finn Balor, Bianca Belair vs. Bayley vs Asuka, Austin Theory vs. Bobby Lashelym, Seth Rollins vs. Miz, Dolph Ziggler vs. Daman Priest, Dexter Lumis vs. Bronson Reed, Chad Gable & Otis vs. Maximum Male Models and Rick Goobs vs Baron Corbin.
Rampage on 5/5 will air at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time and likely 2:30 p.m. Pacific due to sports on TNT.
Defy announced a show on 8/26 in London at the Electric Ballroom. This will be at Noon, the day before the AEW show at Wembley Stadium. Progress will also do a show at 4 p.m. in the same building. RevPro will be doing a show that day as well.
United Wrestling Coalition on Saturday night at the American Legion in New Egypt, NJ.
LFA announced events on 6/16 in Owensboro, KY at the Owensboro Sportscenter and 6/23 in Commerce, CA at the Commerce Casino. Both air on UFC Fight Pass.
Pro Wrestling Revolver on 5/6 in Clive, IA has Jon Moxley vs. Jake Crist, ami Callihan vs. Masha Slanvoich, Steve Maclin vs. Mike Bailey, Alex Shelle vs. Shigehiro Irie, David Finlay & Chris Bey & Ace Austin vs. Trey Miguel & Zachary Wejtz & Myron Red, Lince Dorado vs Rocky Romero, Rich Swann vs El Phantasmo vs Cas Jaxon vs. Damian Chambers and JT Dunn & Allie Katch vs. Jessicak & Matthew Palmer, plus Marina Shafir, Jake Manning, Steve Mands, Mathew Justice and Mance Warner and an appearance by Molly Holl.
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