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- Drew Gulak announced for first post-WWE indie appearance
- Subscriber exclusive: Dave Meltzer’s wrestling ratings insight for week of 5/20
- Matt Menard taking over for Chris Jericho on AEW Rampage commentary team
- Rey Mysterio hoping Mexico hosts WWE PLE within next three years
- Liv Morgan appearance announced for WWE Raw
- WWE SmackDown video highlights: AJ Styles addresses his future
- Jon Moxley vs. EVIL lumberjack death match official for NJPW Dominion
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- Wrestling Observer Live: WWE SmackDown thoughts, a talk with DEFY’s Matt Farmer
- Wrestling Observer Radio: Steve Keirn interview, AEW business notes
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
This is a huge issue covering all of the latest news in-depth:
- Why the Janel Grant lawsuit against Vince McMahon is on hold including reaction from lawyers on both sides and an independent lawyer looks at what the breaking news means.
- AEW negotiations with WBD and how they are going. The most detailed look at the state of the negotiations, what is and isn’t involved in the talks, how streaming fits in, opening it up for other companies to bid and much more. Plus we detail how the international wrestling marketplace changes that are relevant to AEW’s bottom line.
- Full coverage of Double or Nothing, key angles, storylines, direction, Forbidden Door, business numbers, Adam Copeland injury, Owen Hart tournament, history of repeating stadium shows, and world title at All In.
- More business notes from WrestleMania weekend.
- Full King and Queen of the Ring coverage, business notes, PPV, other interest level measurements and crossover purchasers with other events.
- A look at the life and career of David “Silento” Rodriguez, a deaf wrestler who had a long career.
- The most detailed look at the ratings from the past week, including rankings, comparisons with a year ago, demo numbers, competition and how segments did individually.
- FantasticaMania Mexico
- Big AAA main feud
- Update on TripleMania
- Great Triple Crown match
- New Japan business note
- Super Juniors tournament
- Giulia update
- Hawaiian wrestling history
- Progress Strong Style 16 tournament
- MLW strategy change this week
- Changes in TNA
- Notes on AEW departures
- Notes on AEW injuries
- Young Bucks shoe business
- Advance ticket sales for upcoming AEW & WWE events
- Major UFC show coming to ABC
- Rousey says why she doesn’t go to UFC events
- Lots of WWE contract updates
- WWE firings
- WrestleMania documentary updates
- International TV ratings
This week’s Wresting Observer Newsletter back issue
- January 22, 2007 Observer Newsletter: 2006 Observer Awards issue
Saturday Update
WWE
- The front page of WWE.com was “taken over” today with the latest tease for the debut of Uncle Howdy’s faction. A message was posted warning that a massacre is coming. The URL for the message, “71enuj,” looks to be hinting at a June 17 debut. That date is a Monday.
- The full message can be read below:
- hello.
- I’d like to tell you a story.
- A story about value.
- We often equate value with utilization.
- That is not the case.
- If a piece of currency is crumpled, ignored, and tossed to the side, does it lose its value?
- Of course not.
- It is simply in the hands of the ignorant.
- We often devalue ourselves as a result of the ignorance of those around us.
- Their words define us.
- I have been guilty of this myself.
- I have let the expectations of others determine my self worth.
- But once I realized my calling, the words of the naysayers began to fall on deaf ears.
- I am nobody.
- I am all of us.
- When you free yourself from the preconceived ideas of others…from the LIES…you become
- liberated.
- I accepted my calling. Only then was I able to set the others free.
- We followed the Words of the Red and now we see.
- I offer you one last chance at redemption.
- It doesn’t have to be this way.
- The cave can no longer exist.
- We are going to burn it to the ground.
- A massacre is coming.
- 168 / 197
- On Busted Open Radio, Mark Henry praised the “unbelievable job” AJ Styles did in his fake retirement on SmackDown last night. The segment, which ended with Styles attacking Cody Rhodes, took inspiration from Henry’s fake retirement from 2013.
- Sonya Deville told Insight with Chris Van Vliet that she wants to have another match against Asuka:
- Asuka is one of my favorite opponents. We would have awesome matches down in NXT seven years ago, eight years ago on live events and road loops. And it was my favorite match to this day, but we never got an angle on TV. And then it would be like, I go to Raw – she goes to SmackDown. She goes to SmackDown – I go to Raw. And we just keep playing tag and not catching each other. So I was like, if I could paint the perfect picture, I would love to have like a two-three [segment] match with Asuka and just mess each other up.
- The NBA shared videos of Cody Rhodes, Bayley, Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill, and Grayson Waller & Austin Theory with the Larry O’Brien championship trophy.
- DIY, Indi Hartwell, and Legado Del Fantasma appeared on The SmackDown LowDown.
AEW/Other Wrestling
- TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace revealed on Busted Open Radio this week that she’ll be issuing an open challenge for her title at TNA Against All Odds. The event is being held in Cicero, Illinois on Friday, June 14.
- A change has been made to the card for All Together Sapporo. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Naomichi Marufuji vs. SANADA & Yuya Uemura had originally been announced for the June 15 show. Now, Kento Miyahara will team with Tanahashi & Marufuji against SANADA, Uemura & Taichi.
- Fan voting is now open to determine the stipulation for Uemura and Great-O-Khan’s KOPW Championship match at NJPW Dominion.
- During an appearance on The Von Erichs Podcast, Goldberg took a shot at Bret Hart, referring to him as “the moron I kicked in the head.”
- Marshall & Ross Von Erich did a live Q&A with their father Kevin Von Erich.
- TMZ Sports conducted an interview with Mercedes Mone.
- Will Ospreay tweeted that, while doing a Warner Bros. studios private tour yesterday, he “nearly got ran over by a golf cart with Harrison Ford.” Ospreay called it the highlight of his day.
- Mike Santana will make his Bloodsport debut at Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XI in Brooklyn on Sunday, July 28.
- Arkady Aura was the guest on AEW Unrestricted this week. She’s the newest ring announcer and backstage interviewer for AEW.
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a story on actor Paul Walter Hauser ahead of him competing in MLW Battle Riot VI tonight.
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