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WWE Raw ratings steady against strong NBA competitionTrinity reveals her Impact Wrestling scheduleWWE on A&E ratings down from season premieresSavio Vega credits Bad Bunny & Damian Priest for WWE Backlash appearanceKenny Omega calls Jon Moxley 'the MVP of AEW'NXT faction reunites on WWE RawWWE Raw video highlights: Seth Rollins advances to Night of ChampionsWOR Video: The rules don't apply to Brock LesnarFirst matches set for NJPW/AJPW/NOAH All Together AgainWomen's Tag Team title match announced for next week's WWE RawSeth Rollins advances to WWE World Heavyweight Championship finalsBecky Lynch returns on WWE Raw, attacks Trish StratusWWE reveals bracket for NXT Women's title tournamentBrock Lesnar challenges Cody Rhodes for WWE Night of ChampionsImpact Wrestling to debut in Australia this summer
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This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
May 8, 2023 Observer Newsletter: AEW All In ticket sales shattering records, 2023 WWE Draft results
Highlights include:
*Match of the week and performer of the week
*AEW All In sets records, and looking at the biggest crowds in pro wrestling history and how this compares, what we've earned about ticketing, what records are within reach and what records are not, as well as the biggest crowds ever in Europe and a man named Jim Londos.
*Evaluating the WWE draft. We look at the depth charts of both brands, questions being asked, will the brand split really be what they say (of course it won't long run), looking at the NXT talent brought up and more.
*A look at WWE business including heavy quotes from Nick Khan and Paul Levesque on the current state of the business, how much WWE is looking a cutting with the merger with UFC, Khan talks about working under Endeavor.
*Levesque talks the booking of talent
*WrestleMania business notes
*How many people watch Raw or Smackdown on a weekly basis, and the number is far more than you think
*Plans for another major overseas event on hold
*WWE Backlash notes
*Looking at the last three months of wrestling numbers and how it compares with television as a whole
*New Japan Dontaku full coverage as well as the next month of New Japan major shows
*Gable Steveson and others who have done pro wrestling and then gone back to amateur wrestling including the top worker of the 80s who the Olympics banned from competing due to an archaic rule
*Full Saturday UFC coverage
*Pro Wrestling NOAH runs Sumo Hall and the matches and angles
*The most detailed look at pro wrestling ratings, as well s where the changes were, competition and what can be learned from them
*CMLL Champion of Champions tournament
*Major League baseball players go to Arena Mexico
*Unique new idea for running pro wrestling shows explained and talks of it going t the U.S.
*Why a world title recently changed hands
*A new jump that hasn't happened but essentially is about to
*Champion Carnival tournament goes to the finals
*Will Ospreay's future
*70s and 80s star returning to the ring
*Vikingo goes to Australia
*Lots of changes coming to AEW
*Update on plans for the new and revamped AEW television plans
*Hire of Will Washington
*Update on Double or Nothing show
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*Lots of competition of AEW next week
*DVR viewership of AEW
*Advance ticket sales for WWE and AEW shows
*Jon Jones talks future
*Lots of new UFC fights
*Bare Knuckle Boxing business notes
*Bare Knuckle MMA shows coming
*More on gold medalist signing with WWE
*Other gold medalists WWE has signed over the years
*WWE star headed to realty competition show
*Injury updates
*Writer talks about the WWE culture
*International TV numbers and streaming numbers
This Week's Retro Observer Newsletter:
March 20, 2006 Observer Newsletter: TNA Impact loses primetime slot, pro wrestling interest decline
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Tuesday UpdateWWEThe New York Post is reporting that ESPN is the leading candidate for Pat McAfee’s daily show, as he’s considering leaving his FanDuel deal.Bad Bunny showed pictures of his bruised back following his match at Backlash.Judge Mark T. Pittman on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice a case in which WWE was sued by a WrestleMania 38 attendee after they allegedly suffered hearing loss at the event.Tiffany Stratton’s NXT theme is now on YouTube.Matches added to WWE’s YouTube today include Seth Rollins vs. Batista from the May 9, 2014 episode of Raw, Roman Reigns vs. Erick Rowan from Clash of Champions 2019, and Theory vs. Cody Rhodes from the May 9, 2022 edition of Raw.AEWThis week’s AEW Road to, which focuses on the steel cage match between Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley.The New York Post has an article on AEW’s All In ticket success. A director’s cut of The Firm Deletion is now on YouTube.KVUE talked to Ricky Starks ahead of AEW’s return to Austin, Texas on May 17.On May 4, Nigel McGuiness filed to trademark his in-ring name.This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.Other WrestlingValerie Coleman, the wife of Superstar Billy Graham, provided the following update on his health on Facebook: “The doctors are continuing to try and prepare me for the worst. And I continue to explain to them that Wayne and I are people of faith and that our God has the final say. I am not in denial about what’s happening to him or blind to what the medical reports say…I just know that the God I serve is greater than any infection and more powerful than any organ failure. Please pray specifically for his blood cultures to come back clear and for his blood pressure to stabilize. At this time they are providing support to prevent his pressure from plummeting and the fact that his cultures continue to be positive is one of the main reasons they are not very optimistic. They think he may have a heart infection but the test that would confirm that is too dangerous for him. All things are possible with God and there is power when believers come into agreement together. Prayer is incredibly powerful and we need all of your prayers. With my whole heart I give thanks to God for each of you and I am grateful beyond words for you all.”Carlito on Twitter following his cameo at WWE Backlash: “Well….looks like my Indy booking price just went up!!”NJPW interviewed Dan Moloney, who will participate in the upcoming Best of the Super Juniors tournament.