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This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter

July 10, 2023 Observer Newsletter Roman Reigns pinned at WWE Money in the Bank, Droz passes away

In this issue:

Match and Performer of the WeekThe Bloodline saga comes very close to a first in the history of pro wrestling on televisionA look at the Trial of Roman Reigns, the Reigns vs. Usos feud, and the storyline that has caused WWE business to growA preview of all the big matches of the weekend in three different countries, none of which are the U.S., with TripleMania, G-1, Miyahara vs. Nakajima and CollisionUpdated news on SummerSlam and Great American Bash and business notes on both showsThe new AEW rules memo, what is and isn't new and the reality of what this means to talentFull coverage of UFC 290 with two of the best fights of the year, a unique television situation and two title boutsLooking at the 2023 Wrestler of the Year award and the top candidatesFrancis Ngannou vs. Tyson Fury, the questions about the show and why the hope for it to be a success is the evolution of understanding fighting being lowThe most detailed look at the ratings of every major pro wrestling and MMA show of the past week, the analysis, competition, segment numbers and comparisons with one year agoLots of injury talks regarding major starsKey husband and wife jumping promotionsMercedes Mone rivalry plannedUpdate on major sports rights negotiations in the next few yearsThe death of Michael Halac, the former Bruiser Mastino and MantaurWrestling magazine pioneer writer Ed Garea, The Phantom of the Ring, passes awayNotes on the new women's promotionRevPro Epic Encounters rundownBattle of the two best 18-year-old wrestlers in the world announced for next monthTicket sales for tons of big showsKenny Omega talks the Tiger driver spotInternational TV ratingsLots of new major UFC fightsLooking at the vacant UFC light heavyweight title situationWorld champion in UFC talks about how two years ago he supplemented his income driving for Uber EatsMore major show dates fr WWEBackstage issue at WWEA look at all the major TV shows and WWE weekend show coverage

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May 16, 2006 Observer Newsletter: Pride Total Elimination Absolute, Jim Cornette

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Friday Update

We did a very lively show today with Larry Dallas and Garrett Gonzales talking TripleMania, Lucha Libre, All In, Kenny Omega and tons of other subjects. Bryan and I will be back Sunday to talk about perhaps the biggest single 24 hour period of potentially great matches in recent memory which will be from 1 a.m. Pacific to 1 a.m. Pacific late Friday to late Saturday.

Smackdown tonight in Raleigh has more on the Bloodline story plus Asuka vs. Bianca Belair for the women's title and the first round of a tournament with the winner getting a shot at Austin Theory's U.S. title. I expect Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso as the SummerSlam main event becomes official tonight. They had 11,400 tickets out as of this morning so this will be close to sold out.

Rampage at 10 p.m. Eastern tonight on TNT

Dustin Rhodes & Keith Lee vs. Angelo Parker & Matt MenardTaya Valkyrie vs. Izzy McQueenLance Archer vs. Trent BarettaKonosuke Takeshita vs. MentalloAthena vs. Willow Nightingale in the Owen Hart Cup

The crazy Saturday of big matches is in the new issue of the Observer that dropped today.

Ric Flair's new energy drink "Woooo! Energy" has now been released.

WrestleTix has noted that the WWE's upcoming Raw in Ontario, CA on 9/25 is already almost sold out and the next London house show is also almost sold out.

We're looking for reports on these weekend shows

Smackdown tonight in Raleigh, NC (dark matches only)

GCW tonight in New YorkAEW in Calgary (only the ROH tapings and dark matches)WWE house show tomorrow in Fairfax, VAWWE Sunday in Salisbury, MD

We're looking for results, finishes, highlights and other notes on the shows to [email protected]

The GCW show in New York tonight is sold out with Utami Hayashishita vs, LuFisto, Blake Christian vs. Mao, Komander vs. Gringo Loco vs. Arez and Matt Cardona & Steph De Lander vs. Effy & Allie Katch.

First day ticket sales for Fastlane on 10/7 in Indianapolis today topped 6,200. (thanks to WrestleTix)

WWE announced 7/22 at Arena Ciudad in Mexico City has Roman Reigns vs. Rey Mysterio for the WWE Universal title, Cody Rhodes vs. Damian Priest and Seth Rollins vs. Dominik Mysterio for the World title. 7/23 at Arena Monterrey is Rhodes vs. Priest, Rollins vs. Dominik and Asuka vs. Bianca Belair vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch for the WWE women's title.

We'll be doing weekend polls on day one and two of G-1, Impact in Windsor, ONT and TripleMania, thumbs up, down or middle, best and worst matches to [email protected]

The Cavinder Twins teased another WWE appearance while at the Espy Awards on Wednesday. Hanna Cavinder told USA Today Sports, "We have another event we're going to soon, so we're super excited about it. Yeah, stay tuned."

UFC will run from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow on ESPN and ESPN+

Ashlee Evans-Smith (135.5) vs. Allin Perez (135.5)Alex Munoz (155.5) vs. Carl Deaton (156)Tyson Nam (126) vs. Azat Maksum (126)Eva Elder (156) vs. Genaro Valdez (156)Austin Lingo (145.5) vs. Melquiazael Costa (146)Viktoriya Dudakova (116) vs. Istela Nunes (115.5)Tucker Lutz (146) vs. Melsik Baghdasaryan (145.5)Nazim Sadykhov (156) vs. Terrance McKinney7y (156)Norma Dumont (145.5) vs. Chelsea Chandler (145.5)Albert Duraev (185) vs. Jun Yong Park (186)Ottman Azaitar (156) vs. Francisco Prado (156)Jack Della Maddalena (171) vs. Bassil Hafez (171)Holly Holm (135.5) vs. Mayra Bueno Silva (136)

G-1 starts at 4 am ET tomorrow morning from Sapporo:

YOSHI-HASHI vs. El PhantasmoChase Owens vs. Gabriel KiddKENTA vs. Tanga LoaRen Narita vs. Shota UminoKazuchika Okada vs. Great O'KhanKaito Kiyomiya vs. Yota TsujiWill Ospreay vs. TaichiSanada vs. Hikuleo

Koji Miyamoto just published a new book called Inoki History Vol. 1 that came out last month. Volume 2 comes out in August and Volume three comes out in October.

OTHER NOTES

Combate Global has a Sunday show starting at 9 p.m. Eastern and 6 p.m. Pacific on Paramount + in English and Univision in Spanish. The show is billed as Mexico vs. USA with a featherweight main event of Roberto Romero (6-2-1) vs. Justin Vazquez (10-2).

Pro Wrestling Eve on Sunday at the Yard Theater in Hackney Wick in London has Alex Windsor vs.. Nightshade, Rhio vs. Regina Rosendahl and Session Moth Martina vs. Skye Smitson. They are also running 8/26 at the Yard Theater with the first Choco Pro from Japan show ever in the U.K.

KSW has a show tomorrow from the Polsat Plus Arena in Gdynia, Poland with Phil De Fries (23-6) defending the heavyweight title against Szymon Bajor (24-9). The show is available on www.KSWTV.com

The city of Windsor, ONT declared yesterday as Impact Wrestling day

Slammiversary odds from BetOnline

Alex Shelley -120Nick Aldis -120Trinity -500Deonna Purrazzo +300Chris Sabin -1000Lio Rush +500Joe Hendry -140Kenny King +110Chris Bey & Ace Austin -400Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster +400Moose & Brian Myers +550Rich Swann & Sami Callihan +600Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly -250The Coven +175Mike Bailey +150Angels +250Jonathan Gresham +250Kushida +250Kevin Knight +650Eddie Edwards -140Frankie Kazarian +100

Wrestlecon is doing a Destination Detroit event on 8/4 and 8/5 with Sting, Bret Hart, Lex Luger, Ron Simmons, Ted DiBiase, Honky Tonk Man, Nailz, Sgt. Slaughter, IRS, Boogeyman, Zach Gowen and Brandi Rhodes.

Lash Leroux makes his GCW debut on 9/1 in Chicago. Also on that show will be Nick Gage, El Hijo del Vikingo, Maki Itoh, Rina Yamashita and Blake Christian.