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This Week’s Wrestling Observer E-newsletter:
The brand new concern of the Observer is up on the location with these tales:
- The return of Vince McMahon, the gross sales talks, and the departure of Stephanie McMahon
- Who’s answerable for working the corporate proper now
- What Vince McMahon’s position is right this moment
- How Vince McMahon acquired again in energy
- A have a look at completely different entities who’ve expressed curiosity in WWE
- Can Tony Khan get management of WWE
- What sort of numbers are we speaking about for the deal
- What’s the present market worth of WWE
- The Saudi Arabia rumors
- How far did the rumors unfold
- What the expertise of the UFC sale in 2016 tells you about what is alleged publicly
- Notes from the assembly Stephanie McMahon, Frank Riddick and Nick Khan had with all the corporate workers
- If one thing occurs with Saudi Arabia, what can be the possible repercussions based mostly on earlier sports activities world examples
- What firms did Nick Khan convey as much as workers when speaking the sale
- Adjustments in WWE morale
- 2022 Enterprise yr in evaluate for professional wrestling, MMA and boxing main occasions
- Largest crowds of the yr
- Major eventers on high for essentially the most greatest crowds
- PPV numbers for the yr
- Who drew essentially the most 15,000+ crowds
- UFC gate numbers
- Record of $2 million gates
- Largest professional wrestling drawing card every year since 1916
- Largest drawing playing cards in historical past
- The altering of the media panorama and the way this results AEW and WWE
- Evaluation of the losses incurred by FOX on Smackdown by Morgan Stanley
- The profession of wrestler and promoter Johnny Powers, one of many greatest stars of the 60s and 70s
- The try to advertise nationally and what occurred
- How he acquired his first break with Bruno Sammartino
- A number of world title matches all over the world
- His runs with main promotions
- Being the star of the NWF
- How Powers figured into the early days of New Japan Professional Wrestling and his greatest matches there
- How Powers was promoted in Japan
- Powers and the Biggest 18 Membership
- Full protection of PWG Battle of Los Angeles with ideas on the exhibits, the place PWG stands, background of the looks of Chris Jericho, who it’s best to hold your eyes on and match-by-match protection
- A glance again on the profession of Black Warrior
- Essentially the most detailed have a look at the rankings from all of the exhibits this previous week in addition to segment-by-segment
- Mexican iconic character retiring
- Sting’s final match in Japan
- Main change in New Japan’s U.S. strategy
- Update on Sasha Banks/Mercedes Mone in New Japan with extra dates
- How Mercedes moved tickets for her first match
- A have a look at the foremost matches on the subsequent new Japan tour
- Celebrity Billy Graham well being replace
- TV announcer begins up selling new group
- The dying of the actual Bobby Heenan, and the way the professional wrestling legend discovered about his brother and his household
- Adam Cole’s return
- Kyle O’Reilly provides well being replace
- Streaming numbers for AEW and WWE
- Worldwide TV numbers
- Attendance for upcoming exhibits
- California legislators vital of Dana White
- Dana White talks at press convention about his scenario
- Bellator indicators maybe its high fighter
- Phil Baroni charged with murder and dealing with a lifetime in jail
- PFL pronounces new tournaments
- WWE tries to get issues faraway from the invention course of in MLW lawsuit
- How sluggish the courts could be on these conditions
- How a lot did Shane McMahon earn from WWE in 2022
- Former New Japan wrestler quietly began in WWE camp this week
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Sunday Update
UFC
My weekend present with Garrett Gonzales is up on the location now and I will be again with Bryan tonight protecting the weekend information. You may ship inquiries to the present to mailbag@wrestlingobserver.com
Concerning a observe from this previous week’s Observer relating to how rapidly issues change, we had been advised Vince McMahon was solely again relating to facilitating a sale and would not be within the workplace or making modifications, however that has already modified. Ringside Information first reported McMahon having been again within the workplace and suggesting modifications, and we have confirmed that story as effectively. Expertise was advised on Friday that Paul Levesque would stay answerable for inventive and Levesque threw out a state of affairs that Vince may make recommendations and he talks to a number of individuals about inventive they usually could make recommendations however he’s the man making the ultimate calls.
It is again to enterprise as typical in UFC. That they had the primary present and Dana White headed the press convention saying that Francis Ngannou is not with the corporate and that Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane face off for the heavyweight title on 3/4. White stated that Ngannou was provided extra money than any heavyweight in historical past (he most ever was Brock Lesnar who acquired $8 million for his final battle) to face Jones and threw the knock that Ngannou was on the lookout for simpler competitors. Final yr there was a number of discuss of Ngannou desirous to field Tyson Fury and his having the ability to get much more as a boxer, despite the fact that it is a battle he’d have little or no likelihood in. Ngannou vs. Jon Jones can be a giant battle that might be the most important PPV occasion UFC can placed on proper now. UFC needed to pay pretty massive to get Jones to signal for eight fights. Ngannou’s second transfer, if the primary one is Fury, can be attention-grabbing. It might really feel like the perfect transfer economically can be a return to UFC, however Bellator and PFL will surely not less than attempt to nab him. But when the asking value is greater than Lesnar, I do not see the way it makes financial sense.
In final night time’s UFC major occasion, Sean Strickland beat Nassourdine Imavov along with his dimension distinction. All three judges gave Strickland the primary 4 rounds and Imavov the fifth.
The controversial choice was Raquel Pennington over Ketlen Vieira. Bell gave Pennington the primary two rounds. Derek Cleary gave Pennington rounds two and three. Sal D’Amato gave Vieira one and three. However 87 % of media scores have been for Vieira.
So far as Google searches this weekend go, it is clearly dominated by soccer. The UFC was No. 6 yesterday however extra for the Ngannou, Jones and Gane information than the present itself.
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WWE from final night time in Roanoke, VA:
Candice LeRae b Bayley-DQ for interference by Io Sky and Dakota Kai in a fast match. Liv Morgan and Tegan Nox made the save resulting in:
Morgan & Nox & LeRae b Bayley & Sky & Kai
Omos b Mustafa Ali
Dolph Ziggler b Baron Corbin with a superkick
Dominik Mysterio b Butch
Drew McIntyre & Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows b Imperium
Dexter Lumis b Chad Gable. Otis tried to intrude and was thrown out
Charlotte Aptitude b Shayna Baszler to maintain the Smackdown ladies’s title
Austin Concept b Seth Rollins with the identical low blow end they have been doing for weeks. (due to Jason Gallo)
United Wrestling Community from final night time in Mesa, AZ: Clark Connors b Jakob Austin Younger, Midnight Warmth b Reno Scum to win the tag titles, Zeda Zhang b Danielle Kamela, Kevin Martenson b Davey Richards, Dangerous Dude Tito gained four-way over Shawn Dean, Joey Janela and Willie Mack, Peter Avalon b R3 Cassus, Alexander Hammerstone b Ortiz, Danny Limelight NC Eddie Kingston in a UWN title match, Invictus Khash gained a Rumble
Not a wrestling story, but a major WBD story is that the fourth season of Snowpiercer was canceled by TNT. It is a part of WBD cuts and it was the final remaining scripted tv collection on TNT. The choice had already been introduced this could be the final season of the present. (due to Mike Kuzmuk)
A story about Apollo Crews and the WWE’s tryouts in Nigeria next month.
FOX used each Paul Heyman and Nate Diaz on its broadcast of the San Francisco 49ers sport yesterday. Diaz did some pregame hype and Heyman lower a promo on Brock Purdy, the 49ers quarterback, being the subsequent massive factor.
Within the new Netflix film The Fall, through which two women are caught on high of a 2,000 toes tower, as one is about to go to sleep, the opposite one tries to make her keep awake by asking her what she was doing along with her lifeless as a child. She answered that they used to look at wrestling collectively and mentions her favourite wrestlers as Steve Austin, The Rock, Bautista after which requested what was Cactus Jack’s title with a masks after which remembered and stated Mankind. (due to Pat Laprade)
Jon Moxley appeared right this moment for Cavalcade of Customs in his dwelling metropolis of Cincinnati (due to Brian Henke)
Lance LeVine famous to us Freelance in Chicago had a extremely enjoyable present final night time on the Logan Sq. Auditorium, which was filled with virtually 600 followers to see Ricky Morton. The spotlight as native tag champs the Bang Bros who did some imitations of Sheamus strikes due to the Banger Bros title.
