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November 11, 2024 Observer Newsletter: WWE Crown Jewel recap, TKO financials, Wrestle Kingdom gets its main event
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer is up on the site right now. It was a huge news week as it's the largest issue in some time:
Full coverage of Crown Jewel with the matches, business and interest levelThoughts on the programs going forwardTKO gives its quarterly business updateWhy profits are lower than usual.UFC's media rights deal thoughtsTalk about the future of Fight PassRevenue for UFC & WWE in different categoriesStock valueHow much debt TKO currently hasHow the Cung Le lawsuit factors into all thisMore on the show at SphereThoughts about Dana White and/or Nick Khan getting involved with boxing from Mark ShapiroMore Netflix plansA look at the Wrestle Kingdom lineupWhere New Japan's business currently standsUpcoming New Japan tag team tournament notesPower Struggle coverage, great matches and anglesNXT and AEW go head-to-head, the most detailed breakdown as to what happened and whyWhere AEW stood in the overall standings that nightHow every quarter didCoverage of the Conor McGregor trial going onUpdate on Full Gear, announced matches, other matches, ticket buying interestNotes on WWE cuts like Baron Corbin, Indi Hartwell and Tegan Nox.Dragon Gates runs a major showThe most detailed look at the ratings for all the shows this past week, with standings for the night and week, segment-by-segment numbers, and all the competition.CMLL to fill the historical middleweight title vacancy by Mistico this weekArena Mexico draws the week's largest crowd for themed showUpdate on El Hijo del VikingoStardom tag team tournament updateKing of Gate tournament updateDavey Boy Smith Jr. wins Triple Crown and background of thatDeath of Scorpio Jr.Hall of Fame candidate health issue updateThe life of AWA's Al DeRushaCan actual wrestling draw more than 40,000 each to six events over three days. 2028 we'll get the chance to find out.Marko Stunt talks retirementSanto retirement tour noesMike Mansury talks AEW production changes for 2025All the PPV business updatesRicochet talks leaving WWEInternational TV ratings and streaming numbersJon Jones talks Tom Aspinall and why he's not interested in that ightMore on the Bruce Prichard and Michael Hayes leave of absencesWWE scheduling updatesYoshhiki Inamura comes to NXTWWE signs former Olympic athletesLots of WWE injury updatesNotes from all the live arena events and the European tour
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Our weekend show with Garrett Gonzales discussing all the news, including where AEW needs to improve for competition, Wednesday head-to-head, Tyson vs. Paul, and answering a lot of questions, is up. Bryan and I will be back tonight covering the weekend and Hall of Fame news.The Hall of Fame Observer issue will be out Thursday night. The issue will have a giant breakdown and story, with nine new inductees this year and notes on how they got in, favorites for next year, and more.A thought as I was writing up this issue. Although people will make their marks over the next few years, what current wrestlers who have never been on the ballot could be expected to be contenders or Hall of Famers? There's the obvious one, but really only one. There is a second who I can see a case for. Usually, there would be a half dozen or more. You either have young guys who maybe in 5-10 years will break out or people who have already been on the ballot. NXT on Tuesday has Fallon Henley vs. Kelani Jordan, Cedric Alexander vs. Wes Lee, Cora Jade vs. Sol Ruca, and Adrianna Rizzo vs. Nikkita Lyons. Ava will also make an announcement about the NXT Tag Team titles. There will be Iron Survivor qualifiers on the show.AEW on Wednesday has Adam Page & Christian Cage vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson, Konosuke Takeshita vs. Adam Cole non-title, Roderick Strong vs. Lance Archer falls count anywhere, Swerve Strickland vs. Lio Rush, plus appearances by Jon Moxley, Will Ospreay, Bobby Lashley and Mina Shirakawa.Raw on Monday has Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair defending the tag titles against Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez. They will also do an angle to set up Gunther vs. Damian Priest.Reinier de Ridder, who was a champion at both middleweight and light heavyweight at ONE, before leaving, debuted yesterday for UFC and submitted Gerald Meerschaert in the third round. He ripped on ONE after his fight, saying how stressful it was and how hard it was to get fights. He said he had some good years at the beginning but "Over the past couple of years, it's been really bad." He said, "This is something I feel I have to do for other fights. If you're thinking of signing with ONE Championship, don't ."The only heavily recommended matches to me the last few days are Gabe Kidd vs Kosei Fujita from Friday in Lowell, MA, which I heard was great, and Moose vs. Mike Bailey on the Thursday night TNA Impact show.Major League Wrestling's big show from Chicago wasn't able to be streamed live. MLW will be streaming the show tonight at 8 p.m.Eastern I heard the key CMLL bouts that you think would be good like Mistico vs. Titan vs. Averno were very good.We're looking for reports from last night's MLW show, as well as the Friday and Saturday night TNA tapings in Fayetteville, NC to [email protected] is offering a free month of TNA+ if you enter the code TNAFREE.Lisa Varon was on Svengoolie last night. If you didn't know, Svengoolie (Rich Koz) is a big-time wrestling fan, and an Observer reader for decades.No update on Dragon Kid after his injury on Thursday past he didn't appear this week. He's not expected to wrestle next week but wasn't hurt seriously.DDT vs. Defy from last night in Seattle: Gringo Loco b Yuni, Nick Wayne b Jack Cartwheel, Cody Chhun & Guillermo Rosas kept the Defy tag titles in a three-way over Bryan Keith & Shota and Eddie Pearl & Ricky Gibson, Marina Shafir b Dannika Della Rouge to keep the Def women's title, The Bollywood Boz b Daisuke Sasaki & Artemis Spencer, Konosuke Takshita b Kohei Kinoshita, Miyu Yamashita won the DDT Universal title over champion Mao and Mike Bailey in a three-way. All Japan opened its tag team tournament yesterday at Korakuen Hall: B block: Kuroshio Tokyo Japan & Seigo Tachibana b Cyrus & Harley JacksoniA block: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo b Hokuto Omori & Kuma ArashiB block: Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe b Hikaru Sato & Yuko MiyamotoA block: Rei & Jun Saito b Makoto Oishi & Mike D VecchioB block: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. b Suwama & Hideki SuzukiFrom the New Japan show on Friday, Ryohei Oiwa got a big win over KENTA to set up his shot at Gabe Kidd for the Strong title. Yota Tsuji did an angle to face Jack Perry on 1/5 at the Tokyo Dome. West Coast Wrecking Crew will be getting a shot at new Strong tag champs the Grizzled Young Vets soon The big story was the announcement of Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shingo Takagi on the 1/4 Tokyo Dome show, which is AEW International champion vs. Never champion and has a good shot at being a match of the year candidate.
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