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• The Life of Vince McMahon and the Netflix Documentary. This is a long story about the documentary, my reactions, more details on the various stories talked about, comments from Vince McMahon, Bill Simmons, Ann Callis, things we learned, what was incorrect and what wasn't, and reviews.
• Find out more about what the latest settlement in the Cung Le lawsuit against UFC entails, how many fighters will get more if the judge agrees to it, and what happens next if the judge doesn't.
• A note on Bad Blood and Wrestle Dream, the interest levels of both and the map update.
• How WWE and AEW's audiences have changed over the last year in terms of income, collective reputation and viewer age. Which shows saw the biggest income growth last year?
• The most detailed look at last week's ratings, evening and week rankings, competition, segment-by-segment numbers and more.
• The upcoming Women's World Grand Prix show.
• Wrestling star accused of kidnapping his son
• Toni Storm returns to Japan.
• All Jaan's 48th World Tag League
• Thoughts on the Queen of Villains
• El Hijo del Santo retirement tour
• Tony Khan talks more about business
• Fenix ​​and Penta update
• International TV ratings and streaming numbers
• Ricochet talks last week
• Advance ticket sales for upcoming WWE and AEW shows
• More UFC show notes at The Sphere
• Changes to WWE television in 2025

This week's previous edition of the Wrestling Observer newsletter

Sunday update

– Bryan and I will be back tonight to talk about the weekend's wrestling news and provide a rundown of the biggest shows. We have a lot of audio on the site because Garrett and I did three shows primarily on the McMahon documentary on Netflix. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes coverage, the making of the documentary, in-depth information about the stories covered, and more.

– Just as CW aired the WrestleMania documentary last night in a direct duel with Collision, they will air it on October 12th. on Saturday evening from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. a repeat of NXT will be broadcast in a direct duel with AEW WrestleDream. (Thanks to Paul Verlander)

– WWE house show notes from last night in Columbus, GA (thanks to Lenny Levine)

• Jey Uso b Bron Breakker retains the IC title
• Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill b. Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn retain the women's tag titles
• Bayley vs. Nia Jax via DQ in a WWE women's title match
• Damien Priest & Rhea Ripley from Karrion Kross & Scarlett
• Gunther and Ilja Dragunov retain the world title (supposedly a great match)
• Wyatt's b American Made
• Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa vs. Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa via DQ in a tag title match
• Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles retain the WWE Championship

– After FOX put out a press release last week that subtly criticized WWE, not by name, but by saying that the football game on the 20th did 81 percent better than the program they had in the time slot last year, Today's Fast Nationals were released by the press release A usual source claims that SmackDown beat FOX Football head-to-head despite the network advantage. Since the ratings aren't released until tomorrow, they used Fast Nationals without mentioning them, and forgetting about Fast Nationals for live sports is misleading because they often don't include the end of the game and always don't include West Coast viewership figures Live sporting event. The actual numbers will be released tomorrow afternoon. Also, the game they were talking about featured Washington, a West Coast team.

– Collision had some strange production issues last night. There was a mistimed commercial break, a recorded segment that began and ended with Okada a few times, and a graphical listing of the segment numbers on the screen.

– We're looking for coverage from tonight's WWE house show in Huntsville, AL, with results, finishes and highlights sent to [email protected]

– Rich Eisen announced today that Pat McAfee will make a recurring appearance on NFL GameDay Morning on NFL Network.

– Hiromu Takahashi invited Mistico to a match for the King of Pro Wrestling show on October 14th. challenged at the Sumo Hall.

– Kayla Harrison has noted that if something happens that leaves either bantamweight champion Raquel Pennington or her challenger Julianna Pena unable to fight on next Saturday's UFC show, she has been told, even if it happens 30 seconds in advance , she was told that she is the backup and that she is taking over the fight. Harrison has her second UFC fight against Ketlen Vieira on Saturday, with the winner likely getting the next title shot.

– Some notes on weekend games I’ve heard about. Not a long list. The trio's opening game for the title at the Arena Mexico show on Friday was very good, but I haven't seen the rest of the show yet. I heard that Shingo Takagi vs. Henare for the Never title, Douki vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru for the IWGP Jr. title and David Finlay vs. Yoshi-Hashi for the Global title on today's Kobe show for New Japan all were great. The other match that received a lot of praise was tonight's DDT main event at the Korakuen Hall with Yuki Ueno & Mao & Kaisei Takeuchi (a mainstream star in his second match, a phenomenon in every sense of the word like Logan Paul) vs Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masaada & Masahiro Takanashi were also highly praised. Another fight we heard was very strong was Gunther vs. Ilja Dragunov and Cody Rhodes vs. AJ Styles from last night in Columbus, GA.

– Tomorrow's Raw in Evansville, IN: Bronson Reed vs. Braun Strowman as the final monster, Kofi Kingston vs. Chad Gable, Rey Mysterio vs. Xavier Woods and Domink Mysterio & Carlito & JD McDonah vs. Cruz Del Toro & Joaquin Wilde & Dragon lee

– XICW from last night in Clinton Township, MI: Solo b Alex Weir, AOD b KJ Reynolds, Great Tiger & Soultaker b CJ Cole & Noctambulo, Heather Blue b Stella Buho, Schwartzy DCOR Dre Jacobs, Malcolm Monroe III b Hoodfoot to keep the Midwest titles, Marcus Porter's TJ Meyer and Thomas Bailey and Royce Carney III, LaDon Sanders' Kyle Coleman, Devon Ryker's Aaron Orion, Mickie Knuckles' Randi West, Orlando Christopher's Tommy Vendetta win the Intense title, Jimmy Jacobs and Adam Wick & Maxximillian b DBA & Malcolm Monroe III & Caden Monroe (thanks to Leonard Brand)

– Former NHL star Darren McCarty of the Detroit Red Wings will return on October 19th. and 20.10. to attend the first Maple Leaf Pro weekend in Windsor, Ontario. McCarty has been working in the Indian region for some time and has also worked for TNA.

– Jeff Amdur, the Timekeeper or MCW, passed away last week. MCW announced that he served as timekeeper at the company's first-ever event in 1998. He also wrote notes for the shows in the early days of the Internet. (Thanks to Bob Magee)

– Joe Wilchak of Atlas Security, who worked events in Philadelphia since ECW, died Friday evening of lung cancer.

– Layla El talked about being open to a Royal Rumble cameo.

– Stalker Ichikawa, the long-time Dragon Gate guy who would quickly lose, announced that he would be at the 12/17 show. will retire to Korakuen Hall. He rarely wrestled this year.

– In an interesting statement, Yuji Nagata said at the New Japan show in Kobe last night that he feels this may be the last time he wrestles at the World Memorial Hall.