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WON NEWSLETTER: May 10, 2021 Observer Newesletter: AEW Blood & Guts, NJPW Wrestling Dontaku recaps
Dave Meltzer recaps the AEW Blood and Guts special, both nights of NJPW’s Wrestling Dontaku.
Also in this issue:
Idea of War Games, Blood & Guts coverage, understanding the ratings and business notes.
Ospreay vs. Takagi, Dontaku coverage and New Japan COVID issues explained.
Notes on the upcoming AEW & WWE PPV shows.
Saturday’s UFC coverage.
The life of Randy Savage, what was and wasn’t covered by A&E, aspects that were and weren’t true.
AAA Rey de Reyes coverage and a major bout of international stars set up with Omega vs. Andrade.
Debut of a new promotion with lots of international stars coming to PPV.
Dragon Gate Dead or Alive coverage.
Lots of new info on exactly how people watch the major wrestling shows.
How many different people actually tuned in to see the different wrestling shows last week and why it’s far more than people realize.
Champion Carnival finals notes.
Hall of Famer returns to start new major promotion.
Story behind the Reigns vs. Bryan match.
More into detail on the ratings than any other source, how every segment on NXT and AEW did as well as how it did with different age groups, genders and more, plus a look at all other wrestling shows of the past week.
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Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week.
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MONDAY NEWS UPDATE
Bryan and I will be back with Wrestling Observer Radio tonight. We also have a Q&A show on Randy Savage and Brian Pillman up. You can send questions to tonight’s show to mailbag@wrestlingobserver.com
Raw tonight has Bobby Lashley vs. Drew McIntyre non-title, Riddle & Randy Orton & New Day vs. Elias & Jaxson Ryker & A.J. Styles & Omos as well as Charlotte Flair & Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax vs. Asuka & Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke. I hope somebody remembers that Jax was the one who “injured” Flair in the first place.
Velveteen Dream is backstage at Raw. No idea if he’s there for the show, but he hasn’t been around of late.
Drew McIntyre spoke with DAZN about a fight with Tyson Fury, saying: “He’s cutting promos on me the other day from Vegas. It’s pretty surreal to me. When I turn on my Twitter, and he does respond. It’s been over a year now that we’ve been going back and forth with each other. It gets people talking. I know there’s going to be a day where we finally make something happen. It’s going to be big, and ideally, I think it’s going to be in the UK.”
When asked more, he said, “Yeah, it helps my profile. But for me, it’s more about how we can draw new fans to WWE, and he has such a significant fan base with a different market. He’s such an entertainer. He has worked with us before, so he gets it. And somewhere like, say the UK, we’ve not had a significant pay-per-view in the UK since SummerSlam ‘92. A very long time. It deserves one. It would need something on top that’s larger than life. It can’t get more larger than life to take two of the UK’s most successful sons in their fields and have a Battle of Britain. I think they’re just the marquee itself. Obviously, I’d love to wrestle one of our guys and have the technical back and forth, 30-minute masterclass. This wouldn’t be the most technical thing in the world. It would be good. I think it would surprise people how good it would be. But just to get those new eyeballs on the product, to get that big UK show, and to make some new fans in the process. That would be pretty cool.”
He also said it’s happening: “00 percent I see it happening. I’ve got a vision of how I’d like to see it happen. I don’t make the decisions. That’s for others to talk about behind closed doors. But I know somewhere like the UK it would be huge business. I know for meeting Fury, watching him, and the way he went about things when he was here last time. He’s willing to put everything he’s got into it. With me, I know I can get a performance out of anybody on this planet. I know he’s willing to put in the work, and he’s such an entertainer on top of it. It would be a big deal. “
Sunday Night’s Main Event, Drew McIntyre is on at 41:00.
Dave Bautista is in a mystery role in the Knives Out sequel.
WWE
2K and Visual Concepts will be offering a sneak peek at the developmental process behind the upcoming WWE 2K22 video game with a social media content series providing access to work-in-progress production and development. The first message is out on the WWE 2K22 developer twitter and instagram accounts.
Sunday is WWE’s WrestleMania Backlash show and the post-show network show is WWE Icons on Rob Van Dam.
Paul Heyman will be doing a virtual signing on 6/2 at HighspotsAuctions.com
UFC
Vinc Pichel vs. Austin Hubbard has been added to the 8/21 show.
AEW
Tony Khan will be speaking tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern on “The Changing Face of Sports Viewership on Sportico Live.
Announced for AEW Dark tomorrow is:
Eddie Kingston & Jon Moxley vs. Milk Chocolate
The Factory vs. Jake Logan & Ryzin & Rick Recon
Jungle Boy vs. Martin Casaus
Brian Cage vs Bear Bronson
OTHER NOTES
NWA Powerrr tomorrow talks about the 6/6 PPV show, Matt Cross vs. Mims for a shot at the NWA TV title, Tyrus does a live interview, Sal Rinauro vs. Kratos, Kamille wants to talk about Thunder Rosa, Jax Dane vs. Slice Boogie falls count anywhere and Chris Adonis & Thom Latimer vs. Kratos & Aron Stevens.
A news story on a Saturday show at the baseball stadium in Jackson, TN (thanks to Mike Kuzmuk)
Author Steve Verrier, who has published excellent books on the history of pro wrestling in the Pacific Northwest and on the life of Gene Kiniski, is doing a third book called “Renaissance Wrestler: George Gordienko: An Amazing Life on the Canvas.” Gordienko was a legendary wrestler of the 50s who was not allowed to wrestle in the U.S. due to what was believed to be an affiliation with Communism. He was so good that Lou Thesz asked to drop the NWA world title to him, but they couldn’t get him in the country. Stu Hart had many times called Gordienko the toughest real wrestler of the era and Red Bastien, who came from the shoot world before going into pro wrestling, said the same thing.
The third and final match of the best-of-three between Kanji and Gisele Shaw for the Progress women’s title takes place on the 5/22 show.
Combate Globo on Friday night on Univision and UnivisionDeportes at midnight features Jose Alday (13-5-1) vs Ramon Cardozo (8-4) in a bantamweight fight. At lightweight, Jordan Beltran(10-6) faces Jose Zarauz (21-7-1) and a women’s fight has Ana Panalacios (4-1-1) vs Yajaira Cunningham (2-1).
PWA Black Label from Saturday night in Sydney, Australia: Kai Drake b Jack Bonza, Mat Rogers b Belinda Pierce and Backman, Big Fudge & “Concrete Davidson tied in a 2-man Rumble, Mat Diamond b Lyrebird Luchi, Charlie Evans & Ricky South & Jessica Troy b Sam Osborne & Will Keidis & Cherry Stephens, Mick Moretti b Carter Dreams, Unsocial Jordan b Michael Spencer, Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher b Jude London & Paris De Silva to win the PWA tag titles. People were raving about this main event match.
David Heath, the former Gangrel, got engaged yesterday while at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Nick Aldis will defend the NWA title at the Gathering event in Charlotte in July at the University Hilton. Those announced as appearing at the convention are David Schultz, Demolition, Tom Prichard, Ken Resnick, Ted DiBiase, Greg Valentine, Barry Windham, Rick Steiner, Kevin Von Erich, Tony Atlas, Eric Embry, Shaun Simpson, Norvell Austin, Dennis Condrey, John Nord, Mike Rotunda, Stan Lane, Steve Keirn and Jimmy Valiant.
Daily Pro Wrestling History: Verne Gagne retires as AWA Champion
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