Daily Update: Matt Hardy, NXT, Google trends
DAILY UPDATE
Latest News:
WWE Main Event results: Ricochet vs. Mustafa Ali
New Japan Road results: Junior Tag Team title tournament continues
AEW All Out media scrum notes: Tony Khan gives Matt Hardy update
Promo by AEW World Champion set for Dynamite
AEW Full Gear 2020 announced for November
Matt Hardy injured during Broken Rules match at AEW All Out
FTR win AEW World Tag Team titles at All Out
Sabian’s best man, TNT title match announced for AEW Dynamite
Matt Sydal makes AEW debut in Casino Battle Royale at All Out
Lance Archer wins Casino Battle Royal at AEW All Out
AEW All Out live results: Jon Moxley vs. MJF, Omega & Page vs. FTR
Latest Audio:
WOR: AEW All Out, Matt Hardy injury and response, Smackdown, tons more! 9/6
WON NEWSLETTER: September 7, 2020 Observer Newsletter: Future of Brock Lesnar, Rock battles COVID-19, more
A look at the different directions Brock Lesnar could go is the lead story in the new issue of the Observer. We look at the money he can generate for a fight with Jon Jones, the reality about his trying to fight today, why he’s a free agent right now, what Tony Khan said about Lesnar, and why, unless Dana White isn’t telling the truth, it’s unlikely he will fight. Plus we’ve got comments by both White and Scott Coker on fights they would want to make if he does want to fight.
Also in this issue:
Positive COVID tests of Dwayne Johnson, A.J. Styles, Kevin Nash, Glover Teixeira and others that came out this week.
Payback, including the genesis of the Roman Reigns heel turn, the Rey Mysterio injury, the booking of the show, plus poll results and star ratigns.
New Japan at Jingu Stadium, including Tetsuya Naito growing up going to the stadium, all three-time IWGP champions, most IC tilte runs in Japan, business notes, plans for the tour going on this weeeknd, plus match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results.
The departure of Mauro Ranallo from WWE, looking and his five years in the company, his background prior to the company, what old and new projects he’s expected to work on, and why he left.
The NXT title Iron Man match, next Takeover shows, Rey Mysterio television cartoon show, Paul Levesque stock sales, Levesque talks UK brnad, more on different allegations against WWE talent, returns of peope who have sit time out, change to Payback, Charlotte Flair news, Renee Young talks leaving WWE, Styles talks Heyman, lots of TV ratings updates internationally, new member of WWE Board of Directors, WWE market value and the most watched shows of the past week on WWE Network.
This past week’s UFC show.
Bio of Tom Anderson, who wrestled as The Claw and one half of the Masked Interns tag team. We look at two of the most tasteless angles in wrestiling that he was involved in, how one failed miserably and how the other was a huge business success. This includes the death of Alberto Torres, the heyday of the The Interns, the history of the masked doctors tag team and where it all came from, and classic stories involving Paul “Bear” Bryant, Ken Ramey, Lonnie Mayne, Beauregarde and what top promoter wouldn’t use the Interns and Ramey and why.
The life and career of Ric Drason, from bodybuilding to wrestling, including what two AEW stars he started, the glory days of Gold’s Gym in Santa Monica and the characters involved, his art work that sold millions of T-shirts, how one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time got his name from him, and why he had chacnes to be a star and the reason he never was.
A major change in how television ratings are done and how this is expectede to impact sports the most.
A comparison of the last week of AEW with competition and the show this past week where the only television competition was a replay show. We look at how this impacted every audience, what the audience numbers are likely to be for a regular unopposed Wednesday for AEW or NXT, and go in depth as to both sides of why WWE and USA would or would not want to move NXT. We also look at the huge change in the AEW audience from 8/12 to 9/2. We also have how the audience ebbed and flowed during the Iron Man match.
Ratings of all the major shows, the key demos and quarters for AEW and WWE, what happened head-to-head and what can be learned from them.
Results of all the major pro wrestling events around the world over the past week.
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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE
Our weekend show is already up on the site covering AEW, Smackdown, the WWE’s new doctrine regarding third party deals and much more.
Matt Hardy has been released from the hospital. He was doing much better today. Every company needs to have a better mechanism when it comes to stopping matches. Every company will have concussions issues because it is inherent with the product and always has been. It’s hard to do and performers hate it, but matches need to be stopped after concussions or even last night, if there was no concussion, because the risk was very clear of being one. There are a lot of questions regarding AEW clearing Matt Hardy to do the finish last night after cracking his head on the floor and seemingly being out of it. WWE has done the same on several occasions in recent months including twice with Kairi Sane, and New Japan had a similar issue on last year’s U.K show with KENTA in the Ishii match. It should be stopped and get them checked out.
AEW released an announcement saying that Hardy took an MRI and CT scan and both indicated he did not have a concussion. He is being driven back home at this time and he will be appearing on Wednesday’s television show doing a promo.
I’ll have a lot more about last night’s show in the new issue, but there are a number of lessons to learn out of it.
AEW is the No. 4 most searched topic on Google today, but that’s 50,000 searches because it’s early in the day. It was not on yesterday’s list. Alistair Overeem was No 17 yesterday with 50,000, which would be one of the lowest UFC marks of the year. Dwayne Johnson was No. 4 on Wednesday with 500,000 for coming out that he and his family had COVID-19. Wrestling fan Ron Jeremy was No. 8 on Monday with 200,000 for his latest arrest.
As it turns out, based on schedule changes, there is no NHL game on USA this Wednesday. Like last week, NXT will still be airing on Tuesday and there will be a replay on Wednesday. Right now the replay is scheduled by SYFY and not USA.
UFC
Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contenders show at 8 p.m. on ESPN+
Tafon Nchukwi vs.Al Matavao – light heavyweights
Cameron Church vs. Sherrard Blackledge – lightweights
Phillip Hawkes vs. Khadzhimurat Bestaev – middleweights
Mana Martinez vs. Drake Rodriguez – bantamweights
Aliaskhab Khizriev vs. Henrique Shiguemoto – middleweights
MISCELLANEOUS
While it is listed and it’s been out everywhere that today is Wendi Richter’s 59th birthday, her personal Facebook page as well as women’s wrestling historian Ken Raftery has said she told him personally that her birthday is September 8, 1960, so she actually turns 60 on Tuesday.
We want to make mention of the death of longtime subscriber Robert Solari II, who had helped out a lot of talent in the Detroit area over the years. He also hosted a pro wrestling hotline for years. He passed away early Saturday at the age of 49.
CWE results from Friday night in Winnipeg: Mike Mission b Dick Blood-DQ, Sammy Peppers b Roy Cheeks, Travis Cole b Kevin O’Doyle, Shaun Martens & Bobby Schnik b Rob Stardom & Johnny Malibu, Jude Dawkins b Dragneel, Cory Diamond & Alix Zwicker b Danny Duggan & Kat Von Heez-DQ, Adrien Burton b Tyler James, EZ Ryder b Kevin Cannon-DQ, Kevy Chevy b Bryce Bentley, Chad Daniels b AJ Sanchez. Next show in Winnipeg is 10/2 with a spin the wheel make the deal match.
Turner Classic Movies on Friday night ran the Let the Good Times Roll music documentary on 50s rock and roll and during the video of the 1959 No. 1 hit song Charlie Brown, there was a lot of Gorgeous George match and out of the ring footage including i a woman’s hair salon, and disinfecting the ring. (thanks to Mike Lano)
Showcase TV in the U.K. which airs on Sky Ch. 192 in the UK and airs Fight Network programming looks to have dropped its pro wrestling content, at least temporarily. They had aired Impact and ROH in regular time slots until about ten days ago. Impact continues in the U.K. on 5Star in a late night time slot (thanks to Matthew Evans)
Daily Pro Wrestling History: Kawada wins AJPW Triple Crown
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