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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

• A look at Sid Eudy’s wrestling career, his death, career highlights, the injury that effectively ended his career, other serious, inconvenient injuries, his travels from place to place, and more.
• When he started, which is earlier than most have noticed.
• The Lord A giant gimmick
• The Skyscrapers and Why It Ended
• The period of the Four Horsemen
• His first PPV main event
• A number of stories related to Brian Pillman, including the story about the eraser
• His departure from WCW to WWF and his first WrestleMania main event and how that ending didn’t go as planned
• The Failed Drug Test Before WrestleMania
• The Hoosier Dome Competition
• WWF leave
• Return to WCW and the plan to win the world title and how it failed
• Situation with Arn Anderson
• How he won his WWF title in 1996-97
• The injury that ended his WWF career
• The Ridiculous Win Streak Gimmick in WCW
• All In cover from London
• The update on contract negotiations
• Why the MAX deal fell through last year
• The upcoming stadium shows
• Business notes on how All In worked
• All Out Update
• Notes on new contracts
• Future of Bryan Danielson
• WWE Weekend Preview
• RevPro anniversary show
• View the reviews from the last two weeks
• International TV Ratings
• The longest match ever held in Arena Mexico
• Updates from the Japanese tournament
• Oldest male wrestler ever to compete in a major event
• Death of Villano V and Fritz Von Goering
• Tony Khan talks about the creative process
• Bryan Danielson talks about his conversation with Vince McMahon about doing G1
• MMA star Benji Radach has passed away
• Mark Shapiro Discusses New WWE Ideas
• Netflix Doc Notes
• Shapiro Discusses Netflix Deal

This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Back Issue

Monday Update

• Bryan and I are back on Wrestling Observer Radio tonight to talk Raw, NXT No Mercy, today’s Villano V story, Nikki Bella and the rest of the latest news.
• Raw tonight comes from Denver from the same arena that No Mercy was in last night. They had over 10,200 tickets out this morning. A real sellout would be 15,000 for a Raw lineup since it’s a huge arena so a big crowd but it’s not going to be a sellout. The crowd last night was very warm. There are two matches in the IC Title Challengers Tournament with Sheamus vs. Ludvig Kaiser vs. ? and Ilja Dragunov vs. Dragon Lee vs. Dominik Mysterio. Bronson Reed was supposed to be in the Sheamus match but he’s out of the show due to COVID. Also scheduled to be Creeds & Ivy Nile vs. Otis & Tozawa & Maxxine, Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn vs. Kairi Sane & Iyo Sky, Shayna Baszler vs. Zelina Vega and Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill.
• It looks like Gunther vs. CM Punk won’t be on Badd Blood. Earlier today, we were told that wasn’t the case, and that Cody Rhodes vs. Solo Sikoa won’t be on that show either, though it will happen later. Gunther vs. Sami Zayn may be set up tonight, as PW Insider reported about a face-to-face showdown.
• We’re running polls for both WWE Bash in Berlin and NXT No Mercy, so feel free to leave a thumbs up, thumbs down, or thumbs in the middle, along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
• Michele Carlucci, the WWE Director of Production Travel, was fired on Friday. She had been with the company since 1988 and had held the specific job since 2019, after serving as Director of the Freelance Crew, Travel & Special Projects for the previous 14 years.
• As for Odyssey Jones, he was removed from the WWE roster page earlier today. WWE has yet to officially clarify whether he is still with the company.
• Mascara Dorada qualified for the Copa Independencia final, which will be against the winner of a Ciberntetco on Friday night, for the anniversary show on 13/9. That is the Mistico vs. Chris Jericho show, so they are looking forward to booking a great match of their top talent for the sold out event.
• There were people who were upset that CMLL didn’t know there was a moment of silence for Villano V. I’m really shocked because he headlined two anniversary shows that were sold out. His cousin, Villano IIII Jr., mentioned him in a promo during the show. Of course, the current tourist fanbase wouldn’t have known about him.
• Mucha Lucha Atlanta has announced El Hijo del Vikingo for 10/13. Vikingo’s first match since knee surgery is on 9/17 in Mexico.
• TMZ released audio of Artem Chiigvintsev’s 911 call in which he called police and accused Nikki Garcia of throwing shoes at him. In the clip, the dispatcher notes that the call originally came as a request for medical help, but he says he got into an argument with his wife and her wife threw shoes at him.
• She appeared today, sans her wedding ring, at Netflix’s Chestnut vs. Kobayashi hot dog eating contest as one of the hosts. The San Francisco Chronicle noted that she and her son flew in from SFO for the event.
• The film “The Killer’s Game” starring Dave Bautista and Drew McIntyre will be released in theaters on 9/13. The Hollywood premiere is next Monday.
• Just a note: AEW listed four hours of wrestling on Friday night, but as far as we can tell based on the TV guide, it’s actually three and a half hours, as the All Out countdown show runs from 11:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
• Expect more names to be announced as WWE’s current talent signs new deals. There’s clearly a push to get people signed in the coming months to sign now.
• The match between Luke Jacobs and Tomohiro Ishii for the British heavyweight title will take place on the October 19 RevPro show in Cancaster, one day before Royal Quest at the Copper Box Arena.
• Taiji Ishimori has publicly requested a match with Darby Allin at one of two shows at the Tokyo Dome in January.
• UFC’s Jessica Andrade has filed a lawsuit against former coach and manager Gilliard Parana, accusing Parana of embezzlement. She alleged that he stole $2 million from her over the years. Parana has denied the accusation in a statement to MMA Fighting and has returned to Brazil. She said that she has considered retiring but now feels she has to keep fighting. Parana claimed that he was not the one who took care of her finances and was merely her advisor
• Parana told MMA Fighting: “It was never as she insinuates, that I stole a single cent from her, let alone the amount she is talking about, which is completely unfounded. Anyone who has a brain and can do math will see that she really does not spend her money on a few purchases on Amazon. She has a lot of expenses, and there are so many that she even gets lost in the calculations. Jessica is not incompetent. Jessica is not a 15-year-old girl. And Jessica is not illiterate. Jessica was never forbidden to go to the bank, call the bank and ask how her accounts were doing. Jessica always had full access to her things and was always intelligent enough to know everything that was going on in her financial life. And I was never the one who took care of her financial life. I was just her advisor when she needed it and asked for it. But all this will be proven when there is a coherent investigation. May justice be done and may the culprit pay, because lying to the authorities and lying to get a lawsuit in your favor unpacking is also a crime. Let’s wait and see what happens.
• Bobby Fish vs. Kevin Knight has been announced for the September 14 MLW show at Center Stage in Atlanta.
• Deadlock Pro Wrestling has announced Masato Tanaka for a show on 10/13 in Charlotte, NC at the Grady Cole Center.