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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
This week’s back issue:
– Our weekend schedule is that we will be doing a show today with Garrett Gonzales talking about the news of the week and Bryan and I will return Sunday night covering the weekend news.
– The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is up on the site today. It’s a gigantic issue:
– Ivar’s injury is more serious than we were first led to believe. They did an NXT angle where Gallus took him out as a storyline reason as he was not going to be around for a while. Ivar posted that he’s trying to figure out all of his options and what it means for his future.
– A correction from what was earlier reported in the Observer today. WWE isn’t taping two episodes of SmackDown in Jacksonville tonight. Next week’s show will be taped for the first time in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
– Yesterday was the 61st anniversary of Bruno Sammartino’s original WWWF title win over Buddy Rogers.
– Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of Shad Gaspard, the first winner and namesake for our Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber annual award. Last year on this day was the death of Superstar Billy Graham, a performer whose influence on the industry can’t be overstated and whose Madison Square Garden drawing power sellout percentage (as noted in our bio in the May 22, 2023 issue) will likely never be topped.
– Also want to make a note of the story in the current Observer on Bob Bruggers, the 1975 plane crash and the Verne Gagne 1972 training camp. For those into pro wrestling history, and just really a look at a unique life, you’ll probably really like this one. There are so many twist and turns in it from different territories, stars like Ric Flair and Ken Patera breaking in, and the 1975 plane crash and all the different what-ifs that could have happened, from the potential end of Flair’s career to what if Wahoo McDaniel was on the flight.
– The New Japan Best of the Super Juniors continues at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning from Hachioji:
– The U.K FantasticaMania shows are tomorrow at York Hall in London.
Afternoon show:
Evening show:
– Funeral services for longtime Bay Area wrestling star Tony Jones will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Duggans Funeral Home in Daly City, CA. Jones was featured in Beyond the Mat and was a standout college wrestler. He was a super nice guy who I talked with at almost every major wrestling show I attended in the last 20 or so years, was a regular listener to our shows and had tryouts with WWF & WCW.
– We’re looking for reports on these weekend shows:
– The Apple TV documentary “Monster Factory,” about Danny Cage’s wrestling school in Paulsboro, NJ, was nominated for a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary series. The ceremony will be on Tuesday.
– UFC is at the Apex tomorrow with a show purely on ESPN+ from the Apex Arena in Las Vegas:
– Jon Jones in a tweet teased that he would return to fighting in November. Jones is expected to defend the heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic next. November would be UFC’s annual show in Madison Square Garden. That would make sense. Jones previously said he had agreed to a return date but would wait for UFC to announce it.
– The Bellator show from Paris, France, is currently airing Friday afternoon on MAX.
– MLW Battle Riot on 6/1 at Center Stage in Atlanta is almost sold out. That’s a 700 seat venue.
– MLW Fury Road airs at 10 p.m. tomorrow night on Bein Sports and the MLW YouTube channel as a two-hour special. Satoshi Kojima vs. 1 Called Manders for the MLW title and Matt Riddle vs. Sami Callihan headline. Details on the show that was taped this past weekend are in the current Observer.
– Former UFC fighter Jack Marshman has signed a multi-fight deal with the BYB Extreme Bare Knuckle promotion.
– Combate Global airs on Univision Saturday night from Miami on Univision and FUSE with Patrick Lahane (7-2) vs. James Gonzalez (10-7) in the main event. It airs at 9:30 p.m. Eastern. Gonzalez is a late replacement for Ivan Castllo of Mexico who pulled out earlier in the week due to a bad eye poke in training
– Buff Bagwell returns to wrestling this weekend on the Memphis Wrestling YouTube show that airs on Saturdays at Noon. Bagwell & John Dalton in the main event face Lord Gaston & Sir Matthew.
– Eve on 6/7 at the Big Penny Social Club in Walthamstow, London. Miyuki Takase and Haruka Umesaki will debut with Eve on that show. They face Safire Reed and Chantal Jordan.
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