Daily Update: Raw, Laredo Kid vs. Hijo del Vikingo, Kota Ibushi
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WWE Raw live results: Super ShowDown fallout
Lars Sullivan vs. Lucha House Party rematch official for WWE Raw
WWE adds The Usos to Raw Tag Team title match
Page vs. MJF vs. Havoc vs. Jungle Boy set for AEW Fyter Fest
Triple H added to WWE house show in Japan
WWE Fresno & Stockton live results: Sunday house shows
NJPW Super J-Cup to take place in United States this August
NJPW reveals full card for Southern Showdown in Melbourne
Lineups set for NJPW Kizuna Road tour, G1 announcements to be made
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WOL: RAW, Stomping Grounds, Ibushi vs. Naito, more! 6/10
WOR: New Japan Dominion, lineups, RAW, more! 6/10
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Today has Raw in San Jose and a Smackdown house show in Reno.
Smackdown and 205 Live will be taped on Tuesday in Sacramento.
F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Jon Moxley and the WWE creative process
After becoming the talk of the professional wrestling world when he joined AEW at Double or Nothing, Jon Moxley took things up to another level when he appeared on Chris Jericho’s Talk is Jericho podcast last week.
While prefacing his comments with how grateful he was for his time in WWE, Moxley got years of frustration off his chest in the 90-plus minute podcast episode. The WWE creative process was his target, with Moxley saying that one of his goals in AEW is to prove that the process WWE uses sucks, is absolutely terrible, and is “killing the company.”
WON NEWSLETTER: June 10, 2019 Observer Newsletter: The evolution of Will Ospreay
A look at Will Ospreay and the Super Juniors tournament win, a study of PPV buyers of AEW, WWE and Impact and questions regarding WWE and Saudi Arabia are among the lead stories in the new double issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
The lead story talks about the rise of Ospreay, the Super Juniors tournament, the debut of Jon Moxley in New Japan, the new Juice Robinson, the Super J Cup business, Dominion, plus a rundown of the last three nights of the tournament.
Also look at Ospreay’s interviews and his future goals.
Have a look at WWE Super Showdown and the last minute story involving the women and the culture.
Read full coverage of Takeover Bridgeport with the next main event, match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results.
Also look at Gargano’s big run.
This issue has a story on the life of Atsushi Aoki, the All Japan booker and trainer and his career.
Read a study on PPV buyers and what the real crossover between WWE and AEW and Impact and AEW among buyer actually is.
Go into depth on the Wade Keller interview with Jon Moxley, birth of Hulkamania, reaction from WWE, WWE looking at changing how they do entry -evel wrestler contracts for obvious reasons, & Ric Flair releases videos.
This issue contains full coverage of the UFC show in Stockholm.
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MONDAY NEWS UPDATE
Bryan and I will be back tonight talking Raw and taking e-mail questions that you can send to [email protected].
Beacuse of an issue with g-mail, anything that was sent to [email protected] or [email protected] between Saturday night and Sunday at about 7 P.M. Eastern did not get here over the last 24 hours. It is now fixed but the e-mails sent during that 18 hour period did not reach us, so if you sent anything to either of these e-mail addresses, please resend. It is working now.
Even though there is a Smackdown house show tonight in Reno with Roman Reigns, Bayley and Drew McIntyre among others advertised, at least some Smackdown talent is in San Jose for Raw. Bayley plugged a Hometown champion T-shirt which at least indicates she’ll be in San Jose as champion. McIntyre is advertised for both places.
Raw would be expected tonight to do among its lowest ratings in history going against what could be the final game of the NBA finals and with the return of Kevin Durant. Announced for the show is a tag title match with Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins in a three-way against both the Usos and The Revival, Miz TV with Samoa Joe, perhaps setting up a program there, and Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre with a celebration of Shane’s win over Roman Reigns on Friday. There will also be a Lars Sullivan vs. Lucha House Party 1 vs. 3 elimination match.
The Laredo Kid vs. El Hijo del Vikingo match that was the talk inside wrestling yesterday, from AAA in Monterrey.
We are tentatively doing a Q&A on Saturday morning 8/31 at the Hyatt Place Chicago/Shaumburg at 10 a.m. local time which is the morning of the AEW show. We’ll have more info coming but there should be e-mailers sent to subscribers for into on tickets to the show, hotel and a Wrestling Observer section at the All Out show forthcoming. AAW has also noted to us that they will be doing live shows on Thursday and Friday night at the Logan Square Auditorium in Chicago, so I’d say it’s close to a lock we’ll be attending the Friday night show there.
Jon Moxley has two shows this coming week for Northeast Wrestling. He’s working Friday night in Waterbury, CT at the PAL against Darby Allin. The show is almost sold out. Saturday he’ll be at Six Flags in Jackson, NJ with a free show with a park admission which includes appearances by Booker T, Mick Foley, Enzo & Cass, Darby Allin, Rene Young, Boogeyman and JT Dunn.
Ace Romero, who took an accidental knee to the face at yesterday’s House of Hardcore show in a match with Mad Man Fulton, is okay. He was rocked and as a precautionary measure the doctor stopped the match. New York is a commission state so they have doctors. We’ve seen two incidents this weekend, one with Goldberg vs. Undertaker and one with Tetsuya Naito vs. Kota Ibushi, where the doctors should have stopped the match due to a sign of a concussion in the former and a neck injury in the latter.
We don’t have an update on Ibushi past that he’s okay but has a swollen left eye from his match yesterday. He hasn’t been pulled from any bookings.
WWE
Ric Flair said that he would be releasing another video on Friday.
Akira Tozawa will appear on the 7/13 Evolve show in Philadelphia. Adrian Jaoude of WWE, now known as Arturo Ruas, will face Josh Briggs on 6/29 in Queens, NY and face Anthony Henry on 6/30 in Brooklyn.
Tickets for NXT shows on 7/25 in North Charleston, SC, 7/26 in Columbia, SC, 7/27 in Atlanta and 7/28 in Concord, NC go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
Becky Lynch will be appearing at the MTV Movie & TV Awards next Tuesday in Santa Monica, CA.
MISCELLANEOUS
House of Hardcore runs on Saturday night in Kingston, ONT at Leon’s Center with Willie Mack vs. Sami Callihan for the TV title and Tommy Dreamer & Billy Gunn vs. Tyson Dux & Tarik, and a 25 man Battle Royal.
Takaaki Kidani is in Los Angeles with Bushiroad filming a commercial to promote the G-1 show in Dallas and the Super J Cup shows. Milla Jovovich with be part of the commercial shoot.
Hall of Famer Bull Nakano will be making a North American appearance on 8/10 in Toronto and doing a seminar on 8/9 in London, ONT. Nakano will be doing a seminar at the Tyson Dux Wrestling Factory in London, ONT for all trained and active women wrestlers. The standouts at the seminar could be added to the 8/10 show at The Summit in Toronto. There will also be a meet and greet on 8/10 at 9 a.m. with Nakano.
A correction from yesterday’s show when talking about Will Ospreay and Robbie Eagles. They have had three previous singles matches. They had a 2017 match for PWA in Sydney, Australia, a 2018 how for PWA in Sydney (the big one) and their recent Best of The Super Juniors match. The PWG match I was thinking of was Ospreay vs. Adam Brooks.
Eagles vs. Michael Spencer and Mick Moretti vs. Tommy Knight were announced for PWA on 6/14 in Sydney.
Gino Gambino announced a SPW/MCW combined show on 7/13. SPW will start on TV in New Zealand on 6/22.
Tickets went on sale this morning for the MLW debut in the Dallas market featuring the War Chamber on 9/7 at www.MLWTickets.com. It will feature the Dallas debut with MLW of Ross & Marshall Von Erich. The show is at the NYTEX Sports Center in North Richland Hills, TX.
Stardom from yesterday in Sapporo: Jungle Kyona b Leo Onozaki, AZM won three-way over Starlight Kid and Saya Iida, Momo Watanabe & Utami Hayashishita d Hana Kimura & Bobbi Tyler, Mayu Iwatani & Tam Nakano & Arisa Hoshiki b Kagetsu & Natsuko Tora & Andras Miyagi, Hazuki b Saki Kashima to keep the High Speed title Bea Priestley b Konami to keep the Word of Stardom title. (thanks to Shannon Walsh at wrestlingwithdemons.net)
The earlier Sunday show from Stardom, also in Sapporo: Starlight Kid b Saya Iida, Utami Hayashishita b Leo Onozaki, Jungle Kyona vs. Tam Nakano vs Natsuko Tora drew over 15:00, Hana Kimura & Konami & Bobbi Tyler b Bea Priestley & Momo Watanabe & AZM, Mayu Iwatani & Arisa Hoshiki & Saki Kashima b Kagetsu & Hazuki & Andras Miyagi.
Pro Wrestling Eve from Saturday in London: Jamie Hayter b Raven Creed, Kasey b Rebel Kinney, Mercedez Blaze b Erin Angel, Laura DiMatteo & Roxxy b Valkyire Debbie Keitel, Nightshade b Sierra Loxton, Emi Sakura b Lana Austin Jamie Hayter b Kasey, Raven Creed & Jamie Hayter & Valkyrie & Debbie Keitel & Session Moth Martina & Mercedez Blaze all had WWE tryouts in London last week. Next shows are 6/28 in Brighton, 6/29 in London at the Resistance Gallery and 6/30 at York Hall in London. (thanks to Alec Redmond and Shannon Walsh)
Sierra Loxton suffered a broken back on the show and will be undergoing surgery this week. The referee stopped the match when she was injured and she will be out of action for some time. There is a Go Fund Me set up for her.
Beyond Wrestling from Boston yesterday: Jay Freddie b Tristan Thai, Brandon Thurston won four-way over Gabriel Skye, Brad Hollister, and DL Hurst, Chuck O’Neill b Thomas Santell, Tom Lawlor b Josh Briggs, Orange Cassidy won three-way over Kimber Lee and Kris Statlander, Kenn Doane b Anthony Greene, Davienne & Skylar b Angel Sinclair & Ava Everett, Bear Brunson & Bear Beefcake b Dominic Garinni & Keivn Ku, David Starr b Solo Darling, Joey Janela & Chris Dickinson b Andy Williams & Braxton Sutter. Janela challenged Starr and noted that due to his AEW contract he won’t be able to do Indies much longer. (thanks to Greg Valko)
We haven’t seen the book, but George Twig has written a book called “The Rise and Fall of Rikidozan” about the JWA era of Japanese pro wrestling. It’s available on Amazon in digital download and in paperback.
Bill Apter talks to Perry Saturn.
Bret Hart talks his appearance at AEW and the Hall of Fame.
Daily Pro Wrestling History: Harley Race wins NWA title from Ric Flair
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