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NEWS / REPORTS

WON Preview: Who funded TNA’s Bound for Glory anyway?
TNA Impact Wrestling results: Lashley vs. Edwards; Hardys vs. Decay
Lucha Underground results: Prince Puma vs. Matanza title match
WWE Palm Springs, CA, live results: John Cena vs. Dean Ambrose vs. AJ Styles

AUDIO 

WOR: Lesnar vs. Goldberg update, Del Rio stabbing, Impact future, more! 10/6
WOL: Two stabbings in one week, Dave Meltzer interview, AAW this weekend, more! 10/6
B&V: NXT, Raw, Lucha Underground, Granny, Filthy Tom, more! 10/7
DR. KEITH PRESENTS: Catch & kebabs in Germany! 10/5

Please send reports on the following shows to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

 and submissions@wrestlingobserver.com.

WWE show in Santiago, Chile
NXT show in Norfolk, VA
WWE show in Lima, Peru
NXT in Richmond, VA

We’ll be doing three polls this weekend, for Saturday’s UFC 204, Sunday’s WWE No Mercy and Monday’s New Japan King of Pro Wrestling show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com.

NEW JAPAN WORLD PRO WRESTLING AT 9 P.M. EASTERN TONIGHT ON AXS TV

Mark & Jay Briscoe & Toru Yano vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi for the Never trios titles
Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows vs. Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma for the IWGP tag titles

        Both of these matches were part of Wrestle Kingdom 10 from the Tokyo Dome on 1/4.

CMLL TONIGHT AT 9:30 P.M. EASTERN TIME AT ARENA MEXICO

Soberano & Hombre Bala Jr. & Star Jr. vs. Okumura & Puma & Tiger
Estrellita & Marcela & Princesa Sugei vs. Amapola & Dallys & Tiffany
Atlantis & Mascara Dorada & Valiente vs. Dragon Rojo & Polvora & Super Crazy
Volador Jr. vs. Cavernario for the NWA historic welterweight title
Rush & Mistico & Dragon Lee vs. Mephisto & Euforia & Ultimo Guerrero

LEGACY FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT 10 P.M. EASTERN TONIGHT ON AXS TV

Zach Thumb (4-2, 252.5) vs. Maurice Green (2-1, 246)
Billy Christianson (12-5, 152.5) vs. Marcus Edwards (11-4, 150)
Kevin Clark (4-2, 140) vs. Junior Hernandez (19-9, 140)
Tat Romero (26-6, 168) vs. Isaiah Pitts (6-1, 165)
Nate Richardson (4-1, 143.5) vs. Nick Compton (12-5, 144.5)
Joe Eichelberger (18-9, 170) vs. Dakota Cochrane (25-10, 170)
Brian Heden (29-15, 262) vs. Tyler East (15-5, 1 NC, 232)

WORLD SERIES OF FIGHTING TONIGHT FROM KANSAS CITY MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM AT 11 P.M. EASTERN ON NBC SPORTS

Ashley Gooch vs. Shawn Jordan
John Howard vs. Abubakar Nurmagomedov
Luis Firmino vs. Brian Foster
Jason High vs. Joao Zeferino
David Branch vs. Vinny Magalhaes for the light heavyweight title

NEW JAPAN ROAD UONUMA FROM NIIGATA ON NEW JAPAN WORLD (this won’t be airing live)

Teruaki Kanemitsu vs. Hirai Kawato
Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma & Henare vs. Jushin Liger & Manabu Nakanishi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Yoshitatsu & Juice Robinson & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Adam Cole & Yujiro Takahashi & Bone Soldier
Yuji Nagata & Tiger Mask vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly
Mark & Jay Briscoe & Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Kenny Omega & Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa
Satoshi Kojima & Ricochet & David Finlay vs. Will Ospreay & Rocky Romero & Baretta for the Never trios championships
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin & Kushida & Jay Lethal vs. Tetsuya Naito & Seiya Sanada & Evil & Bushi

UFC 205 FROM THE MANCHESTER ARENA IN MANCHESTER, UK

Fight Pass at 7 p.m. Eastern

Adriano Martins vs. Leonardo Santos
Mike Perry vs. Danny Roberts

FS 1 at 8 p.m. Eastern

Marc Diakiese vs. Lukasz Sajewski
Leon Edwards vs. Albert Tumenov
Davey Grant vs. Damien Stasiak
Iuri Alcantara vs. Brad Pickett

PPV at 10 p.m. Eastern

Mirsad Bektic vs. Russell Doane
Daniel Omielanczuk vs. Stefan Struve
Ovince Saint Preux vs. Jimi Manuwa
Gegard Mousasi vs. Vitor Belfort
Michael Bisping vs. Dan Henderson for the middleweight title

We’re looking for reports on Saturday’s WWE shows in Quito, Ecuador (Raw brand), Portland, OR (Smackdown brand) and NXT in Baltimore. John Cena is on the show.

WWE NO MERCY PPV ON SUNDAY FROM SACRAMENTO ON THE WWE NETWORK

A.J. Styles vs Dean Ambrose vs. John Cena for WWE title
The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler IC title vs. career
Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt
Heath Slater & Rhyno vs. Usos for tag titles
Becky Lynch vs. Alexa Bliss for women’s title
Nikki Bella vs. Carmella
Jack Swagger vs. Baron Corbin

NEW JAPAN KING OF PRO WRESTLING FROM SUMO HALL IN TOKYO AT 2:45 A.M. EASTERN TIME LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND11:45 P.M. LATE SUNDAY NIGHT PACIFIC TIME ON NEW JAPAN WORLD

Tiger Mask vs. Red Mask
Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi & Will Ospreay vs. Adam Cole & Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi
Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma & Ryusuke Taguchi & Bobby Fish vs. Toru Yano & Jado & Rocky Romero & Baretta
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Go Shiozaki & Maybach Taniguchi & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya
Young Bucks vs. Ricochet & David Finlay for IWGP jr. tag titles
Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa for IWGP tag titles
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin & Kushida & Jay Lethal vs. Tetsuya Naito & Seiya Sanada & Evil & Bushi
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kyle O’Reilly for Never open weight title
Kenny Omega vs. Hirooki Goto for 1/4 IWGP title match
Kazuchika Okada vs. Naomichi Marufuji for IWGP heavyweight title

Raw will be Monday night from the Oracle Arena in Oakland. There will also be a Smackdown brand house show on Monday night in Reno, NV.

Smackdown will be Tuesday night in San Jose at the SAP Center. 

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Figure Four Weekly 10/4/2016: Comparing ECW to TNA – With its constant scrambling for money, TNA is starting to resemble a much more beloved promotion: ECW. While ECW was not entirely solvent going back to at least 1999, when stories of bounced checks were hitting the wrestling newsletters, the situation got especially dire in the last year or so of the company’s existence. After shutting down in January 2001, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 4th… Subscribers click here to continue reading.

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Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Oct 10, 2016: The saga of TNA continues, Goldberg rumors, more – Exactly who funded the Bound for Glory PPV and tapings this week? TNA President Billy Corgan did media interviews during the week and couldn’t give a direct answer as to whether the tapings would take place… Bill Goldberg will be appearing on 10/5 on ESPN SportsCenter and clips were shown during Raw of Goldberg battling Brock Lesnar in ads for the WWE 2K 17 game. This is not coincidental because as things stand right now, Goldberg will face Brock Lesnar in a singles match as the big match at the 2016 Survivor Series on 11/20 in Toronto… Sasha Banks’ WWE Raw women’s title win over Charlotte, positioned as the main event and focal point of the 10/3 Raw in Los Angeles, was done to set the two up in the WWE’s first-ever women’s Hell in a Cell match. The show will take place on 10/30 at the TD Garden in Boston, on a show that will have two Cell matches… Subscribers click here to continue reading.

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WON Back Issue, September 13, 1999: Best wrestlers of each decade, plus tons of news – The television season of wrestling overexposure began this past week with both good and bad news. But when the numbers came in, virtually all the good news was limited to the World Wrestling Federation. Subscribers click here to continue reading.

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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

Tonight’s Arena Mexico show features Volador Jr. vs. Cavernario for the NWA welterweight title. It’s a rematch from the great match the two had on Friday. This is why Friday nights at Arena Mexico right now have the best wrestling atmosphere anywhere in the world, with last week’s main event between the two here.

For this weekend, Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino will be covering the King of Pro Wrestling event in English for New Japan World. The press conference will be on late Saturday night at 1 a.m. Eastern (right after UFC) with the show itself live at 3 a.m. Eastern on late Sunday night.

The PWG Battle of Los Angeles DVDs are out and ready to be shipped. For more info, go to www.highspots.com  All three days are very good, but day two, which featured Young Bucks & Adam Cole vs. Ricochet & Matt Sydal & Will Ospreay, was easily the best U.S. show of the year as far as just bell to bell action.

Tonight’s Justin Gaethje vs. Ozzy Dugulubgov main event on the World Series of Fighting show in Kansas City has been pulled from the show as Dugulubgov was suffering from bad headaches and also had low blood pressure and has been hospitalized. Gaethje will be paid. David Branch vs. Vinny Magalhaes for the light heavyweight title is the new main event.  The show airs at 11 p.m. tonight on NBC Sports Network.

The Ian Entwistle vs. Rob Font fight scheduled for tomorrow’s UFC show is off. Entwistle fell ill and never came to weigh-ins, and thus was disqualified from being on the show. 

WWE

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and WWE have joined forces for a Ninja Superstars action figure line. They will be marketed by Playmates Toys and available exclusively at Walmart starting in early November. Leonardo will be John Cena, Raphael will be Sting, Donatello will be Undertaker and Michelangelo will be Randy Savage.
Tim Wiese, the former German star goalkeeper, makes his pro wrestling debut on the 11/3 show in Munich, teaming with Cesaro & Sheamus vs. Carlito & Primo & Bo Dallas. 
Natalya talks WWE’s Susan G. Komen work and Total Divas.
An interview with Bobby Roode where he said his career highlight was the recent show in Brooklyn is here.
Bret Hart talks WWE Hall of Fame and more.

Bret Hart on being embarrassed about WWE Hall of Fame

“I’m never going to take anything away from any of the inductees that they’ve had. But to me, the HOF this year I have a voice of protest as sort of a legendary figure of the industry. I am embarrassed that there’s so many great wrestlers out there that have never been given their credit. Never got their due.” 

Hart went on to identify Ric Rude, the Fabulous Rougeaus, the Demolition and the Hart Foundation as deserving potential inductees. He was also critical of recent inductees the Freebirds:  

“Why have they been overlooked when you can induct the Freebirds who never did squat in WWE? Ever. Never drew any money, never did anything. When I remember the Freebirds, they were all drunk and passed out at the gate at one of the airports in my first day in WWF. None of them even made the show that day, they were too drunk to make their plane.” 

Bret Hart on Andre the Giant “firing” The Freebirds, Owen Hart in the Hall of Fame:

“A few weeks later—when I was wrestling, I was just starting in WWF—they showed up at the building at about 9:30 in Providence, Rhode Island. And I remember Andre the Giant said ‘you guys are fired,’ and I remember Michael Hayes cutting a promo on Andre telling him ‘you can’t fire me,’ and ‘who do you think you are?’ and ‘we’ll see who’s fired tomorrow!’ And I remember Andre saying ‘we’ll see who’s fired tomorrow.’ They were fired, they were gone the next day.” 

“I’ve always gotten along with [Michael Hayes], but as far as their contribution to wrestling, gimme a break. They were all pill heads and, for lack of a better word, they were all screw-ups. 

“They’re not picking the cream of the crop, they’re picking whoever the first person they see on the list and they go ‘he would be easy to fly in.'” 

“If you’re going to have a Hall of Fame, you’ve got to have Owen Hart in the Hall of Fame.” 

Hart has a petition online to get Owen Hart into the Hall of Fame which you can visit at OwenHartForHallofFame.com. 

UFC
Nikita Krylov vs. Misha Cirkunov was addled to the 12/10 show in Toronto.
MISCELLANEOUS
This made news all over the world regarding the young sons of the leader of Chechnya doing MMA fights including kicks to the head of downed opponents on national television. (thanks to Dennis Gorman and many others)
Some new concussion research is here. (thanks to Peter Morgan)
Today is the 15th anniversary of the death of Chris Adams. 
Today is Malia Hosaka’s 47th birthday. (thanks to Matt Schreiner)
Sterling Brewer, a former wrestling announcer from the territorial era out of Birmingham, passed away on 9/30 at the age of 90. We was a local TV and radio news reporter and sports director who was best known as the local announcer for live Saturday night matches.

AAW’s Jim Lyman Memorial tournament starts tonight at 8 p.m. at 115 Bourbon Street in Merrionette Park, IL with a loaded lineup:

Pentagon Jr. vs. Sami Callihan for AAW title in a death match
Drew Gulak vs. Jeff Cobb
Chris Hero vs. Kongo Kong
Prince Ali vs. Kamaitachi
Josh Alexander vs. Brian Cage
Silas Young vs. Mat Fichett
Chuck Taylor vs. Davey Vega
AR Fox vs. ?
Colt Cabana vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Jessicka Havok vs. Heidi Lovelace (not in tournament)

The winners advance to tomorrow night’s show in Berwyn, IL at the Eagles Club for the final eight.

Bellator announced a 12/10 show in Florence, Italy with both kickboxing and MMA. Rafael Carvalho will defend his middleweight title in a rematch with Melvin Manhoef. Carvalho won their first match via split decision. The kickboxing show is headlined by Giorgrio Petrosyan (82-2-1, 1 no contest) vs. British champion Jordan Watson (48-11-2). Another rematch has Gloria Peritore (11-1-1) defending her women’s flyweight kickboxing title against Denise Keilhotz (45-3).
Combate Americas announced its first show in New York on 10/14 in Verona. NY at the Turning Stone Resort Casino headlined by Victor Reyna (8-2) vs. Marc Stevens (20-10) and John Castaneda (11-2) vs. Gustavo Lopez (6-1) for the bantamweight championship. The show will air live on UFC Fight Pass.
Alberto El Patron is scheduled as the top star at the Jersey All Pro Wrestling 20th anniversary show on 11/12 in Rahway, NJ.
Acclaim Pro Wrestling on 10/29 in Ottawa at the Dom Polski Hall.
ECCW Halloween Hell on 10/15 in New Westminster, BC at the Sapperton Pensioners Hall featuring Dr. Luther and Shayna Baszler.
IWA 20th anniversary show from last night in Clarksville, IN: Jonathan Wolf b Jake Parnell, Jake Crist b Nathan Cruz, Bull Pain NC Frank Isaac Anderson, Randi West won Battle Royal, 2 Tuff Tony b Mance Warner, Brotherwood won over Bomb Shelter, NVD & Sage Phillips and Corey Storm, Ram Jam b Zach Gowen, Reed Bentley & John Wayne Murdoch & Nick Depp & Mark Wolf b Mitch Ryder & Derek Neal & The Hangman, Tracy Smothers b J.J. Garrett to win IWA Mid South title, Sami Callihan b Cole Radrick, Chris Hero won three-way over Shigehiro Irie and Kongo Kong. (thanks to Leonard Brand)
Smash Wrestling on 10/22 in Toronto at the Franklin Horner Community Centre headlined by Rosemary vs. Allie in a cage match for an all-womens’ show that includes Jennifer Blake, Jade, Leva Bates, Veda Scott, Vanessa Kraven, Mercedes Martinez, KC Spinelli, Heidi Lovelace and Leah Vaughan.
Smash Wrestling has a men’s show on 10/23 in Toronto at the Franklin Horner Community Center with Scotty O’Shea vs. Brent Banks in a cage mach plus Cody Rhodes vs. Tyson Dux.
Today in Wrestling History (10/7): WWE No Mercy 2007

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