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Friday Update

- Garrett Gonzales and I will be doing our week in review show today and Bryan and I will be back Saturday night covering UFC, Collision and everything else.

- The new issue of the Wrestling Observer is up on the site right now:

• Match of the week and performer of the week
• SummerSlam preview, records that will be set, records that are in jeopardy and more
• Update on the card including notes about matches not yet announced
• Update on ticket sales
• Preview of Great American Bash and next NXT major event
• Gable Steveson's decision, his debut, what his decision really is and what wasn't true in his angle
• Preview to AEW in Wembley Stadium
• What angles are being done and what is amazing about the build
• Ticket sales and will they outsell Hogan vs. Andre at WrestleMania III before announcing the first match
• Lots of AEW booking updates
• Full coverage of the G-1 tournament, standings, matches left, Okada vs. Ospreay, what young guys are doing well and what aren't
• How business is doing so far
• Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor coverage, business notes, PPV
• Coverage of UFC at the O2 Arena in London, update on the heavyweight division
• DDT runs biggest show of the year
• A look at the carer of Tommy Siegler
• The most detailed look at ratings for the past week
• How wrestling shows did in the weekly standings and each night
• Segment-by-segment numbers and comparisons with one year ago
• Robbery of the box office at a major promotion show
• CMLL Anniversary show update
• World Gran Prix participants announced
• Konnan talks TripleMania Mexico City main event
• Day one of the Five-Star Grand Prix
• Stardom upcoming shows including a multi-title show featuring New Japan belt and a legends show
• King of Gate update
• NOAH match with fastest fan club advance in history
• Hogan getting married
• Senate honors legendary wrestlers and how this differs from the U.S.
• Lots of news on the Mildred Burke movie including pro wrestling personalities involved
• Lio Rush injury update
• Indie show has tickets sold to people from 32 countries
• Impact does surprisingly well on PPV
• Notes on Rush signing with AEW
• Update on AEW injuries
• Ticket sales for upcoming WWE and AEW shows including WWE PPV shows, AEW PPVs shows and Grand Slam at Arthur Ashe Stadium
• International TV ratings
• A look in detail at the largest MMA show rating of the year and it wasn't from UFC, and how many of its viewers watch UFC
• Peacock bleeding money and its future
• WWE injury updates
• WWE Royal Rumble news
• WWE signings talk
• Big match being teased
• New names for WWE talent
• Rundown of all the WWE weekend house shows

- As was first reported by Fightful, Vince McMahon, 78, underwent what we were told was a very serious spinal operation this past week that lasted four hours. He is currently recuperating from the injury.

- The Survivor Series at the Allsate Arena in Chicago on 11/25 officially sold out the first day tickets that were put on sale. The Smackdown the night before is basically sold out as well other than 1,145 high priced platinum tickets. (thanks to William Zdon)

- Steve McMichael is a semifinalist in the voting for the 2024 NFL Hall of Fame.

- SmackDown tonight on Fox from New Orleans has announced Rey Mysterio vs. Santos Escobar with the winner facing Austin Theory in a U.S. title match, plus Karl Anderson vs. Karrion Kross. Roman Reigns and Jey Uso will also appear. There were 7,900 tickets out as of earlier today.

- Rampage tonight at 10 p.m. on TNT:

• Tag team Battle Royal for a title shot with Butcher & Blade, Hardys, Big Bill & Brian Cage, Brother Zay & Ethan Page, Luther & Serpentico, Matt Menard & Angelo Parker, Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh and Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal
• Matt Taven & Mike Bennett vs. ?
• Komander vs. Kip Sabian
• Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose - we got a number of reports saying this match was really good.

- We didn't get this in today's issue but here were the most video views of wrestling stuff off television from the last week

• 1. Roman Reigns final segment on SmackDown announcing Tribal Rules 1.4 million
• 2. Ricky Starks/C.M.Punk opening promo on Collision 549,000
• 3. LA Knight interview 500,000
• 4. Logan Paul and Ricochet angle 480,000
• 5. Judgment Day highlights from Raw 405,000

Stuff was way down from usual aside from the Reigns segment.

- Logan Paul will be doing a boxing match on 10/14 in Manchester, UK.

- We're looking for reports on these weekend shows:

• SmackDown tonight in New Orleans (dark matches and anything not on television)
• Impact TV tapings tonight in Chicago at Cicero Stadium
• Collision tomorrow night in Hartford, CT (ROH and dark matches only)
• Impact TV tapings tomorrow night in Chicago at Cicero Stadium
• WWE house show tomorrow in Estero, FL
• WWE house show Sunday in Coral Gables, FL

We're looking for results, finishes, angles and other highlights to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

- Saturday is a major night when it comes to fighting. AEW Collision with MJF & Adam Cole vs. FTR goes head-to-head with the UFC prelims, which air on both ESPN and ABC. They would almost surely beat AEW out in the ratings. There are also two PPV shows head-to-head, with the Erroll Spence Jr. vs. Terrence Crawford PPV and the UFC PPV headlined by Justin Gaethje vs. Dustin Poirier. The PPVs go head-to-head but the main fights will start after Collision ends. However, Showtime is also airing Bellator from the Saitama Super Arena in Japan starting at 11 p.m. Eastern, so that show will go head-to-head with both the major fights on the UFC PPV show and Crawford vs. Spence.

- UFC weigh-ins for tomorrow's PPV show from Salt Lake City:

ESPN+ at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time

• Miranda Maverick (125.5) vs. Priscila Cachoeira (125)
• Matthew Semelsberger (169.5) vs. Uros Medic (170.5)
• CJ Vergara (125.5) vs. Vinicius Salvador (128.5) - Salvador missed weight and forfeited 20 percent of his purse

ESPN and ABC and ESPN+ at 8 p.m Eastern

• Jake Matthews (170) vs. Darrius Flowers (170.5)
• Roman Kopylov (185) vs. Claudio Ribeiro (185.5)
• Derrick Lewis (263.5) vs. Marcos Rogerio de Lima (262)
• Gabriel Bonfim (170) vs. Trevin Giles (170)

PPV at 10 p.m.

• Michael Chiesa (170) vs. Kevin Holland (169.5)
• Tony Ferguson (155) vs. Bobby Green (155.5)
• Stephen Thompson (170.5) vs. Michel Pereira (174) - Pereira missed weight. This fight may be canceled as it was up in the air at last word
• Jan Blachowicz (205) vs. Alex Pereria (205.5)
• Dustin Poirier (155) vs. Justin Gaethje (156)

- G-1 at Dolphins Arena in Nagoya starts at 3 a.m. Sunday morning and midnight Saturday night Pacific time.

- UFC has signed a brand partnership agreement with Roobet.fun, a free-to-play social casino where the community competes for cash and prizes. It's a multi-year agreement where UFC will promote Roobet.fun as the Official Social Casino of the UFC on various events each year. They will also promote sweepstakes packages featuring in-person prizes, tickets to live vents, post-fight tours, meet and greets and VIP tours of the Performance Institute in Las Vegas.

Other Notes

- Defy has a doubleheader this weekend. Tonight is an all women's show at Washington Hall in Seattle with Vert Vixen defending her Defy title against Maki Itoh, Marina Shafir vs. Liiza Hall, Nicole Matthews vs. Allie Katch in a street fight and more, plus a meet and greet with Madusa. Saturday night has Curry Man (Christopher Daniels) vs. Miles Deville, Vert Vixen defends against Billie Starkz, Bollywood Boys defend the tag titles against the Billington Bulldogs, Guillermo Rosas vs. KC Navarro vs. Clark Connors vs. Evan Rivers, Schaff vs. Travis Williams vs. Cody Chhun vs Titus Alexander and Jon Moxley vs. Artemis Spencer in the main event.

- AIW tomorrow night in Jefferson, OH at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds with the Bill Alfonso hardcore tournament.

- Progress on 9/24 in London has Spike Trivet vs. Kid Lykos for the Progress world title.

- The 8/26 Progress show over All In weekend at the Electric Ballroom has added Paul Robinson vs. Nathan Cruz, Lizzy Evo vs. Kanji and SoCal Val will be hosting the show.

- Aron Stevens is available for seminars on character development and psychology through Bill Behrens a showbis@aol.com. The seminars will cover creating a memorable character and adapting to bad situations and how to make the most out of less than favorable booking.