Daily Update: Mr. Stone, Shotzi, Katsuhiko Nakajima

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• WWE Raw ratings down for Crown Jewel go-home show
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• WWE announces UK tour dates for April 2024
• Alex Shelley taking 'a little bit of time' to recover from calf injury
• AEW Collision ratings down despite MJF vs. Omega title match
• NJPW Super Junior Tag League night seven results, updated standings
• WWE Raw video highlights: Cody Rhodes delivers a message to Damian Priest
• Number one contender's match announced for next week's WWE Raw 
• Sami Zayn vs. JD McDonagh set for WWE Crown Jewel kickoff
• Kenny Omega & Chris Jericho to team on AEW Dynamite

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This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter

• October 30, 2023 Observer Newsletter: Dana White's comments on Vince McMahon, Jon Jones off UFC 295

The new issue of the Observer is up on the site right now covering these stories:

• Match and performers of the week
• The history of UFC and WWE together
• How Vince McMahon is responsible for UFC taking off and why
• Dirty tricks McMahon tried to play on UFC and blasting it when it got popular
• Dana White talks about his prior and current changes in relationship with McMahon
• How Vince McMahon viewed UFC when it first broke through
• The first attempt at Undertaker vs. Lesnar at WrestleMania and why it didn't happen
• How things have changed since the merger and what Vince's role in UFC is now
• Jon Jones injury, why Stipe Miocic is off, and what are the different possibilities going forward in the heavyweight division
• A look at the Aspinall vs. Pavlovich fight
• Business notes on what was expected to be a record setting show
• Preview of Crown Jewel and Full Gear and matches announced and other things built up
• WWE goes with more international major shows in 2024
• Rundown of Impact changing to TNA and what it will and won't mean
• The decline of TNA and change to Impact years ago
• What changes to expect with the move back to TNA
• The story behind the Bound for Glory main event
• Business notes on Bound for Glory
• Match-by-match coverage
• Hall of Fame ceremony
• UFC 204 coverage and what next for the top stars of the show
• Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou, and how once again Saudi Arabia has changed the economic necessities of a big fight
• The most detailed look at the ratings for all of the wrestling shows, as well as segment-by-segment and comparison and where shows were up and down
• Blue Panther 45th anniversary event
• Stardom bad injury situation
• All Japan annual tag team tournament
• Why two Japanese wrestlers disappeared in April
• Great Triple Crown title match
• Future of Will Ospreay
• New Japan Super Juniors tag tourney
• Cain Velasquez first interview
• Mexican legend survives scary hospital stay
• British J Cup
• Wrestling star expects to announce a new TV series in November
• Ric Flair in AEW
• AEW December PPV and its competition
• Jon Moxley on battles with addiction
• Ticket advances for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
• International TV ratings and streaming numbers
• Pitch for independent star to AEW
• How many matches top AEW stars have done
• Controversy over UFC business deal
• Peacock subscription number and financial losses
• Memo all WWE employees received and how this has changed the stock price
• Tickets now available for Survivor Series and why
• WWE NIL talent in college wrestling notes
• A look at the WWE shows over the past week

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• August 14, 2006 Observer Newsletter: Jeff Hardy, CMLL

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Tuesday Update

WWE

• Mr. Stone talked to PWInsider ahead of his match against Bron Breakker at NXT Halloween Havoc on Tuesday. "So, this you know, when I first heard getting back in the ring, the first thing is excitement,” he said. “You know, I can still do this. I'm still in great shape. I could get it done. But then when reality sets in, I am not going to lie that I've had my moments of okay, this is Bron Breakker. He's, you know, almost half my age. He's a former NXT world champion. He almost ended my best friend's career, you know, is this the right guy that I should be going in the ring with? I don't know but it's happening. And you know now I've gotten to a point where I'm kind of empty minded about it. I'm just, I'm excited about it. I'm going to see what happens and I think I am going to be able to perform at my best. And I think, you know I think I'm gonna shock a lot of people."
• Seth Rollins eats his last meal on Mythical Kitchen.
• LA Knight will appear on The Bump Wednesday in a sit-down interview. Lex Luger will be in the studio.
• WWE has a video showing the timeline of Knight’s time on the main roster.
• Rhea Ripley stars in a commercial for Dish Network.
• Austin Theory was interviewed by WWLP 22 News ahead of WWE’s house show in Springfield, Massachusetts on Sunday.
• Karl Anderson and his wife have welcomed a new son.
• Carlito’s new theme is now on YouTube.
• The Boogeyman and Scarlett star in a Halloween-themed video on WWE’s YouTube.
• WWE’s YouTube also has a playlist of every match featuring Finn Balor’s demon persona.
• Bayley, Scarlett, and Shotzi visit the Winchester Mystery House.
• Sports Illustrated interviewed Shotzi about hosting Halloween Havoc. “Halloween means so much to me, I couldn’t miss it,” she said. “I’ve always been drawn to the spookier side of things. I’ve always loved horror movies, and I think I inherited that from my dad. I love this too much not to be involved."
• Full matches added to WWE’s YouTube today include the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match from the June 27, 2017 episode of SmackDown, Booker T vs. The Boogeyman from WrestleMania 22, and Kane vs. The Undertaker from WrestleMania XX.

AEW & Other Wrestling

• AEW has a five-hour playlist of MJF’s AEW World Championship title reign.
• In a statement, NJPW has asked for fans to refrain from contact with NJPW stars outside of “officially designated fan meeting events”.
• Former Stardom star Mariah May is teasing something for Wednesday called Mariah May: Portrait of a Wrestler.
• Athena will appear at Wrestling Revolver’s Unreal event on November 16.
• After leaving Pro Wrestling NOAH, Katsuhiko Nakajima appeared in AJPW and has issued a challenge for the Triple Crown Championship. The match was later made official for November 5 in Sapporo.
• Nakajima has also opened his own web store.
• Sports Illustrated interviewed Tetsyua Naito ahead of his match against SANADA at WrestleKingdom 18, teasing he may do the Stardust press.
• GCW confirmed that the 2024 Collective event will take place April 4-6 at The Auditorium in Penns Landing Caterers.
• Josh Alexander vs. Timothy Thatcher is set for Prestige Wrestling’s Roseland 7 event on January 5.
• PWInsider spoke to WOW’s Erica ‘Jungle Girrl’ Porter, who is battling stage 4 breast cancer.
• Bill Apter interviewed Torrie Wilson.