This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Triple H announces in-ring retirement, WrestleMania weekend
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer is out right now. Among the highlights are:
- The far more important story regarding Paul Levesque than his retirement from wrestling, which is his health, what he went through, and how that impacts his future both in and out of wrestling
- WWE weekend shows, cards, ticket sales, secondary market sales, comps, Saturday main event, key results regarding the main event scene, the Hall of Fame, Shad Gaspard, Undertaker and NXT Stand & Deliver.
- 2021 Shad Gaspard/Jonathan Huber award winners
- New Japan Cup final coverage, the angles building to Sumo Hall, MVP, best match poll and the final two shows.
- Stardom's two shows at Sumo Hall. A look at the key matches and what is next for the largest women's wrestling company in the world.
- Finances of UFC and WWE, including how they are so similar as businesses as well as where they are different. We also look at the key business deal each has that doesn't involve TV rights and how WWE got so much of a better deal with a product that otherwise would have driven one-quarter the revenue and why
- Full coverage of this week's UFC show
- Who was the best college heavyweight of all-time
- More on the arrest of Chael Sonnen, why the felony charge was dropped and the lawsuit regarding the case
- Ric Flair and Mark Madden
- TV ratings and key points from those ratings for every show this week including peak segments, what type of viewers each show generates, who draws the youngest audience and how the shows rank with all of television and in the sports world.
- The return of the Universal champion of champions tournament
- More notes on the second Triplemania show this year
- Notes on New Japan US shows
- The wrestling career and post-wrestling life of the former Rocky King
- Ticket sales for upcoming shows
- Why UFC is running in Singapore in June
- UFC star elected into wrestilng Hall of Fame
- International wrestling TV ratings
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