THURS. UPDATE: Hogan keeping up with Flair; UFC loses main match for Saturday, Dana pissed; Ratings

We've got a lead story on Brock Lesnar, what exactly happened with him over the past two weeks, the UFC heavyweight title picture, as well as a look at the new main event level matches UFC has put together over the past week in this coming Monday's issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Joe Babinsack looks at WSU Excellence DVD

WSU: Excellence DVD Women’s Superstars Uncensored 14.95 In professional wrestling? What’s interesting to me, and I’ve said this before, is that the most pure version of professional wrestling is being portrayed in rings with talented female athletes wrestling in them.

Dan Wahlers talks about going to Raw live at MSG

Putting that aside, as a go home show for one of the major PPV's of the year, they failed in every regard. I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of the least bought Survivor Series PPV's in ten years. I don't know if they think the Survivor Series name alone is going to be enough, and that the star p...

TUES. UPDATE: Brock health update, Diva returns, Raw live notes, TNA superstar injury, absurd sale

We're also looking for reports of tonight's ECW and Smackdown taped in Philadelphia at the Wachovia Center and a second night of Impact tapings in Orlando. ECW main event will be Hurricane vs. Paul Burchill with the mask vs. Paul & Katie leaving town. Smackdown main event is Chris Jericho...

Todd Martin's Raw TV report for November 16

John Cena & Undertaker beat Chris Jericho & Big Show and HHH & Shawn Michaels. Cena cut one of his obnoxious cutesy promos before the match. The average age of these six Survivor Series headliners is 39 years old. That’s the average. They’re slowly morphing into the AWA. The match f...

MON. UPDATE: Special tribute TV show tonight; Lesnar update; TNA tag match; WWE star injured

The Wrestling Observer ranges from 25,000 to 40,000 words covering bookers, to promoters to Hall of Fame wrestlers and fighters to the mail, by sending to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, P.O. Box 1228, Wrestler gets a gig on a TV show Notes on the EA Sports MMA video game

Todd Martin's Raw TV report for the 12 year anniversary of Montreal

DX beat Chris Jericho and Big Show. Jericho and Show worked over Michaels, who eventually got the tag to HHH. HHH came in with a face buster on Show and went for the pedigree but Show reversed it and hit the spear. John Cena was doing commentary for this and trying to hard sell the Survivor Series m...

TUES UPDATE: Hogan hilarity, Lesnar update, ratings, Raw notes, DGUSA tourney, CMLL major woes

We've got full coverage of WWE building Survivor Series, thoughts on Bragging Rights both as a first show and doing forward, the Iron man match and what it told about Randy Orton and John Cena, a well as match-by-match coverage, business notes, star ratings and poll results on the show.

Raw is Ozzy Osbourne TV report

Jericho and Show worked over Cena for a while together. Cena came back with a bulldog on Jericho but Show caught him with a spear and Jericho gave him a lionsault. Jericho covered but Show pulled him off. Jericho and Show got into an argument and Jericho slapped Show.

MON. UPDATE: ROH gets KENTA replacement; WWE on MyNetwork; Fedor promotion; Linda Bollea talks book

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FRI. UPDATE: Update on tons of UFC fights, Hogan news, World Title DVD line-up, Low-Ki back, DGUSA

Disc 3 - WWE Unforgiven '02 - Triple H vs. Rob Van Dam Taboo Tuesday '04 - Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels No Way Out '06 - Kurt Angle vs. The Undertaker SmackDown 4/7/06 - Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton Armageddon '07 - Batista vs. Undertaker vs. Edge Survivor Series '08 - John Cena vs. Chris Jericho

TUES UPDATE: Tons on Hogan and TNA, upcoming appearances, his book, WWE angles, Ross, HHH vs. Taker

“Hulk Hogan is one of the world’s top pop culture icons and the biggest superstar in the history of professional wrestling. We are truly excited to welcome him into the TNA family,” said Dixie Carter, President of TNA Wrestling. “Our goal is to become the world’s biggest professional wrest...

Raw is Raw report by Todd Martin

The Big News: WWE finally took an explicit stand against repetitious main event booking and instead announced John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels vs. HHH for Survivor Series. Backstage, Jack Swagger and Miz were looking for a title shot against John Cena from the NASCAR guys. They said they would pi...

More feedback to the weekend events

WWE Bragging Rights Thumbs Up Best Match: John Cena v Randy Orton Are we done with Cena v Orton? Please? Hi guys, Bragging rights was a really fun show top to bottom. Best match was the main event, worst was, surprise surprise, the divas.

WWE Bragging Rights, Dream, Heyman and UFC 104 feedback

It's interesting that even thought John Cena and Randy Orton have met far too many times in recent years, WWE were able to make this one match on a B PPV feel more important than anything that appeared at Bound for Glory last Sunday. I watched the whole show on Bravo on Wednesday night and nothi...

SAT UPDATE: UFC and DREAM line-ups and weights, notes for tonight, Hogan back at MSG, Rampage, more

Sunday has the WWE Bragging Rights PPV at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, with Randy Orton vs. John Cena in a 60:00 Iron man match for the WWE title, Undertaker vs. Batista vs. C.M. Punk vs. Rey Mysterio for the World title and Team Raw of DX & Kofi Kingston & Mark Henry & Jack Swagger &am...

Dan Wahlers talks improving WWE PPV business and Bragging Rights

Iron Man Match for WWE Championship: (c)Randy Orton vs. John Cena Team Raw (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Big Show, Kofi Kingston, Cody Rhodes, Jack Swagger, Mark Henry) vs. Team Smackdown (Chris Jericho, Kane, Finlay, Matt Hardy, R-Truth, Tyson Kidd, David Hart Smith)

Joe Babinsack looks at Paul Orndorff shoot DVD

Like many Shoot interviews, it starts a little slow, and seems to take a little bit of talking before the subject warms up. I was a bit mystified when Orndorff talked about leaving professional football because of the schedule, and segued that into getting into professional wrestling.

Missy Hyatt talks Shane McManhon's resignation

Theory #5: Shane was leaking out information to the sheets . Important story line spoilers that John Cena VS. Randy Orton would be headlining yet another pay per view was frowned upon by management. Not the idea that the same match was being done for the eleventh time on PPV in three years was th...

TUES. UPDATE: JIM ROSS ILL, NIGEL AT TNA, SURPRISING DVD RELEASE, MMA GROUP GETS NBC, INJURY UPDATE

South Park is doing a wrestling-themed episode, which includes animations of John Cena and Edge, which will air on October 21st in the US and October 23rd in the UK. There is a preview up here. Thanks to Mark Harris. The Tri-State Wrestling Alliance (TWA) REUNION SHOW: Saturday, October 24, 2...

Raw is Snoop Dogg TV report for October 19th

Triple H beat John Cena. They gave them 20 minutes and the announcers repeatedly called this a classic. I thought it was good, but not memorable even by the end of the show. I’m also very worried this means HHH vs. Cena is the next feud after Orton vs. Cena.

MON. UPDATE: ROH TITLE & UFC W/RAW TV TONIGHT; RATINGS; ALBANO; HEYMAN INTERVIEW; MORE TNA ...

controversial career of Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit as well as and worst shows as voted both by wrestlers and non-wrestlers and as well as coverage of One Night Stand, Hardcore Homecoming and Bischoff changed the company, signing of Hulk Hogan, Beginning of Nitro,

SAT. UPDATE: BRUNO, ROCK, SAMOA JOE, SHANE MCMAHON, BFG PREVIEW, WWE ANGLES HAUNT LINDA

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FRI. UPDATE: SHANE MCMAHON, LAWLER RACE, LINDA SMACKED DOWN, RATINGS, WWE SURVEY, TORRIE BIKINI, ETC

Monday has Raw in Jacksonville with John Cena vs. HHH as the main event, billed as "potentially" Cena's last match on Raw. Snoop Dogg is the guest celebrity host. Rates are: Pro Wrestling Fusion this Saturday at Ft. Pierce PAL Center, 1401 N. 2nd Street, Ft. Pierce, FL. 34950

Todd Martin's Raw TV report for October 13th

Rhodes and DiBiase worked over Cena for a while, but for some reason after Cena hit a Cena slam Orton decided to look down and not pay attention so Cena was able to tag himself in despite Orton’s wishes. Rhodes and DiBiase went for rollups on Orton, who tagged back in Cena. Cena hit a Cena slam and...

SAT. UPDATE: WWE on changes; Advertised main event for 3-hour Raw; Lawler last ditch effort

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WED. UPDATE: BOOKER T/TNA PROBLEMS; TNA SPECIALS; SUPERSTARS; FLAIR'S TITLE BELT AUCTION; KIMBO

controversial career of Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit as well as Royal Rumble and Battle Royal history) background with Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan) April 10, 2008 (Farewell to Ric Flair; My thoughts, Shawn Michaels talks its own, $8 overseas)

ECW TV report by Phil DiLiegro

So, the boring chant (or “this is boring”) is now back in vogue in WWE. You can blame Shawn Michaels (or whoever wrote that line for him) for that one. Several years ago, they had Lance Storm about to wrestle a match on Raw until Steve Austin (who wasn’t wrestling at the time, but was a recurring b...

Missy Hyatt looks at Guest Booker with James E. Cornette

I saw OVW from 2001. By booking wrestlers like John Cena, Randy Orton, Dave Batista, and others in long term story lines and giving them promo time allowed them to develop a long range of character development. The end result was that they made WWE millions in merchandise, PPV buy rates, and h...

Todd Martin's WWE Raw Report for October 6th

DX beat Chris Jericho and Big Show in a fun match. I guess this is your next tag title program. The heels worked over HHH for a while. He got the tag to Michaels but the heels quickly gained control over Michaels as well. Jericho applied the Walls for an extended period. Michaels came back with an enz...

Opinion: More Hell in a Cell feedback

Best match-Cena vs Orton 4) Jericho and Big Show over Batista and Mysterio. (3 and a half stars). Since the switch to kiddie-fare, ratings are now on a sliding scale, as much less is expected. This was a hoot, and despite the limitations of Show and Batista, well worked by all.

More feedback to Hell in a Cell

Best match: Cena-Orton Worst match: Divas title The same thing with Triple H who made Legacy look like kids. I can't wait to see how badly WWE gets embarrassed when they run Survivor Series a day after UFC 106. WWE is going to ironically end up looking like CM Punk and Legacy did tonight.

WWE Hell in a Cell PPV match-by-match coverage w/2 title changes

I guess that means DX gets the main event slot. Good long match. Orton kicked out of the Attitude Adjustment and Cena kicked out of the RKO. The finish saw Orton tie Cena into the ropes and put him in a long chinlock, which was called that he choked him out. When Cena was released from the ropes by the...

SUN. UPDATE: HELL IN THE CELL PREVIEW AND NOTES, SAKURABA BACK, MAYHEM FLIPS OUT, WOL, BUDDY, MORE

Chris Jericho Big Show vs. Batista Rey Mysterio for the tag titles. Jericho and Mysterio had fantastic chemistry in their feud a few months back. This is Mysterio's return from suspension and the dynamic looks to be the best match Jericho Show will have as champs.

SAT. UPDATE: STEINER CAUSES RIOT, CELL PREVIEW AND TICKET INFO, BRAGGING RIGHTS, LACEY BACKTRACKS

John Cena vs. Randy Orton in the Cell. They are coming off a great Chris Jericho Big Show vs. Batista Rey Mysterio for the tag titles. A look at symbolic end of eras for Pro Wrestling NOAH, K-1 and promos and pro wrestling, as well as trash talk between Brock Lesnar and

Dan Wahlers looks at the Hell in a Cell PPV

Hell in a Cell Match for WWE Championship: (c)John Cena vs. Randy Orton Unified Tag Team Championship Match: (c)Chris Jericho/Big Show vs. Batista/Rey Mysterio Triple Threat Match for United States Championship: (c)Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz vs. Jack Swagger

TUES. UPDATE: HARDY HEARING, KIMBO NEWS, PIPER'S SON FIGHTS, WWE BELT AUCTION, TATSU UPDATE, LILIAN

The 10th anniversary episode of Smackdown will be taped tonight in Boston with Undertaker & DX & John Cena vs. Legacy & Randy Orton & C.M. Punk in the all-star main event, plus a taped appearance by Dwayne Johnson and a scheduled live appearance by Vickie Guerrero. TNA has a sh...

Todd Martin's WWE Raw report for September 28

The gauntlet match with John Cena against Chris Jericho, Big Show and Randy Orton was more of an angle than a match. Jericho attacked Cena first. Cena went for the FU a few times but couldn’t get it. Jericho applied the Walls. Cena got to the ropes but Jericho refused to break and just kept the hold...

SUN. UPDATE: CORNETTE'S ROLE IN ROH; ROCK APPEARS AT SHOW LAST NIGHT; ANOTHER NEW WORLD CHAMP

The 10th anniversary episode of Smackdown will be taped on Tuesday night in Boston with Undertaker DX John Cena vs. Legacy Randy Orton C.M. Punk in the all-star main event, plus a taped appearance by Dwayne Johnson and a scheduled live appearance by Vickie Guerrero. TNA has a show on Tuesday in...

Rev. Al Sharpton talks WWE's past racial insensitivity

So, earlier this week, I reached out to Sharpton through his National Action Network, and asked him to address some specific racial controversies coming out of WWE, including its depiction of several racial stereotypes in some of its characters, such as the lawn mower-riding Mexicool...

FRI. UPDATE: HUGE WEEKEND, MEXICO BATTLES, FLOYD BUYRATE, HODGE ARTICLE, CSAC PROBLEMS, SHARPTON

Tuesday has Smackdown and ECW being taped in Boston, for the ten year anniversary of Smackdown headlined by Undertaker & HHH & Shawn Michaels & John Cena vs. Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes & C.M. Punk & Randy Orton as the main event. TNA also has a show that night in Dortmund...

WED. UPDATE: MYSTERIO; RATINGS; PPVS; SMACKDOWN 10TH; HOGAN;WHITE TALKS RAMPAGE AND KIMBO'S FUTURE

September 12, 2005 (History of Mid South Wrestling) October 10, 2005 (Life and Times of the Ultimate Warrior) Rey Mysterio returns at the Hell in a Cell PPV, teaming with Batista to face Chris Jericho Big Show for the tag titles Punk vs. Undertaker vs. Batista 22.6% Punk vs. Batista 6.1%

Raw in Halifax, NS house show report for 9/19

7. John Cena beat Randy Orton to retain the WWE championship after a F- Attitude Adjustment. Crowd reaction was the usual for Cena - massive pop on the music, 80/20 for Cena during the intros and the match itself. After the match, Legacy ran down to beat down Cena before Henry and MVP made the sav...

WWE RAW House Show Results Saint John, New Brunswick 9/18

3. Chris Masters beat Alex Riley (From Moncton, New Brunswick apparently...) 4. WWE United States Title: Kofi Kingston beat The Miz. Swagger attacked Kofi and Miz stole the belt again. 5. Gail Kim beat Alicia Fox 6. Legacy beat Evan Bourne Mark Henry 7. WWE Title: John Cena beat Randy Orton

Russell Brodie on U.K. wrestlers in Hall of Fame

Personally, I do believe that it's difficult to compare the British stars with the American, Japanese or Mexican ones because our wrestling was quite unique and had it's own set of rules, just as our wrestlers practiced their own unique style or working. However, all the top stars became g...

WWE Raw is Batista and Trish TV report for Sept. 15

Batista beat Randy Orton. Batista hit some clotheslines. Orton grabbed a chair but Batista speared him. Batista threw Orton into the announce table and steps. Orton went for the RKO but Batista countered into a spine buster. Orton left the ring, but John Cena came out to stop him from leaving. Or...

A former wrestling star talks Hall of Fame balloting

Another question is how do you gauge a wrestler if they never worked anywhere prior to the WWE? Their legend status is indicative on how well they are booked. For example, Edge, John Morrison, John Cena, others didn’t have much of a career prior to WWE. It’s not like in comparison to a wrestler...

More Breaking Point feedback

the main event. These fans that the promotion are seemingly Also obscene: fans worldwide paying a premium on pay-per-view and submission pay-per-view by giving such a comprised pay off in the Breaking Point Pay-Per-View that resonates in a positive way so fans

SUN. UPDATE: COUTURE HEADLINES UFC 105; MORE ON HARDY CHARGES; FORMER WWE TAG CHAMP BACKSTAGE

Chris Jericho Big Show vs. MVP Mark Henry for the tag titles Randy Orton vs. John Cena in the loser must say I Quit match for the WWE title Former WWE wrestler who coached Shane Carwin and trained with Brock Lesnar gives thoughts on the fight WWE wrestler undergoes major surgery

FRIDAY UPDATE: HARDY ARREST, WEEKEND SCHEDULE, HENDO VS. NATE, WWE BELT AUCTION, NEXT RAW GUEST HOST

WWE wrestler undergoes major surgery Hulk Hogan vs. Harry Valdez Championship Wrestling November 13, 1979 Andre the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. in a Grocery Store Snake Pit with Hulk Hogan All American Wrestling March 29, 1987 WWE Championship Match Hulk Hogan vs. Kamala

Dan Wahlers talks Breaking Point and changes in WWE PPV shows

Chris Jericho and Big Show will defeat Mark Henry and MVP to retain the Unified Tag Titles. MVP and Henry got their wins this past Monday on Raw, with MVP pinning Jericho, and Henry body slamming Show. That was their door prize. Jericho and Show pick up the win here. Who do they feud with for the tit...

WED. UPDATE: UFC LOADED WITH TV NEXT WEEK; WWE LOOKING FOR NEW VP; ROH TV; BREAKING POINT; CORNETTE

Former WWE wrestler who coached Shane Carwin and trained with Brock Lesnar gives thoughts on the fight WWE wrestler undergoes major surgery September 12, 2005 (History of Mid South Wrestling) October 10, 2005 (Life and Times of the Ultimate Warrior)

RAW IS BOB BARKER~! TV report

Shawn Michaels and HHH beat Chris Masters and Randy Orton. The heels worked over Michaels, who eventually got the tag to HHH. HHH gave Masters a spine buster and tagged back in Michaels for an elbow off the top. Michaels went for sweet chin music but Masters ducked under and applied the Masterl...

WWE house show results 9-4 Sioux Falls

9/4/09 WWE Raw House Show - Sioux Falls Arena Evan Bourne d. Chavo Guerrero with assistance from Hornswoggle. Chris Masters d. Alex Riley. Shaemus d. Santino Marella. Kofi Kingston won a three-way over the Miz and MVP to retain the U.S. title. Mickie James and Gail Kim d. Rosa Mendes and Beth Phoenix w...

John Cena interview on Randy Orton, SummerSlam, Dwayne Johnson, Baseball and more

By Joe McDonnell Hope all's well. Had a chance to sit down with John Cena before he threw out the first pitch prior to the Dodgers-Cubs game at Dodger Stadium Thursday night. The interview ran Saturday afternoon on the Sports Saturday Show with me and Bob Berger on Sporting News Radio. When he w...

Opinion: WWE Backlash first round of feedback

WWE Backlash FeedbackThumbs upBest match: John Cena v. EdgeWorst match: Santina Marella v. Beth Phoenix Hi DaveI enjoyed the show, although the kiss-cam segment was atrocious and WWE should be ashamed for allowing it on tv, much less pay-per-view. Of course, the wrestling gods ensured th...

Jerry Jarrett talks the next big thing in wrestling is already here; plus Dr. Death, Kenny Bolin

Opinion: More Survivor Series feedback

Hi Dave,I'm not usually a WWE apologist, but I do have to question your ranting on the Smackdown title match at Survivor Series. To me it looked like Triple H and Kozlov had a purposefully boring match to make the fans want Jeff Hardy more.They stalled on the mat a lot did bearhugs and such. It did...

Opinion: Jeuron Dove talks about the return of John Cena

By Jeuron Dovedove_jeuron0307@hotmail.com (mailto:dove_jeuron0307@hotmail.com) Hello fans. I would like to start out by congratulating Brock Lesnar on his historic win over Randy Couture for the UFC heavyweight title. I’m not the biggest MMA fan and I normally skim through all the MMA...

STORY BEHIND COUTURE SIGNING; KOWALSKI HISTORY; 2008 HALL OF FAME BALLOTING RESULTS

Opinion: Raw TV report for March 24

WWE RAW(Commentators - Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler)John Cena opens the show, coming down to the ring and cutting a promo that we've seen many times before. Of course, we've seen this whole segment many times before, albeit with a varied cast, as Big Show; JBL; Randy Orton; Umaga; and HHH all...

Lashley, Cena, Fight Night, ROH, more

By Bryan Alvarez (mailto:figure4@ix.netcom.com) We do not have one hundred percent confirmation, but it appears there is a good chance that the stories of Lashley being released from WWE are true.