Daily Update: Karl Anderson, The Iron Claw, Wade Barrett

Latest News:

• WWE NXT viewership up, 18-49 rating down for Halloween Havoc fallout
• Report: The Kingdom sign multi-year AEW contracts
• WWE's Tommaso Ciampa undergoes hip surgery
• Billy Corgan open to NWA being developmental brand for WWE or AEW
• Tony Khan calls Eric Bischoff 'contradictory & hypocritical' over AEW criticisms
• CJ Perry/Lana addresses Miro's AEW absence: 'Tony Khan has his favorites'
• Great Muta appears at NJPW Battle Autumn, TV title tournament update
• Two women's matches added to NJPW Rumble on 44th Street
• WWE NXT video highlights: Ava Raine debuts
• NJPW releases statement on NEVER title match at Battle Autumn in Osaka

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This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

• October 24, 2022 Observer Newsletter: AAA Triplemania XXX Mexico City, Hall of Fame 2022 voting begins

• Match and performer of the week
• 2022 Hall of Fame ballot, rules, everyone eligible, thoughts on this year's election and the strongest candidates.What candidates on this year's ballot did the best in last year's ballot
• TripleMania, the story behind the show, business of the show, , news notes, poll results and star ratings
• WWE PPV changes, Crown Jewel notes and updates on upcoming PPV shows
• Dana White starting new promotion with Lorenzo Fertitta and two new combat ideas he's working on
• The life of Humberto Garza, the grandfather of two WWE stars and father of Hector Garza. Garza, who passed away this past week, was a very significant star in Mexico and a look at his career
• Full coverage of Saturday's UFC show,and the ramifications of the show.
• A look at the career of Jose Rivera, one of the key building blocks of the Puerto Rico wrestling boom, including a look back at the growth of WWC and its biggest feud ever
• Ratings for every show including how every segment did and details of AEW vs. NXT head-to-head on Tuesday
• First all-women's show in the history of a major promotion
• First women's main event on a Middle Eastern show
• CMLL star gives unique reason why he's been gone for so long
• The business of TripleMania
• More details on a wrestling show coming to Disney +
• Two starts of the same promotion were on the national team in the same competition
• The top matches from Royal Quest
• Update on the New Japan TV title tournament
• More details on the arrest of Shocker
• Who are the wrestlers who generate the most money on Cameo
• Jim Lyman tournament news
• Two stars going after fourth NCAA title
• WWE & Impact PPV Numbers from last week
• Adam Page update
• Update on ramifications of the brawl after All Out and where things stand regarding who stays and who goes
• More details on Chris Jericho's contract
• Tony Khan, Dana White and Vince McMahon all scheduling major events on the same day
• More on AEW new reality show
• More on AEW in Toronto
• AEW star announcing on the Mayweather show
• Upcoming ticket sales to AEW & WWE events
• DAZN back in the MMA business
• Dwayne Johnson and possible WWE sale
• UFC owners talk possible WWE sale
• Notes on Bray Wyatt return
• International TV ratings
• DVR viewership numbers for all shows so far this year
• Royal Rumble update
• Lots of injury updates
• The real story on why Billy Gunn wasn't at the DX Reunion on Raw
• Streaming numbers for AEW & WWE

This Week's Retro Observer Newsletter:

• September 12, 2005 Observer Newsletter: UFC & WWE rivalry heats up, Hurricane Katrina and pro wrestling in New Orleans

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Wednesday News Update

WWE

• Today marks one year since the start of Mandy Rose’s NXT Women’s Championship reign. Rose will celebrate the milestone on next Tuesday’s episode of NXT.
• WWE uploaded a Playlist video highlighting Rose’s title reign.
• Wade Barrett joined Ryan Satin on this week’s episode of Out of Character. Barrett was asked if he sees himself ever getting back into the ring: “I've never ruled out getting back in the ring one day. I won't say it's high on my list of priorities. I don't think I could physically do the full-time grind anymore, more mentally than physically. I think my body could hold up. I'm still in very good shape. I keep myself fit. But I think that the grind of doing that job full time for who knows how long would be very difficult for me at this point because I've just got other avenues now and other things I enjoy doing, most obviously, the commentary side of things, which I wouldn't want to give up."
• Sami Zayn told BT Sport that the angle where Roman Reigns gave him the “Honorary Uce” T-shirt may have been the best in-ring segment Zayn has ever done.
• The Temple Police Department is searching for a suspect who was wearing a toy WWE Championship belt during an armed robbery.
• Shawn Michaels appeared on the latest episode of Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast.
• The Boogeyman, Shotzi, and Liv Morgan were guests on today’s Halloween-themed edition of WWE’s The Bump.
• The following free matches have been added to WWE’s YouTube channel: Carmella vs. Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Women’s Championship (Backlash 2018), The Undertaker vs. Heidenreich in a casket match (Royal Rumble 2005), and Batista vs. Kane vs. Mark Henry vs. Finlay (May 25, 2007 SmackDown).

AEW/Other Wrestling

• At today’s NJPW Battle Autumn tour show, Hikuleo cut a promo saying that he wants to beat Karl Anderson for the NEVER Openweight Championship and doesn’t want Anderson to vacate the title. NJPW has issued a statement saying that Anderson will be stripped of the title if he doesn’t defend it against Hikuleo on November 5 in Osaka.
• Anderson responded to Hikuleo on Twitter: “I’m not vacating anything. I’m the greatest #NeverOpenweightChampion of all time. I’ll defend it on my time ….. get with my booking agent [Luke Gallows]. I’ll see ya then @Hiku_Leo. That’s #TooSweet”
• Douki missed today’s NJPW show due to a fever. His COVID-19 test came back negative, but he wasn’t cleared to compete out of an abundance of caution.
• The New York Post has an interview with Jay White.
• While appearing on the Swerve City podcast, Britt Baker revealed the “great advice” she’s gotten from Charlotte Flair about dealing with online criticism: “Back to Charlotte, her and I have chatted, and she has given me so much great advice just to get through this. She's given me solid advice to just stay true to what you know is true. Don't worry about the narratives that fans are creating or what they want to be true because you know what's going on and what you're working with. She's been fantastic to me.”
• Wardlow named Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley & Bryan Danielson as people who are leaders in the AEW locker room:
• Everybody backstage has done such a great job at communicating and we’ve been, honestly through all the, you know, you said ‘chaos’… fortunately, on the inside, it has made us so much tighter and I feel like since all that stuff happened, these past couple months have really changed the locker room and we have some really, really positive leadership. Guys like [Chris] Jericho and [Jon] Moxley and Bryan Danielson, they are true leaders and very passionate and they’ve done such a good job of getting the locker room together and on the same page and getting our company on the right track.
• Yeah, absolutely [it feels like a cohesive unit again]… We talked about this recently. I really feel like our locker room is as tight as it was when we first started a few years ago because when we first started man, we were all on the same mission, we were a family and then we survived COVID together where we spent more time with each other than our families.
• Today is CM Punk’s 44th birthday.
• The Daily Mail published photos of Zac Efron on the set of “The Iron Claw.” Efron is playing Kevin Von Erich in the Von Erich family biopic.
• Laredo Kid ruptured his intestines while wrestling at a Lucha Libre AAA event over the weekend. It was revealed on Monday that Laredo Kid had undergone emergency surgery for the injury.
• Last night’s Tales from the Territories episode on Championship Wrestling from Florida averaged 101,000 viewers on Vice TV. The rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.02.