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Ronda Rousey vs. Ruby Riott official for WWE Elimination Chamber
\nKenny Omega reveals AEW contract details, talks NJPW and WWE\u00a0\u00a0
\nRoman Reigns to guest star on Nickelodeon’s ‘Cousins for Life’\u00a0 \u00a0
\nNJPW and CMLL sending teams to NWA-ROH Crockett Cup\u00a0
\nAEW announces new talent for Double or Nothing
\nAEW Double or Nothing card begins to take shape\u00a0 \u00a0
\nKenny Omega signs with All Elite Wrestling\u00a0\u00a0
\nAEW Double or Nothing ticket onsale dates announced\u00a0 \u00a0
\nAll Elite Wrestling partnering with Lucha Libre AAA\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
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F4D: Raw, Smackdown, Becky, Mae Young hand, retro shows, women’s audience, more! 2\/8
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\nWOR: Kenny Omega on AEW, his match with Tanahashi, WWE 2\/8
\nWrestling Weekly: AEW party, Les Thornton, WWE unhappiness 2\/8
\nB&V: Retro Raw and Nitro from 19 years ago this week! 2\/7<\/p>\n
F4W NEWSLETTER:\u00a0Figure Four Weekly: WWE’s WrestleMania main event decision\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the first women’s WrestleMania main event is all but official at this point, WWE still has a huge decision to make about who will be in it.<\/p>\n
In a sense, WWE is playing with house money. Both options that they have are good ones. Whether the main event is Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch for the Raw Women’s Championship or a triple threat between Rousey, Lynch, and Charlotte Flair for the title, it will be the most heated match on the card and fully deserving of its place in the spotlight on WWE’s most important day of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WON NEWSLETTER:\u00a0February 11, 2019:\u00a0NJPW New Beginning in Sapporo review, more\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have no idea how this issue got done. I had surgery on my left little finger which was broken in three places on 1\/30, and it seemingly went well. <\/em><\/p>\n NJPW – New Beginnings: The two nights together did 10,957 paid with one sellout up from 10,002 last year. Tanahashi & Okada as The Dream Team vs. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale did the same as Tanahashi vs. Suzuki did last year for the IC title but paid was much higher this year for Naito vs. Taichi in Taichi\u2019s hometown than for Kenny Omega vs. Jay White for the U.S, title last year, although both were sellouts.<\/p>\n At Smackdown on Tuesday, several talents with contracts coming due were asked to sign new long-term deals after Dean Ambrose told the promotion he wasn\u2019t going to sign a new contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ian Riccaboni signed a new contract with ROH to continue as their play-by-play announcer.<\/p>\n UFC held a press conference today. The big heat seemed to be between Tyron Woodley and Kamaru Usman, building up their Welterweight Title fight at UFC 235 on March 2nd. Jon Jones is facing Anthony Smith on that show.<\/p>\n Conor McGregor will not be fighting Donald Cerrone in April. Khabib still claims he is not fighting for a year.<\/p>\n Jose Aldo defeated Renato Moicano, 44 seconds into the 2nd round. First round was very close. But it was the “old Aldo”, just destroyed him. Aldo is still talking about retiring at the end of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Filthy Tom Lawlor is the new MLW champion defeating Low Ki at their super fight one hour Bein Sports TV special from the 2300 (ECW) Arena in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n ORDERING INFO:\u00a0\u00a0Order the print Wrestling Observer right now and get it delivered\u00a0 via mail, by sending your name, address, Visa or Master Card number and an expiration date to\u00a0dave@wrestlingobserver.com\u00a0or by going to\u00a0www.paypal.com\u00a0directing funds to\u00a0dave@wrestlingobserver.com.<\/p>\n Rates in the United States are $14.50 for 4 issues, $35.50 for 12, $70 for 24, $116 for 40 and $149.50 for 52.<\/p>\n In Canada and Mexico, the rates are $16 for 4, $27 for 8, $38.50 for 12, $76 for 24, $126 for 40 and $162.50 for 52.<\/p>\n For the rest of the world, rates are $18 for 4, $48.50 for 12, $93 for 24, $155 for 40 and $201.50 for 52.<\/p>\n If you order by\u00a0 mail with a check, cash or money order to P.O. Box 1228, Campbell,CA\u00a0 95009-1228, you can get $1\u00a0off in every price range.<\/p>\n FRIDAY\u00a0NEWS UPDATE<\/u><\/p>\n <\/u><\/p>\n by Joseph Currier and Bryan Rose<\/em><\/p>\n WWE Ed in San Antonio presents the\u00a0WRESTLEMANIA Weekend Events (more to be added):<\/p>\n Sunday, April 6th, at 12:00 pm: Lunch (all you can eat) at Churrascaria Plataforma ($90 per person), located\u00a0at\u00a0316 W. 49th street in Manhattan.\u00a0Purchase tickets here~!\u00a0 CONTACT INFORMATION<\/p>\n Poll opinions:\u00a0dave@wrestlingobserver.com DAILY UPDATE Latest News Ronda Rousey vs. Ruby Riott official for WWE Elimination Chamber Kenny Omega reveals AEW contract details, talks NJPW and WWE\u00a0\u00a0 Roman Reigns to guest star on Nickelodeon’s ‘Cousins for Life’\u00a0 \u00a0 NJPW and CMLL sending teams to NWA-ROH Crockett Cup\u00a0 AEW announces new talent for Double or Nothing AEW Double or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nFrom Dave Meltzer on this weekend\u2019s WWE house shows: \u201cFor the weekend, no Rollins advertised anywhere including Raw. Rollins has been pulled from all advertising due to a back injury. Daniel Bryan & Rey Mysterio are scheduled for TV on Tuesday in Toledo but not for any house shows. AJ Styles, Randy Orton & Becky Lynch (even with the suspension angle) are still advertised for all SmackDown brand shows this week except Monday in Canton, which she was pulled from. That could mean she’s coming to Raw since it makes no sense for her to be on the road all week except Monday and then be scheduled Tuesday. Rousey is advertised for a Sunday house show in Saginaw and Raw Monday in Grand Rapids.\u201d
\nWWE stock was up 2.78 percent today, closing the week at $85.82 per share.
\nThe Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio is advertising Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe for the WWE Championship, Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair, and Bobby Lashley vs. Finn Balor for the Intercontinental title for Fastlane, which is taking place at the venue on March 10. Whether or not those matches will happen remains to be seen. Ronda Rousey is also being advertised for the PPV.
\nToday would have been Jim Neidhart\u2019s 64th birthday. Sherri Martel was also born on this date in 1958 and Freddie Blassie was born on this date in 1918.
\nNatalya wished her father a happy birthday: \u201cHappy birthday to my dad. What an amazing life he lived!!! So grateful we got so many wonderful years together\u201d
\nBig Show turned 47 years old today.
\nSports Illustrated has video of Roman Reigns\u2019 appearance in Nickelodeon\u2019s \u201cCousins for Life.\u201d The episode will air at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, March 2.
\nCongrats to Big Boa from NXT, whose wife recently gave birth.
\nRicochet tweeted that this year\u2019s Halftime Heat is the most-watched match in NXT history.
\nDean Ambrose talked about wrestling figures with Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins on the latest episode of the Major Wrestling Figure podcast. Seth Rollins was also the guest on today\u2019s episode of the Edge & Christian podcast.
\nStuber, a movie starring Kumail Nanjiani and Batista, will be played at the SXSW festival.
\nThe WWE Performance Center\u2019s YouTube account has a behind-the-scenes video from Eric Bugenhagen\u2019s NXT TV debut.
\nPro Wrestling
\nLAX and The Lucha Bros\u2019 Tag Team title rematch will air on tonight\u2019s episode of Impact. The match took place at Impact\u2019s television tapings in Mexico City last month and was well-received. Tonight\u2019s Impact airs on Twitch and the Pursuit Channel at 10 p.m. Eastern time and also features Kiera Hogan vs. Dark Allie, Sami Callihan vs. Puma King, Rich Swann & Willie Mack vs. Jake & Dave Crist, and Trey Miguel vs. Rohit Raju. Impact is advertising that they\u2019ll be revealing the main event for their WrestleMania week United We Stand show.
\nAEW\u2019s Nyla Rose is the first transgender wrestler to sign with a major promotion in the United States.
\nCody Rhodes & Nick Jackson and Brandi Rhodes did media scrums after last night\u2019s AEW Double or Nothing ticket announcement party.
\nMatt Jackson tweeted about Kenny Omega signing with AEW: \u201cWe were never not gonna do this without our best friend & co-founder of The Elite, @KennyOmegamanX. Welcome to the team, pal.\u201d
\nBooker T wrote about Kylie Rae joining AEW: \u201cOne of my best students, proud of you @IamKylieRae! Make @TheOfficialROW proud! @AEWrestling you got a good one.\u201d
\nNJPW will be holding a fan event called New Japan Matsuri at Japan Village in Brooklyn on Thursday, April 4 during WrestleMania week. It\u2019s free to attend and will run from noon-6 p.m. Eastern.
\nThe Briscoes defending their Tag Team titles against Villain Enterprises (PCO & Brody King) has been officially announced for ROH\u2019s 17th Anniversary PPV at Sam\u2019s Town Live in Las Vegas on Friday, March 15. PCO & King got the title shot by winning last month\u2019s Tag Wars tournament.
\nThe latest Ten Pounds of Gold has Billy Corgan doing media ahead of the Crockett Cup, as well as an interview with Jim Cornette.
\nKenny Omega talked to Razer about his love for video games and pro wrestling and how they tie together for thim.
\nJim Ross and Jerry Lawler appeared on today\u2019s Talk is Jericho, which was recorded during last year\u2019s Jericho cruise.
\nUFC\/MMA
\nDana White says that Tony Ferguson deserves the title match against Khabib Nurmagomedov next. He also said that he wants Conor McGregor back in the summer, and Donald Cerrone is the frontrunner for that fight.
\nWhite announced that the UFC has a one-show\u00a0deal with DirecTV to air UFC 234 this weekend.
\nAlexander Volkov will fight Alistair Overeem on a UFC Fight Night card on 4\/20 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
\nBellator announced a one-year deal with Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland.
\nThe UFC uploaded episodes four and five of Embedded for tomorrow\u2019s PPV.
\nAnderson Silva said he would like a fight at UFC 237 after facing Israel Adesanya this weekend.
\nColby Covington\u00a0is still upset about not getting the welterweight title shot, telling TSN: \u201cI’m the biggest draw this in this division right now. I’m not fighting for anything less than I deserve and I don’t care what they say. I’ll stand up for what’s right and if that means never fighting again then that means never fighting again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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