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This Week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

May 29, 2023 Observer Newsletter: CM Punk & AEW work things out, Nick Khan on future WWE TV plans

In this issue:

Match and performer of the weekC.M. Punk agrees to return to AEW againPlans for CollisionSome of the agreements reached for Punk's return including what happens with Ace SteelPromotion of the United Center showEarly ticket sales for United Center and all the Collision tapingsEconomics of arenas in ChicagoPromotion of the Collision shows so farCollision later this year against tougher sports competitionNick Khan talks lots of new potential ideas for television and NXTThe U.K. television landscapeNew ways WWE is looking to make money from its major eventsA preview of WWE's two big shows this week, favorites, and business notesAEW Double or Nothing looked at, including business notes on the show, ideas and anglesMercedes Mone injured and Willow Nightingale ends up as New Japan Strong women's championA look at the tournamentLots of thoughts and notes on the showMark Davis injuryAngles coming off the New Japan Long Beach showHow tickets moved after Mone was announcedMatch-by-match coverage, star ratings and poll resultsRundown of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament, coverage of the biggest matches this pas week and how the tournaments went downUFC show coverageThe most in-depth look at the ratings for all the national wrestling shows and how they compare with the same period last year, as well as the competition and what the numbers meanMajor wrestling and boxing promotion looking at working with each otherMore on the CMLL Anniversary plansAEW star debuting in AAAAEW star looks to be done with AAAStardom building title vs title match this weekendHana Kimura Memorial showDDT tournament finalsSchedule for Dark Side of the Ring and thoughtsCain Velasquez trial updatePromotion quietly gets national cable dealA number of different stars on next MLW tapingsImpact TV lineupsAEW video game updateAEW and profits and lossesDarby Allin and climbing Mount EverestTony Khan talks booking teamNotes on Forbidden DoorThunder Rosa talks battling depressionWhat stars who believe they can't appear on Forbidden DoorTicket sales for upcoming WWE and AEW showsInternational TV numbersTalk about promoting AEW live eventsBest merchandise sellersUpdate on how UFC pays fightersDana White talks Francis Ngannou dealPFL talks the deal and why it makes sense even if it doesn't seem toTyson Fury and Jon Jones war of words has predictable outcomeMackenzie Der and divorce issuesLots of Billy Graham history and Hogan & Flair talk about his influenceWhy Hogan and Graham fell out years agoGraham's lawsuit against Vince McMahonGraham's sellout records in MSG and why they are even more impressive than they appearHogan the face of a new companyWomen's' tag team division issuesLots of injury notes and updatesTwo WWE stars play women wrestlers of the 30s and 50s in a new movie being filmed soonMore on a Ric Flair movieKota Ibushi talks WWEThree WWE athletes going for a world championship berth in wrestling this yearGable Steveson talks his pro wrestling trainingMedian age of wrestling Tv viewers for the different shows

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Wednesday Update

WWE

Rhea Ripley spoke to Sports Illustrated about her evolution in WWE: “I’m a very genuine person. When I first started in WWE, I was very timid and scared that I was going to do something wrong. I wanted to please everyone. That’s why you saw the Rhea Ripley you did. I didn’t think people would gravitate toward me. I thought they wanted something else from me. But it’s amazing. I stopped caring. I know myself better than anyone else. I found the confidence within myself to be myself. That’s the Rhea Ripley you see today.”The New York Post reported that Pat McAfee’s contract with ESPN is for five years and around $85 million total. McAfee will be making about $17 million per year.In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, The Undertaker discussed the reaction he’s received from fans now that he speaks out of character: “It's so funny, because I was the last guy that put that kind of effort into protecting the business and protecting a character. It's so funny the amount of hate that I've got, from people now, you know, they hear my normal voice, and me talk about normal things. The hate that I get because people feel like I destroyed their childhood and I'm like, ‘Me!?, me!? I was the last one. I was the last one, I'm the guy you're gonna take your heat out on?’”Undertaker also spoke to The Independent about how he’s dealing with retirement:I’ve got to the point now where if I’m home, I’m fine. It’s when I do show up at a WWE event I get that ‘I should be getting ready’ feeling.At WrestleMania 39, I was there and I had my family and friends up in a suite watching the show and I kind of found myself rocking in my chair like, ‘oh, my gosh, I should be down there’. So in those instances, it’s there. It’s still in my heart and it’s in my brain.After announcing her pregnancy, Alexa Bliss assured a fan on Twitter that she’ll be returning to the ring.Seth Rollins, Chelsea Green, Sonya Deville, and Titus O’Neil were guests on WWE’s The Bump this afternoon.Maxxine Dupri appeared on the latest episode of Out of Character.WWE’s YouTube channel uploaded the following matches: Triple H vs. Scott Steiner for the World Heavyweight Championship (No Way Out 2003), Otis vs. The Miz (Hell in a Cell 2020), and Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley for the Raw Women's Championship (July 19, 2021 Raw).

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With tonight’s Dynamite taking place in the city, today was declared as “All Elite Wrestling Day” in San Diego.AEW shared footage of Eddie Kingston, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson from their Fight Forever video game.On his podcast, Tony Schiavone said his current AEW contract runs through April 2024. Schiavone responded when Conrad Thompson joked about him having a lifetime deal with AEW: “That’s a f*cking lie. Unless my life ends by April of next year. There is no guarantee that they’re gonna re-sign me. There’s no guarantee on that. That’s how I approach life.”During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, Cassie Lee (the former Peyton Royce) discussed returning to the ring for World Series Wrestling in Australia this October: “This is a home promotion for me in Australia. Shawn Spears is already doing it, and we thought it was kind of perfect for me to go along with him and take our son. It's really exciting and they were open to the idea. We've been talking about doing mixed tag stuff for a long time and it was a good opportunity to do that.”Lee was asked about potentially reuniting with her former tag team partner Jessica McKay: “At the moment, she's really focused on her acting career, which I still am too, but being a mom now, I feel I need to contribute a certain amount to our household and my son. I had a whole life before he came along and I had all my big accomplishments before he came along. He's so young, but we'll have photos and footage, and he'll know that he was there to see it all. Jess is still concentrated on acting, but I still want to tag. That's why I want to tag with Shawn. I love tag wrestling."Jonny Candido thanked Dark Side of the Ring for telling his brother Chris’ story: “A huge thank you to @DarkSideOfRing and @evanhusney for telling my brother’s story. You guys did an amazing job”Ichiban vs. TJ Crawford has been announced for MLW’s Fusion TV tapings in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 8.

The MC Audiotech Forty-10 ($35,000) is probably the most exotic speaker seen and heard at the Florida Audio Expo. In our conversation, MC Audiotech’s Mark Conti revealed that the upper portion of the Forty-10, a two-way, is based on a patented Wide Band Line Source (WBLS) transducer; according to a white paper from the designer Paul Paddock, it could be called a “predictable flexible membrane” transducer and is related to “bending wave” technology. Though this represents a modern iteration, the device had its earliest conceptual origins back in the 1920s and 1930s; Paddock’s original patent, on which the Forty-10 is based, dates from 1985.

The top array of each Forty-10 houses 10 WBLS drivers behind a flexible membrane of a proprietary fabric that comes in a wide array of colors to suit your décor. Its frame is supported by a Folded Cube woofer, a dipole design, which reproduces frequencies of 100Hz and below. It comes with an external hybrid crossover that includes user-adjustable low-frequency levels and contouring to “tilt” deeper bass.

The Forty-10 is an efficient design, spec’d at 96dB sensitivity (93dB for the dual woofers; the Forty-10 must be biamped). In the demo system, the array was driven by Linear Tube Audio amplification, the ZOTL Ultralinear amplifier, which employs NOS 17JN6 power tubes (as employed in this amplifier, these exotic tubes have a claimed lifetime of 10,000–20,000 hours) and no output transformers ($6800), and the EL34-based ZOTL40 Reference amplifier ($6800). Preamplification was provided by a MicroZOTL preamp ($4450). Digital music data was delivered by a Wolf Audio Systems Alpha 3 music server ($6895) and rendered into analog by a PS Audio DSD DAC ($6000). The components were wired with Audience AU24 SX Series cables and supported by the Symposium Foundation Ultra rack ($3600).

I enjoyed this system’s aesthetic nod to midcentury modern design, but the best thing about it was the sound, which, on tracks from Bill Frisell and Count Basie, and on “Long Time Gone” by Billie Joe + Norah, was spacious in staging (yet to scale), smooth in dispersion, full of detail and texture, and natural. The Forty-10s seemed to disappear sonically more than many loudspeakers of more conventional design.

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OYSTER BAY, NY — The family of missing 19-year-old boater Jack Koch said Monday that his body was recovered Sunday night in Oyster Bay.

The body of Koch, who was from Locust Valley, was recovered by a local fisherman near Caumsett Park, in Lloyd Neck Harbor, his family said.

In a statement to Patch, the family said that while their hearts are broken “at the loss of Jack, we are relieved he has been returned to us and grateful for the outpouring of love, generosity, and support from our wonderful community.”

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“Jack was the most loyal, kind, and hardworking young man and we will hold him in our hearts forever,” the family said.

The family credited the multiple agencies that aided the search, including Nassau police’s Marine Bureau, the U.S. Coast Guard, New York Police Department’s Aviation Bureau, and the Oyster Bay Constable, as well as the Bayville and the Oyster Bay fire departments, Christian Aid Ministries, and “many local friends and family members.”

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Police received a call about the body of a dead person in the water just before 1 p.m., and personnel from the police department’s Marine Bureau, along with Oyster Bay constables recovered it before taking it to Theodore Roosevelt Marina in Oyster Bay, Nassau police said.

The body was then taken to the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s office for evaluation, according to police.

The investigation is ongoing, police said.

Koch fell off a sailboat near Centre Island on May 15, prompting a massive multi-agency search of the surrounding water.

The U.S. Coast Guard officials suspended its search the following day after a 20-hour search, officials said.

He had fallen into the water while he was out with an 18-year-old friend sailing at around 11:30 p.m., and when he could not be found, the friend called another friend who was onshore, Nassau police said.

The teen, along with two other males, then took a boat and was able to find the sailboat along with the 18-year-old, but the 19-year-old could not be found, according to police.

The U.S. Coast Guard was contacted after a good Samaritan reported there were two people who fell in the water from a sailboat, near Lloyd Point at the entrance to Oyster Bay, at about 1 a.m., according to Petty Officer John Hightower.

Several boats, including from the Coast Guard’s Eatons Neck station, Oyster Bay Constable, the Bayville and Oyster Bay fire departments, and Nassau police’s Marine Bureau responded as part of a water search.

Helicopters from the aviation units of Nassau police and the New York Police Department, as well as a Coast Guard helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, were all called in for overflight searches.

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The search took place over 851 nautical square miles, the coast guard said.

The teen went missing days after officials recovered the body of James Jaronszyk from Great South Bay.

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Shawn Michaels addressed the media on a conference call to promote NXT Battleground. 

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Here are notes from the call:

Regarding Bron Breakker not getting drafted to the main roster: Michaels said there are still some "really great matches" left for Bron Breakker in NXT. He's under the impression that Breakker will still be part of the brand for a while. When asked about Blair Davenport, Michaels said they are interested in having her back in NXT but the ball is in her court. Davenport hasn't wrestled anywhere since the Worlds Collide special on September 4, 2022. Earlier this year, it was rumored that she was dealing with visa issues.  Michaels mentioned Wes Lee as a standout performer on the current roster. Also mentioned Gallus has done great since coming over from NXT UK. Regarding the Dyad (Rip Fowler & Jagger Reid), he said there are no hard feelings regarding them requesting their release but while they are here he wants to put them in a prominent role. Says there is too much talent to waste there. There were plans for Indi Hartwell as champion before she got injured and then drafted to Raw. He loved the story of her winning the title. To the best of his knowledge, NXT will not be going head-to-head with AEW pay-per-views again but said those decisions are not made by him. The timing of NXT Battleground was to take advantage of the holiday weekend and also with Night of Champions the day before.There is nothing to update on the status of NXT Europe.  Regarding Ilja Dragunov not being on the main roster, Michaels said he doesn't make the decisions regarding who gets called up but he's very excited about Dijak vs. Dragunov on Sunday. Also mentioned that Dragunov hasn't really been in NXT that long and there are still several interesting matches for him here. He feels that it's only a matter of time before Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre have to return in order to defend the NXT tag titles.Michaels was asked about his history in the city of Lowell. Michaels famously "lost his smile" in the city and also once dropped the European title to Triple H in a rather controversial fashion there as well. He responded that he may have lost his smile in Lowell but he'll find it again in Lowell too. Michaels said he had a pretty decent idea of who he was going to lose in the draft. He continued to say losing 15 wrestlers from their roster is an adjustment but he feels very comfortable with it. 

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La France “a des marges de progrès considérables” en matière de protection de la forêt amazonienne, estime Arnaud Schwartz, président de France Nature Environnement, dimanche 4 juin sur franceinfo. Emmanuel Macron reçoit ce même jour le chef indigène d’Amazonie Raoni Metuktire, en vue du Sommet des pays d’Amazonie, cet été, où la France a été invitée par le Brésil. “La France a aussi, avec la Guyane, un morceau de forêt amazonienne sur son propre territoire, et donc quelque chose de très concret à faire chez elle, pour la protéger“, précise Arnaud Schwartz.

>>> Amazonie : “J’ai besoin de vous” pour sauver la forêt, clame le chef indigène Raoni à Paris

francinfo : Le message de Raoni pour la protection de la forêt amazonienne est plus que jamais d’actualité, l’exploitation diminue, mais la forêt amazonienne est en diminution constante…

Arnaud Schwartz, président de France Nature Environnement : Oui, malgré sa réception par différents présidents de la République, il n’y a pas grand-chose qui change. Ce n’est pas forcément la faute des successifs présidents de la France, mais ils ont peut-être leur part de responsabilité aussi. Ce qui pose problème au niveau de la forêt amazonienne, c’est entre autres l’exploitation illégale du bois, l’exploitation aurifère et une agriculture industrialisée, mondialisée. Et pour tout cela, la France peut agir.

En recevant le cacique Raoni, Emmanuel Macron veut montrer un engagement sur la question écologique, cela vous semble-t-il légitime ?

Nul n’est parfait, mais la France a aussi, avec la Guyane, un morceau de forêt amazonienne sur son propre territoire, et donc quelque chose de très concret à faire chez elle, pour la protéger. C’est ce qu’on essaye de faire en luttant contre l’orpaillage illégal. Mais c’est aussi ce qu’on ne fait pas suffisamment contre l’exploitation d’or légalisée. Il y a des marges de progrès considérables.

De quelle façon pourrait agir la France en la matière ?

Déjà, on pourrait peut-être se poser la question de l’opportunité même de vouloir exploiter de l’or alors qu’il y en a tellement en circulation sur la planète. Sur le bois illégal, on est en train d’y travailler, de faire en sorte qu’il y en ait de moins en moins en circulation, qu’on puisse distinguer ce qui est d’origine légale ou pas. Mais sur l’agriculture industrialisée mondialisée, notamment l’élevage et les cultures OGM, là aussi, la France fait un peu l’inverse de ce qu’il faudrait. Elle fait plutôt la promotion de cela en développant une agriculture en partie tournée vers l’exportation, plutôt que d’essayer d’avoir une agriculture qui permette à chaque pays de subvenir à ses propres besoins.

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Sorti en salles le 7 juin, Transformers Rise of the Beasts revient aux sources de la saga avec une intrigue se déroulant dans les années 1990. Après ce blockbuster explosif, à quand le prochain volet de la franchise au cinéma ?

Après Bumblebee, sorti en 2018, la saga Transformers est de retour sur grand écran depuis le 7 juin avec Rise of the Beasts. Ce 7ème opus de la saga est mis en scène par Steven Caple Jr, qui succède à Michael Bay (auteur des 5 premiers films) et à Travis Knight, qui a signé le spin-off sur l’Autobot jaune.

La franchise, qui a rapporté 4,8 milliards de dollars au box-office mondial, va-t-elle continuer son aventure au cinéma avec un 8ème film ? La réponse est oui ! Annoncé en avril 2020, Transformers One débarquera dans le salles obscures le 11 septembre 2024.

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts

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Luna Lauren Velez

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Cependant, il ne s’agira pas d’un long-métrage live action mais d’un film d’animation qui sera réalisé par Josh Cooley, auteur de Toy Story 4. Tout comme Bumblebee et Rise of the Beasts, Transformers One situera son action avant les événements relatés dans les films originaux de Michael Bay.

Transformers One

De
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Avec
Chris Hemsworth,
Brian Tyree Henry,
Scarlett Johansson

Sortie le

11 septembre 2024

Cette fois, la Terre ne sera pas le terrain de jeu des Autobots et Decepticons. L’intrigue nous emmènera sur Cybertron, la planète d’origine des Transformers. L’histoire explorera notamment la relation entre le héros Optimus Prime et l’antagoniste Megatron.

En attendant, si vous n’avez pas encore vu Rise of the Beasts, il est à l’affiche au cinéma depuis le 7 juin. Ce nouveau volet se déroule au cœur des années 90 et nous emmène aux quatre coins du globe. Une toute nouvelle faction de robots Transformers – les Maximals – se joindront aux Autobots dans l’éternelle bataille qu’ils livrent face aux Decepticons.

Par ailleurs, (ATTENTION SPOILERS), la fin de Rise of the Beasts annonce un futur cross-over entre les franchises Transformers et G.I. Joe. Les super-soldats seront-ils amenés à prêter main forte aux Autobots dans la suite de leur guerre contre les Decepticons le temps d’une collaboration explosive ? Le mystère est encore entier. Du reste, ce n’est pas la première fois que l’idée d’un univers partagé autour des licences Hasbro est évoqué. Cette fois, le projet semble se concrétiser.