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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
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• 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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Tuesday News Update

WWE

• Seth Rollins spoke to The Gorilla Position about facing Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania, with the interviewer pointing out to Rollins about the connection he has with Rhodes' father, Dusty Rhodes. “Dusty Rhodes is an absolute legend, a Hall of Famer in any circle, not just WWE. To be able to be in the ring for [Dusty Rhodes’] son’s return...Cody did it his way. He left when he was unhappy. He did all the things that everybody said they wanted to do and he came back a bigger star than he has ever been, and that’s not easy to do. It takes a lot of hard work. He learned that ethic from his father. So for him to come back and say those nice things about me, it was all very good, except for the bionic elbow.”
• Cody Rhodes will be a guest on WWE’s The Bump tomorrow.
• PWInsider is reporting that Rick Steiner is backstage for tonight’s NXT.
• When asked why he turned on Bobby Lashley last night on Raw, MVP simply replied on Twitter “Budget cuts...”
• Advertised for WWE’s Nassau Coliseum return on May 6 is Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre and appearances from Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey.
• Responding to a question of when she would be returning to the ring, Alexa Bliss replied “I’m ready when they are...”
• Star Tribune covered Gable Steveson’s appearance at WrestleMania.
• A video preview for tonight’s episode of Young Rock.
• Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch joined Logan Paul’s podcast Impaulsive to talk WrestleMania weekend.
• PWInsider reported that WWE has begun taping interviews for their upcoming WWE A&E series titled WWE Rivals, which will look at the biggest rivalries in WWE history.
• Bianca Belair spoke to TokenCEO about how WWE is empowering women.
• WrestleMania 38 will be released on DVD and Blu Ray on May 10th.
• WWE has a video of MSK seeing their first Mattel action figures.
• Charlotte Flair turns 36 today.
• Free matches added to WWE’s YouTube channel today include Batista vs. Triple H from Backlash 2005, Dolph Ziggler vs. Baron Corbin from Extreme Rules 2016, and Goldberg vs. Scott Steiner vs. Test from the January 19, 2004 edition of Raw.

AEW/ROH

• This week’s AEW Road to , focusing on Bucks vs. FTR, Hardys vs. The Butcher and The Blade, and Toni Storm’s AEW debut from last week.
• Adam Cole on Twitter regarding tomorrow’s match against Christian Cage: “Tomorrow, April 6, is my 14 year anniversary in the pro wrestling industry. No better way to celebrate than a sold out crowd in Boston, and everyone around the world watching me beat one of the very best.”
• Jason Kilar, the CEO of Warnermedia, is exiting the company once WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery closes.
• This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.
• This week’s Thunder Rosa vlog.

Other Wrestling

• JONAH vs. Schaff, Rickey Shane Page vs. Joe Hendry, Warren Banks vs. Axel Tischer, and Big Damo vs. Luke Jacobs has been announced for this year’s PROGRESS Atlas Cup tournament.
• Mia Yim vs. Maki Itoh has been announced for Prestige Wrestling’s Roseland 3 on May 28.
• MLW is teasing that stars from the original version of MLW will return in honor of the company’s 20th anniversary during the summer.