TUES. UPDATE: Stephanie McMahon interview, GFW announcement, whatever happened to Jason Thacker

by David Bixenspan | davidbix@wrestlingobserver.com | Follow @davidbix

TV tonight:

The 10 day showcase of each UFC weight class on Fox Sports 1 continues with a night of welterweight-themed programming:

7:00 p.m. ET – New episode of UFC Ultimate Insider (UFC’s magazine style show) revolving around Tyron Woodley, Johny Hendricks, Carlos Condit, & Rory MacDonald.

7:30 p.m. ET – Rerun of UFC Main Event (full fight preceded by footage from the Countdown special) featuring Nick Diaz vs. B.J. Penn from UFC 137.

8:00 p.m. ET – New episode of UFC Main Event featuring Robbie Lawler vs. Matt Brown from UFC on Fox 12 last July.

9:00 p.m. ET – Rerun of UFC Fight Flashback (documentary style presentation of an edited version of the fight) featuring Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler I from March 2014 for the vacant title.

9:30 p.m. ET – New episode of UFC Main Event featuring Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler II from December.

10:30 p.m. ET – New episode of UFC Fight Flashback featuring Georges St. Pierre vs. Johnny Hendricks from 2012.

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We’ve got a jam packed issue of news this week in the Observer, with the fallout of UFC 185 and the two title changes, The New Japan Cup and where the booking is going, the build toward Invasion Attack, more comments on the Bill DeMott situation in WWE, more on Rampage Jackson’s Bellator contract and Scott Coker, under oath, goes through what happened in negotiations and why Bellator is suing, , plus we’ve got features on Larry Zbyszko and Tatsumi Fujinami and the WWE Hall of Fame, New Japan attempts to rebuild NOAH with a storyline that has gotten mainstream ink and the bus accident and problems leading to the Rey de Reyes show.

The latest issue of the observer Mar. 23, 2015 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Two upset title changes at UFC 185, New Japan Cup, Bill DeMott notes, Bellator/Rampage injunction update, detailed WWE HOF notes

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–CMLL lineup for its first major show of the year

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–Finals of the incredible partners tournament

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–A look at the debut of Brian Cage in AAA

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–70s star resurfaces after winning battle over cancer and wrestles his first match in 24 years

–Another former UFC fighter now training for pro wrestling

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–Notes on the ROH shows with New Japan

–More on the Samoa Joe vs. Jay Briscoe ROH title match

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–Lineups for this week’s ROH house shows

–Matt Sydal injury notes

–A look at the next month of ROH television

–Changes in TNA television

–TNA tag team title notes

–Wrestler to debut this week with TNA

–New TNA TV contract

–Notes on this week’s UFC show 

–Thoughts on the new Johny Hendricks

–UFC to have a four hour live show on FOX

–New UFC fights

–Pay records for the last Invicta show

–More on PPV potential of Rousey vs. Cyborg

–More on Burt Watson quitting UFC

–Watson talks about his departure

–A look at UFC’s debut in The Philippines

–Next Bellator lineup featuring former star from Japan

–Renzo Gracie pleads guilty to assault charges

–Jason Miller arrested again

–Former UFC fighter tracks down robber

–Next Ben Askren fight

–Chael Sonnen returns to combat

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Tuesday Daily Update

Check out our WWE RAW TV Report by Rob McCarron from last night.
Wrestling Observer Radio 3/24: Perro Aguayo Jr., final Raw before WrestleMania, Smackdown tapings, tons of questions! with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez.
More from the site check out today’s Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive as they talk to Gabe Sapolsky.  Wrestling Observer Live 3/24: Gabe Sapolsky talks heyday of indy wrestling, Mania weekend events, plus Raw go-home show
Stephanie McMahon did a relatively extensive (for her) interview with Fast Company that went up today. It centers around her role as Chief Brand Officer: The reasoning for when and where she is or isn’t in character, WWE’s social media presence, WWE Network, etc. Lots of buzzwords, industry terms, impressive-sounding numbers, etc. here. At the very least, she comes off well-prepared, probably more so than usual.
Last night, Jeff Jarrett and Global Force Wrestling announced some kind of GFW events for “this Summer” in Las Vegas. No talent announced, nothing about it being a TV taping (though one would think that if the shows are in Las Vegas, it’s to get a site fee to subsidize TV tapings and/or have easy access to tourists to fill out the audience), no specific date(s) listed, etc.
Chuck Mindenhall has a fantastic article at MMAFighting about Jason Thacker, the first fighter eliminated from the first season of The Ultimate Fighter who subsequently fell off the face of the Earth, at least when it comes to MMA. Especially worth reading if you’re into reality TV production aspect of the story, as he famously had no verifiable MMA fights going into the show and admits here that he did indeed make it up, misrepresenting his Muay Thai record on small local cards as a MMA record.
Off-site Dave Meltzer content from the last few days:

Discussing the death of Perro Aguayo Jr. on The Christopher Gabriel Program in Fresno.

Kurt Angle has no regrets when it comes to not doing MMA.

Fortunes changed for five at UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare.

Myself and Dylan Hales have started a new podcast, The Trade Marks, covering various topics related to intellectual property in pro wrestling. In the first episode, we discuss the arrest of WWE/UFC torrent capper/uploader “Sir Paul,” the probable secret WWE lawsuit against various John Does this week to allow them to seize bootleg merchandise within a five mile radius of WrestleMania as they have in previous years, and the recent strong anti-piracy push on the indie scene.
WWE Network is now available (a day early) to Telus Optic TV subscribers in Canada if you call into their call center.
Dory Funk Jr’s nex !BANG! TV Taping is this Saturday, March 28th, “!BANG! A MANIA” at !BANG! TV Sound Stage in Ocala, Florida. Showtime is 7:00pm – Doors Open at 6:15pm. The Main Event will be the Dory Funk Sr. Memorial Battle Royal.
Some today in history notes for March 24th:

George Wagner, the original Gorgeous George, was born 100 years ago today in 1915. If you’re interested in learning more about him than just the surface stuff that’s well-known, John Capouya’s biography of George is fantastic, a must-read for fans of wrestling history.

Jumbo Tsuruta made his pro wrestling debut 42 years ago today in 1973 in the west Texas territory owned by the Funk family. Before Owen Hart, Juventud Guerrera, or Kurt Angle were considered among the elite rookies in wrestling history, Jumbo set the bar, quickly becoming one of the best wrestlers in the world, a class he was in until contracting Hepatitis B in 1992. To check out just how good he as as a rookie, watch his oldest videotaped match, a NWA title shot against Jack Brisco in AJPW from January 30, 1974.

WrestleMania VII was 24 years ago in 1991, and its probably best known for Ultimate Warrior “retiring” Randy Savage in the co-main event, which Warrior felt was at least equal to the Sgt. Slaughter vs. Hulk Hogan main event in helping draw the crowd/PPV audience (and he’s probably right). His payoff at this show was one of the items centrral to the demand letter he sent Vince McMahon a few months later.

WCW Uncensored ’96 was 18 years ago in 1996. The second-annual Uncensored, it was simultaneously much better than the infamous first show (thanks to Konnan vs. Eddy Guerrero and Steven Regal vs. Fit Finlay) while having a much more memorable low point: (the 8 on 2 Doomsday Cage Match main event where Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage beat The Alliance to End Hulkamania (basically the Dungeon of Doom and the Four Horsemen assisted by Tiny “Zeus” Lister as Z-Gangsta and Jeep Swenson as The Ultimate Solution) on their own.

TOMORROW’S WWE NETWORK SCHEDULE
12:00 AM ET
WRESTLEMANIA REWIND Relive the historic final match of the WrestleMania IV tournament where Randy Savage took on the ‘Million Dollar Man’.

1:00 AM ET
WWE COUNTDOWN Counting down the Top Ten Most Memorable Superstar Debuts ever in WWE History, as voted by the WWE Universe.

2:00 AM ET
TUESDAY NIGHT TITANS Vince McMahon hosts Tuesday Night Titans with Lord Alfred Hayes. Guests include Bruno Sammartino, Roddy Piper, Bob Orton, and Ivan Putski.

3:00 AM ET
TUESDAY NIGHT TITANS Vince McMahon hosts Tuesday Night Titans with Lord Alfred Hayes. Guests include Rocky Johnson, Johnny Valiant, and Brutus Beefcake.

4:00 AM ET
PRIME TIME WRESTLING Join Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan for Prime Time Wrestling featuring Hulk Hogan, Greg ‘The Hammer’ Valentine, and many more.

5:30 AM ET
WWE QUICK HITS WWE Quick Hits 4 brings you some of the most unique, entertaining, and sometimes outrageous clips, unearthed from the depths of WWE Network!

6:00 AM ET
MONDAY NIGHT WAR Backstage politics, corporate mergers, and questionable decisions would doom sports entertainment’s former powerhouse.

7:00 AM ET
WRESTLEMANIA REWIND Relive the historic final match of the WrestleMania IV tournament where Randy Savage took on the ‘Million Dollar Man’.

8:00 AM ET
WWE COUNTDOWN Counting down the Top Ten Most Memorable Superstar Debuts ever in WWE History, as voted by the WWE Universe.

9:00 AM ET
MONDAY NIGHT WAR Backstage politics, corporate mergers, and questionable decisions would doom sports entertainment’s former powerhouse.

10:00 AM ET
WRESTLEMANIA REWIND Relive the historic final match of the WrestleMania IV tournament where Randy Savage took on the ‘Million Dollar Man’.

11:00 AM ET
WWE COUNTDOWN Counting down the Top Ten Most Memorable Superstar Debuts ever in WWE History, as voted by the WWE Universe.

12:00 PM ET
MONDAY NIGHT WAR Backstage politics, corporate mergers, and questionable decisions would doom sports entertainment’s former powerhouse.

1:00 PM ET
WRESTLEMANIA REWIND Relive the historic final match of the WrestleMania IV tournament where Randy Savage took on the ‘Million Dollar Man’.

2:00 PM ET
WWE COUNTDOWN Counting down the Top Ten Most Memorable Superstar Debuts ever in WWE History, as voted by the WWE Universe.

3:00 PM ET
LEGENDS HOUSE The WWE Legends play a game of ‘How well do you know your roommates?’ Then the group receives a visit from Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels.

4:00 PM ET
LEGENDS HOUSE The Legends prepare for a roast of Roddy Piper. The group gets together for dinner, but lingering tensions threaten to disrupt the occasion.

5:00 PM ET
TOTAL DIVAS Eva Marie and Summer Rae battle outside the ring after being paired together; Ariane takes it too far when trying to become famous.

6:00 PM ET
WWE BEYOND THE RING Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man showcases some of the high-flying Superstar’s most memorable moments and matches!

8:00 PM ET
WWE NXT The future is here. Witness the entertainers, the leading men and women, the Superstars of tomorrow – this is NXT!

9:00 PM ET
LEGENDS HOUSE The Legends prepare for a roast of Roddy Piper. The group gets together for dinner, but lingering tensions threaten to disrupt the occasion.

10:00 PM ET
TOTAL DIVAS Eva Marie and Summer Rae battle outside the ring after being paired together; Ariane takes it too far when trying to become famous.

11:00 PM ET
WWE NXT The future is here. Witness the entertainers, the leading men and women, the Superstars of tomorrow – this is NXT!