The fallout of AEW s Winter is Coming show is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. We look at how AEW is doing compared to Raw in different demos, the Sting interview this past week, how AEW s numbers for segments have risen as well as the biggest AEW quarters of this year.
Also in this issue:
Kenny Omega/Don Callis dynamic, the odes to the past they have copied in their angle, debut of Tony Khan as a television performer in the interview on Impact, how close Winter is Coming actually came to being No. 1 for the night on cable, Tony Schiavone s appearances years ago in TNA and what angle Vince Russo wanted to do with him, executives who vowed to not be TV performers and how that changed.
on one side there are over 300 tribes from all over the country in the world and on the other side there s big oil, the federal government, and the indifference of millions of americans. yep, while millions of people were screaming no dap l, millions of others were screaming for this guy. look, i m not a cubs fan, but i m sure happy that their win meant more of this and less of this. yikes. that s why this week i m going to the standing rock and pine ridge reservations and i ll be starting my journey here at the camp site. just outside of bismarck, north dakota, a few lines from the front lines of the demonstrations. most times i go places where i m like one of the few black people, i feel much like i m the only black person.
harper coming in with a clutch hit against the chicago cubs hitting a walk-off grand slam, his biggest night since signing with philadelphia for that monster $330 million contract. the final score sadly was 7-5 phillies. i m a cubs fan. bill: hell is that trade working out? that was a big deal. both teams are doing well. sandra: i don t know, you tell me. how s that working out? bill: i think they could be doing better. that s why they made in september. good point. we will keep watching. bill: he is one of the most exciting baseball players out there. another american, making the ultimate sacrifice for our country in a moment you will meet his widow and meet about
their historic destiny is to be losers. bruce: yes. and like they say, any team can have a bad century. the cubs are working on having two bad centuries. anthony: right. topo gigio is a massive italian-american joint in the old town that serves up much better than you think old school stuff like scallops and pesto cream sauce for bruce here and squid ink pasta with shrimp for buzzkill. my veal saltimbocca is most excellent, and the long festering dispute across from me only makes my food taste better. anthony: is bruce s attitude atypical or typical? patrick: uh it s uh extremely anthony: or is he a relative moderate? patrick: it s extremely typical. anthony: i mean, he is sitting at the same table with a cubs fan. patrick: well, yes. bruce: no, no, i drink with cub fans, i ve even had sex with cub fans, i mean you know, i m patrick: well, truth be told, uh the last time the sox won it in 05 bruce: not that long ago, really. not that long ago.
existed eight years ago. and everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of everything that they have done. [ applause ] the speech the president gave the day after election day, i m fairly superstitious, which probably comes from being a cubs fan. so i didn t prepare anything beforehand. i just figured i would do it that morning. but as the results, you know, rolled in i was sitting with dan pfeiffer and ben rhodes in my apartment watching it and realizing we were going to have to write something different than we expected. the president called around 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning and walked us through what he wanted