WWE
- The Associated Press reported that U.S. Senator Charles Schumer recently asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to launch an investigation into Logan Paul’s PRIME energy drinks brand. It was reported that Schumer asked for the investigation due to his issues over how PRIME is marketed due to one drink contains as much caffeine as six cans of Coca-Cola. Specifically, Schumer is claiming that the caffeine-free PRIME Hydration drink is not marketed differently enough from regular PRIME drinks and creates confusion among parents who might believe that regular PRIME is safe and appropriate for their children to drink. Schumer is also claiming that despite PRIME being marketed for those 18 and over, some of their marketing is also tempting to children.
- The Mat Men Pro Wrestling’s Andrew Zarian reported that his sources stated that WWE officials are currently considering the idea of using a smaller stage design for future shows at Madison Square Garden as was done for this past Friday’s SmackDown show at the venue.
- Former WWE wrestler Tyler Reks, now known as Gabbi Tuft, revealed on Instagram that she was in attendance at this past Friday’s SmackDown show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
- Heels and Arrow series actor Stephen Amell recently announced on Facebook that he will be in attendance at this Monday’s WWE RAW show in Atlanta, Georgia.
- In a recent interview with The Pat McAfee Show, SmackDown commentator Michael Cole gave his thoughts about WWE’s current Bloodline story. Cole stated “When you have a story like the Bloodline, which for three years, should be nominated for an Emmy award. Roman Reigns should be your best actor. Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, The Usos, Solo Sikoa, Paul Heyman, all these guys should be nominated. You can make an argument that we could win an ESPY or we could win an Emmy award. What are guys do is so unique to our world. Not only are they tremendous athletes, and in my estimation, the best athletes on the planet because they can do things that so many others can’t, but on top of that, they are actors. If you watch what Roman Reigns and company did in that tag match in London, it was cinema, it really was. These guys are tremendous athletes that put their bodies on the line every week, but they’re putting together an unbelievable story.” Cole also gave his thoughts about his issues over how WWE has never managed to win an Emmy Award for their show and programming. Cole stated “How WWE has not won an Emmy award for, forget 52 weeks a year of Raw and SmackDown and NXT, scripted television, no repeats. Forget the unbelievable award-winning documentaries that our team does each week. A guy like Chris Chambers, who has been doing this for over 30 years and putting together some of the greatest documentaries this business has ever seen and the television business has ever seen. Let’s talk about never winning an Emmy award for WrestleMania. That event is absolutely incredible. Being able to put on a premium live event like we do, now over two days a weekend, cannot be matched or duplicated by anyone in the television business, it just can’t. When you look at the amount of production that goes into that. The work that our executive producer Kevin Dunn does, directors like Marty Miller do, our camera guys, our backstage production people, pyrotechnics, studio people who put together incredible packages, and on top of that, the best athletes on the entire planet, and we haven’t won an Emmy award yet? That’s a crime. That’s why I don’t give a damn about any of these awards. They don’t matter because they’re not being given to people who deserve it or have earned it.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
- As noted before, WWE recently announced that last week’s Money in the Bank 2023 event in London, England broke several all-time company records. Dave Meltzer reported that WWE’s live gate for Money in the Bank 2023 was the largest ever for a non-stadium wrestling event in history. Meltzer reported that while WWE had announced an attendance of 18,885 for the event, the real attendance was 17,617 with 16,000 being paid based on WrestleTix’s numbers. In regards to the combined live gate revenues of $5.4 million, Meltzer reported that those spoken to stated that the breakdown was $3.6 million for Money in the Bank 2023 event and $1.8 million for the June 30th SmackDown show. In regards to Money in the Bank 2023’s live gate revenue of $3.6 million, Meltzer reported that this broke the previous arena event record that was held by WrestleMania 22 in 2006 at $2.5 million. In regards to U.K. records, Meltzer reported that Money in the Bank 2023’s live gate broke the previous record for a wrestling event in England that was held by SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium at $2.2 million. Money in the Bank 2023 was only behind this past September’s Clash at the Castle event ($8.1 million) for all-time U.K. live gate wrestling event record. Meltzer reported that WWE’s UK and European records for Money in the Bank 2023 will be broken very soon by AEW’s upcoming All In event at Wembley Stadium.
- Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE’s current plans for Roman Reigns at next year’s WrestleMania 40 event is for him to defend his Undisputed WWE Universal Championship against Cody Rhodes.
- WWE reportedly recently enacted a new rule for all their events held in Florida and also their Performance Center banning anyone from entering the building if they bring a firearm or any weapon, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that this new rule was enacted following a recent law in Florida that went into effect on July 4th allowing citizens in the state to carry concealed weapons without a permit. Meltzer reported that WWE’s new rule does not allow people to check-in their weapons and leave them inside the building and instead they must leave their weapons in their cars if they wish to attend their events or enter their PC in the state.
- WWE recently announced that they have added 27 new live events to their events schedule for this September and October. It was also announced that tickets for these upcoming events will officially go on sale starting on July 14th.
- WWE reportedly generated an attendance of 17,604 (15,500 paid) for their June 30th SmackDown show in London, England, 7,898 for their June 30th house show event in Newcastle, England, 4,834 for their July 2nd house show event in Cardiff, Wales, and 10,343 (9,100 paid) for their July 3rd RAW show in Baltimore, MD, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- WWE reportedly has sold around 8,406 tickets for their June 10th RAW show in Buffalo, NY, 9,434 tickets for their July 14th SmackDown show in Raleigh, NC, 5,045 tickets for their July 15th house show event in Fairfax, VA, 2,744 tickets for their July 16th house show event in Salisbury, MD, 10,115 tickets for their July 17th RAW show in Atlanta, GA, 9,055 tickets for their July 21st SmackDown show in Orlando, FL, 7,551 tickets for their July 24th RAW show in Tampa, FL, 5,711 tickets for their July 28th SmackDown show in New Orleans, LA, 2,608 tickets for their July 29th house show event in Estero, FL, 2,489 tickets for their July 30th house show event in Coral Gables, FL, 2,234 tickets for their July 30th NXT Great American Bash 2023 event in Cedar Park, TX, 12,161 tickets for their July 31st RAW show in Houston, TX, 4,466 tickets for their Aug. 4th SmackDown show in Dayton, OH, 6,248 tickets for their Aug. 7th RAW show in Minneapolis, MN, 7,358 tickets for their Aug. 11th SmackDown show in Calgary, Canada, 8,028 tickets for their Aug. 14th RAW show in Winnipeg, Canada, and 12,974 tickets for their Aug. 18th SmackDown show in Toronto, Canada as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- WWE reportedly has also sold around 42,889 tickets for their Aug. 5th SummerSlam 2023 event in Detroit, MI as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that this year’s SummerSlam event is currently set to be the second highest ever attendance in SummerSlam history, only behind SumemrSlam 1992 event at Wembley Stadium. In regards to live gate record, Meltzer reported that this year’s event has already broken the all-time record for largest gate event in SummerSlam history that was set by last year’s event in Nashville, Tennessee at $4,797,538. Meltzer also reported that this year’s event also has a chance at breaking the all-time record for largest gate for a non-WrestleMania event in WWE history that was set by this January/s Royal Rumble 2023 event in San Antonio, Texas at $7,316,940 for its real audited amount and $7.7 for its WWE announced amount.
- As noted before, WWE recently announced that this year’s Survivor Series event will be taking place on November 25th at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that the rumors of WWE had considered Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the location for this year’s event was not true. Those spoken to reportedly stated that WWE officials had never considered Phildaelphia as a potential choice for this year’s event.
- Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque was not in attendance backstage at this past Monday’s RAW show in Baltimore, Maryland. It was reported that some people spoken to stated that they were surprised over Levesque’s absence since he was in a great mood following last Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 event. Others spoken to reportedly stated that there was nothing to his absence and instead he was always planned to have that night off. It was reported that Bruce Prichard was the person who ran this past Monday’s show backstage.
- Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston reported that WWE’s Top 5 merchandise sellers for the month of June for their WWEShop in order were Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Stone Cold Steve Austin, LA Knight, and the nWo. In regards to specific merchandise, the Top 5 in order were Rhea Ripley’s She’s My Mami shirt, LA Knight shirt, WCW Bash at the Beach tank top shirt, The Bloodline’s We the Ones shirt, and nWo shirt.
- Wrestlenomics reported that WWE generated an average attendance of 10,344 (9,000 paid) per show for SmackDown for second quarter of this year (April to June). This was up compared to last year’s second quarter average attendance of 7,109 (6,400 paid) per SD show. RAW reportedly generated an average attendance of 9,419 (8,200 paid) per show for this year’s second quarter, up compared to last year’s second quarter average attendance of 6,841 (6,100 paid) per RAW show. House show events reportedly generated an average attendance of 6,072 (5,400 paid) per show for this year’s second quarter, up compared to last year’s second quarter average attendance of 4,006 3,700 (paid) per house show.
- In regards to WWE’s television viewership this past quarter, Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that SmackDown’s key demographic viewership average per show was up 24% and RAW’s key demo viewership average per show was up 18% compared to the same quarter last year.
- In a recent interview with Inside The Ropes, Bayley gave her thoughts on her interest in following Mercedes Mone for a wrestling career in Japan. Bayley stated “I think what she’s doing is incredible, but I don’t know if I’d be able to do it. That Japanese style is intense. I’m a little too old for that. She can go ahead and do all that. She’s braver than I am. She’s way more athletic than I am. So she can do all that stuff, and I’ll support her the whole time. If something were to happen and I was able to go experience different things like that, we’ll see. But right now, my body will say no.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
AEW & ROH
- Saturday’s AEW Collision show in Regina, Canada featured Scorpio Sky defeating Action Andretti in a singles match. This was Sky’s first match in AEW since the July 6, 2022 episode of AEW Dynamite.
- As noted before, Chris Hero has been working as a backstage producer for AEW as part of a producer tryout since this past June for a potential job in the company. In response to a recent fan question on Twitter, AEW CEO Tony Khan stated that he is currently in the process of trying to convince Hero to wrestle in the upcoming Blood & Guts match for the July 18th Dynamite show in Boston, Massachusetts. This fan stated “Get Chris Hero in that cage bro” and Khan responded “I’m chipping away on him.“
- In a recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, co-host Matt Hardy revealed that there are currently early talks regarding plans for him for AEW’s All In event this August at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Hardy stated “It’s gonna be so much fun (AEW All In at Wembley Stadium). It’s gonna be great fun and I look forward to it and I know we’ve got some of the initial talks up about what we’ll possibly be doing and I think it’s a pretty cool scenario so, super excited for it.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)
- As noted before, Jim Ross suffered a black eye injury following a fall incident this past June and is currently on a break from AEW due to vocal cord-related issues. In a recent episode of the Grillin JR podcast, co-host Ross provided a health update and also revealed that his contract with AEW does not have a lot of time left on it. Ross stated “I will be back. I will continue working. My contract with AEW is still in place. I don’t have a lot of time left on it, but I’ve got enough. I’m not concerned about that. Either I’m retained, or I’m not. I’m just gonna take it a day at a time and see how it works out. But I enjoy working for AEW. It’s fun to be part of a startup. I said that when I was hired. It’s great to see all these young guys start to come into their own, and I’d love to be there for the rest of the journey to help guide them along the way, almost in a talent relations type situation. I enjoy helping these kids.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
- Wrestlenomics reported that AEW generated an average attendance of 5,084 (4,600 paid) per show for Dynamite for second quarter of this year (April to June). This was down compared to last year’s second quarter average attendance of 6,319 (6,000 paid) per Dynamite show.
- In regards to AEW’s television viewership for Dynamite and Rampage shows this past quarter, Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Dynamite’s key demographic viewership average per show was down 14% compared to the same quarter last year. Rampage’s key demo viewership average per show was down 12% for shows in their normal time slot compared to the same quarter last year.
- AEW reportedly generated an attendance of 5,746 for their July 6th Dynamite show in Edmonton, Canada, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- AEW reportedly has sold around 2,535 tickets for their for their July 12th Dynamite show in Saskatoon, Canada, 4,275 tickets for their July 15th Collision & Battle of the Belts VIII shows in Calgary, Canada, 5,903 tickets for their July 19th Dynamite show at the TD Garden in Boston, MA, 4,865 tickets for their July 22nd Collision show in Newark, NJ, 2,034 tickets for their July 26th Dynamite show in Albany, NY, 1,835 tickets for their July 29th Collision show in Hartford, CT, 2,508 tickets for their Aug. 2nd Dynamite show in Tampa, FL, 2,227 tickets for their Aug. 5th Collision show in Greenville, SC, 2,085 tickets for their Aug. 9th Dynamite show in Columbus, OH, 3,337 tickets for their Aug. 12th Collision show in Greensboro, NC, 2,638 tickets for their Aug. 16th Dynamite show in Nashville, TN, 1,893 tickets for their Aug. 19th Collision show in Lexington, KY, and 1,622 tickets (pre-sale) for their Aug. 23rd Dynamite show in Duluth, GA as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- As noted before, AEW recently signed a new streaming deal with VIX for their Latin America and Caribbean markets. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that all of AEW’s television shows, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision, will air on the service at the same time those shows air in the United States. Meltzer reported that AEW’s deal with VIX included terms giving VIX exclusivity for streaming AEW shows meaning that FITE will no longer be able to air those shows live for their AEW+ service in those markets and instead only after a 30-day delay from its original airing.
- Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston reported that AEW’s Top 5 merchandise sellers for the month of June for their AEWShop in order were CM Punk, AEW, Orange Cassidy, The Acclaimed, and Bullet Club Gold. In regards to specific merchandise, the Top 5 in order were Bullet Club Gold’s shirt, CM Punk’s Best in the World shirt, Cassidy’s shirt, Jade Cargill’s AEW figure, and Punk & FTR’s The Foundation shirt. In regards to Pro Wrestling Tees, their Top 5 AEW merchandise sellers were in order CM Punk, AEW, Cassidy, The Acclaimed, and Punk & FTR.
- Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Colt Cabana returned to his backstage producer and coach job at this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Edmonton, Canada.
- In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Timothy Thatcher gave his thoughts about his debut appearance for AEW at their February 1st Dynamite show. Thatcher stated “AEW, that was literally out of the blue. It happened because Bryan Danielson wanted to wrestle me. For me, that was reason enough to fly from Tokyo to Dayton, Ohio for a day and back.“
- In a recent interview with the Busted Open Radio podcast, Brian Cage gave his thoughts on his belief that he feels underappreciated in AEW due to AEW’s core fanbase hates on him because “he has WWE attributes.” Cage stated “In certain regards, yes. With our core audience at AEW, I feel they almost hate on me because of all those attributes [size, charisma, mic work, athleticism], I almost feel like that screams WWE. In some regards, it’s almost like anti-me, ‘He doesn’t belong here. He’s too jacked, he does this,’ which are all positives in my book, but it feels like ‘I’m on the wrong team.’ I can toot my own horn and say, they can’t be me, so they’d rather attach on to a Darby Allin or someone they can live more viciously through as opposed to someone like me.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
- Ring of Honor reportedly has sold around 1,763 tickets for their July 21st Death Before Dishonor 2023 event in Trenton, NJ as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- As noted before, former Ring of Honor talent Beer City Bruiser, real name Matt Winchester, underwent hip replacement surgery this past June. In a recent interview with Haus of Wrestling, Bruiser gave his thoughts about his recent surgery. Bruiser stated “The best way to describe it is everything in my right hip was completely dead. The bone, the labrum was gone, the cartilage was gone. My femoral head was actually being absorbed into my pelvis bone. The doctor had said I had bone spurs on the head of the femoral, which is normal for any type of breaks or stuff. When he went in there, the reason it took the extra hour is because I had two particular bone spurs that were the size of his fist that were encapsulating the femoral head, and he had to take a chisel and chisel them out because they couldn’t move my leg to get the fake hip in. And he came out and told my wife, ‘I’m surprised the way that hip was when we went in there; I’m surprised he walked in here this morning.
- In a recent interview with Armbars & Sidebars, ROH commentator Caprice Coleman gave his thoughts on why he feels that himself and Ian Riccaboni should be in the discussion for greatest wrestling commentary team of all-time. Coleman stated “The blessing now is I’m able to work with a lot of these up and coming stars and I’m kind of like old school, new class so I’m able to see a lot of these new guys that the world hasn’t seen yet and actually feel ‘em and I feel now, the way it’s worked out is that I am a modern day Jerry Lawler, where it’s like I do commentary on TV and I wrestle on the indies, and I’m respected in all those areas and all and so, I really have nothing to complain about. It’s just I hear mostly fans, they’re like, oh, you’re just a commentator now and I’m like, bruh, you have no idea the importance of that job and the longevity that it’s given my career and the blessing behind it for me is the fact that when I was a wrestler and even wrestling now, the best there ever on big time wrestling was mid-card, you know what I mean? I’m not a person that’s gonna try to blow smoke up anything or say I should’ve did (this and that). It’s like the biggest I ever was-was like number one contender for Television Title type stuff, you know what I mean? Mid-card type stuff but as commentary, I’m in the talks of the greatest commentators of all time. I’m in those conversations, (Ian) Riccaboni and I, you know, and so it’s like we have plans for our life but God knows what he wants to do so I was never like, oh, best wrestlers in the world. I was never in that conversation. But when they talk about commentators in the world, I’m in that conversation. So I know I’m where I’m supposed to be at, and I’m a good wrestler too.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)
Impact, NJPW, Indies, & Misc. Wrestling
- Saturday’s Never Say Never 2023 event for Major League Wrestling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania featured Alex Kayne defeating Alex Hammerstone to be crowned the new MLW World Heavyweight Champion. Earlier in the show, it was revealed that legendary boxing promoter Don King was the mysterious financial backer of his Bomaye Fight Club stable.
- Saturday’s MLW Never Say Never 2023 event in Philadelphia also featured The Calling (AKIRA & Rickey Shane Page) defeating Samoan Swat Team (Juicy Finau & Lance Anoa’i) to become the new MLW World Tag Team Championship and Delmi Exo defeating Ava Everett to become the new wXw Women’s Champion.
- Saturday’s MLW Never Say Never 2023 event also featured Matt Cardona and Kevin Blackwood being the first two draft picks selected for this year’s MLW Open Draft. In a video that aired on the show, Cardona revealed that he will be making his official debut for MLW at their Fury Road event on September 3rd in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- MLW recently announced that they will be holding four new pay-per-view events that will be airing live on FITE+ later this year. These new events are Fury Road 2023 on September 3rd in Philadelphia, Slaughterhouse on October 14th in TBA, Fightland 2023 on November 18th in TBA, and One Shot 2023 on December 7th in TBA.
- Saturday’s Dynamite Series 2023 event for All Japan Pro Wrestling featured Yuma Anzai and Shuji Ishikawa making their returns from injuries. Anzai and Ishikawa competed in a singles match against each other at the event that went to a ten minute time limit draw. Prior to their returns, Anzai had been out of action due to a left triceps tear and Ishikawa had been out of action due to a cervical spinal injury since this past June.
- AJPW reportedly generated a paid attendance of 1,047 for their July 2nd Dynamite Series 2023 event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- Impact Wrestling’s Trey Miguel announced on Instagram that he recently got engaged to indies wrestler Ashley D’Amboise.
- In a recent episode of The Kurt Angle Show podcast, co-host Kurt Angle gave his thoughts on being a fan of Impact’s Option C initiative for their X-Division. Angle stated “I liked Option C. I think it did help the X-Division. There are guys there that deserved to be in the main event and heavyweight division and never got there. You look at AJ [Styles], Christopher Daniels, and Samoa Joe, the history is so long with the X-Division, and they parlayed over to the heavyweight division, but after those guys, not many X-Division guys came out and went to the heavyweight division. So I think that really helped the X-Division by having Option C.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
- Saturday’s NGW Vendetta event for Next Generation Wrestling: Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee featured Breeze, former Tyler Breeze in WWE, defeating Matt Cross to be crowned the new NGW: TN Champion. This was Breeze’s first match since June of 2021.
- Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that it was New Japan Pro Wrestling’s television partner TV-Asahi who had came up with the idea for Jon Moxley and El Desperado to work together in deathmatch for NJPW’s NJPW Strong Independence Day events this past week. The reason reportedly was due to TV-Asahi officials were very impressed with Moxley and El Desperado’s crazy match against each other at NJPW’s Music City Mayhem event last year. TV-Asahi officials reportedly were also the one responsible for pushing NJPW to book Jun Kasai for their Independence Day shows. Meltzer reported that this was the reason why NJPW officials waved their no balding allowed rule for matches and booked two deathmatches for their shows.
- Dragon Gate reportedly generated a paid attendance of 5,150 for their July 7th Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival in Kobe, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre reportedly generated an attendance of over 10,000 for their June 30th Fantastica Mania Mexico event in Mexico City, Mexico, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that this was the third week in a row where CMLL drew an attendance of over 10,000 for their weekly big Friday shows.
- In a recent interview with Milenio newspaper, Lady Apache stated that she is currently banned from CMLL due to issues related to a recent custody battle with the late Brazo de Oro over their daughter. Apache stated that prior to his passing, de Oro had been the head of CMLL’s union and had used his power to block her from working at CMLL events. Apache also stated that despite his passing, she currently believes that the ban on her working in CMLL is still in effect. (English translation via TheCubsFan.com)
- Lucha Libre AAA’s television partner TV Azteca recently announced that they will be launching two new cable television networks called TV Azteca Internacional and the Azteca Deportes Network. TheCubsFan reported that the current plan by TV Azteca officials is to get those two channels to air in the United States which in turn would also bring back AAA’s television presence in the U.S. as well.
- Stardom reportedly generated a paid attendance of 458 for their July 1st event in Tokorozawa and 1,307 for their July 2nd MidSummer Champions 2023 ~Kings Of MidSummer~ event in Yokohama, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
- Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the reason why MIRAKI defeated Tam Nagano for the Wonder of Stardom Championship at Stardom’s MidSummer Champions 2023 event this past Sunday was simply due to Stardom official getting back on track with their current plans for the WoS title. Meltzer reported that Mina Shirakawa was originally never planned to become the Wonder of Stardom champion nor be the one to break Saya Kamitani record setting win streak. Stardom officials decided to pivot from their original plans for MIRAKI and Kamitani after Kamitani had accidentally injured Shirakawa and felt Shirakawa getting her revenge by beating Kamitani for her title and breaking her win streak would be a much better storyline to go with. Meltzer reported that this was also the reason why Stardom officials never had any real plans for Shirakawa’s title reign as WoS champion since they quickly went back for their original plans for the belt and MIRAKI.
- Former AEW wrestler Sadie Gibbs announced on Twitter that she recently got engaged to her boyfriend.
- Sunday’s Epic Encounters 2023 event for Revolution Pro Wrestling in London, England featured Michael Oku defeating The Great-O-Khan to be crowned the new Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion.