Daily Update: Metal Maniac passes away, previews for this week’s shows

Among the topics covered:

FIRST TIME SUBSCRIBERS GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH

— Bryan and I will be doing shows the next three nights, we will talk weekend news tonight , cover Raw tomorrow night and have a special Tuesday show this week instead of Wednesday covering Grand Slam France and NXT. Also, our Hall of Fame shows start Friday. We will be talking about Mexico and the U.S. and Canada historial sections of the ballot.

— Jeff Miller, the Metal Maniac, passed away this past weekend He was 66. He was a Northeast independent wrestler who was best known for being the traveling partner and usual opponent for Jimmy Snuka during the latter part of Snuka’s career on the independents. He worked everywhere with Snuka and made sure Snuka got to his bookings.

— Brock Lesnar was inducted into the University of Minnesota M Club Sports Hall of Fame last night. He was there with his wife and kids as well as Shelton Benjamin, who he’s known since college. Lesnar joins former pro wrestlers Verne Gagne, Leonard “Butch” Levy, Bronko Nagurski, Leo Nomellini and Cliff Guistafson in the sports Hall of Fame. (thanks to Brian Hoops)

— Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling PPV from last night in Toronto:

Copeland led to this event selling out way in advance with more than 2,700 fans.

— People have been raving about last night’s Josh Alexander vs. Stu Grayson match.

— In last night’s UFC main event where Natalia Silva beat Wang Cong on CBS to win the vacant women’s flyweight title, Judge Michael Bell scored the first three rounds to Silva for a 48-47 win. Judge Derek Clearly had the first four rounds to Silva for a 49-46 score. Judge Sal D’Amato had rounds one, two and four for Silva for a 48-47 score. Media scores were 86 percent for Silva.

— Grand Slam France on Tuesday has:

— CMLL at Arena Mexico at 7 p.m. Eastern time

— The Dana White/Eddie Hearn stuff of course didn’t stop this weekend. White said that he is the promoter of the show and that he will be there in Cardiff handling the production fthe show. Hearn then said he spoke to people at SELA and they told him “Yes, it’s completely untrue. They told me that in writing. He cannot do that under the contract.” SELA did try and get White and Hearn to meet together this week, but White told people he wasn’t going apparently.

— Cody Rhodes was at last night’s UFC show in Salt Lake City in character dressed up as Guile in promoting the Street Fighter movie.

— Smackdown on Netflix did normal numbers on Friday. It was No. 1 for the day in Bolivia, Canada, and Trinidad & Tobago.

— The top two matches for the 12/12 UFC show at the T Mobile Arena are Charles Oliveira vs. Diego Lopes for the BMF title and Alex Pereira vs. Sergei Pavlovich. Lopes is 0-2 in title fights at 145 and has never fought at 155.

— At today’s NOAH show in Tokyo, Ozawa beat Kaito Kiyomiya to win the N-1 tournament. Yo-Hey & Jun Masaoka won the GHC jr. tag titles from Dragon Bane & Alejandro.

— Shuhei Taniguchi announced his retirement at the show.

— Matt Cardona was honored by Calhoun High School. He noted they started a new category as he’s in the Sports entertainment Hall of Fame, noting he was average at best in wrestling at wrestling in high school.

— As far as weekend Google searches, nothing from pro wrestling did anything, even 5,000 searches for the weekend. The UFC show last night had 195,000, which is below normal for a numbered show, but considering the lack of star power on that show, it didn’t end up that bad.

— A notable thing to learn from. Even with last night’s UFC show on CBS in prime time airing all the top fights, it actually did better than most shows on Paramount + and was No. 2 for the full day in the U.S. behind only South Park, as well as No 2 for the full day worldwide behind only Mobland.

— Defy results from Thursday night in Detroit: Trey Miguel won over Alan Angels, Gringo Loco, Lio Rush, Jason Hotch, Charles Crowley and Amazona to win the Defy Lucha International title, Kiran Gray b Jeffrey Johns, Schaff & Russ Jones b Ryan Matthias & KIJ Reynolds, J-Rod b Rory Shields, Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir & Daniel Garcia b Shawn Dean & Trish Adora & Carlie Bravo, Bryen Keith b Josh Bishop to retain the Defy title. Steven Borden and Trent Baretta were advertised but missed the show due to injury. Lio Rush was a replacement.

— Freelance Wrestling from Saturday night: Celeste won over Anakin Murphy, Cole RAdrick, Daviune, Thorne, Rick Bricks and Sebastian Siveira, Trent Wrigley won over Effy, Hunk Kassidy and Dari0n Cobin, C Martin b GPA, Kylie Rae & Izzy Moreno b Sean Login & Mason Morgan via double submission, Chico Suave b Shazza McKenzie, Trevor Outlaw b Bedcca, Bang & Matthews & Shane Mercer NC Craig MItchell & Stone Ambrose & Robbie Reeves, Victor Iniestra won over Torero & Electro (thanks to Lance LeVine)

— Linda McMahon turned 78 today. Who 15 years ago would have ever picked Linda as the person from that family who did the most damage to the country, kids and education? Bobby Fulton/James Hines of The Fantastics tag team turned 66 today. Emi Sakura turned 50. Former NWA champion and one of the greatest college heavyweights in history, Dick Hutton, was born on this day in 1923. Joe Scarpa/Jay Strongbow was born on this day in 1928. Gene Anderson was born on this day in 1939. Michel Martel, Rick’s older brother who was a star in Puerto Rico, was born on this day in 1944 Phil Hickerson was born on this day in 1946. Joe Pedicino was born on this day in 1949. (thanks to Tony Richards)

— UWC Halloween Spectacular on 10/17 in New Egypt, NJ at the American Legion. There will be a trick or treat with the wrestlers before the show.

Dave Meltzer is the founder and lead writer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the weekly constant when it comes to news and reviews in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts for more than 40 years. Dave also co-hosts Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and had had bylines for The National, Yahoo Sports, MMA Fighting and others.