WWE: Gunther Nose Surgery & WWE Return Plans Update, Triple H on WWE Wrestleplaooza Being “Expect Spectacle, Expect Surprises”, WWE Touts WWE x AAA Worlds Collide: Las Vegas Live Concurrent Viewers Record

Gunther Nose Surgery & WWE Return Plans Update

As noted before, Gunther has been absent from WWE since this past August’s SummerSlam 2025 due to a nose surgery. Gunther’s busted nose injury angle during his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match against CM Punk at the show was WWE officials’ way of writing out Gunther for his upcoming surgery at the time.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that Gunther is currently expected to make his return very soon.

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Triple H Comments on WWE Wrestleplaooza Being “Expect Spectacle, Expect Surprises”

A recent episode of ESPN’s Get Up show featured WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Levesque’s thoughts about what fans can expect from this Saturday’s WWE Wrestlepalooza event on ESPN.

“Nobody does big events like WWE, with possibly the exception of ESPN. What you guys do, the hype that you put around it— shows like this, coming up here and having the honor of being here with you. All of this, First Take, ESPN, it builds those events to be bigger than anything. Then, we deliver on them bigger than anybody. Expect spectacle, expect surprises, expect to have a lot of fun and ESPN is going to deliver.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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WWE Touts WWE x AAA Worlds Collide: Las Vegas Live Concurrent Viewers Record

WWE announced that their WWE x AAA Worlds Collide: Las Vegas event on September 12th at The Pavilion at the Thoma & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada set a new all-time record for largest live concurrent viewers for an event in Worlds Collide series history.

It was announced that the event peaked at 773,000 live concurrent viewers on WWE, WWE Español, AAA’s YouTube and Facebook channels.

Official press release:

WORLDS COLLIDE SETS EVENT RECORD FOR LIVE CONCURRENT AUDIENCE WITH 773,000 GLOBAL VIEWERS

September 18, 2025 – WWE®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced that Worlds Collide set a record for the largest concurrent live audience in the event’s history. The event peaked at 773,000 live concurrent viewers across the WWE, WWE Español, AAA YouTube and Facebook channels during the event broadcast from the Cox Pavilion at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 12.

More than 4.1 million viewers watched the broadcast in the first 24 hours, with an additional 127 million digital views generated across social platforms.

Worlds Collide saw Dominik Mysterio defeat El Hijo del Vikingo to become the new AAA Mega Champion, alongside El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. retaining the AAA Latin American Championship and the team of Pagano and Psycho Clown retaining the AAA World Tag Team Championship.

In April, WWE announced its acquisition of leading Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA in partnership with Mexico-based sports and entertainment holding company, Fillip.

Worlds Collide can be watched back on WWE’s official YouTube channel and with Spanish commentary here.