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Friday’s live post-SummerSlam edition of WWE SmackDown drew an average of 2.250 million viewers on FOX, according to Nielsen, via Showbuzz Daily. This final number is down 21.71% from the overnight viewership that was released on Saturday morning, which was an average of 2.874 million viewers. This number is up 7.04% from last week’s final […]
Friday’s taped AEW Rampage episode drew 722,000 viewers on TNT, according to Nielsen via Showbuzz Daily. This is down 36.04% from last week’s Rampage episode, which drew 1.129 million viewers for CM Punk’s debut. Friday’s taped Rampage episode drew a 0.34 rating in the 18-49 key demographic. This is down 35.84% from last week’s episode, […]
Ikemen Jiro vs. Roderick Strong is now official for this week’s WWE NXT episode on the USA Network. As noted, WWE previously announced a new Diamond Mine Open Challenge for Tuesday’s show, hosted by Strong. That challenge has been accepted by Jiro, who is looking to get payback for his idol, NXT Cruiserweight Champion Kushida. […]
UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture was on today’s episode of The Wrestling Inc. Daily. Couture is a UFC legend who has nearly seen it all in his near 15-year career. During their interview, Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman asked Couture his thoughts on AEW star CM Punk’s UFC career, and Couture explains what […]
WWE is reportedly looking at re-packaging Keith Lee. As we’ve noted, Lee has been working RAW and SmackDown dark matches as of late as a way to refine him and decide what works best for him moving forward. Lee recently revealed on YouTube how health issues kept him out of the ring earlier this year, […]
As speculated, the SummerSlam rematch between WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg and WWE Champion Bobby Lashley is reportedly planned for Saudi Arabia. As noted earlier today, WWE released a video where Goldberg said he has a knee surgery scheduled soon for the injury suffered at the hands of Lashley, and that he’s looking to […]
Tonight’s WWE RAW will open with an Open Challenge for the United States Title. WWE has announced that United States Champion Damian Priest will kick off tonight’s RAW broadcast with an Open Challenge. This will be his first title defense since winning the title from Sheamus at WWE SummerSlam on August 21. On a related […]
Below are highlights from the latest Being the Elite: * The Elite show off their new handshake. Kenny Omega says future groups will steal their stuff, but they’ll just be a parody group. The group banters for a bit and does a couple “Woos!” * The Young Bucks out sneaker shopping and bump into Sammy […]
In an appearance on Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Garrett Gonzalez, AEW President Tony Khan was asked about the philosophical differences between the way AEW scouts talent and how WWE scouts talent. The question comes as reports suggest WWE is no longer interested in independent wrestling talent. Khan, not surprisingly, disagreed with that […]
WWE officials are hopeful that Sasha Banks will be back in action by mid-September. As we’ve noted, Banks is currently not cleared to compete for an unknown reason. She has not wrestled since the August 7 WWE Supershow live event in Ft. Myers, Florida, and was forced to miss SummerSlam because she was not cleared. […]