Dynamite did 692,000 viewers on TNT yesterday, down 3,000 viewers from last week’s episode. With a 0.26 in the 18-49 demo, Dynamite placed #31 in the top 50 cable chart.
While they placed higher than NXT in the chart, AEW lost by 1,000 viewers this week against NXT. The difference in viewers last week was of 95,000 viewers in favor of AEW. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
WWE Backstage this week did 140,000 viewers, up 6,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. The show has certainly benefited from the WWE programming on FOX Sports 1 that is serving as a lead-in on Tuesdays. CM Punk will be returning to the show next week. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
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Participating in this video are R-Truth, Titus O’Neil, Otis, Matt Riddle, No Way Jose, Adam Cole, Aiden English, Shinsuke Nakamura, Mojo Rawley, Kalisto, Lince Dorado, and the new Universal champion Braun Strowman.
It’s not as good as the women’s version of the challenge but it’s still a great effort from the men.
You can see it below.
Good work ladies. Now it’s our turn. #DontRushChallenge. @WWE pic.twitter.com/lgNFR4Gf89
— Dean “Mojo” Muhtadi (@MojoMuhtadi) April 9, 2020
UFC President Dana White praised WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon for not being afraid of this pandemic and marching on with his business despite everyone else closing down.
White, who is securing a private island to host UFC shows for international fighters and a hotel on tribal land somewhere on the West Coast to do shows for the next two months, said that he’s ready to get back to work.
“I think a lot of other people are ready to get back. First of all, everybody’s afraid to be first. Realistically the only guy right now who isn’t afraid is me and Vince McMahon,” White told ESPN.
“Vince McMahon hasn’t skipped a beat. What he did was he found solutions. He found ways, get rid of the crowd, and I’m sure he’s doing everything in his power, too, to make sure his guys are safe. Everybody else is afraid to be first.”
Both White and McMahon were on a call with President Donald Trump last Saturday along with other leaders of sports leagues to see what the plan is to reopen sports for fans.
Speaking to WrestlingInc.com in an interview, AEW’s Jake “The Snake” Roberts said that he’s currently in quarantine in an Atlanta area hotel for next several weeks after finishing AEW tapings.
Roberts said that he was living with Diamond Dallas Page when AEW called and told him to come for tapings. Page, who locked up his house due to the coronavirus, advised Roberts that if he leaves he’s not coming back due to the pandemic.
“He had a baby in the house and nobody needs to be sick around a baby. He took the hard line and said, ‘Dude, if you leave, you can’t come back.’ I had to do it for AEW as I wanna help these guys. Now I’m paying for it brother,” Roberts said in the interview.
The WWE Hall of Famer also believes that wrestling should take a break during these times and everyone should pull it together to help eliminate this virus as quickly as possible.
“It really chaps my ass to see people not paying attention to what they’re asking us to do and they’re doing the same old thing they always do. It shows you how selfish some people can be,” he said. “They’re gonna cause this thing to last longer than it should if we just do the right thing now. People like that should be arrested and put in jail.”
Jake’s full interview on The Wrestling Inc. Daily can be heard here.
It looks like Matt Hardy will be resurrecting the Hardy compound for another one of his classic matches as the former WWE Tag Team title holder challenged Chris Jericho to The Elite Deletion.
Hardy had some words to say to The Inner Circle before challenging the former AEW champion to come to his property for The Elite Deletion. The two have been feuding ever since Matt arrived in AEW a few weeks ago and took The Elite’s side in their war against The Inner Circle.
Back when he was employed by Impact Wrestling, Matt used his compound for three matches: The Final Deletion, Delete or Decay, and Total Nonstop Deletion. WWE also used the compound once for The Ultimate Deletion match against Bray Wyatt.
AEW did not announce when this match will happen.
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WWE will use the same techniques they implemented for WrestleMania tapings with a medical team screening everyone before making their way inside what it turned out to be one of WWE’s biggest investment – the Performance Center. WWE encouraged everyone to arrive earlier than usual due to the added medical screenings they will be doing.
The company also sent in tips how to create a face mask by sewing fabric, wearing a bandanna or ripping off an old t-shirt sleeve and it looks like they will not be providing their own masks to the performers. The CDC is now encouraging everyone to wear a face cloth mask to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
WWE will be resuming television tapings tomorrow, starting with Friday Night Smackdown which will air later in the day on FOX.
In a segment that took the whole second hour of NXT on USA Network, Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano ended their rivalry in a stripped-down building.
Triple H, waiting for the two in a ring, greeted the two as they entered the building. “This is where it ends right? Right here. It starts in this ring, it ends in this ring,” Triple H told them. “I don’t care what you guys do to each other, but when it’s done here, it’s done.”
He then introduced NXT referee Drake Wuertz. “What he says goes…he’s just here to decide the winner, nothing more. So you guys have at it. When I walk through that door, it’s on.”
As soon as Triple H exited the warehouse, Ciampa and Gargano beat the hell out of each other for the following 40 minutes or so. The filming of the match was different than what you usually see on NXT and it was shot more like a fight scene in a movie, although not at the extent of the boneyard match.
The surprise ending came when Candice LaRae came to the ring to plead with both men to stop. Ciampa refused to finish Gargano so LaRae decided to finish Gargano herself with a low blow. Ciampa, surprised, had a soft moment and said sorry to his former partner and did not pin him. As he stood up, LaRae returned to the ring and kicked Ciampa in the nuts. Gargano, smiling, revealed he had a cup so this was all a show to trick Ciampa. Gargano then hit the Jay Driller on Ciampa on the exposed ring and covered him to end the feud once and for all.
Io Shirai will challenge Charlotte Flair for the NXT Women’s title after she won a six-way ladder match on last night’s NXT which was taped from Full Sail University.
Candice LaRae, Tegan Nox, Chelsea Green, Dakota Kai, and Mia Yim were the other five competitors who took part in this ladder match. Raquel Gonzales and Robert Stone also made their presence felt on their clients’ behalf but were wiped out by their challengers.
Shirai had a few opportunities to get the NXT Women’s title last year but always came up short against Shayna Baszler, eventually turning heel in the process as well after she turned on Candice LaRae.
WWE did not specify when Flair vs Shirai will go down.
Tonight’s NXT on USA Network will feature two big matches which were originally scheduled to take place at NXT Takeover: Tampa Bay during WrestleMania weekend.
The first match is a six-way ladder match where the winner will be named as the number one contender for the NXT Women’s title. Those who will be participating in this match are Candice LaRae, Mia Yim, Io Shirai, Tegan Nox, Chelsea Green, and Dakota Kai. All of them had to go through a qualifying match and in Kai’s case, she also went through a second chance match after originally losing her qualifying match.
The other match is being marketed as “One Final Beat” with Blackheart vs Rebel Heart – Tommaso Ciampa vs Johnny Gargano – in their final NXT match against each other. The two will be banned from getting physical with each other after tonight and if they do they will get both fired from NXT.
Three matches have already been announced for tonight’s Dynamite on TNT which was taped from QT Marshall’s gym in Norcross, Georgia.
These matches are Cody vs Shawn Spears in the first match of the TNT Championship tournament, Kenny Omega and Michael Nakazawa vs Best Friends, and Hikura Shida vs Britt Baker. Brodie Lee, the leader of The Dark Order, will also be in action against an unnamed opponent.
Tonight’s commentary will be taken care of by Tony Schiavone and former AEW champion Chris Jericho.
WWE will hold a tournament to crown the NXT Cruiserweight interim champion since the current champ, Jordan Devlin, is in Ireland and cannot defend the title.
Regal made the announcement during today’s episode of The Bump on the WWE Network. Regal said that more information will be given over the next few days on NXT’s social media accounts.
Asked about the NXT Tag Team titles since Pete Dunne is also stuck in the United Kingdom, Regal said that a decision is still to be made over those titles and hopefully they’ll reach a decision next week.
Those who are not currently in the United States are not allowed to enter due to the travel ban imposed because of the coronavirus.
The WWE women have teamed up to film the #dontrushchallenge which is taking social media, especially TikTok, by storm lately.
The video starts with Sasha Banks in bed getting a call on her cell phone with the caller ID displaying “Vince.” She covers her face and then when she removes her hand, she’s all dolled up in her WWE outfit. The phone is then thrown to the next person who’s also in her regular clothes. A rub on the camera lens later…and she’s also transformed into a WWE Superstar.
The female Superstars who participated in this video are Sasha Banks, Naomi, Nia Jax, Zelina Vega, Tamina, Bayley, Liv Morgan, Peyton Royce, Billie Kay, Carmella, Natalya, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Sonya Deville, Mandy Rose, Bianca Belair, and Lana.
The video is performed with the Don’t Rush song by U.K. rap duo Young T and Bugsey in the background.
You can check it out below.
https://twitter.com/LanaWWE/status/1247870516158803970
UPDATE: Former NXT Women’s champion Rhea Ripley denied that she has returned home to Australia because of her visa expiring and in a post on Instagram said that she’s still in the United States.
Ripley uploaded a video on her Instagram stories showing her at home with the caption “Yo wrestling world…still in America.”
ORIGINAL STORY: Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com reported yesterday that former NXT Women’s champion Rhea Ripley has returned to her native country of Australia after her working visa expired.
Non-U.S. citizens who work in the country must return to their home country to reapply for their visa, a process which can take several weeks or months depending on the situation. She’s not the first one that had to go back and it’s a pretty common issue among those International Superstars.
The only problem right now is to get it done while the world is going through this whole COVID-19 pandemic and the process could take much longer.
Ripley lost the NXT Women’s title to Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 36, and the decision to take the title from her might have also come from the fact that they knew she’d have to return home for an undetermined amount of time.
The post-WrestleMania episode of Monday Night Raw did 2,100,000 viewers, up 177,000 from last week’s record low.
Hour one started with 2,311,000 viewers, then dropped to 2,063,000 viewers for the second hour, before finishing the night with just 1,925,000 viewers. It was the least-watched post-Mania Raw in history, something which was expected as fans seem to have enough of the empty arena shows and countless replays of old footage.
Raw was #1, #4, and #6 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and #28 in overall viewership for the night on cable as news programs continue to dominate the daily chart. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer is reporting that Impact Wrestling will be tapings several weeks worth of TV shows over the course of three days this week.
Impact has set up shop at their old stomping grounds in Nashville, Tennessee to continue doing business as they are running out of shows to air on AXS TV. Meltzer also adds that most of the talent will be missing from the tapings as they couldn’t make it to Nashville so it will be interesting to see how Impact works around that with minimum talent available.
The tapings in Nashville will of course be without fans as Impact now joins WWE and AEW in filming in empty arenas due to the coronavirus spread.
Tennessee is also under lockdown with essential businesses only allowed to operate in the state. How Impact Wrestling got around that, just like WWE in Florida, remains a mystery.
This year, WWE couldn’t brag about setting new attendance records for WrestleMania but they did find something else to tout – viewership and consumption milestones.
WWE set WrestleMania Week viewership records with more than 967 million video views across all of WWE’s digital and social media platforms, an increase of 20% year-over-year.
Additionally, a record 46 million hours of content was consumed during WrestleMania Week, an increase of 28% year-over-year.
WrestleMania was the most social event in WWE history with more than 13.8 million total social media interactions on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, a 57% increase over last year’s WrestleMania, according to Nielsen Social.
The WrestleMania 36 Kickoff show on Saturday night did a total of 106,000 viewers on FOX Sports 1 while night two Kickoff did another 112,000.
The Kickoff shows aired on FOX Sports for the first time since the WWE/FOX partnership started and FOX even offered WrestleMania on traditional pay-per-view through their apps.
Just like ESPN, FOX is relying on some WWE content to fill up their void on their sports channel and will be airing 22 hours of WWE footage throughout spring every Tuesday that will serve as a lead-in to WWE Backstage. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Sean Sapp of Fightful Wrestling is reporting that WWE will resume television tapings this coming Friday and will film continuously for a week. The first order of business will be to get tapings done for Smackdown which would air later in the day on FOX.
WWE plans to tape six episodes combined of Raw and Smackdown during the week while also doing multiple episodes of NXT at the nearby Full Sail University in Winter Park. With major sports events clearly not returning in front of an audience over the next couple of months, taping empty arena shows remains the only option to keep business going. Tomorrow’s NXT, featuring Gargano vs Ciampa and the women’s ladder match, was already filmed.
Florida remains under lockdown and WWE is not deemed as an essential business but the company has obviously obtained some kind of permission to go ahead with tapings over the next week.
The WrestleMania 35 encore presentation on ESPN on Sunday afternoon did 421,000 viewers, which is way down from what WrestleMania XXX and 32 did the previous two weeks. Those two shows were on at prime time though and this one aired at 3PM ET.
WrestleMania XXX did 839,000 viewers two weeks ago and WrestleMania 32 last week did 720,000 viewers.
ESPN aired these three WrestleManias to fill up the void on their network since all major sports are on hiatus due to the coronavirus. ESPN’s Director of Programming and Acquisitions Brent Colborne said in an interview that WWE’s addition to the network has “added excitement” and the company knew they had to act fast to put some content on their network.
Colborne also did not shoot down the idea of having WrestleMania air on ESPN in the future rather than on PPV but they are focusing on short-term ideas for now.
