Paul Heyman popped up in a backstage segment on Monday Night Raw this week for a special announcement. This Sunday at Survivor Series, the WWE Championship match between Brock Lesnar and Rey Mysterio will be a No Holds Barred match. Heyman went through the story between Lesnar and Mysterio, which started back in late September…
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WWE SmackDown Ratings Down This Week, New FOX Low
The initial WWE SmackDown ratings and viewership figures are in for Friday night’s broadcast on FOX, and the show saw a decline in both metrics this week. The November 15th edition of SmackDown drew an average of 2.350 million viewers according to the overnights posted at Showbuzz Daily. This is based off of viewership figures…
Daniel Bryan vs. Bray Wyatt Announced For Survivor Series
The final segment of this week’s WWE SmackDown saw Daniel Bryan guest on MizTV with The Miz. The purpose of the segment was for Bryan to address “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt’s backstage attack on him last week during SmackDown. Miz asked Bryan why he thinks that Wyatt attacked him last week. Bryan didn’t have…
AEW Dynamite Wins the Ratings War for Nov. 13
All Elite Wrestling kept its undefeated ratings streak over NXT rolling this week, while simultaneously taking a jump up in viewership and ratings fresh off its Full Gear pay-per-view this past weekend. This week’s Dynamite brought in 957,000 viewers and a 0.43 rating in the target 18-45 demographic, while NXT saw its numbers drop to…
Finn Balor vs. Matt Riddle Confirmed for WarGames
Finn Balor has had something big to prove ever since he made his return to the NXT roster. He’s one of the SuperStars to really make the NXT brand what it is today, and he has definitely been feeling himself. This led to Balor coming out and trash talking the current NXT roster about who…
Lio Rush Retains NXT Cruiserweight Champsionship
Ever since Lio Rush had made his grand return to the NXT brand, he’s been on quite a tear with quickly winning the Cruiserweight Championship from Drew Gulak. But he’s had one contender biting at his heels with Angel Garza. Garza himself has had a huge upswing following his grand debut during the NXT Breakout…
CM Punk Makes Surprise Appearance on WWE Backstage
CM Punk finally made his long-awaited return to WWE television on Tuesday night. Only instead of appearing on an episode of Raw or SmackDown, the former WWE Champion arrived in the closing moments of the WWE Backstage news show on Fox Sports 1. Renee Young introduced Punk as a surprise guest, who walked his way…
WWE Won’t Grant Sin Cara His Release
WWE luchador and former NXT Tag Team Champion Sin Cara (real name Jorge Arias) made headlines on Monday when he released a lengthy statement announcing he had requested his release from WWE. However it sounds like WWE won’t accept his request, as PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported via sources several hours later. Arias originally signed as…
Dolph Ziggler Says He Threatened to Quit WWE Over SummerSlam Match
Over the summer Dolph Ziggler was involved with a feud with The Miz and Shawn Michaels that eventually evolved into him having a one-on-one match with Goldberg at the SummerSlam pay-per-view. Ziggler had spent the months leading up to the event taking shots at famous wrestlers who kept coming back for one-off appearances, and kept…
Finn Balor and AJ Styles Tease Bullet Club Reunion
The main event was quite a matchup with AJ Styles and The OC taking on Tommaso Ciampa, Matt Riddle, and Keith Lee. It was one hell of a match, but towards the end things quickly degraded when it looked like Ciampa had the match in hand, as Finn Balor came out and interrupted things, delivering…