Strong lead-in helps boost WWE Backstage viewership up 74 percent
This week’s episode of WWE Backstage drew the show’s second-best viewership since it premiered in its regular time slot. Backstage averaged 169,000 viewers on FS1 last night, which was up 74 percent from the 97,000 viewers it did last week. The rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.06, up from last week’s 0.05. This…
Smackdown Rating: Best rating in over three months, but barely, and no evidence of a Raw Reunion bump, year-ago comparisons
> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) Last night’s episode of WWE…
WWE Raw ratings down nine percent from last week
The good news is that unlike last week, Raw did not have a substantial drop in viewers over the three hours. The bad news is Raw didn’t start at anywhere the same level of interest. Last night’s episode was down nine percent overall from last week, averaging 2.21 million viewers, and the first hour week-to-week…
Daily Pro Wrestling History (03/07): Bruno Sammartino vs. Giant Baba
1914 Minneapolis, Minnesota: – Henry Ordemann beat Eugene Sampson – Jess Westergaard beat Julius Nelson 1939 San Francisco, California: – Dean Detton defeated Lou Plummer for the San Francisco Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title 1940 St. Louis, Missouri: – Ray Steele defeated Bronko Nagurski to win the National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title 1953 Atlanta, Georgia:…
AEW’s first TNT rating is in: One hour preview show in prime time draws 60 percent of the viewership of NXT’s live hour last week on USA
> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) Last night’s barely hyped hour-long…
GCW Collective, WWN, WrestleCon announce WrestleMania week changes
In the wake of WWE’s announcement that this year’s WrestleMania will move to Orlando, FL, in front of no fans due to the coronavirus outbreak, postponements and cancellations began to pour in from various indie promoters who were planning on taking advantage of tens of thousands of wrestling fans in town for a variety of…
WWE RAW PRIMER 12/30: Here Comes the Bride, Black vs. Murphy, What’s Next for Joe, Andrade New U.S. Champ, The Man Readies for the Empress but Don’t Forget the Queen
> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW PRIMER…
Roman Reigns confirms he has pulled out of WrestleMania, lashes out as those critical of his decision, WWE still advertising the match
Click:美國風扇燈> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) Roman Reigns has confirmed his…
WWE Raw video highlights: Raw's final build to WrestleMania 36
Brock Lesnar, Becky Lynch, The Undertaker, and Edge were all featured on Raw’s go-home show for WrestleMania 36. Paul Heyman, Undertaker, and Edge cut promos building up the matches for WrestleMania, while Lynch was attacked by her WrestleMania challenger. After last year’s WrestleMania 35 main event was shown in full, Baszler ambushed Lynch, put her in the…
17-year old Wilfredo Leon new captain of Cuba!
Young Wilfredo Leon is assuming the captain’s responsibilities for Cuba’s 2011 FIVB Volleyball World League campaign The team, composed by 14 players, is led by 17-year-old Wilfredo Leon, new captain of the team once again coached by veteran Orlando Samuels. The middle-blockers include Osmany Camejo, Dariel Albo and Yasser Perdomo, opposites are Fernando Hernandez and…