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01-13-2016 12:45 AM |
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Monday's episode of WWE RAW, with Brock Lesnar's return and Vince McMahon regularly featured, drew 3.323 million viewers. This is down from last week's 3.575 million viewers.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.536 million viewers, the second hour drew 3.206 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.228 million viewers.
RAW was #6 for the night in viewership, behind the college football championship game and the accompanying coverage, which dominated the night, and #7 for the night in the 18-49 demographic, behind Love & Hip-Hop and college football.
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For some reference, same week last year had 3.9 million viewers for the average.
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
According to f4wonline.com, New Japan Pro Wrestling has stripped Shinsuke Nakamura of the IWGP IC Title. Kenny Omega will face a mystery opponent in the main event of the New Beginnings in Niigata event on February 14th to crown a new champion. While not confirmed, the speculation is that it will be Hiroshi Tanahashi as the mystery opponent.
Nakamura will continue to appear on New Japan shows for the rest of the month, and finish on January 30th. His final match will be teaming with Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii to face Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata.
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Nakamura will be holding a press conference around January 25th regarding his departure from the company.
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Originally Posted by PWI
As we noted last week, Sasha Banks has been out of action since the final Raw of 2015 in Brooklyn, NY with an undisclosed injury.
PWInsider.com is told that Banks has suffered a MCL injury to one of her knees and is not expected back in the ring until sometime next month.
Obviously, given the high level of her work, that is a blow to the Divas division, but thankfully she will be back within a month or so.
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Originally Posted by CagesideSeats
The WWE injury bug struck again.
Paige disappeared from WWE television not long ago and while there were rumors that she was dealing with an injury of some sort, nothing was confirmed either way. That was until today when she told Channel Guide Mag she's dealing with a concussion:
"I took a bad bump in one of my matches. WWE has been absolutely great with the Wellness Program and wanting to make sure I'm back on my feet and completely healthy before getting back in the ring again. I'm losing my mind because I'm not at work right now, so it's been a few straight weeks of not leaving the house. I do go to the Performance Center and get back in the ring there and see the doctors to make sure I'm a good kid and taking as much ImPACT tests as I possibly can. I hope to get back in the ring soon. It's just a slight concussion. No big deal. Not a crazy one, but WWE is obviously very protective of their talent. I'm like 'I'm fine. I promise.' They're like 'No, we have to make sure you are 100 percent.' They are like parents."
WWE is dealing with multiple concussion lawsuits at the moment, so the company is playing it as safe as possible with any head injuries. Really, that should be the case either which way.
Paige joins a long list of WWE stars dealing with injuries, including Seth Rollins, Randy Orton, John Cena, Nikki Bella, Cesaro, Tyson Kidd, and Daniel Bryan, to name too many.
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
According to Dave Meltzer, Rusev suffered what is begin described as a minor knee injury over the weekend, which is why he was held off Raw. Rusev suffered the injury in a match with Ryback at the WWE live event in Bossier City, Louisiana, on Saturday night. While there is no confirmation, the hope is that Rusev will be back for the Royal Rumble PPV.
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In an update, Dave Meltzer discussed Orton's status on today's installment of Wrestling Observer Radio. Meltzer explained that he received word about Orton possibly needing surgery back in November and Ric Flair also mentioned it on his podcast around the same time. Meltzer claims that Orton was just recently told that he would not be needing the surgery, as early as last week.
Meltzer would go on to mention that Orton is expected to return to action between mid-March or early May.
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The Sports Business Daily had a report that the NFL is looking at splitting up its Thursday night package and selling it to two or three different networks next season and that the league may expand to 17 Thursday night games, which would greatly affect fall Smackdown ratings.
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The Wall Street Journal today had a small ad in the weekend edition looking for people who have archival items related to Gorgeous George, particularly photos or home movies for a documentary. The e-mail address to contact is gorgeousgeo32415@gmail.com (thanks to Robert Steinberg)
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