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Originally Posted by Observer In a first for the Wednesday Night Wars, AEW Dynamite and NXT both finished with the same average number of total viewers on TNT and USA Network respectively. Both shows averaged 778,000 viewers last night. Where AEW can claim a victory is in the important 18-49 demo, with the show finishing 11th on cable for the night with an average rating of 0.28. That was down 12 percent from last week, while the average viewership was down nine percent. Over on the USA Network, NXT was down eight percent in total viewers and 17 percent in the demo, averaging a 0.24 rating and dropping to 21st for the night on cable television. The cable news channels saw larger-than-average viewership due to coverage of the impeachment hearings. There were also two NBA games that partially aired against the wrestling shows. After a week in which NXT won a couple of the other demos, it was back to usual with that show only beating Dynamite with viewers over 50, scoring a 0.38 to 0.29 victory.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling In the key demos, AEW was down 27% among females 18-49, down 20% with males 12-34, and 18% among females 12-34. The larger drops were experienced by NXT falling 33% with both females 18-49 and 12-34 while people 18-34 dropped 30% – the latter being a demo they edged over AEW last week by 0.01. Between both shows, the only demo that didn’t fall was NXT’s over 50 audience that was identical to last week with a 0.38.

Originally Posted by PWI The USA Network will be airing an episode of WWE NXT on Christmas Night 12/25 at 8 PM. The episode will not be live.

Originally Posted by Observer During two clips that aired last night, it was revealed that a Prime Target special will premiere on the WWE Network at 8 p.m. Eastern time next Tuesday (December 17). It will build up next Wednesday's Shayna Baszler vs. Rhea Ripley NXT Women's Championship match.

Originally Posted by PWI Last night's WWE 24 documentary on the first WWE NXT Takeover: Brooklyn event, which aired last night on the USA Network following NXT garnered 367,000 overnight viewers. Next Wednesday 12/18, the USA Network will air the WWE 24 documentary "Becky Lynch: The Man." It will be the first time that documentary, originally seen on the WWE Network, airs on cable television.

Originally Posted by PWI For the first time in many years, the USA Network is not scheduled to air this year's WWE Tribute to the Troops special. There is no word whether the special will air anywhere else. We are told that internally, it has not been discussed as a WWE Network special over the last few days, but obviously, that could change since WWE controls their own programming there. If the show does not broadcast, it will be the first time since the advent of the Tribute to the Troops concept that it does not air on broadcast or cable television.

Originally Posted by PWI Squared Circle Sirens reported today Kacy Catanzano, who has been out of action, was spotted at the WWE Performance Center today.

Originally Posted by PWI Chris Jericho has been going well out of his way to work with a lot of the younger talent on the roster, offering advice and feedback, we are told. He's made himself very accessible to everyone. Teddy Hart was sitting in the crowd at last night's taping in Garland, Texas, with his cats. A story making the rounds is that one of AEW's ring mics was stolen from ringside last night during the taping. AEW drew in the 4,500-4,600 area last night. We heard raves about the building in terms of being perfect for a wrestling show. The venue, The Curtis Culwell Center, has a 6,860 capacity in the round, so with a side of the venue cut off for staging and production, they were close to 75% or so of capacity.

Originally Posted by PWI Q - Is it true that WWE is working to pull talents from wrestling conventions? A - Yes and no. I have heard that certain WWE Legends contracts that are being renewed now give the company the option to prevent talents from appearing at conventions, so I'd expect the Wrestlecons and Starrcasts, etc. to have to a smaller pool to work from as more talents sign those deals. We have also heard that WWE has pretty much made it clear to promoters that if AEW talents are appearing, WWE-contracted talents can not appear at the same convention.

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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling NWA Powerr commentator Joe Galli joined the Pro Wrestling Boom podcast with Jason Powell. During their conversation, Galli shared his thoughts about Jim Cornette resigning from his role as a commentator for the National Wrestling Alliance: “I knew as soon as he said it… my first initial thought was, ‘Boy we’re gonna get some angry tweets,’ and we kinda plowed on through and I know that there’s an opportunity to cut things out because obviously it doesn’t broadcast live so I didn’t know what was gonna happen with it, and I knew it was bad and he had made some other crash jokes that people had pointed out before, but this one definitely stepped over the line for a lot of people, and it required a reaction and this is the reaction that it got whether it’s something that you support or you don’t support. It’s something that I feel just had to happen, and it did happen and we’re kind of pressing on forward with what we have and I have to say, I love working with Jim Cornette for a lot of reasons. For a lot of reasons. He is a walking, talking encyclopedia of professional wrestling, especially when it comes to the National Wrestling Alliance and that brand. I feel like there’s probably nobody on planet earth that’s more knowledgeable about professional wrestling than that man, and he actually brought to the table when we were having production meetings before the broadcast, a lot of the stuff that fans really, really liked about our show, came from Jim Cornette or at least slightly influenced by Jim Cornette or things were just adjusted based on things that he brought up based on his experience. So, you have to give the devil their due if you want to use that expression and say that he certainly had an influence on NWA Powerrr.”

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling @TashaXXRollins on Twitter who was in attendance for the Gorilla Position’s stage show with Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch, recorded a video of Seth responding to the question of if there was ever an issue between himself and Jon Moxley after Moxley did the Jericho podcast and Rollins reacted to Moxley’s comments during his appearance on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast. Rollins said there was never any beef and he even texted Moxley recently and wished him well. “Oh absolutely not. I never had any beef with him for leaving. He marches to the beat of his own drum. We were all kind of talking contract-wise, we knew his stuff was up and he decided he didn’t wanna stay and that had nothing to do with wanting to go somewhere else. He was exhausted because of the process and wrestling 200 matches a year and traveling an extra 100 days on top of that for six-plus years or whatever he did, just was beating him into the ground, and his elbow wasn’t getting better as much as he wanted [it] to. So there was never any beef with him on him leaving at all, at no point. So I think some of the comments that I made after that were misconstrued. I never had a problem with him leaving or anything like that. I thought some of the stuff he said on the Jericho podcast was a little unnecessary and I thought it was one of those things where he couldn’t handle the pressure, and it’s not for everybody at that point, and that’s all I was commenting on. I was commenting on him leaving. I wasn’t like, ‘Oh you betrayed us and left.’ Absolutely not. I sent him a text on his birthday which was a few days ago and wished him well. I hope that he’s good and he seems to be doing great at AEW and New Japan so, I wish nothing but the best for him and his lovely wife.”

Link: https://twitter.com/TashaXXRollins/s...524441601?s=20

Originally Posted by Fightful According to WrestleVotes, NXT will be involved at WrestleMania 36.

Originally Posted by Fightful Charlotte Flair is regarded as one of, if not the best female superstar in WWE. But on a recent episode of After The Bell, Corey Graves wondered how much Charlotte is "feeling it" in recent weeks. Heading into WWE TLC, Charlotte has been paired with Becky Lynch as the friends, turned enemies, turned friends battle the Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships. Graves believes that Charlotte's current story has made her feel "less than." Charlotte made an appearance on Thursday's After The Bell where she addressed Graves and his criticism. "I feel like The Queen is held to a different standard," stated Charlotte. "Unless I'm not out there doing above extraordinary or having the greatest match ever, it's like 'what's happening?' Now that I'm walking into TLC in a tag match, I'm thinking about my last year after that TLC match, and I found a new gear walking into the triple threat. Then there was Royal Rumble and the storytelling with Nia and Becky. I main evented WrestleMania, I arguably retired the greatest WWE superstar for the women's division we've had [Trish Stratus]. I felt those moments. Survivor Series with Ronda [Rousey], that was the most legit thing I've ever seen. How did I fall off? I think it's just, the bar is set so high, maybe it doesn't feel like that gear. I looked at it like, the one thing about my character is I'm consistent. I'm never injured. Has that hurt me? Instead of getting angry and frustrated, I have to look at it like, 'this is just the story right now. Not everything can be main event.' That's the gear (I've always had). When you say you miss the Evil Queen, that's where I feel like I shine. I've built this character where I don't need friends. You see Charlotte thinking she's above everyone. That's the disconnect." Charlotte continued, "I just spent my last three title reigns -- everyone is like, 'Charlotte gets handed things.' In reality, those title reigns were not for bigger pictures. That's what's frustrating. That gets to me."

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