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Originally Posted by Observer Raw on Monday night did its best showing since December 30 with a 2.44 million viewer average. For whatever reason, there is a history of Raw doing big numbers on President's Day weekend, as last year's show did 2.77 million. The number was up four percent from last week, but the bad news was that the 22 percent first-to-thurd hour drop in audience was the seventh biggest in the history of the show ... The second-to-third hour drop was the second largest of all-time, trailing only a 2018 episode that had Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson appearing at the end of the second hour ... The first hour was the most-watched first hour of the show since September 30. The three hours were: 8 p.m. 2.67 million viewers 9 p.m. 2.56 million viewers 10 p.m. 2.08 million viewers

Originally Posted by Observer A documentary on WWE's Florida Championship Wrestling developmental brand is set to premiere next month. It was announced today that "A Future WWE: The FCW Story" will debut on the WWE Network on Sunday, March 8. It will be made available on-demand at 10 a.m. Eastern time that day. FCW was WWE's developmental brand prior to it becoming NXT.

Originally Posted by Observer Ahead of tonight's Dynamite episode in Atlanta, AEW has revealed the latest top-five roster rankings for their men's, women's, and tag team divisions: Men's division -- Champion: Chris Jericho (0-0 singles record in 2020, 10-1-1 overall record) Jon Moxley (5-0 singles record in 2020, 10-1-1 overall record) Cody Rhodes (2-0 singles record in 2020, 9-3-1 overall record) PAC (1-1 singles record in 2020, 6-5-1 overall record) Kenny Omega (0-0 singles record in 2020, 14-6 overall record) MJF (2-0 singles record in 2020, 6-1 overall record) Women's division -- Champion: Nyla Rose (3-1 singles record in 2020, 7-4 overall record) Riho (3-1 singles record in 2020, 11-3 overall record) Kris Statlander (1-1 singles record in 2020, 5-3 overall record) Hikaru Shida (2-1 singles record in 2020, 7-4 overall record) Yuka Sakazaki (1-0 singles record in 2020, 1-2 overall record) Britt Baker (1-2 singles record in 2020, 8-6 overall record) Tag team division -- Champions: Kenny Omega & Hangman Page (4-0 tag team record in 2020, 14-6 overall record for Omega, 10-8 overall record for Page) The Young Bucks (2-1 tag team record in 2020, 12-8 overall record for Nick Jackson, 12-7 overall record for Matt Jackson) SCU (2-2 tag team record in 2020, 15-6 overall record for Scorpio Sky, 14-5 overall record for Frankie Kazarian The Dark Order (2-0 tag team record in 2020, 6-2 overall record for Evil Uno, 6-2 overall record for Stu Grayson) Santana & Ortiz (0-1 tag team record in 2020, 7-5 overall record for Santana, 7-5 overall record for Ortiz) The Lucha Bros (0-1 tag team record in 2020, 8-8 overall record for Pentagon Jr., 9-8 overall record for Fenix)

Originally Posted by Observer Lucha Libre AAA has revealed when Kenny Omega will be making his next Mega title defense Omega will defend his AAA Mega Championship against Laredo Kid at this year's Rey de Reyes event. The show is taking place at Poliforum Zamna in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico on Saturday, March 21 and will air live on Twitch.

Originally Posted by PWI PROGRESS Wrestling posted they will be moving their Chapter 105 event to the date April 20 due to the announcement of NXT Takeover UK Dublin

PROGRESS originally announced their event on the 26th before WWE announced that date for their next NXT UK Takeover event. Also seems PROGRESS wasn't informed ahead of time of WWE's decision which is why they had to scramble to change their plans.

Originally Posted by PWI As PWInsider.com reported yesterday in the Elite section, WWE is beginning to reach out to former WWE stars about coming in for Wrestlemania 36 weekend to make appearances. Beyond the four names we reported yesterday, PWInsider.com can exclusively also confirm that WWE has booked Brodus Clay and Ariane "Cameron" Andrew for the weekend, setting the stage for a potential reunion with current Smackdown star Naomi, who was paired with Andrew as the The Funkadactyls tag team while also linked with Clay during his time in WWE. Clay has two developmental runs with WWE, with the second one leading to his main roster debut. He received a big push out in 2012 when he debuted as the Funkasaurus. He departed WWE in 2014, continuing to wrestle under the name Tyrus for Impact Wrestling and on the independent scene. He currently appears as a personality on FOX News' streaming FOX Nation platform. He's currently involved in a lawsuit against him and the Network for his alleged conduct towards former FOX personality Britt McHenry. He is slated to respond to that lawsuit on 3/9 after being granted an extension on responding.

Considering the serious legal issues Clay is currently dealing with, just another boneheaded decision that's going to cause them PR headaches afterwards. The other people WWE recently reached out to were JBL, Darren Young, Hornswoggle, and Santino Marella.

Originally Posted by PWI Sky Germany will no longer offer WWE pay-per-views as of April. They are now offering AEW events instead. The official announcement from Sky (translated to English) reads: Sky Germany and the WWE go their separate ways Wrestling formats will no longer be available at Sky from April. The end of the collaboration is due to a WWE decision. Sky will now add another wrestling league to the program. Sky Deutschland and the WWE wrestling series will no longer work together. The current contract expires at the end of March. Sky Deutschland stated that it had not continued the cooperation because the important pay-per-view events that would bring the great stories within the shows to the top and also to the end were no longer separately advertised for Germany - and could not be acquired at all. As a result, only the weekly shows “Raw” and “Smackdown” were available for the period from April onwards - in fan circles these two in particular have recently been criticized more and more because of falling quality.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Jeremy Lambert of Fightful reached out to WrestleCon about Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara being pulled from their scheduled appearances during WrestleMania 36 week/weekend. WrestleCon told Lambert that they were not contacted directly by All Elite Wrestling so they were not given a reason as to why Allin and Guevara were pulled. Both men are set to appear at The Great Philadelphia Comic Con on the same weekend as WrestleCon. It is also noted in the article that the contracts with Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho are with Barry Bloom Talent Agency and that goes over AEW and the same goes for Jon Moxley who is booked through PrimeTime Appearances.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling David Benoit was the most recent guest on Vickie Guerrero’s podcast and David revealed that he reached out to Booker T about training with Booker in Houston by way of Reality Of Wrestling: “I talked to Booker T last Friday. So he said he would give me a call but I’m still waiting so, we’ll see.” Vickie Guerrero and David Benoit chatted about their experiences backstage in AEW. Vickie Guerrero has done commentary on AEW Dark and she told the story of how she reached out to WWE to line up talent interviews for her podcast but once they found out she was on AEW programming, the communication between the two sides stopped. “I have the podcast now and I had asked to interview some superstars for my podcast and they found out I went to AEW and now they don’t even talk to me, and between me and you [David Benoit], let’s just put it that way — they didn’t call me for two years. I haven’t heard from them, so what did they expect me to do? Just to sit here and wait for them to call so I can do some work? I love wrestling, I love to work in the ring and if someone’s giving me an opportunity to go and show up and have some fun, then I should be able to because I’m not obligated to anybody. But you know, I saw that I pissed in their Cheerios and so be it."

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling While speaking on an international media call, Rhea Ripley told Digital Spy that she doesn’t mind if the NXT Women’s Championship is referred to as its original name or simply the “NXT Championship”. She thinks it was changed back to the NXT Women’s Title because of the backlash on social media.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling All Elite Wrestling is launching their official podcast entitled “AEW Unrestricted” and the podcast is set to debut on February 20th. There is a one minute teaser up on Apple Podcasts and it’s also noted in the description that AEW referee Aubrey Edwards and Tony Schiavone are hosting the podcast.

Originally Posted by Fightful At 45 years old, Tito Ortiz may be looking to add WWE Superstar to his resume. The former UFC champion is currently training at the WWE Performance Center, according to a report by Dave Meltzer on the February 15th episode of Wrestling Observer Radio ... On Tuesday, WWE confirmed to ESPN that Ortiz had been training at the WWE Performance Center. Ortiz declined to comment, though sources told ESPN that he did well in his training.

Link: https://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-41091567-4


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