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Originally Posted by Observer Ratings are in for this week's installment of the Wednesday Night Wars. AEW Dynamite, with matches taped on the Chris Jericho cruise the previous day, averaged 871,000 viewers, down seven percent from last week. The show finished eighth on cable in the 18-49 demo with a 0.35 rating, down eight percent from last week. Last week's show had finished in fifth place. NXT was up 10 percent in viewers, averaging 769,000. They were up 14 percent in the 18-49 demo with a 0.24 rating, which landed NXT in 35th place for the night on cable ... As per usual, Dynamite won in every demo except for those over 50. NXT had an edge of 0.38 to 0.34 in that category. The gap was largest with men 18-49, where Dynamite finished 50 percent higher than NXT with a 0.48 to 0.32 advantage.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling If you are looking for patterns for the AEW show, it was clear that the taped nature didn’t affect older viewers. Adults over 50 were the same as last week while adults 25-54 were only down 2%. The big decreases were among females 12-34 which fell 33%, males 12-34 down 23% and adults 18-34 declining 17% this week. NXT was helped by large increases among adults 18-34 by 29%, males 18-49 by 23%, and females 12-34 increasing 22%.

Originally Posted by Observer A wrestler who was with Ring of Honor during its inception will be appearing for the promotion again over WrestleMania weekend. ROH announced this morning that Amazing Red will be wrestling at Supercard of Honor XIV. The show is taking place at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, Florida on Saturday, April 4. After announcing his retirement last April, Red has been wrestling since returning to the ring against Will Ospreay in NJPW's Super J-Cup in August. Red tweeted earlier this month that he was going away for a small surgery but would be back in February.

Originally Posted by PWI The word making the rounds is that Australian star Adam Brooks is likely Ring of Honor bound in the near future. PWInsider.com is hearing the company is working on bringing him in regularly. Brooks, 29, was originally trained by Buddy Murphy and has been a consistent main events for Australian promotions, including Melbourne City Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Australia. He has wrestled for ROH and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla in the past and has already announced he will be in Tampa competing over Wrestlemania 36 week.

Originally Posted by PWI The Cauliflower Alley Club issued the following sad news: ?We heard this morning that Ruben Cruz, better known to wrestling as Hercules Ayala, passed away last night due to heart issues at the age of 69. Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz wrestled all over the world, winning dozens of titles in his career. No one will ever forget his unique look, and we offer our condolances at this time ?to his family and his loved ones. Ayala, originally born in Puerto Rico, was trained in professional wrestling by the late Angelo Savoldi while living in Boston, where his mother had moved to from the island. After a chance meeting in a gym, Ayala was taken under Savoldi's wing and worked underneath matches for the World Wide Wrestling Federation. Working as Ruben Ayala, a babyface, he would work undercard matches, losing to the likes of Baron Mikel Scicuna and getting put over Johnny Rodz and Tony Altimore on live events ... We are told Ayala had been in poor health for some time. He was 69 years old at the time of his passing. Our deepest condolences to the family, friends and fans of Hercules Ayala.

Originally Posted by PWI Last night's episode of Dynamite was taped on Tuesday 2/21 in the Bahamas with the company then sending on multiple copies of the show back to Atlanta (to insure that no matter what, the show made it back to the United States), at which point Kevin Sullivan and his team went into a marathon post-production session to get the episode polished and ready for air on TNT last night.

Originally Posted by PWI Ring of Honor has signed a new multi-year deal with PJ Black aka former WWE star Justin Gabriel, PWInsider.com has confirmed. An official announcement could come at any time. His existing deal, signed last year after turning down a chance to return to WWE, was slated to expire shortly

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Following his WWE debut on the premiere of Friday Night SmackDown on FOX in October, it was confirmed by WWE that Cain Velasquez signed a multi-year deal with the company. While speaking on the Gorilla Position podcast, Velasquez said his deal is a full-time one for three years. “Yeah, full-time thing for three years.”

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling All Elite Wrestling posted Joey Janela and Rey Fenix’s match that was taped after AEW Dynamite: Bash At The Beach went off the air on TNT.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMo6CEbSoc

Originally Posted by Fightful Becky Lynch refers to herself as "The Man" because she doesn't believe in gender specificity. And she doesn't think WWE should believe in it either. The women in WWE continue to make history, but Lynch believes the time for making history is over and it's time for full equality in WWE ... WWE has seemingly taken the first step in dropping "women's" from its vocabulary by now referring to the NXT Women's Championship as simply the NXT Championship. Mauro Ranallo never made mention of the "women's" part of the championship when Rhea Ripley was on Wednesday's NXT. It is unclear if Raw and SmackDown will start using this designation moving forward. Becky took to social media to offer more clarity on her comments.

Link: https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/st...89376821583873

Originally Posted by Fightful In 2016, The Rock returned to WWE Raw to hype his appearance at WrestleMania 32. During his promo, he was interrupted by The New Day, leading to the four men engaging in a promo battle. New Day began the battle, joking about The Rock leaving Miami for Hollywood and putting themselves over as the reigning WWE Tag Team Champions before The Rock offered his rebuttal ... On the latest episode of New Day: Feel The Power; Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods recalled the moment with The Rock. "How about when we hopped on the microphone with the microphone king, The Rock? I don't know what the consensus was, but that was pretty cool. We were out there for a few minutes and he made his remarks. And we said 'penis' a lot," said Big E Kofi added, "You can't say 'penis' on TV and we said it on TV." When discussing the challenge of going against The Rock on the mic, Xavier Woods stated, "That day, we knew we were going up against 'The Godfather on the Microphone.' He's absolutely incredible. Probably the best entertainer I've ever seen on all platforms. We knew he was going to come in with all that Attitude Era vibe; say whatever he wants, going into the crowd, back to the hard cam and everyone is going to love it. One of the things we wanted to try and do is stay within our PG lane and still go toe-to-toe with somebody who was breaking all of our rules. We did our best to do that and I felt really good after it. We didn't just get washed out." Meanwhile, Kofi praised The Rock for being gracious with how giving he was. "Shoutout to The Rock for being cool enough for allowing us to be us. He could have easily stifled whatever it is that he wanted us to say. It's always cool when you see somebody that you grew up watching, you meet them in real life, and they're cool. Especially in the parameters of this business. He was gracious enough to allow us to be us. I felt like it legitimized us."

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