The Story on James Storm’s TNA-NXT-TNA run
James Storm’s return to TNA on Tuesday night’s Impact episode capped off a wild ride for the TNA Original. Storm’s TNA contract expired around the time of TNA’s last TV tapings over the summer, he […]
WWE News
12/28 Raw DVR’ing – wild hourly swings point to viewership habit
The final Raw episode of 2015 confirmed one of the conclusions from DVR viewing research that viewers are watching some part of the beginning, fast-forwarding through the middle, and skipping ahead to the end of Raw. […]
12/31 Smackdown Ratings – DVR Update
The final Smackdown of 2015 and the final Smackdown on Syfy drew an audience at the level of Thanksgiving Smackdown one month earlier. WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking – December 31: Smackdown finished its run on Syfy […]
WWE Video – Kevin Owens in the weekly Cole interview
Former Intercontinental champion Kevin Owens took over Michael Cole’s weekly, storyline-driven interview on WWE’s website to kick off the new year. Owens, whose character includes riffing on WWE tropes, heeled on the Royal Rumble marketing […]
1/4 Raw Twitter TV Ratings – slow start to 2016
Monday’s Raw did not get off to a good start in Nielsen’s Twitter TV Ratings to begin 2016 despite a WWE Title match, the return of Chris Jericho, and big show-closing angle for the Royal […]
Ambrose talks WWE’s “entertainment” shift, wanting to have “End of the World” fight, utility role, more
The latest interview with IC champion Dean Ambrose captures the sentiment that Ambrose is in the wrong era for himself, but in the right era for WWE. Ambrose has an old-school mentality of wanting to […]
McMahons & Jerry Jones get together at Cowboys game
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is worth about $5 billion. WWE CEO Vince McMahon is worth above or below $1 billion depending on the day of the week. The two were pictured together in Jerry Jones’s […]
EXCLUSIVE – Steve Austin evaluates Roman Reigns as top champion, what needs to improve
WWE has experimented with presenting new WWE World Hvt. champion Roman Reigns as a hybrid of John Cena, Daniel Bryan, and most-recently “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. In mid-December, WWE booked Reigns to tear through chief […]
Final WWE Raw TV Ratings Report 2015 – Decline, Comparisons, Future Outlook
The final year Raw TV ratings do not look pretty compared to last year or a four-year stint looking back to 2010. The cause of WWE’s pronounced Raw TV ratings decline in 2015 was dissected, poked at, examined, […]
2015 WWE Stock Track – Final Report Card, interesting comparison to 2014
The value of WWE stock ended 2015 in a much better place than when the year started. At the beginning of 2015, WWE was going through the growing pains of WWE Network. Quarterly financial losses and slower-than-expected […]
12/31 WWE Stock Track – WWE finishes 2015 on downturn
Investors were not in a friendly mood to close out 2015, as WWE’s stock price dipped four percent on the final trading day of 2015. WWE STOCK TRACK – Monday, Dec. 28: Closing Price of […]
12/28 Raw TV Ratings are in for 2015 finale
Update: Monday’s Raw TV ratings are in for the final episode of 2015 featuring the return of John Cena and re-involvement of Mr. McMahon… WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking – December 28: Raw scored a 2.47 […]
WWE announces Network special in March 2016
Without a traditional Sunday night PPV scheduled for March 2016 in-between Fastlane and WrestleMania, WWE is planning a Network special in mid-March. During Wednesday night’s live show in Toronto, WWE announced a return date of Saturday, […]
WWE Interview – Reigns talks WM32 goal, p.o.’ed & “embarrassed” at Rumble, McMahons
The final sit-down interview of the year on WWE’s website featured Michael Cole talking to new WWE World Hvt. champion Roman Reigns, who said his goal for the new year is to defend the WWE […]
WWE Notes – “NXT: Chicago” sells out, Cena Top 5 Celeb, Harbaugh wants WM at Big House
WWE Notebook – Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh drew headlines in the sports world vouching for Michigan Stadium to host a future WrestleMania. During Harbaugh’s weekly radio appearance on 97.1 in Detroit, the topic of […]
12/28 Raw Twitter Ratings – big rebound from “Slammys” Raw
After last week’s “Slammys” edition of Raw fared poorly in Nielsen’s Twitter TV Ratings, the final Raw of 2015 rebounded in a big way to draw the highest score in four months. WWE Raw Social […]
12/21 Raw live + DVR viewers – “Slammys” falls from post-TLC Raw
WWE Raw on Monday, December 21 declined in both live viewers and DVR viewing the week after the big TLC-Raw angle centered on the return of Mr. McMahon and Roman Reigns winning the WWE World […]
Updated Live Smackdown Ratings – DVR viewers & Replay on Syfy
WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking – December 24 replay on Syfy: The “WWE Week” edition of Smackdown scored a 0.92 rating in its usual Thursday night timeslot. The Christmas Eve replay drew 1.228 million viewers. If combining […]
Style Battle complete for EVOLVE 53-55 tour
WWNLive has announced the roster for the “Style Battle” scheduled for their EVOLVE shows during Royal Rumble Weekend in Florida. EVOLVE 53 – Jan. 22 in Ybor City – First Round EVOLVE Tag Title tournament matches. […]
Live Raw Notes – Reigns-Cena after Raw went off-air, pre-WM32 Raw location
WWE Raw TV Taping Report December 28, 2015 Brooklyn, N.Y. Report by Mike Omansky, PWTorch correspondent – The “massive” six-man tag match that had been advertised on local TV spots the past two weeks did […]
First entrant in 2016 Royal Rumble
Monday night on Raw, Big Show announced himself for the 2016 Royal Rumble match in four weeks. Show is the first announced entrant in the match. It was unclear if WWE is going with Show […]
Brock Lesnar’s next opponent announced
During Monday’s Raw episode, WWE ran a local ad in Houston advertising Brock Lesnar’s next opponent for the January 8 house show at Toyota Center. The local spot advertised Lesnar facing former WWE World Hvt. […]
Report – Lemmy dies, Triple H posts remembrance
Lemmy of the rock band Motorhead reportedly died on Monday. Lemmy, who just turned 70 on Christmas Eve, provided the theme music for Triple H and Evolution. Lemmy also performed Hunter’s theme music live at […]
The Rock announced for WM32
The teaser that “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson dropped on social media over the weekend is that he will be part of WrestleMania 32 in April 2016 in Texas. In Monday’s announcement, Rock did not say […]