Professional Wrestling Discussion

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>Monday’s Raw drew an average of 2,437,000 viewers on USA Network, up from last week’s 2,337,000 viewers.

>That’s Raw’s highest number so far this year, mostly due to a relatively strong first and second hour. The third hour saw a huge drop, which brought the average down.

>Raw was #1, #2 and #4 on cable for the day with a 0.79 average rating in the 18-49 demographic, slightly down from last week’s 0.8 rating.

>This time last year, the February 18, 2019 Raw drew 2,771,000 viewers. The February 19, 2018 Raw drew 3,283,000 viewers.

>Hourly breakdown:

>AEW: 817,000
>NXT: 757,000

> WWE officially announced on 2/10 that the 37th WrestleMania will be coming to the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, just outside Los Angeles, on March 28, 2021. The date is a week early because April 4, which would usually be the date, is Easter Sunday.

> It had been expected Los Angeles to be the home of the show, and both sides had agreed more than a year back on that aspect. The city wanted it in 2021 as a way of preparing the city and the stadium for a major tourist event before they hosted the 2022 Super Bowl. WWE wanted to follow the Super Bowl, largely to make an attendance announcement that would include noting that they beat the Super Bowl attendance number. They will likely announce a number larger than the Super Bowl would be able to fit, even if it would also likely not be a real number, but they couldn’t claim to have beaten the Super Bowl until after the Super Bowl,

> The company also announced the Hall of Fame, Smackdown, NXT Takeover and Raw will take place at the Staples Center. Given the size of the market, there is a good chance that at least the final three of those events would sell out. In addition, with the number of different venues that have housed independent wrestling, there will likely be one of the highest number of independent shows ever, in particular Lucha Libre style events and possibly a PWG involvement for the first time on that list. SoFi Stadium, which is scheduled to open in July and be the home of both the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers starting with the upcoming football season, is listed with a capacity of 70,240, but it can be expanded for another 30,000 seats and the Super Bowl is legitimately expected to draw 100,000. WWE will also likely announce six figures, likely announcing a larger number than their public company record of 101,763 set for WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on April 3, 2016.

> The Arlington police department later reported that 80,709 fans was the actual turnstile count for that event. If they expand the stadium, and likely will, this can break what is the legitimate largest crowd in WWE history. “Many people are more excited about us hosting WrestleMania than the Olympics,” said James T. Butts, the mayor of Inglewood, to the Los Angeles Times. “I was surprised at how popular the WWE [is].”

> At the press conference, Stephanie McMahon mentioned she hoped Ronda Rousey, who is from the area, would be on the show, saying it’s not if but when, as far as Rousey returning to WWE at some point. Rousey signed a three-year deal with WWE, promised them a full year leading to WrestleMania, and then was going to take time off to try and start a family. Roman Reigns was also there, and pushed the idea of a match with The Rock, saying this would be the right time and right place for such a match.

> New Japan Pro Wrestling made two major announcements and a few minor ones on 2/9 at the New Beginning in Osaka show. The big one is that New Japan World Pro Wrestling will return to prime time in April, with a weekly show at 8 p.m. on Friday nights on BS Asahi, the satellite channel of TV-Asahi. The announcement was made calling back to the glory days of television in the 70s and 80s with Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Abdullah the Butcher, Hulk Hogan, Stan Hansen, Andre the Giant, Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid as some of the leading stars.

> From its inception in 1972, until 1987, 8 p.m. on Friday night was the traditional New Japan television time slot. When ratings declined in 1987, it was moved first to Tuesday, and then to Monday, also at 8 p.m. In 1988, it was moved to Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. and then after that, as has been the case for the last 30 plus years, the show has aired post-midnight, first a 60 minute show, and then cut to 30 minutes, around 2:30 a.m. early Sunday morning. Even with the bad time slot, New Japan did tremendous business in the 90s, before declining badly from 2000 to 2010, and then slowly climbing back to strong levels starting around 2011 with stro…

>Lucha Tube is on Wednesdays at 3pm EDT / 8pm BST in /wooo/tube - http://www.taima.tv/r/wooo and shows the latest matches from CMLL, AAA, and Mexican indie scene.
>CMLL’s weekly shows air live on Mondays from Arena Puebla at 10pm EDT / 3am BST, Tuesdays from Arena Mexico at 8:30pm EDT / 1:30am BST and Fridays from Arena Mexico at 9:30pm EDT / 2:30am BST all in /wooo/tube 2 - http://www.taima.tv/r/wooo2
>Major CMLL and AAA events will be shown when scheduled in the tubes.

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>Watch AEW Dynamite with /wooo/ in /wooo/tube - http://taim.tv/r/wooo and /wooo/alt - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt at 8pm Eastern//1am London. At 7pm Eastern//Midnight London a replay of AEW Dark will lead into Dynamite. On tonight's show:

• Steel Cage Match: Cody vs. Wardlow
  
• Chris Jericho's Bounty Hunter Jeff Cobb vs. Jon Moxley.
  
• AEW Tag Team Championship match: Kenny Omega & Adam Page (c) vs. The Lucha Brothers.
  
• Tag Team Battle Royal to earn a Championship match at Revolution PPV: The Young Bucks, SCU, The Strong Hearts, The Best Friends, The Dark Order, Private Party, Butcher & The Blade, Santana & Ortiz, H2, Jurrasic Express.
  

>Cody will face Wardlow inside a steel cage

>Jeff Cobb faces Jon Moxley in his first AEW match

>Will we see new Champions crownded?

>Tag-Team Battle Royale (winners get a shot at the AEW Tag-Team Championships)

>NWA Power airs on Tuesdays at 6:05pm EST / 11:05pm GMT in /wooo/tube 2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2. Replays air on Wednesdays at 12:20pm EST / 5:20pm GMT in /wooo/tube.
>NWA IPPVs will be shown when scheduled in the tubes.

>How's it going everybody Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawyer here as you can see Tom has still got his internet situation taken care of

>Tom spends 10 minutes ranting about how this was all Bryan's fault for making him switch Internet Providers all because Bryan's service is consistently awful but somehow blames this on Tom like he was the problem

>Tom spend another 10-15 minutes talking about how amazing being a Professional Wrestler is because people pay him to beat up other people spends an additional 5-10 minutes talking about how much Bryan is missing out because he keeps using "my wife and child" as an excuse

>30 minutes have now gone by and the show hasn't even started yet

>Show finally starts Tom spends like 15-20 minutes on segments that Bryan only really wants to spend 2-5 minutes on because he wants to go on a tangent that Tom doesn't care about or completely no sells

>Creates a new weekly gimmick for the podcast that he doesn't even know the rules for and then delegates Bryan to do it for him despite the fact he doesn't even know what the purpose of what Tom's segment is suppose to accomplish but waste more of Bryan's time

>Would rather talk about ANYTHING other then Smackdown and even when he talks about Smackdown would rather use Smackdown as a segway to bring up things that are unrelated about what the review is suppose to be about

>this happens every single week