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Daily Update: WWE Raw, ratings, Francis Ngannou - WON/F4W - WWE news, Pro Wrestling News, WWE Results, AEW News, AEW results
Dave talks Raw, NBA Playoffs hurting wrestling ratings, and Francis Ngannou's UFC status.
Raw tonight features the return of Becky Lynch. There have been reports of Lynch vs. Asuka imminently. They are also doing the 20th anniversary of Randy Orton on the main roster as a theme to the show and Bianca Belair vs. Sonya Deville for the women's title in Belair's home city of Knoxville. There were 5,200 tickets out for the show as of last night. They are heavily pushing this one everywhere with quotes from all the heavy hitters. Obviously the competition tonight is very tough.
For those in Canada, because of the NBA, Baseball and NHL playoffs, Raw will not air on Sportsnet 360 the next three weeks. Raw will air on OLN in Canada. This comes at a time when Raw is doing its best numbers in Canada in a long time.
As noted and will be noted for the next two months, the NBA will be taking a chunk out of wrestling numbers. There are three NBA playoff games tonight against Raw, for the most part two will be going against the show at the same time. Boston vs. Brooklyn and Philadelphia vs. Toronto are the earlier games and Jazz vs. Mavericks is the 10 p.m. game. NXT tomorrow goes against both Atlanta vs. Miami and Minnesota vs. Memphis. AEW on Wednesday goes against Bulls vs. Bucks (and Chicago is one of AEW's best rated cities) and Brooklyn vs. Boston. If there is a break, the Warriors vs. Nuggets on Wednesday starts at 10 p.m., so only goes against AEW on the West Coast, but last season a late night Warrior-Laker game only going against AEW on the West Coast led to an 0.28 rating for AEW, so it will so it will still have impact.
Regarding the Friday numbers, it was insane the sports competition. Smackdown went against NBA on ABC and ESPN, and the ESPN game did big numbers. Smackdown on network wouldn't be hurt as much by cable, although obviously when you've got two NBA games you'll be hurt. Rampage actually went against two games, Bellator, baseball, USFL and Mexican league soccer and beat all sports on cable except the NBA on ESPN.
We got a tweet from someone who shot the clock during the Eddie Kingston vs. Daniel Garcia match and said only four minutes, not ten minutes, was edited out of the match when it aired on television Friday.
Josh Alexander vs. Tomohiro Ishii will headline the next Impact PPV show, under Siege, on 5/6, which goes head-to-head with a UFC PPV show.
David Taylor, the 2021 Olympic gold medalist, has been added to the 6/8 Beat the Streets wrestling event at the Hulu Theater inside of Madison Square Garden. Taylor was second in the most recent world championships. He joins Jordan Burroughs and Helen Maroulis, also gold medalists, on that event.
Defy announced that its show on Saturday will air for free on Pluto TV Ch. 732 at 11 pm. Eastern time and 8 p.m. Pacific. It'll be the first live televised Defy event with Jon Moxley vs. Tom Lawlor as the main event.
There are three major weekend events that will be airing in English. NOAH has 4/49 and 4/30 at Sumo Hall on Wrestle Universe with Stewart Fulton and Mark Pickering announcing. The big show is 4/30 headlined by Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Go Shizoaki for the GHC title and starts at 2 a.m. Eastern early Saturday morning, or 11 p.m. Pacific late Friday night, actually right after the West Coast feed of Rampage ends.
TripleMania from the baseball stadium in Monterrey, with Young Bucks vs. Fenix (who I'm told will be returning from his injury) & El Hijo del Vikingo plus the first round with four matches with Mexican masked legends (Canek vs. Psycho Clown, Blue Demon Jr. vs. Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Ultimo Dragon vs. Pentagon Jr. and L.A. Park vs. Villano IV) starts at 9 p.m. Saturday night. There will be English commentary on FITE with Joe Dombrowski and Larry Dallas.
The Fukuoka PayPay Dome show starts at 4 a.m. Eastern on New Japan World. This is one of the company's biggest shows of the year, headlined by Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP world title and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Will Ospreay for the U.S. title.
Pro Wrestling Phoenix runs Wednesday night in Omaha, NE at the Waiting Room Lounge.
WAR on 5/21 in Lima, OH at the Empowered Sports Center.
Daily Update: WWE Raw, ratings, Francis Ngannou - WON/F4W - WWE news, Pro Wrestling News, WWE Results, AEW News, AEW results
Dave talks Raw, NBA Playoffs hurting wrestling ratings, and Francis Ngannou's UFC status.
Raw tonight features the return of Becky Lynch. There have been reports of Lynch vs. Asuka imminently. They are also doing the 20th anniversary of Randy Orton on the main roster as a theme to the show and Bianca Belair vs. Sonya Deville for the women's title in Belair's home city of Knoxville. There were 5,200 tickets out for the show as of last night. They are heavily pushing this one everywhere with quotes from all the heavy hitters. Obviously the competition tonight is very tough.
For those in Canada, because of the NBA, Baseball and NHL playoffs, Raw will not air on Sportsnet 360 the next three weeks. Raw will air on OLN in Canada. This comes at a time when Raw is doing its best numbers in Canada in a long time.
As noted and will be noted for the next two months, the NBA will be taking a chunk out of wrestling numbers. There are three NBA playoff games tonight against Raw, for the most part two will be going against the show at the same time. Boston vs. Brooklyn and Philadelphia vs. Toronto are the earlier games and Jazz vs. Mavericks is the 10 p.m. game. NXT tomorrow goes against both Atlanta vs. Miami and Minnesota vs. Memphis. AEW on Wednesday goes against Bulls vs. Bucks (and Chicago is one of AEW's best rated cities) and Brooklyn vs. Boston. If there is a break, the Warriors vs. Nuggets on Wednesday starts at 10 p.m., so only goes against AEW on the West Coast, but last season a late night Warrior-Laker game only going against AEW on the West Coast led to an 0.28 rating for AEW, so it will so it will still have impact.
Regarding the Friday numbers, it was insane the sports competition. Smackdown went against NBA on ABC and ESPN, and the ESPN game did big numbers. Smackdown on network wouldn't be hurt as much by cable, although obviously when you've got two NBA games you'll be hurt. Rampage actually went against two games, Bellator, baseball, USFL and Mexican league soccer and beat all sports on cable except the NBA on ESPN.
We got a tweet from someone who shot the clock during the Eddie Kingston vs. Daniel Garcia match and said only four minutes, not ten minutes, was edited out of the match when it aired on television Friday.
Josh Alexander vs. Tomohiro Ishii will headline the next Impact PPV show, under Siege, on 5/6, which goes head-to-head with a UFC PPV show.
David Taylor, the 2021 Olympic gold medalist, has been added to the 6/8 Beat the Streets wrestling event at the Hulu Theater inside of Madison Square Garden. Taylor was second in the most recent world championships. He joins Jordan Burroughs and Helen Maroulis, also gold medalists, on that event.
Defy announced that its show on Saturday will air for free on Pluto TV Ch. 732 at 11 pm. Eastern time and 8 p.m. Pacific. It'll be the first live televised Defy event with Jon Moxley vs. Tom Lawlor as the main event.
There are three major weekend events that will be airing in English. NOAH has 4/49 and 4/30 at Sumo Hall on Wrestle Universe with Stewart Fulton and Mark Pickering announcing. The big show is 4/30 headlined by Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Go Shizoaki for the GHC title and starts at 2 a.m. Eastern early Saturday morning, or 11 p.m. Pacific late Friday night, actually right after the West Coast feed of Rampage ends.
TripleMania from the baseball stadium in Monterrey, with Young Bucks vs. Fenix (who I'm told will be returning from his injury) & El Hijo del Vikingo plus the first round with four matches with Mexican masked legends (Canek vs. Psycho Clown, Blue Demon Jr. vs. Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Ultimo Dragon vs. Pentagon Jr. and L.A. Park vs. Villano IV) starts at 9 p.m. Saturday night. There will be English commentary on FITE with Joe Dombrowski and Larry Dallas.
The Fukuoka PayPay Dome show starts at 4 a.m. Eastern on New Japan World. This is one of the company's biggest shows of the year, headlined by Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP world title and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Will Ospreay for the U.S. title.
Pro Wrestling Phoenix runs Wednesday night in Omaha, NE at the Waiting Room Lounge.
WAR on 5/21 in Lima, OH at the Empowered Sports Center.