NXT 09/18/2019 - NXT debuts on USA
 

NXT North American Championship Match
NXT North American Champion The Velveteen Dream versus Undisputed Era's Roderick Strong

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Street Fight (WWE Network)
Killian Dane versus Matt Riddle

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#1 Contender's Fatal 4 Way Match for the NXT Women's Championship
Mia Yim versus Io Shirai versus Candice LeRae versus Bianca Belair

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So what’s the deal with this regarding on demand? 1st hour on USA, 2nd on Network live, are they just not gonna have the 1st half of the show available after the fact?

Interesting to see what they do with Riddle. I can see Heyman wanting him to get him “off NXT’s hands,” but I don’t see them “rewarding bad behavior.”

From what I've heard, the show will be available next day on the Network. Not sure.

24 hour delay for the 1st hour due to USA Network having exclusivity rights for live airing.

USA Network only agreed to this hour split for the 1st two weeks so WWE could jump the gun on AEW's tv debut and allow Suits to air its final 2 episodes in its regular time slot.

What is his bad behavior?

I think he’s using bad behavior loosely, referring to his issues with Goldberg.

Nah that can’t be it. That’s excellent behavior.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NXT no longer has an entrance ramp or stage <a href="https://t.co/YvfvehfNbP">pic.twitter.com/YvfvehfNbP</a></p>&mdash; Jacob Cohen (@MrJacobCohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrJacobCohen/status/1174459923071217676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have a new commentary perch similar to the CWC setup <a href="https://t.co/baNYa2gvIc">pic.twitter.com/baNYa2gvIc</a></p>&mdash; JJ Williams (@JJWilliamsWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/JJWilliamsWON/status/1174459508279664641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

NXT = Best wrestling on tv

SOme lil girl in the crowd screaming into the crowd mic, worried

Let`s go Bianca Belair

Mia Yim should wait until the musics "picks up" before just walking out.... wack entrance compared to the others

Arena really gonna look like shit / "the minor leagues" compared to AEW's much bigger arenas

Hope they start taping 205 Live before or after NXT (not gonna watch it, but feel like the wrestlers will be much more "appreciated")

Not a fan of the lack of stage after seeing it on tv but the announcers being more in the crowd like in NXT UK is pretty cool.

Io so good

wish this lil girl screaming would shut the fuck up tbh

Somehow looks smaller than before despite no longer having a stage and ramp eating up space.

trying to watch this

Mauro/Beth unbearable...feels cheap in small arena....not going to make it

So glad Tom Phillips or Michael Cole are not on commentary

AEW's wrestling is gonna really look like "minor league" compared to NXT's far better wrestling matches.

If 800 flips is your thing though...

I disagree

My feed of USA blew up, I think it's durectv

How do you pronounce "Levesque"... Dave Meltzer always says "La-veck"... is that how you say it

Good ass match

Io is incredible. The others very good too but Io god damn.

Brain expected The Fiend to come out and attack her on the stage...

:yes:

Tom Phillips is the best commentary person in WWE today

I can't seem to find a stream

Mauro acts like a fucking psychopath

cringe-inducing

He’s apparently pissed off the whole NXT locker room. He did a video calling everyone dicks and Ciampa came back with “the boys will police themselves, so fuck you” or something like that.

LOL AEW commercial

Who won the four-way? I’m hoping for Io Shirai. Shayna vs. Io will blow away Nyla vs. Riho.

Candice LeRae won with a springboard moonsault on Mia Yim

:heart::heart::heart:

Who won the Women's 4-way since I ended up missing the last 10 minutes or so of it?

Interesting. Had no idea about this.

I’m with xrod now. NXT is going to be the far superior product. The first match of this NXT era is this four-way. That’s contrasted to the Casino Battle Royal.

Lol that was fast

I'm not sure I get what Cameron Grimes is going for yet

Thanks for that. It’s a bit disappointing, but I guess Candice does appeal to that audience.

Cowboy guy shares my last name and as such, per the laws of television and the universe, he is now my current favorite NXT wrestler.

NXT should be what's on Friday nights. Would be something cool to go to for the college kids before they hit up the bars

Nothing against full sail but they need to be in the road if it's going to be live

Damn, Cameron Grimes.

The presentation looks visibly different.

Is your first name Frank?

NXT will start touring once they are beating AEW in the ratings. They’re playing this as the most humble victory possible.

Southern urban cowboy hipster

If I had to assume, NXT probably will do that once WWE gets around to locking up dates and buildings for next year's overall touring schedule.

Money isn't an issue anymore since USA Network is giving them $50 million for NXT.

I predict 1.5 million viewers for this show, 1 million next week

What do U guys think

You're awfully positive about this. Not that I am against it.

700k for this show, prob 50-100k less next week

WWE did a shitty job advertising it

IDK who they think the new 'market' for NXT is....the people who would most likely watch NXT already have the Network...if they aren't watching it now why would they start just because it is on the USA Network

Makes NO SENSE

They didn't spend any time doing video introductions to the CHARACTERS or STORIES you could see on NXT just a bunch of generic commercials where fans scream 'WE R NXT' in ways that are really embarrassing for adults to behave

I don’t usually watch the NXT weekly show but I’m watching tonight. :wave:

Somewhere in the range of 900k for tonight and give or take 100k for next week's show.

Feel in the long run, NXT is probably going to be like Smackdown where it doesn't move as much week to week since its pretty much WWE's core base watching it.

I saw ads for it during the Nascar race on NBC sports network

And just like all the ads on FOX that won't mean shit

SD is not going to draw people who aren't already wrestling fans...NO ONE is talking about the SD on FOX commercials on Twitter other than wrestling fans every time they air.

The bigger question is what it does compared to AEW

You're supposing everyone who watches wrestling is on Twitter or everyone who saw the ad would tweet about ut

The target audience for a Friday night is under 10 and over 60 so that point I will give you

I wonder if this match carries over to the network

1.4 million viewers for NXT, 800 flips for AEW.

AEW will prob debut w/ 800k - 1.1 million

I assume both will settle around 400-500k for NXT and 700-800k for AEW

Good to see Mauro also has to do shitty commercial break transitions as NXT rolls on.

I'm surprised WWE didn't send a couple midcard guys down to NXT

If I had to guess, probably still manages to do a third to double of what AEW does at least from the start. Like NXT hovers around the 900k to 1 million mark while AEW hovers around 500k to 600k.

Is drave your second account? :shifty:

I can, however, tell you that my first name is not Vic. Sorry to disappoint if you had hopes for that possibility.

Doesn't Cole produce the commentary?

I wanted to see some character stuff


No interviews or promos...Mauro TELLING us who people are....MIA YIM LOVES HIP HOP....BIANCA HAS ATTITUDE, etc

Oh shit

hmm, match continuing on WWE Network?

Dream vs. Strong was pretty good overall despite the overbooked ending.

Undisputed Era would’ve been a total waste of time if they didn’t eventually end up with their draped in gold moment.

Wow! This is mental.

Guess UE were dreaming broken dreams.

Strong's first singles title in the company. Good stuff.

I imagine lines up Cole vs Dream for NXT title

Also, is Matt Riddle yet another "stoner guy" gimmick? That's what I picture whenever I hear his theme start up.

I knew Dunne was gonna go after his toes

lol. is the network down?

It's working meow

not my stream

Oh snap! Lio Rush is back.

Dunne vs. the Brazilian guy was pretty good overall.

God bless Lio Rush, praying 4 him to do well

Xia Li has a lot of charisma and potential.

Aliyah freaking hot

What happened to Aliyah's face?

I was impressed with Ruas

She was...looks very odd now. Lana Del Rey-ish

Some miscommunication there.

Looks like a beautiful Arab woman to me!!!

Yikes at that top rope botch by Xia. Luckily she didn't blow out a knee or something worse.

Senior citizen couple in the front row freaking pissed that Xia Li won, prob "h8 Chinese ppl" and don't know that Aliyah is Arab..

Does Eric Bugenhagen still wrestle, they should have him on this show