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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling NXT’s over 50 audience was the only demo that stayed even among the two shows from last week. Every other category was down for the shows. The biggest losses for AEW were among males 18-49 and 12-34 with drops of 37% for each with adults 18-34 down 36%. The audience they retained most was adults over 50, which were down 14% from last week. NXT saw their females 12-34 fall 42%, people 18-34 down 37%, and males 12-34 down 25%

Some details on how NXT managed to win last week against AEW. Pretty much old people tuning in to NXT in huge numbers and AEW having bigger demo drops across the board than NXT did.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Charlotte Flair applied to trademark “Ashley Flair” and “The Queen Of Wrestling” and Andrade applied to trademark “La Sombra” and “El Idolo”. @luchablog noted on Twitter that Andrade trademarked “La Sombra” in the U.S. but the Alonso family still has the trademark in Mexico.

Originally Posted by Observer The New York Times has a piece on the Saudi Arabian government's rebranding, noting the first women's match between Natalya and Lacey Evans at Crown Jewel as being "sportswashing."

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/b...imes&smtyp=cur

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling According to WWE Network News, a new episode of ‘WWE Day Of’ is coming to the WWE Network next week and the forthcoming episode is based around the 2019 Survivor Series pay-per-view.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling DS Shin of Ring The Belle conducted an interview with AEW’s Nyla Rose. Nyla was asked about the criticisms of AEW’s women’s division and there not being storylines for the women while there is a heavy focus on the men’s singles and tag team divisions. “I think it’s a valid concern, but I think people need to slow down, hold their horses. We’ve only been on TV for six weeks. We’re just as excited as you guys are. Absolutely, don’t get it twisted, but we have to establish everything. Absolute pandemonium you know? So we’re getting our ducks in a row. The first up, we got our World Champion lined up. Cool, you know what’s next? Tag team. He said right from the get-go, tag team is gonna be a very focused point of this promotion, so we established a tag team division. On the first show, we established who the Women’s Champion is so you knew some of the people coming into this so that could kind of take — I don’t wanna say, ‘Take a back seat’ but it’s kind of running in the background a little bit, but now, if you look on TV, we got three, four segments going. Things are picking up. Just be calm, be patient. There’s a method to the madness.” Nyla also stated that AEW is a safe environment for wrestlers that are a part of the LGBTQ community. She said they have their family positives and negatives but it’s a welcoming environment overall. “Absolutely, absolutely. I’ve said it a million times, I’ll say it a million more. It’s such a different environment. It’s very warm, very welcoming. Granted, when we’re running TV, everybody is a little stressed and like, ‘Get out of the way!’ But, no, it’s very warm, very welcoming, everybody feels like family. Like many families, we bicker, we fight, we handle that all in the ring but its been very welcoming.”

Originally Posted by PWI The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame announced the following inductees in their class of 2020: Executive Division- Dory Funk Sr. Referee Division- Dick Woehrle. Pioneer Era (1865-1942) -- George Zaharias & Bobby Managoff International Division - The Great Kabuki Tag Team Division - The Sheepherders / The Bushwackers/ The Kiwis - Butch & Luke Williams Ladies Division - Luna Vachon & Debbie Combs Television Era (1943-1984) - King Curtis Iaukea & Killer Karl Kox Territory/Colleague Division - Killer Tim Brook Modern Era (1985 - present) - Jake " the Snake" Robert's & Magnum TA The induction ceremony will be the weekend of 5/14-5/16 in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Originally Posted by Observer Leaders in Orlando, Florida have made bids to host SummerSlam and Survivor Series in the near future.

Originally Posted by Observer Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport III will take place at The Cuban Club in Ybor City, Florida on April 2, which is the Thursday of WrestleMania week.

Originally Posted by Observer According to PWInsider's Mike Johnson, former WWE creative team member Chris DeJoseph is returning to the company. The return was also confirmed by our Dave Meltzer. It's also confirmed that DeJoseph left Major League Wrestling in an amicable split after roughly a month as a co-executive producer. Johnson reported that DeJoseph's WWE talks predated his MLW job. He has yet to confirm the news on Twitter or elsewhere. DeJoseph was a member of WWE creative from 2004-10 and even had an occasional on-air role as a wacky character known as Big Dick Johnson. He was part of the founding team and an executive producer for Lucha Underground which went on indefinite hiatus in 2018 after four years.

Originally Posted by PWI Lance Storm officially started yesterday as a Producer for WWE at last night's Raw taping. The decorated veteran recently shut down his SWA Wrestling Academy in Calgary, leading to his WWE return. Storm left WWE in 2005 and had recently done some producing work for Impact Wrestling.

Originally Posted by PWI For those who have asked, we are told that Classic Drops (such as the recent collection of WCW Thunder episodes) will still continue on the WWE Network.

In regards to WWE dropping their Hidden Gems series from the WWE Network.

Originally Posted by Fightful "Smart" Mark Sterling, who works as a producer on the Major Wrestling Figure podcast, and "Mama's Boy" Jake Tucker, who won the 2014 "Show Us Your Superstar" contest, worked as the enhancement talent against the Viking Raiders on WWE Raw.

Originally Posted by Fightful Kofi Kingston has reached another milestone. With numerous tag team title reigns, including a record-breaking run as having the longest title reign in WWE history, Kingston has now surpassed 1,000 days holding a tag team title. He is the only person in WWE to ever accomplish that feat.

Originally Posted by Fightful Though Big E had a relatively successful career prior to New Day forming in 2014, there were some backstage who believed he was "boring." According to Big E, WWE wanted him to start juggling and pec dancing after matches to enhance his personality. When New Day formed, Big E came under more criticism as others backstage, including Big Show, believed Big E and Xavier Woods would drag Kofi Kingston down. "Big Show said some terrible things to us about how Kofi was wasting his time with us. It wasn't a joke. The fact that you would meet so much resistance by trying to better yourself and improve your career is wild to me," said Big E on the New Day: Feel The Power podcast before revealing Big Show did apologize to the group. Big E continued, discussing the creative process in WWE and how he wishes certain aspects were different. "In so many different facets, from talent to backstage people, a lot of it was behind our backs. One of the best things with our relationship [with former WWE writer Michael Notarile] is understanding the process. Because he was a writer and in the meetings, we got to better understand when to pitch [and] when to talk with Vince to get a better temperature of the room. That's one of the things that I wish more talent had a better understanding of; how the creative process works. It's such a massive body as far as the creative team is concerned, but there's so many tiers. Entry level writers, senior writers, producers, and you don't really know who to go to. Often times, you get so much feedback in the meetings that never actually gets to you. I didn't find out that the office thought I was boring or that I needed something until it was too late in the eyes of the people that mattered. That's one of the things that I always wish worked better in this machine, is that you have more instant feedback from creative. That you got an opportunity to talk to the decision makers and say, 'Hey, this is where we see a deficit in your character, in your work, whatever' and so we can all address that," he said.

Originally Posted by Fightful The Kelly Klein situation with Ring of Honor has had a lot of fallout, and ended up with Fightful Select learning of several plans for their division in 2018 and 2019. Though the Women of Honor Championship went between Sumie Sakai and Kelly Klein in 2018, originally one of the champions in the interim was supposed to be either Kelly or Deonna Purrazzo winning it from Sakai, according to several people familiar with the booking plans. Depending on who you talk to, Kelly Klein was either supposed to win the title back at Final Battle last year, or lose it to Deonna after a feud. This didn't end up happening as Purrazzo signed with WWE. However, several in the company were frustrated with Purrazzo's second round exit from the championship tournament, as those in charge said that Klein vs. Purrazzo in the finals was "too predictable," and they wanted to switch things up. Among the plans mentioned was Purrazzo working as a babyface to battle Klein, who would ridicule her early exit from the tourney. In addition, we're told that AEW star Britt Baker had about a half-dozen dates remaining with Ring of Honor, but they were cut when she signed with All Elite Wrestling. The word backstage was that Joe Koff specifically told members of ROH they didn't feel like they owed Baker anything as it related to keeping their dates. Others had to go to bat for Baker in order to get her a five minute match with Kelly Klein, when she arrived at a venue unaware that the dates had been cut and she'd been removed from the show. As mentioned on Fightful Select, the initial offerings for Women of Honor talent was $12,000 a year at this point -- the start of 2018, which were said to be non negotiable. This was later bumped to $20,000. There were multiple women who say they tried to explain to the ROH office how women's matches took off on the company's digital platforms, as they tried to get more screen time. Prior to the $12,000 number, the base rate for non-exclusive, non-contracted talent was $150 for male or female talent, and lower at times for enhancement talent or one-offs.

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