NXT ratings have fallen sharply this week
WWE's NXT 2.0 brand kicked off the Women's Rising Star Tournament yesterday, with 8 women players in the fierce competition and NXT champion Brown Brick defending his title, so what was the NXT rating yesterday?
According to Spotter TV, NXT2.0 received 533,000 views this week, with 10% of 18- to 49-year-olds accounting for a sharp drop from last week's 661,000 views of the Spring Festival special.
Booker T was upset with Finn Barol
Finn Barroll is currently partnering AJ Styles against Trial Day, but his current awkward positioning at WWE has caused displeasure among Booker T, who believes that WWE has not developed a better plot for Finn Barroll.
"Finn Barroll is a fantastic player who can perform at a very high level, and as long as Finn Barolol is on the pitch, he can perform some of the most spectacular moves you've ever seen."
We will have to wait and see if WWE will eventually give Finn Barol the proper push in the future, but this is unlikely to happen.
The Forbidden Gate Contest sold more than one million
NJPW and AEW started working together last year, which of course made fans happy. Their relationship has improved, and this year they will jointly host the Forbidden Gate Contest.
Speaking with News 12, AEW President Tony Khan spoke about the upcoming Taboo Gate Contest. He revealed that the contest eventually sold more than $1 million in ticket sales.
"The AEW Grand Slam Special Weekly Tournament is almost the first million dollar sales in AEW history, but it's still a little bit short, and of course, we've set that record now, and the Forbidden Gate Tournament paved the way for the AEW Turning The World and the Innovation Contest as the standard."
The Taboo Gate Competition will be held on June 27, Beijing time, and we will have to see what the quality of the first cooperation between AEW and NJPW is.
WWE updates raw women's list
Recently, the WWE RAW women's list has changed a lot, With Alexa Brice returning as a decent figure, and another female player, Lacey Evans, also returning in SD, but she has now been moved to the RAW list.
According to Mike Johnson of PW Insider, the raw show's internal roster of female contestants has been updated. The full list of decent and villain players is listed below
Decent players: Bianca, Alexa Brick, Liv Morgan, Tomorrow, Danabrook
Villains: Becky Lynch, Rhea Ripley, Carmela, Lacey Evans, Tamina Snuka, Zelina Vega, Sharp, Supergirl Nikki
That's the inside story of the WWE women's players, and while there have been some changes to the women's roster, there have been no big surprises.
Will Rhea Ripley be the second Chaina?
Since Rhea Ripley joined the Judgment Day group, many media and wrestlers have associated the original DX Legion's Chaina and believed that WWE would make Rhea Ripley the second Chaina.
Speaking on the Hall of Fame podcast, Booker T was asked if WWE should push Rea Ripley like Chaina. Booker T said that if WWE goes down this path, he thinks Rhea Ripley will be hurt.
"There will be no other Chayna. Let's not try to compare anyone to the Ninth Wonder of the World, because Chaina is different, she's special. Putting Rhea Ripley in that position, I think in the long run, it hurt her more than it helped her. “