AEW ratings beat NXT by surprise
AEW has prepared a special session for Brody Lee, how does so many ratings help?
According to PWT, AEW attracted an average of 977,000 viewers this week, while NXT attracted just 586,000 viewers.
Carter eventually signed for WWE
Both WWE and AEW were interested in Benjamin Carter, and after much deliberation, he finally decided to sign with WWE. Benjamin Carter, who signed with WWE earlier last month, will make his debut at NXT UK on January 7, TalkSport reported.
Carter, who previously trained at Seth Rawlings' wrestling school, is considered by many in the industry to have a lot of potential in the future, and he is characterized by extreme high flying.
NXT Tournament against T.
Here's how NXT New Year's Evil matchups are as of press time:
NXT Championship: Kyle O'Reilly vs Finn Barroll (c)
NXT Lightweight Championship: Metallic vs Santos Escobar (c)
Women's Final Stand: Rhea Ripley vs Raquel Gonzalez
Tommaso Opa vs Timothy Thatcher
Carrian Kroos vs Damian Priest
WWE's Rowan, AEW's Red Beard
Chris Jericho, who serves as a commentator on this week's AEW show, excitedly said 'Eric Rowan' several times when Rowan appeared on the show, but each time he changed his words to 'Redbeard'.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Merzer explained that Jericho changed his mouth several times because he shouldn't have said Rowan's name, as the name was still the intellectual property owned by WWE.
Fox misunderstood Seth Rawlings' regression
Fox had previously announced that Seth Rollins would appear on the first episode of the New Year's Smackdown show, but the tweet has since been removed. This week the WWE previewed the big E against Corbyn and Sasha Banks teaming up with Bianca Berard to face Pele and Carmela, though there was no mention of the return of Seth Rollins.
It was learned from RSN that the occurrence of this situation was actually a miscommunication between Fox and WWE, seth was considered by WWE to be planning a possible return rather than a final confirmation of the return, and WWE officials never confirmed the news that Seth Rollins will return this week.
Roman's 2020 win rate exceeds 90%
Roman Raines also achieved impressive results at the 2020 WWE race, where he was likened to Hogan and John Senna.
According to Cagematch.net statistics, Roman won 90.6% of WWE competitions this year, including the previous WWE live show. Won 29 of the 32 wrestling matches in 2020. His first loss came at the 30-man Royals, where he was eventually eliminated by Drew McIntyre, and another defeat on the SD weekly show on December 5, when Kevin Owens and Otis teamed up to beat Romain and Jay Uso. The remaining match took place in SD on January 4, when the match between Roman & Daniel Brian and Adolph Ziegler & Corbyn ended in no results.