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Reason Behind AEW Bringing Memphis Legends Next Week, Viewership For This Week’s Dynamite Revealed

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• ON THIS DAY IN WCW HISTORY (January 4, 1992) – WCW Power Hour

On this day in 1992, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW Power Hour’.

This episode featured pre-taped matches, interviews & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WCW SuperBrawl II’ PPV.

The card can be found below:

– Ricky Steamboat & Dustin Rhodes vs. Buddy Lee Parker & Greg Sawyer

– Big Van Vader vs. Larry Corey

– Rick Steiner vs. Sonny Trout

– Sting vs. Mr. Hughes

– U.S. Champ Rick Rude vs. Larry Santo

– WCW Top 10

– Dangerous Alliance members attack Sting

– P.N. News & Tom Zenk vs. Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton

• Reason Behind AEW Bringing Memphis Legends Next Week, Viewership For This Week’s Dynamite Revealed

All Elite Wrestling will pay tribute to Memphis Wrestling Legends on next week’s episode of AEW Dynamite.

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, AEW is doing this because of low ticket sales for next week’s episode of Dynamite:

“So the advance is not good in Memphis. Some of the advances are good, some of them are not good for AEW.

The Memphis advance was weak and they came up with the idea and I think this was Tony Khan’s idea. I think they went with Randy Hales, Randy Hales was contacted and they said: ‘Hey we wanna pay tribute to the Memphis territory.’ It’s like that’s cool — put it on TV.

I don’t know the names, I know some names. You figure the ones that are still living that live in the area that Randy Hales knows, those are the guys who are gonna be there.”

The Rhodes Brothers (Cody & Dustin) will face The Lucha Bros on next week’s episode of Dynamite.

Speaking of this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, the episode drew 967,000 viewers, which is up from 683,000 viewers for the last episode of Dynamite in 2019.

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