Below are some top WWE & AEW news stories of the day:
– Monday’s RAW drew 1.83 million viewers with a 0.56 rating in the 18-49 demo, which is up from last week’s 1.61 million viewers with a 0.52 rating.
– AEW has sold 65,563 tickets so far for All In 2023 at Wembley Stadium, with a set up of 75,003. Over 9,400 tickets are still available. They are now averaging 100 tickets being sold per day.
– Monday’s RAW in Hartford was the highest grossing RAW/SmackDown in the history of that market for WWE, according to Fightful Select.
– WWE announced the following about the Bloodline segment from this past Friday:
“This past Friday’s confrontation between the members of The Bloodline is the most socially watched segment from SmackDown this year with over 40 million Social/Digital views.”
– According to PWInsider, there was a lot of internal praise for Damian Priest after this week’s RAW, where he lost to Seth Rollins in a World Heavyweight Championship match that lasted 21 minutes.
– On Tuesday’s episode of NXT, Thea Hail won a Battle Royal to become the #1 Contender for the NXT Women’s Championship.
With this win, she has become the youngest #1 contender in WWE history at the age of 19.
She tweeted the following about her victory:
“As I said mama didn’t raise no b**** and dad didn’t raise no quitter I WILL BE NXT WOMEN’S CHAMPION.”
You can watch Shawn Michaels congratulate Thea backstage below:
Congrats @theahail_wwe, you EARNED it! 🙌 @ShawnMichaels #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/ixF8YdULH9
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) June 7, 2023
– Edge has been added to the August 18th episode of SmackDown at the ScotiaBank Arena in Toronto.
Last year, when WWE held RAW in Toronto, Edge said he’ll have his final match right here when WWE comes back to Toronto in 2023.
You can listen to Edge’s post-RAW promo from 2022 below:
Edge prévoit dire son dernier au revoir à Toronto l'an prochain ? (2/2)#WWERaw #WWEToronto pic.twitter.com/cnBgcVOFmV
— Audrey Moreau (@audreymoreau99) August 23, 2022
If Edge decides to stick to his plan, then this date might be it for the Rated-R Superstar.
– The July 7th episode of SmackDown will take place at Madison Square Garden.
Seth Rollins defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Judgment Day’s Damian Priest has been announced for this show.
It will likely be the dark main event of the night, after SmackDown goes off the air.
Rollins tweeted the following about it:
“WHC. MSG. Let’s goooooooo.”
WHC. MSG. Let’s goooooooo https://t.co/JjDgeIq7i7
— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) June 7, 2023
Rollins defeated Priest in the main event of this week’s RAW to retain the World Title.
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