Month: February 2023

​ The 2023 men’s Royal Rumble match lasted 71 minutes and 40 seconds (71m 40s). This text graphic provides timestamps for each superstar’s arrival and exit from the match, as well as showing who the longest lasting superstars were as the match progressed. For comparison’s sake, here are other versions of this graphic for Royal … Read more

​ Friday’s live Royal Rumble go-home edition of WWE SmackDown drew an average of 2.544 million viewers on FOX, according to Nielsen, via Showbuzz Daily. This final number is up 12.72% from the previous week’s final viewership of 2.257 million viewers. Friday’s SmackDown drew a 0.67 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This is up … Read more

​ Stick to the plan. We are coming up on WrestleMania 39 and the show’s main event has already been set. After winning the men’s Royal Rumble, Cody Rhodes became the new #1 contender to Roman Reigns. Their title match has officially been set up, but there is a detail involving someone else on the … Read more

​ Two new segments have been announced for tonight’s Vengeance Day go-home edition of WWE NXT on the USA Network. Tonight’s NXT show will see Grayson Waller and NXT Champion Bron Breakker issue their final matches before Saturday’s Steel Cage title match. WWE noted in their official NXT preview that Breakker is hurt due to … Read more

​ Monday’s live post-Royal Rumble edition of WWE RAW drew an average of 2.114 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Nielsen via Showbuzz Daily. This is down 9.81% from last week’s 2.344 million viewers for the RAW 30th Anniversary special. For this week’s show, the first hour drew 2.219 million viewers (last week’s … Read more

Ronda Rousey is set to work WWE’s WrestleMania 39. Rousey was not at the Royal Rumble and has not been on SmackDown since dropping the SmackDown Women’s Title to Charlotte Flair on the December 30 episode. There’s been a lot of speculation on her WWE future due to the absence, but word now is that … Read more