WWE: Chad Gable Says He Re-Signed with WWE, More on NXT June 11, 2024 Viewership, WWE Reportedly Planning to Revive Old PPV Name, More News

Jun 15, 2024

Chad Gable States He Has Signed New Deal with WWE

As noted before, Chad Gable’s contract with WWE is believed to have expired on June 7th but despite his contract situation, he is still scheduled to compete for the Intercontinental Championship at Saturday’s Clash at the Castle 2024 event in Glasgow, Scotland.

A recent episode of The Gorilla Position podcast featured Gable as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Gable revealing that he recently signed a new contract with WWE to remain in the company for the foreseeable future.

“Yes, I have. What I’ll say, regarding Hunter [Triple H]. When he got started with us and took over. I think you saw my trajectory change almost immediately. Even when I was in a tag team with Otis, I started getting singles matches with some of our top guys. To me, a light bulb went off, ‘things might be different now,’ and they have been ever since. He’s delivered on everything he’s ever told me. When I first came to him, and me and Otis were floundering and not doing much, he said what he was doing was trying to find consistent places on TV for everybody every week. Whether it was a little chunk of TV or a big one; everyone should be involved at some point. At the time, I was like, ‘I’ve heard all this before,’ and it gets to you, but I saw it was true, and it was delivered. Even if we only had a minute or two every week, we were getting it and we were involved in something and maximizing our minutes. The fact that he delivers on what he says, it has gone a long way with someone like me. Now, that’s paying off and I’m having the run of my life and I’m having a blast.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

More on NXT Viewership for June 11, 2024

The June 11th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT suffer a large decline in overall viewership.

NXT drew 718,000 viewers and a 0.22 key demographic rating on USA Network. NXT’s key demographic ranking was 1st place.

Detailed key demographic viewership breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reasons for NXT’s declines this week was due to the large decline from their Over 50 demographic viewership group, which its percentage was not given, and younger key demographic viewership group, which was down 3.7% compared to last week’s show. This reportedly offset the weaker than usual competition on television that night, especially from sports.

In terms of notable head-to-head competition, the MLB game of Philadelphia Phillies vs. Boston Red Sox drew 434,000 viewers on TBS, Secret Skinwalker Ranch drew 1,401,000 viewers on History Channel, Chopped drew 518,000 viewers on Food Network, Catfish drew 374,000 viewers on MTV, and Deadliest Catch drew 889,000 viewers on Discovery Channel.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 284,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s males/female viewership split was 62.8% in favor of males.

In terms of peak viewership, NXT’s peak overall viewership was at 793,000 viewers for the quarter hour featuring the Cody Rhodes & Trick Williams in-ring promo segment. NXT’s peak key demographic viewership was at 321,000 viewers for the quarter hour featuring the Shawn Spears vs. J’Von Evans match, Rhodes backstage segment, the No Quarter Catch Club backstage segment, and D’Angelo Family, Nathan Frazer, & Axiom backstage segment. NXT’s overrun reportedly was 658,000 overall viewers and 343,000 key demo viewers for the Roxanne Perez, Ava, Jazzmyn Nyx, Jacy Jayne, Lash Legend, Jakara Jackson, & Lola Vice in-ring promo & brawl segment.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was up 23.6% in overall viewership and up 39.2% in key demographic viewership.

WWE Reporyedly Planning to Revive Old Bad Blood PPV Name for PLE This Fall

WWE officials reportedly have held recent talks regarding the potential of reviving their old Badd Blood brand pay-per-view event, according to PWInsider.

Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials are currently considering potentially holding a new Badd Blood event during this October.

WWE previously held Badd Blood events in 1997, 2003, and 2004.

WWE News & Notes

This weekend marks the 20th year anniversary of the debut of Asuka’s career, according to Dark Puroresu Flowsion.

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital recently announced on Instagram that Roman Reigns made a surprise appearance at their hospital to visit a child patient named Emma and gave a gift of a VIP suit tickets and a private “meet and greet” with her favorite musician Bad Bunny.

In a recent interview with Sportsnet, NXT head booker Shawn Michaels gave his thoughts about how much fun he is having in his current role in WWE for their NXT brand. Michaels stated “I’m having a great deal of fun. Obviously, some of it is the youth of the NXT locker room. Other than that, the social team seems to be having a lot of fun with me. I’m just doing my best to not do anything too stupid. My children are already used to being embarrassed by their father, so I may continue that down the road.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Fightful, AJ Styles gave his thoughts about the online criticisms over his new entrance theme song in WWE. Styles stated “Listen, if you’re trying to compare it to my recent WWE music, you’re not going to like it at first, but you’ll give it a listen, you’ll hear it a lot more, and you’ll go, ‘You know what, it’s actually pretty good.’ So just give it some time. You’ll like it. I like it. I mean, I helped. I don’t want to say that I did any work but we helped put things where we wanted it and the kind of style I wanted to have.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Cultaholic, Chelsea Green gave her thoughts about being interested in making a potential return appearance to TNA Wrestling and who she would want to face in a match as part of WWE and TNA’s current talent crossover partnership. Green stated “Definitely Jordynne [Grace] because I want another run at that Knockouts Title. I held it a few years back. Wanna hold it again. I may or may not have sent a little feeler text to one Tommy Dreamer to say that Little Miss P and I, my Scottish thistle, would be happy to wrestle for the Knockouts Tag Team Titles. I always love to take on my little demon Rosemary, but I also wouldn’t mind seeing my husband Matt Cardona and Steph De Lander take on me and I’m not sure yet. I’m not sure what man. I find them all very annoying, and smelly and sweaty. Maybe [former TNA stars] Drew [McIntyre], maybe Bobby Lashley.” (Transcript h/t: Cultaholic.com)

In a recent interview with Cultaholic, Bayley gave her thoughts about her interest in potentially wrestling a match in Marigold in the future. Bayley stated “The more that it’s been happening, it really didn’t hit me that it was possible until I saw Jordynne Grace come out on NXT. I immediately texted Hunter [Triple H] and texted Shawn [Shawn Michaels]. I wanted to be at the show. ‘I would love to be front row for this. It’s a historic match.’ Just to get my face out there. ‘Hey, I’m watching. I’m the champion. Can you consider me if we ever do something with TNA.’ I would love to do that just because it’s different, it’s exciting. It’s something that people will remember and the fans can really feel how real this all is. It’s such a cool time in the business. Doing things like that is such an unpredictability that gets people excited in different ways. I would love to do something like that. Marigold. Rossy [Rossy Ogawa], I’m down. I’ve wrestled a couple times in Japan with WWE. I got invited to go to Japan right before I got signed but I couldn’t do it.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with ESPN, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson gave his thoughts about his in-ring return to WWE this past April. Johnson stated “I felt like that was a representation and a reflection of what I was feeling because as you know, in pro wrestling, there is no take two, you get one night, one shot and one opportunity. Leading up into WrestleMania, the training camp, the pressure, the expectation, the deliverable, everything, that quote kept coming back to my mind, which was, ‘I just want to go the distance’ and going the distance meant I knew that we had almost an hour planned, which as you know, is a long f—ing time. I also had something to prove to myself. … It’s always you vs. you. So that’s something to prove to myself that I can do it and put in the work and put in the training camp and rely on my dance partners in the ring in Cody and Seth and Roman as we all relied on each other. But yeah, I just want to go the distance.” Johnson also gave his thoughts about his potential in-ring future for WrestleMania 41. Johnson stated “We’re on the 1-yard line to create the biggest WrestleMania of all time and the biggest match of all time at WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas. I’ll just leave it at that, Final Boss style.“

WWE recently announced one new match for this week’s NXT show on June 18th: