WWE: Trick Williams on Origin of His “Whoop That Trick” Chant, Drew McIntyre on New WWE Women’s Midcard Title Would be Absolutely Justified, WWE Touts NXT’s Premiere Ratings on The CW

Oct 3, 2024

Trick Williams Comments on Origin of His “Whoop That Trick” Chant in WWE Being Totally Organic

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured WWE NXT talent Trick Williams as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Williams thoughts about the origin of his “Whoop That Trick” chant in WWE’s NXT brand.

“I was rocking with [Carmelo Hayes] at the time. We used to come out to his music, and people were chanting ‘Whoop that Trick, whoop that Trick.’ I looked at Melo, I said ‘Yo, are they with us or they against us?’ ‘I don’t know.’ I hit a move or something, got a bodyslam, [they said] ‘Whoop that Trick!’ Oh, I think they like this! Those ‘Whoop that Trick’ chants, it was started by the crowd. Just continued to grow, and grow, and grow. It was totally organic. But I think it really took off when I changed my entrance music. This is something else I’m not sure people know, but, I went to production team, I said ‘Hey, I would like to change my music. I want to go with ‘Family Ties,’ Kendrick Lamar. I want heavy horns in the beginning, I need 808 drums and heavy bass.’ They came back to me with this instrumental that I have now, I was like ‘Yeah, that’s the one right there.'”

Williams also gave his thoughts about how he started to notice the chant catching on with crowds and especially before his match against Ilja Dragunov at last year’s NXT Heatwave event.

“When the beat dropped, the people right there were on beat with it [saying] ‘Whoop that Trick.’ If you look at my face a little bit, you see a little smirk. I was like ‘Oh shoot, we just started something.’ We went out there and had a banger match. I think that’s the day ‘Whoop that Trick’ went to a whole other level. Shoutout to the NXT crowd, man, there’s nothing like them.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Drew McIntyre Comments on WWE Introducing New Women’s Midcard Title Would be “Absolutely Justified”

FOX News held a recent interview with Drew McIntyre. One of the topics discussed included McIntyre’s thoughts about his belief that it would be “absolutely justified” for WWE to introduce a new midcard championship for their Women’s division.

“That’s (WWE midcard women’s title) certainly something that’s going to come around in the near future, and you don’t just bring titles in for the sake of bringing titles (especially) if you don’t have the adequate depth on the roster. But now, to watch just how far the women’s revolution has come – the revolution is such a distant memory now. The women have been killing it for years now.
And they got that opportunity years and years ago, and since then, we’ve had so many people come in, and it’s gotten to a point where it’s not a case of you want to be after any women’s matches, you do not want to be after the women’s match anymore because they’re going to go out there, they’re going to kill it, the (crowds) are going to be burnt out, and you’re going to have to work really hard to get them. To watch the talent pool grow, the roster depth grow, and the characters, more importantly, connect with the audience, because if they don’t care about you, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman, nobody’s emotionally attached to you. You might as well just sit in the back and not go out there. There’s so many characters the women’s division has gotten over now. We’re at a point where if there’s a second title introduced, it’s absolutely justified.”

WWE Touts NXT’s Ratings for Premiere Show on The CW

WWE recently touted the viewership and ratings success for this past Tuesday’s NXT premiere show on The CW.

Official press release:

The CW Network delivers largest audience for WWE NXT in a year
BURBANK, CA (OCTOBER 2, 2024) – Last night’s WWE NXT broadcast television debut The CW Network delivered the largest audience for the weekly program since October 2023, with 895,000 Total Viewers, up +44% compared to last week’s episode on cable TV. The premiere peaked at 965,000 total viewers from 8:15-8:30 p.m. and was the #1 telecast on The CW this year among adults 25-54 (406,000) and adults 18-49 (354,000).
Fans following WWE NXT’s move to The CW saw Trick Williams regain the NXT Championship and featured guest appearances by WWE Superstars CM Punk, Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill. The episode fueled triple digit increases compared to The CW’s Tuesday primetime season average, up +143% in total viewers, and delivered triple digit increases in total viewers for major markets including New York (WPIX-TV), Los Angeles (KTLA-TV), Dallas (KDAF-TV) and Detroit (WKBD-TV) versus last Tuesday’s primetime programming.
Close on the heels of The CW’s premiere of NASCAR Xfinity Series racing September 20, WWE NXT’s successful debut on The CW marks the second impressive premiere in as many weeks for The CW, again Demonstrating that viewers are increasingly turning into The CW for live sports.
In November 2023, The CW Network and WWE announced a five-year agreement to bring NXT wrestling to broadcast television for the first time ever. As the exclusive home of NXT, The CW will air 52 live weekly events throughout the season. Launched by WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque, NXT has aired weekly since 2012 and features the brightest young talent in sports entertainment. Nearly 90 percent of the participants in last year’s WrestleMania were developed under the NXT banner. Led by WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels, NXT is extremely popular with younger audiences.
WWE NXT continues next Tuesday, October 8 (8:00-10:00pm ET/PT) on The CW with a special live event from St. Louis featuring a guest appearance by WWE Superstar Randy Orton.