WWE: Jade Cargill Injury Situation Update, More on NXT Dec. 10, 2024 Viewership, More News

Dec 14, 2024

Jade Cargill Injury Situation Update

As noted before, Jade Cargill has been out of action for WWE following an injury angle on the November 22nd WWE SmackDown show in Salt Lake City, Utah. The situation with Cargill’s injury status has led to conflicting reports over it being a genuine injury or just a storyline injury. Cargill’s injury situation is also recently rumored to be a potential cover for a currently unknown backstage political issue involving Cargill.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the exact nature of Cargill’s injury and situation is still not entirely clear or known based on his sources spoken to.

Meltzer reported that several sources spoken to still are giving conflicting information with some stating that her injury is 100% legitimate and others stating the opposite. Meltzer reported that high level WWE officials spoken to stated that Cargill’s injury is legit with one spoken to high on WWE’s food chain stating that she is “absolutely injured” and has been seeing WWE doctors and other medical professionals for it.

Meltzer reported that none spoken to within WWE seems to understand why the other story of what they “know” is going around in regards to the conflicting stories being caused over Cargill’s injury situation.

More on NXT Dec. 10, 2024 Viewership

The December 10th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT gain a very large increase in overall viewership and a small increase in key demographic ratings.

NXT drew 680,000 viewers and a 0.17 key demographic rating on The CW.

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

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reasons for NXT’s increases this week was due to the large gains from their overall key demographic viewership group, which was up 35.7% compared to last week’s show. Of the key demographic gains, their younger key demographic viewership was up 10% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the NBA game of Dallas Mavericks vs. Oklahoma City Thunder drew 1,457,000 viewers on TNT, the NBA game of Orlando Magic vs. Milwaukee Bucks drew 1,159,000 viewers on TNT, the College basketball game of Michigan vs. Arkansas drew 926,000 viewers on ESPN, the College basketball game of Miami vs. Tennessee drew 628,000 viewers on ESPN, 1000-LB Sisters drew 788,000 viewers on TLC, Curse of Oak Island drew 1,625,000 viewers on History Channel, Moonshiners drew 732,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, Real Housewives of New York City drew 385,000 viewers on BRAVO, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills drew 780,000 viewers on BRAVO.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 228,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s male/female viewership skew was 66.7% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was up 1.5% in overall viewership but down 3.4% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that NXT’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was even compared to the same week last year.

WWE News & Notes

WWE reportedly has sold and distributed around 14,669 tickets for tonight’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York as of this morning, according to WrestleTix.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that CM Punk was spotted in Long Island, New York ahead of tonight’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show. Johnson reported that Punk has not been advertised for the show but he is currently expected to be at the Nassau Coliseum venue for tonight’s show.

WWE announced that CM Punk, Seth Rollins, and Kofi Kingston will be making an appearance at this Monday’s WWE RAW show in Boston, Massachusetts.

CM Punk and NXT talents Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade reportedly visited Ace Steel’s Foundation of Wrestling training academy earlier this week in Orlando, Florida, according to PWInsider.

WWE filed a trademark for “Feel The Glow” on December 13th for merchandise-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This is the catchphrase of Naomi in WWE.

WWE recently released two new videos on their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a Six-Man Tag Team dark match of John Cena, Batista, & Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels, Kurt Angle, & JBL from the August 8, 2005 WWE RAW show. The second new video was a “Story of The Straight Edge Society.”

Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston reported that the top merchandise sellers on WWEShop this past November in order were Jey Uso, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, John Cena, Rhea Ripley, WWE, Steve Austin, The Rock, and Bray Wyatt. In regards to specific items, the top sellers in order were Reigns black “OTC” shirt, Reigns black pullover hoodie, Cena red “Farewell Tour” shirt, Reigns “OTC Yeet” black shirt, Jey Uso “Yeet” pink shirt, Uso “Yeet” red & white pullover hoodie, Rhodes “American Nightmare” sweater, Uso “Yeet” white t-shirt, Austin T-shirt, and The Rock Brahma Bull baseball jersey.

WWE Hall of Famer Tito Santana recently announced on Twitter that he will be in attendance at tonight’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show in Uniondale, New York. Santana stated “Making my return to WWE Saturday night…See ya there ARRIBA @WWE“

In a recent interview with Yahoo Sports’ Uncrowned, Kevin Owens gave his thoughts about his upcoming match against Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship at tonight’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show. Owens stated “Now when I go to work, I’m more concerned about delivering what’s being asked of me, as opposed to 2015, 2016, 2017. I was really obsessed with, yes, delivering, but I wanted to deliver because I wanted to get more opportunities, and I wanted to get higher, and I wanted to get bigger, and I wanted to be the biggest star I could be and be in the top spot. It’s changed in the sense that I’ve gotten to do so much. Now I’m really just happy being on the show and giving people memorable times and good television. I’m still hungry, though. I’d still love to have another run as champion. It’s been a while, and I’d love to be in that spot and see how I can deliver in that spot.” Owens also gave his thoughts about his main goal for the remainder of his wrestling career. Owens stated “I want to be as useful as I can be to the show I’m on. I want to contribute as much as I can. Selfishly, I want to feel fulfilled and I want to feel like I’m doing something good. I want to be part of good stuff just for my own personal enjoyment. My main goal for the rest of my career is to have the best time I can and give the fans the best memories possible to look back on when I’m done. That’s really what drives my career and drives my motivation for the rest of my career. I’ve really accomplished way more than I ever thought I would.“

WWE recently announced two new matches and one new segment for the card of next week’s WWE SmackDown show on December 20th:

WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship – Nia Jax & Candice LeRae vs. Bianca Belair & Naomi (c)
Johnny Gargano vs. Alex Shelley
The Grayson Waller Effect with Braun Strowman