WWE: Steve Corino Reportedly Signs New Contract with WWE, More on NXT Sept. 17, 2024 Viewership, More News

Sep 21, 2024

Steve Corino Reportedly Signs New Contract with WWE

ECW legend and WWE NXT producer Steve Corino reportedly recently signed a new contract with WWE to remain in the company for the foreseeable future, according to BodySlam.net.

Cassidy Haynes reported that his sources stated that Corino’s new deal is for multiple years in length. Hayes reported that Corino is currently interested in getting some NXT Talents to work at some potential PWF (Premier Wrestling Federation) events in the future. Corino is the co-owner of PWF and the Carolina Wrestling Academy.

Corino has been working for WWE since January of 2017.

More on NXT Viewership for September 17, 2024

The September 17th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT gain a large increase in overall viewership and a slight increase in key demographic ratings.

NXT drew 677,000 viewers and a 0.21 key demographic rating on USA Network. NXT’s key demographic ranking for the night was 1st place.

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

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason for NXT’s increases this week was due to the large gain from their overall key demographic viewership group, which was up 8.9% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, Dancing With The Stars season premiere drew 4,974,000 viewers on ABC, the MLB game of Philadelphia Phillies vs. Milwaukee Brewers drew 384,000 viewers on TBS, Deadliest Catch drew 661,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta drew 389,000 viewers on MTV, Chopped drew 439,000 viewers on Food Network, and My Big Fat Fabulous Life drew 460,000 viewers on TLC.

In terms of peak viewership, NXT’s peak overall viewership was at 745,000 viewers for the quarter hour featuring the CM Punk, Roxanne Perez, & Giulia in-ring promo segment. NXT’s peak key demographic viewership was 330,000 viewers for the same quarter hour. NXT’s overrun drew 634,000 overall viewers and 304,000 key demo viewers for the Tyrese Haliburton, Ethan Page, & Trick Williams NXT Championship match contract signing segment & promo with CM Punk.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 282,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s male/female viewership skew was 69.8% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was down 17.8% in overall viewership and down 10.8% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that NXT’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was down 38.1% compared to the same week last year.

WWE News & Notes

WWE Senior Director of Content and Development Jeremy Borash and Director of Character Development Rob Fee reportedly were the main people responsible for the production of the Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns cinematic video segment on Friday’s WWE SmackDown show, according to PWInsider. Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that this segment was filmed earlier in the week at Georgia Tech University’s Bobby Dodd Stadium. In a follow-up report, Johnson reported that his sources stated that Paul Heyman also played a big role in the production of the segment.

WWE recently released three new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a Title vs. Career, WWE World Heavyweight Championship match of Goldberg vs. Triple H (c). The second new video was a “Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero watch Halloween Havoc epic.” The third new video was an Eight-Man Tag Team match of Batista, John Cena, & Cryme Tyme (JTG & Chad Gaspard) vs. JBL, Kane, & Legacy (Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase Jr.)

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that WWE officials are currently in the process of being in talks for at least 15 new potential deals for talents who’s contracts with the company are current set to expire within the new few months.

WWE recently filed fifteen new trademarks for variants of the new “SMKDWN” logo for their SmackDown brand for wrestling and merchandise-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Friday’s WWE NXT house show event in Sebring, Florida featured Giulia making her NXT Live Event debut. Giulia teamed up with Lola Vice & Jaida Parker in a Six-Women Tag Team match against Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley & Jacy Jayne) & Roxanne Perez.

A recent episode of the Off The Top podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer and co-host Rikishi giving his thoughts about Kevin Nash and Logan Paul’s online feud over Nash’s issues with Paul not being “one of the boys” in wrestling and Paul’s insults over him being better with his wrestling job with someone with little experience than Nash ever was. Rikishi stated “I’m saying hate the game, don’t hate the player. If he got five mil, it’s called negotiations. That means whatever negotiations, because last I knew, all I see is PRIME around that ring. It’s called negotiations. Hate the game, not the player. Big up to [Logan] Paul if that’s what he did. If you’re making that type of money, I don’t give a damn about being one of the boys then. You got your bag. If you’re one of the boys, is your bag gonna be bigger? Because I guarantee not a damn one of the boys gives a damn about your bag that you’re making. They ain’t gonna tell you what they’re making. So hey, hate the game, not the player because that boy [Logan] Paul is a hustler, he’s one hell of an athlete, and if he’s not a full-time wrestler, fuck yeah. Good for him. Don’t hate the player, hate the game, man. That’s what it is. The bag is the bag. Ain’t that what we all in it for? Obviously, [Logan] had to be a huge fan of WWE. Anybody that’s a fan of wrestling, you dream to get an opportunity to get into WWE. If you’re not, then why are you in this business? But to be able to come in and have access, opportunity, exposure and get his brand out there, half-time, not a full-time, and making five million dollars, come on, man. Somebody got a good negotiation team. Amen to that. Come on, now. Kevin Nash, Logan Paul, y’all make up. Time is too short.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE announced two new matches for the card of next week’s WWE SmackDown show on September 27th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: