THE ROUND-UP The Latest from the F4W Staff RKO… Out of somewhere! NEWS SmackDown ratings remain consistent with last week’s strong number    Raw draws second-best viewership since start of NFL season   UFC’s return to Australia garners third-lowest ratings of the year for FS1  WWE SmackDown video highlights: Wyatt & Orton take on American Alpha   […]

Over in Belfast, Ireland, Sunday, Marty Scurll and Ricochet hooked it up in the main event of OTT’s Invasion: Belfast show, the promotion’s second of two weekend events. While Scurll picked up the win by submitting Ricochet, the highlight of OTT’s weekend was former WWE Universal Champion Finn Balor making a surprise appearance at Saturday’s […]

January 9, 2017 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Ronda Rousey loses potential final fight, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 11 review Coverage of Wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome and the legacy of Ronda Rousey are the lead stories in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. There are updates on the WWE WrestleMania situation, coverage of the Japanese […]

SmackDown’s Royal Rumble go-home show averaged 2.556 million viewers Tuesday night on the USA Network, down four percent from last week. The show was 10th for the night on cable in terms of total viewers but third in the 18-49 demo with a 0.86 rating, trailing The New Edition Story and Curse of Oak Island. It’s notable […]

China will restrict the number of video games and take steps to curb playing time by minors to address growing rates of childhood visual impairment as the government steps up its crackdown on the world’s biggest online gaming market. A statement posted on the Education Ministry website late on Thursday justified the new curbs as […]

Tuesday night’s episode of SmackDown on the USA Network averaged 2,626,000 viewers, down just 1,000 from last week’s show. As has been the case with episodes following brand-specific pay-per-views since the roster split, there was no PPV “bounce back” this week following Sunday’s Elimination Chamber show. SmackDown finished eighth for the night on cable in total […]

Donald Trump has lashed out at an opinion piece written by an anonymous senior official within his administration, who claimed to be part of a "resistance" seeking to curtail the president’s "worst inclinations".   The explosive column in the New York Times rocked the White House on Wednesday, reportedly triggering a frantic hunt for its author.   According to […]

The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is using the “tactics of fascism” and “belongs on the dunghill of history”, rival MPs charged on Wednesday as they rounded on the party in parliament after weeks of simmering tensions over far-Right protests. Alexander Gauland, the AfD leader, tried to use a budget debate to criticise Angela […]

Coming the day after Fastlane, Raw was up four percent from last week, averaging 3.20 million viewers, with a particularly strong second hour but a major drop in the third hour. The number was virtually identical to that of two weeks earlier and based on normal patterns of gaining about 10 percent after football season […]

Donald Trump jumped in to defend his embattled nominee for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, saying he felt “terribly” for Brett Kavanaugh even as senators grapple with how to deal with decades-old allegations of sexual assault. “I feel so badly for him that he’s going through this, to be honest with you, I feel so […]