Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news we're going to cover a study that tells us when

AEW dynamite may defeat W. W. W. Raw permanently in the ratings war.

W. W. and AEW officials are angry at their wrestlers for messing about during this pandemic.

We've got clarification on Ricochet's wrestling future, including his actual contract expiry date.

And Bailey once in on the women's dusty roads tag team

classic I'm Adam Wilborn now mandy moori and this is the news so we're gonna kick things

off with a big big big study Dave Melter has put together in this week's wrestling observer newsletter

This thing is huge if you've got a subscription. It's a must read talking about television ratings

talking about trends changes in, where certain shows are going.

What he's done here is collected data from all of the major wrestling shows broadcast in the

United States with apologies to impact wrestling

that means ROT, Smackdown, NXT and dynamite of course. He's done this taking the

numbers starting in November and he's gone back to look at the week to week equivalents based on 12

months prior. So compare the first numbers, the numbers of the first week in

November to the numbers of the first week in November 2019. Stuff like that,

week to week comparisons, it's the best way to

forecast changes to identify trends, compare and contrast and everything else.

He has, however, been fair and kind of ruled out artificial numbers.

An example of an artificial number would be the Brody Lee Memorial Show, which popped a huge one for

AEW, things like Sting's debut as well. For W. W. You'd have Raw Legends Knights because

Hulk Hogan and Rick Flair drew those numbers and say the 18th of December episode of

The Smaddown which had an artificially high number due to a major NFL lead in.

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