Wednesday, 14 December 2011
WWE RAW Ranks #1 In Twitter Activity On All Of Cable TV
Mashable has an article up noting that the activity from last week’s episode of RAW (12/5/11) had an “overal activity” of 466,378 with 77% of those tweets being positive. This was good enough to put the show at the #1 ranking in all of cable television. RAW was able to beat out competitors like Spongebob SquarePants on Nickelodeon (374,110 overall activity, 68% positive sentiment), FX’s American Horror Story (245,080, 63%), Comedy Central’s South Park (155,342, 72%) and Teen Mom 2 (153,414, 65%). SmackDown! ranked sixth with 151,433 and 75%.
Other than FOX’s The X-Factor (1,567,835, 68%), the ABC News Republican Debate (998, 66%), and FOX’s Glee (716,653, 69%) on broadcast TV, RAW was the show that generated that most real-time activity on the social media website.
WWE NXT & Superstars Spoilers For This Week
WWE is taping tonight’s NXT and partial Superstars broadcasts at the location of tonight’s SmackDown! tapings in Raleigh, North Carolina. Below are the spoilers for this Wednesday’s NXT and Thursday’s Superstars, both of which air on WWE.com.
Dark Match: Evan Bourne defeated Tyson Kidd after he hit the Shooting Star Press off the top rope.
NXT, airing Wednesday at 4PM EST on WWE.com: (1) Trent Baretta & Yoshi Tatsu defeated Tyler Reks & Curt Hawkins in a tag team match.
(2) Jay Uso defeated JTG after hitting the superkick.
Superstars, airing Thursday at 4PM EST on WWE.com: (1) Drew McIntyre defeated Justin Gabriel after he hit the Futureshock DDT.
(2) Hunico defeated Trent Baretta with a senton.
John Cena Not Booked For WWE TLC, Okerlund In Legends’ House Reality Series?
This week’s RAW promo for WWE Network’s WWE Legends’ House suggested that Hall of Famer Mean Gene Okerlund will be a part of the show. The previous two promos on NXT and SmackDown! featured footage of the Iron Shiek and Howard Finkel.
After promoting the Triple Threat TLC Match between WWE Champion CM Punk, The Miz and Alberto Del Rio as a pinfall or submission match, WWE announced on RAW last night that the belt will be hanging above the ring. It’s worth point out that John Cena is still not booked for a TLC pay-per-view match. Cena has wrestled in 11 out of 12 WWE pay-per-view main events this year.
Snooki Praises WWE On Twitter, Road Dogg Comments On Return
Road Dogg, who made his WWE on-screen return last night during the Slammy Awards special, commented on his return on Twitter last night: “It sure felt good to be out there again. These last two days have been awesome for the dogglb. #ohyoudidntknow. I wish @RealBillyGunn was on this ride with me. We have been through a lot together and it would be cool to be sharing this with him. #OUDK”
Jersey Shore star Snooki, who took home a Slammy last night for “A-Lister of the Year” last night, thanked WWE several times on her Twitter feed last night and promised to win the Divas Championship one day.
Report: Triple H vs The Undertaker To Take Place Again At WrestleMania 28
As seen on last night’s RAW Slammy Awards special, Triple H brought up The Undertaker’s absence and declared that The Streak ended at WrestleMania 27 because we haven’t seen The Deadman since then and he couldn’t leave the ring on his own.
According to a report by the Wrestling Observer, Triple H vs the Undertaker currently is penciled in for WrestleMania 28 in Miami, Florida. This would make it the second year in a row that the two would be competing at the event, if the report is true.
Details On Tonight’s WWE SmackDown! Tapings From Raleigh
While no matches are announced for the TV broadcast itself, the dark match main event for the local crowd features Mark Henry facing The Big Show and Randy Orton in a triple threat match for the World Championship. Booker T, like many past dark matches in recent weeks, will serve as the special guest referee.
Masked Kane Attacks Henry After RAW, Cena Comments On His Return
Mike M. sent in that after last night’s three-hour RAW special went off the air, both Mark Henry and the newly-returned Kane faced off in the ring while John Cena was helped to the backstage area. Mark Henry — who is the person that put Kane on the shelf for several months in storyline terms — then was chokeslammed by Kane in front of the live audience. He then did his usual in-ring pyro taunt to end the show.
Several hours after RAW went off the air, Cena took to his Twitter account to comment on Kane’s attack on him. “Somebody get a license plate on that big red truck that ran me over last night?” the former WWE Champion tweeted at 5AM this morning.