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00:00A record low rating for WWE Raw, WWE frustrated with a Triple H incident, everyone just showed

00:07up in NXT, and more.

00:09I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:16After a packed wrestling summer with about 58 major shows in just two and a half months

00:20between WWE, AEW, NXT, TNA, Triple A and ROH, last week was a welcome return from the holidays

00:27back to a normal wrestling schedule, with about 58 more shows in the next two and a half months.

00:32It never ends.

00:34It was back to school and, unfortunately for wrestling, back to the regular NFL football

00:38season, which began last Friday.

00:40And it all led to one of the lowest weeks ever for wrestling viewership.

00:45The September 1st episode of Raw, the episode directly after Clash in Paris, which was at

00:49an earlier European start time, has just had its viewership come out from Netflix at 2.4

00:55million global views, which brought in 5.2 million global hours in its first seven days.

01:01This was down 200,000 viewers from the previous week, and it was the lowest global views number

01:07since Raw moved to Netflix in January.

01:09The viewership collapse wasn't just limited to WWE either, as AEW Dynamite two days later

01:15also drew its lowest TV audience ever, with a shockingly low 472,000 viewers and a .11 in

01:23the 18-49 demographic, dropping a huge 19% from the previous week numbers.

01:30This, however, doesn't include anyone who watched on the Max streaming platform, which,

01:35depending on who you ask, is between 3 people and 1.79 billion.

01:40This comes the week after SmackDown also set its own record low, with the 29th of August

01:45Clash in Paris go home episode pulling in just 1.15 million.

01:49This also had an earlier start time as it aired from Europe.

01:52The only episode of SmackDown ever to be less watched was a Best Of show aired in December

01:582023.

01:59Thankfully, this appears to be just a summer hangover, as most shows since this run have

02:04bounced back in viewership.

02:05The 2nd of September NXT actually grew its audience from the previous week.

02:10Reaching 655,000 views, SmackDown pulled in 1.585 million viewers being the number one

02:16show of the night, a huge 38% increase week on week, likely thanks to the heavily hinted

02:22at, surprise, AJ Lee return, and Saturday's AEW collision rebounded from its disastrous previous

02:28week low to 300,000 views.

02:31Both against the restarted NFL, which usually harms wrestling viewership.

02:35We'll have to see how this week's wrestling TV ratings perform, now WWE and AEW are more

02:40heavily building towards their major shows on the 20th of September, Wrestlepalooza,

02:45and All Out, respectively.

02:48But WWE is still reportedly upset and frustrated behind the scenes.

02:53But it's not to do with views of a wrestling show.

02:55It's to do with views of Triple H's supposedly private family holiday.

03:01In mid-August, TMZ posted an article of Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, and their two daughters

03:06holidaying on a boat in Greece, with the witty headline, Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Check

03:12Out Our Greased Up Boards Journalism.

03:18The article included photos of Triple H in swim shorts, which prompted an online discussion

03:22about Levesque's physical condition.

03:24It was mostly people being shocked he no longer looked like THE GAME, an active wrestler in

03:29peak condition, despite him not wrestling since 2021 because of a cardiac event, and him now

03:34being 56.

03:35When I saw the photos, my first thought about how Triple H looked was actually, oh, oh.

03:42So Stephanie's trying to keep her name relevant in the celebrity press and these photos are

03:45staged.

03:46But in a new report from Fightful, it turns out this wasn't the case.

03:51Apparently these photos weren't pre-agreed with a photographer.

03:55Which is often the case for the impossibly glamorous, candid celebrity beat shots you usually see

03:59on the sidebar of the Daily Mail.

04:01Yes, I see what you're scrolling on your lunch break.

04:04I see you, you perv!

04:05I know this because in another life, I used to work for Heat magazine.

04:10According to Fightful, the photos of the McMahon-Helmsley holiday were taken by the so-called paparazzi.

04:16Which isn't just a line in a Lady Gaga song.

04:18They're freelance photographers who hound celebrities and public figures to get secret photos of them.

04:23And the images had been published without Paul and Stephanie's permission.

04:27There were reportedly a number of people in WWE that were frustrated and upset that the

04:32pictures emerged, calling it an invasion of privacy regardless of technicalities involving

04:38legality.

04:39It is important to note the regardless of legality part of that quote.

04:43Because while it is an invasion of privacy on moral grounds, sites like TMZ can legally

04:48argue that Levesque and McMahon are public figures.

04:50And by public interest, I mean yes, I see you looking more at the sidebar on the Daily

05:00Mail website, scrolling on your lunch break, getting all horny.

05:03Ironically, however, it isn't WWE, Triple H or Stephanie who are taking legal action about

05:08the photos.

05:09It's the photo agency themselves.

05:12Fightful continued that a number of people who reposted the images have received legal

05:16notices of some sort from the photo agency that holds the copyright, rather than WWE or the

05:23family themselves.

05:24And oddly, this isn't the only wrestling private photo story this week.

05:29Last Friday, the 5th, going head to head with AJ Lee's return on SmackDown.

05:33Does the AEW vs WWE counter-programming war know no bounds?

05:37MJF got married to Alicia Ataut.

05:40Alicia broke the news herself with the romantic social media post from Tits McGee to Mrs.

05:46Friedman.

05:47More images started to come out, like Taz posting a photo with him, his son Hook and Max on the

05:53special day.

05:55And what would turn out to be the most controversial, a group shot of the happy couple and a load

06:00of their guests, which included AEW President Tony Khan, Daniel Garcia, Tony Schiavone, Jeff

06:07Jarrett, Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford, and… MJF's sworn foe right now, Hangman Goddamn Page!

06:15You're exposing the business!

06:17As Max and Page just had a title match at August 24th's Forbidden Door.

06:21Many fans felt releasing this photo was ruining the kayfabe elements of AEW, particularly when

06:26it's someone like MJF, who goes through great lengths to live his gimmick.

06:31For instance, like this photo he posted on Instagram of him marrying the AEW world title

06:36instead of Alicia.

06:37Oh no, anthropomorphised championship belts are going to be an AI kink now.

06:42Tony Khan, who reportedly moved the Ring of Honor pay-per-view forward a week so he could

06:46attend the wedding, did a good Bill Watts-style explanation of why babyfaces and heels were

06:51hanging out.

06:52Alicia is a great person, and the fan favourites came to support her on her big night.

06:56But according to Wrestling Observer Radio, MJF is unhappy with the photos getting out.

07:02And just like the Triple H and Stephanie situation, it's because of an invasion of privacy.

07:07Apparently, the kayfabe offending photos showing faces and heels together weren't uploaded

07:12by any of the wrestling people, but by MJF and Alicia's family and friends.

07:16They simply put photos on their own Facebook profiles, which fans found and shared on the

07:22internet.

07:23But we've had holidays.

07:25We've had weddings.

07:26Now it's time for a Palooza!

07:29For such a big show, WrestlePalooza feels like it's been thrown together relatively quickly.

07:35Unlike the multi-months builds for the likes of WrestleMania and SummerSlam, WWE only announced

07:40WrestlePalooza four weeks before it was happening.

07:44And if it feels like it's been hastily booked, that's because it has, as Triple H has revealed

07:49on the Pat McAfee Show.

07:50There was a lot of thought into the PLE name, but it was in a brief period of time, so we

07:55were sort of under the gun.

07:57As soon as we heard that the Indianapolis venue was on the table, like, they got the date

08:01open, we were in.

08:03The whole thing came together very, very quickly.

08:06ESPN asked for the date.

08:07They wanted a mega event.

08:09We said yes.

08:10We just had to pick a name and go.

08:12WrestlePalooza is set to be one of the flagship events of ESPN's new streaming service launch,

08:21which is why the card, on paper, is one of the biggest of the year.

08:25But going by Levesque's comments, it seems like a show ESPN only decided they wanted imminently

08:30relatively recently.

08:31Levesque went on to say that we'll have to see how this one performs to see if WrestlePalooza

08:36will be an annual event.

08:37Levesque also confirmed that Cody Rhodes will be on the card for the show.

08:41So there was uncertainty he'd make it with him filming Street Fighter in Australia.

08:45It's highly likely he'll defend the WWE Championship against Drew McIntyre.

08:49But it's the status of Stephanie Vaquer, who's been waiting for her women's title

08:53shot since July's Evolution show, that's far more confusing.

08:57Initially Vaquer was set to face Naomi at Clash in Paris for the women's title, as

09:01a reward for her winning the 20-woman battle royal at Evolution.

09:05But Naomi's pregnancy meant the title had to be vacated, and Vaquer's title match

09:09was pushed back to WrestlePalooza to be against Io Sky.

09:12But on this week's Raw, Adam Pearce vaguely told Io that her contract signing segment,

09:17which had been pre-announced, couldn't take place, not really giving any substantial

09:22reason why.

09:23Fightful later reported that talent behind the scenes on Raw were confused over the situation.

09:28And now, to confuse things even more, she turned up totally fine on last night's NXT,

09:33and set up a big match for next week's homecoming special episode.

09:37In a crazy end to the show, where JC Jane berated her faction mates for losing the main

09:41event, Stephanie Vaquer, Tiffany Stratton and Rhea Ripley all made shock appearances to

09:48set up a six-person tag for next week.

09:50Please watch the segment just for the guy near the entranceway's reactions, where each

09:54time he somehow manages to react even harder.

09:57But no one can beat Booker T's reaction for hardness, where, when Stratton made her

10:02entrance, it sounded like he said, I've got to pop my dick, man, which is backed up

10:07by the auto-transcribed captions of the clip.

10:10Apparently, he actually said, pop my neck, because I'm always confusing my neck with

10:15my dick.

10:16But that wasn't the only dick-popping return of the show, as Carmelo Hayes backed up

10:20Trick Williams against DIY, and Tyler Breeze made a surprise return to set up a North American

10:26title match against Ethan Page.

10:28I've watched Breezango skits so many times, I now find it weird when Breeze's entrance

10:32music doesn't turn into Fandangoing.

10:35Is AJ Styles looking to leave WWE?

10:38Click the video onscreen now to find out the latest on his work shoot promo on Raw, and

10:42how his contract is coming up soon.

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