{"id":41774,"date":"2017-04-28T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=41774"},"modified":"2017-04-29T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:06:08","slug":"news-items-lesnars-next-title-defense-great-balls-fire-new-wwe-ppv-impact-wrestling-ratings-pop-tv-dip-alexa-bliss-responds-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/28\/news-items-lesnars-next-title-defense-great-balls-fire-new-wwe-ppv-impact-wrestling-ratings-pop-tv-dip-alexa-bliss-responds-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS ITEMS: Lesnar\u2019s next title defense, Great Balls of Fire new WWE PPV, Impact Wrestling ratings on Pop TV dip, Alexa Bliss responds to photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4230406233\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>-Brock Lesnar is scheduled to defend his WWE Universal Championship (remember that title?) at a newly named WWE PPV called \u201cGreat Balls of Fire\u201d on July 9. The July 9 event was previously called \u201cBad Blood.\u201d This is not a joke.<\/p>\n<p>-Last night\u2019s Impact Wrestling on Pop TV drew 255,000 viewers among live and same-night-DVR viewing. That is the lowest viewership number since it drew 252,000 on Feb. 9. The monthly average for April lands at 296,500, just a notch below the 2017 average of 297,000. The ten week rolling average headed into this week was 306,200, so this is a significant change of recent \u201cmomentum\u201d above the early year numbers. That said, they were up against the start of the NFL draft, plus both round two NHL and round one NBA playoff games. One year ago, Impact drew 332,000 on Pop TV, so it\u2019s a significant dropoff. Other than holiday numbers Christmas week and Thanksgiving night, it\u2019s one of the two worst viewership number on Pop TV.<\/p>\n<p>-WWE sent us a note saying photos that are supposedly of Alexa Bliss nude are fakes. She responded on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Once again, the risqu\u00e9 photos on the Internet supposedly of me are bogus.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lexi (Kaufman) Cabrera (@AlexaBliss_WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexaBliss_WWE\/status\/858031675984498690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am offended and demand these altered photos be removed immediately<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lexi (Kaufman) Cabrera (@AlexaBliss_WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexaBliss_WWE\/status\/858032411724197889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3337724441\"><div id=\"pwtor-3590035964\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>-Brock Lesnar is scheduled to defend his WWE Universal Championship (remember that title?) at a newly named WWE PPV called \u201cGreat Balls of Fire\u201d on July 9. The July 9 event was previously called \u201cBad <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/28\/news-items-lesnars-next-title-defense-great-balls-fire-new-wwe-ppv-impact-wrestling-ratings-pop-tv-dip-alexa-bliss-responds-photos\/\" title=\"NEWS ITEMS: Lesnar\u2019s next title defense, Great Balls of Fire new WWE PPV, Impact Wrestling ratings on Pop TV dip, Alexa Bliss responds to photos\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1008,5144,105,5143,1208,1011],"class_list":["post-41774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-alexa-bliss","tag-bad-blood","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-great-balls-of-fire","tag-impact-ratings","tag-pop-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/LesnarBrockTB2_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41798,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions\/41798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}