Kota Ibushi Reveals Whether or Not He Will Sign a Full-Time WWE Contract, This Week’s WWE Raw Social Media Ratings

August 16, 2016

Kota Ibushi Reveals Whether or Not He Will Sign a Full-Time WWE Contract

As noted, WWE has offered Cruiserweight Classic competitor Kota Ibushi a full-time deal, however Ibushi has yet to sign the contract.

Ibushi recently confirmed to Japanese media that he has indeed been offered the WWE deal, but will not be signing with WWE at this time. Ibushi did say that he might continue wrestling for WWE “as spot”, however he plans to continue wrestling in Japan. Ibushi added his dream is to become the most famous wrestler in the world.

This Week’s WWE Raw Social Media Ratings

According to Nielsen’s social media TV ratings, this week’s edition of WWE Raw ranked #1 among series & specials for the night.

This week’s show had 153,000 tweets with 30,000 unique authors on Twitter, which is up from last week’s 151,000 tweets and 28,000 unique authors.

On Facebook, this week’s Raw had 227,000 interactions with 142,000 unique authors, up from last week’s 221,000 Facebook interactions with 153,000 unique authors.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.