Lucha Underground Fails to Crack Cable 150 Yet Again, WWE & Conor’s Cure Win Awards, New Day Hosts Workout Experience (Video)

By Nick Paglino

Lucha Underground Fails to Crack Cable 150 Yet Again

According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week’s edition of Lucha Underground averaged 149,000 viewers, up from last week’s 139,000 viewers. The show, however, did not make the Cable Top 150 for the fourth week in a row.

The replay of Lucha Underground averaged 49,000 viewers, making the total for this week’s show 198,000, down from last week’s total of 205,000.

WWE & Conor’s Cure Win Awards

WWE has announced the following:

WWE Network, WWE App and Connor’s Cure honored at Cynopsis Sports Media Awards

WWE was named the winner of three awards at the fifth annual Cynopsis Sports Media Awards: WWE Network for Over-The-Top Content Service, WWE App for Best Mobile App and Connor’s Cure for Pro Social Campaign.

For the second consecutive year, WWE Network received the award for best Over-The-Top Content Service, beating MLB.TV, MLS LIVE, UFC and PGA. WWE Network is the fastest-growing digital subscription service that includes all live pay-per-views, original programming and a massive video-on-demand library with more than 5,000 hours.

WWE App won the award for Best Mobile App beating NBC Sports, Bleacher Report and Bellator MMA. Currently, the WWE App has been downloaded more than 27 million times in 220 countries.

Connor’s Cure won the award for Pro-Social Campaign beating espnW, Litton Entertainment and Whistle Sports. Connor’s Cure started as a fund within the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation to support pediatric brain and spinal cord cancer research, and continues to expand, most recently through a multi-year national partnership with The V Foundation for Cancer Research. To date, Connor’s Cure has raised $1 million and assisted more than 100 families around the world.

The Cynopsis Sports Media Awards recognizes the best work in the sports industry from the past year with categories spanning television, radio, digital, and marketing.

New Day Hosts Workout Experience

The New Day hosted a workout experience while overseas in Europe and WWE released the following footage:

Nick Paglino
Nick Paglino

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.

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