Shawn Michaels Discusses His Role in New WWE Studios Movie (Video), WWE Battleground Social Media Score, Note on AJ Styles’ U.S. Title Loss

July 24, 2017

WWE Battleground Social Score

According to Nielsen’s social media TV ratings, last night’s WWE Battleground PPV ranked #4 among series & specials for the night. Battleground had 172,000 interactions on Twitter with 33,000 unique authors, down from the 232,000 interactions and 42,000 authors that WWE Great Balls of Fire drew.

Battleground also had 171,000 Facebook interactions with 97,000 unique authors. That is down from the 249,000 interactions and 135,000 unique authors that Great Balls of Fire drew.

AJ Styles – Battleground News

As seen in the Tweet below, AJ Styles remained in the ring for awhile after his U.S. Title loss to Kevin Owens at WWE Battleground last night. Styles sold the loss by kicking over a ring step, and stayed in the ring until The Singh Brothers segment which followed Styles’ match:

https://twitter.com/megal0maniak/status/889347378913869824

Shawn Michaels Talks His Role in New WWE Studios Movie

WWE has released the following video, featuring Shawn Michaels discussing his role in the new WWE Studios movie “Pure Country: Pure Heart”:

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.