Alberto fight viewers, assorted wrestling press, FNSD audience, ROH name finishes up, WWE producer hospitalized, WWE live event updates, NWA results, surprise Scurll move, Backstage guest, Dynamite match added, Taylor says goodbye to ROH, Cornette future note, recent WWE name appears for AAA, Future of Honor results, and Questions on Joey Ryan in AEW, Colt leaving ROH, Cornette intentionally being fired, where old WWF names are, and Warrior interviews

Alberto El Patron vs. Tito Ortiz drew 3.1 million viewers in Mexico. Combate Americas events usually draw 1.6 million, so that's very impressive. Notably the show is not believed to have done well on pay-per-view in the U.S.

Billy Corgan and Dave Lagana promoted Into The Fire on Sam Roberts' podcast, while Brian Hebner promoted it on Sean Mooney's podcast.

TLC's Watchalong is advertising Matt Hardy, Dana Brooke, Drake Maverick, Shelton Benjamin, D-Von Dudley, Shorty G, Paul Ellering, Mansoor, Rachael Evers, and the NBA's Jeff Teague.

- WWE Now before the show will have King Corbin and Buddy Murphy.

WWE Network's free tier launch got press from Yahoo! Finance.

Friday Night Smackdown drew 2.34 million viewers this week.

Colt Cabana finished with ROH at Final Battle. The two sides had agreed to part ways back in September. It sounds like a case of him choosing NJPW and NWA over remaining in ROH, where he wasn't under contract. I don't blame at all if he's able to get more regular bookings elsewhere.

Shane Helms recently went to the ER for a kidney stone. Glad he's OK.

Lacey Evans spoke about her "Military Makeover" experience.

WWE's January live events are being called the New Year's Revolution tour. Haven't seen that name used in a while.

WWE is running more Supershow live events in January and February. That should help some with attendance.

Smackdown will tour the UK from May 3 through May 8, concluding with a live Smackdown in London.

Raw will tour Germany on May 13 and May 14, followed by Spain on May 15 and France on May 16.

At NWA Into The Fire:
- Another PPV was set for January 24. That's a very quick turnaround!!!
- NWA will declare a new Television Champion at their January PPV.
- ODB made a surprise appearance to team with Allyson Kay in a win over Melina and Marti Belle.
- Colt Cabana lost the NWA National Championship to Aron Stevens, formerly Damien Sandow. This was a triple threat match that also involved Ricky Starks.
- Marty Scurll confronted Nick Aldis after Aldis retained the NWA World Championship. Notably Scurll is advertised for tonight's ROH event while NWA also has a TV taping tonight. I would be surprised if he doesn't do Final Battle Fallout before returning for Monday's NWA taping. I expect he's just doing a few NWA shots before moving elsewhere (potentially with friends). It's definitely quite the surprise to see him appear here!

Jim Ross supported Piper Niven after the revelation she has Bell's Palsy.

Alexa Bliss is set for the next WWE Backstage. We'll see if that helps ratings.

Awesome Kong will compete on Dynamite this week. I'm a little surprised she hasn't done so before now, but it made sense to introduce others in the division first.

Shane Taylor thanked fans for his ROH run, which is coming to an end at the end of December. He's advertised for tonight's event, but doesn't have an announced match.

Jim Cornette indicated he's retired from pro wrestling commentary. Realistically I don't think anyone was going to hire him any time soon.

The former Sin Cara appeared at AAA's December 14 event, saving Pagano from a heel beatdown and telling fans he'll see them in 2020. I'm a little surprised he was able to appear at all so soon after his release, since he presumably isn't allowed to wrestle there until March.

At ROH's Future of Honor event, done in conjunction with Maryland Championship Wrestling:
- Dak Draper defeated Kekoa
- Kenny King was in Amy Rose's corner as she lost to Trish Adora
- The Soldiers of Savagery defeated Sledge and Victor Benjamin
- Flip Gordon defeated Eli Isom
- Shane Taylor defeated Rayo after the latter won a battle royal. This could well be Taylor's last ROH match
- Brian Johnson won a four way match over Caprice Coleman, Dante Caballero, and Joe Keys
- The Bouncers teamed with Ken Dixon to defeat Primal Fear
- Rhett Titus retained the MCW Heavyweight Championship over Jonathan Gresham. This is particularly interesting since it's believed Rhett is done with ROH at the end of the year. Obviously he can still continue to wrestle in MCW afterward.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Ryan wanted to continue to be in charge of his own schedule/outside dates and not have to worry about potentially changing who he was for TNT. AEW and NXT were both interested.

2. Yes. Colt and ROH agreed to part ways back in September, with him finishing his duties at Final Battle.

3. I don't think so. As best as I can tell he genuinely enjoyed his time in NWA and wanted to continue there.

4. Darling's last match that I can find was in 2011, so, yeah, he's done. Crowbar is booked for Final Battle Fallout tonight, as crazy as that sounds.

5. Warrior was very much the guy he was in wrestling when he wasn't in the ring. The same energy that made him a wrestling star made him tough to be around.

More wrestling tomorrow.