Yeah. Like I wish he didn't because of all the toxic bullshit out there. But it seemed to make him happy, and he's still making millions to wrestle. So how much did it really hurt him other than there being a few embarrassing gifs?

It probably made him more happy before he was getting punched in the face a lot, but yeah. He tried to make a living outside of the toxic atmosphere of WWE while WWE was the only real game in town in the field he worked his whole life to excel in.

If he was getting blasted by jobbers, I can only imagine what the high-level guys he was training with did to him.

The one thing we can take from his fights is he can take some punishment. Although I don't think he was aiming for the Homer Simpson approach to fighting.

thats true today. it wouldnt be true 25 years ago

Absolutely. Go back another 10 years and it’s even more true.

Speaking of: The TPWW Thursday Night Watch-Along returns tonight!

:lol:

Punk wouldn’t have made it past Boxcar Fred, let alone Boxcar Ira.

921,000 viewers.

Classic Wrestling night is about to outdraw AEW

it IS tracy smothers appreciation night

Well, we actually have mainstream appeal--so it's an unfair comparison.

Can't wait for a night full of Tracy Smothers gyrations

The FBI were so fucking great. I've said this before but they are the best thing about late 97/early 98 ECW. Hands down.

Tommy Rich declaring the FBI the World 6 man Champions after beating the Freebirds lmao. His "too many headshots" gimmick was so fucking funny.

ok gertner i want to get back into my ecw watch. where should i jump in to get to what you'd consider the start of the good shit? i don't remember exactly where i left off. sometime in early 94 i think.

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Shitty wrestling draws shitty ratings. I’d say news at 6, but AEW fans would blame that for cutting into their number.

We doing that “this week last year” ratings comparison that’s been really important the past couple weeks now or nah?

Spring of 95

With ad rates probably being low for a show with its 18-49 demo and the content they air, it would really surprise me to see AEW renewed at this point. Which executive wants to be at the head of a network when the audience all has birthdays and you now don’t have any particular demo of interest?

WBD can get more out of airing Big Bang reruns than housing AEW. They’ve only got themselves to blame.

Good news though! They’re up in terms of viewership YoY! They got 889k last year. :lol:

Sorry, the schadenfreude is just too nice.

It’s basketball’s fault this year.

Lol Couldn’t think of any good bullshit after hyping the importance of YoY the past couple weeks. Beautiful.

Bury away.

It was important to AEW for 52 weeks, wonder what changed the last few weeks...

Watch from spring 95 till Barly Legal 97. It goes downhill fast after their first ppv. 98 and 99 are atrocious

I wonder if AJ has an opening for a real man on the side.

She seems to have a thing for missing teeth. Just sayin’…

You have to wait for them to hit a really disappointing low to do the YoY and gloat about growth. :lol:

Can’t wait for the preempted Dynamites to come along and be used comparatively.

Right, my bad :rofl:

You know the inverse of that argument requires an equivalent amount of mental gymnastics, right? LOVE YOU

I’m not making the inverse of that argument.

I presume #1-xrod-bitch is flexing to show off why he is the king of gym. :lol:

Nah. Just pointing out your blatant hypocrisy. You pretending to ignore me doesn’t cancel it out. No matter how much you desperately reply to my posts “without actually reading them” to try to force your own narrative. Keep landing on your face and fantasizing you’re killing it, buddy.

It's okay, Meltzer said that AEW is worth $400+ million a this point. If the mega merger does turn on AEW like it did WCW, AEW still has a lot of options. There are other networks that are hungry for AEW and content that hovers around a million viewers a week.

Since TNT was expecting AEW to cover the 700k mark, they likely aren't in "dire straights" with the current numbers they are getting. I personally know plenty of AD execs and TV rights lawyers and they are always messaging me that AEW is one of the hotter topics on the TV rights law forums and also the content demo forums, AEW a big hit there too.

Impact kept finding its way to TV despite getting worse and worse numbers. The idea that a new wrestling program with Tom’s of money behind it, regularly pulling around 1 million viewers a week, is somehow doing bad, and doesn’t have a future, it’s just silly.

It’s not the number you get, it’s the money you bring in. Meltzer has been hinting that is lower than desirable. BBT reruns or new sports properties would do better in the slots.

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New Japan got 46k viewers and scored a 0.00 in the 18-49 demo.

Damn I figured they'd be pulling double or triple those number honestly.

who carries that

Oof.

AXS, the channel owned by Anthem, who also own Impact Wrestling.

no one has that channel...

well more accurately no one who has that channel knows they have that channel

I’ve heard that. Still a bizarrely embarrassing number. It’ll be interesting to see how this AEW PPV hurts/helps them.

SmackDown: 1.953 million

Rampage: 464k

Oof.

<2M for SmackDown

What’s the YoY though?

lol didn't CyNick go on and on about Walking Dead YoY in this thread to compare it to RAW or something?

1.87m

5 years ago they were average 3m viewers a week on Mondays. Sad.

Year over Year only mattered that 52 weeks when AEW no longer had to compete with NXT, because they could trick all the dumdums into believing they were growing their audience. Now since that variable no longer has that benefit, well YoY is an old metric that doesn't matter. That will be $11.99

Give me 464k viewers over 1.58 mil any day! Right boys?!

its plausible these two meet in the middle in the next 5 years

Yeesh. RAW drawing more than all AEW programming combined.

I could see it. And it'll be kind of sad--just given how little people watch wrestling--but also sort of fun.

I give it less than 5 years

I'm just depressed that there'll never be a mainstream boom again. It was nice to share my wrestling love with other people.

I was listening to Konnan and Disco the other day (lolol a guilty pleasure, leave me alone) and K-Dawg brought up how everything is sort of niche these days. So, it's not like society is in a position to embrace wrestling as a mainstream juggernaut ever again--other issues with modern pro wrestling aside.

There's 28 million Peacock subscribers. Combined that with the 1.6-.1.8 million they draw on USA and you could argue that 30 million people watch Raw every Monday Night. It's very plausible.

You can't watch Raw on Peacock for at least a month after it airs.

id like to hear the peacock numbers. 30 million would be a cultural phenomenon so i doubt its that high but streaming numbers are real where as neilson is total guess work

That's why they only draw 1.6 million. The other 28 million are waiting to watch it on Peacock.

So really, RAW does 30x the ratings Dynamite does

:lol:

The math is in: time to close this thread

I think its more likely RAW would drop in the ratings down to AEWs level rather than AEW coming up to meet them in the middle. AEW has been fairly stable in the ratings for a bit now but they haven't shown any signs of meaningful growth in quite a while and I don't see any signs indicating thats going to change any time soon.

Obviously not counting streaming metrics in this equation. No idea what WWEs numbers for streaming actually are and it's quite possible AEW has a streaming presence in the near future.

“It’s cyclical”.

Just gotta keep waiting.

Also, not everything is niche, that’s a cop out.

Remember a few years ago when comic books and comic book culture was just for nerds and Marvel was about to go under? Now they produce the biggest movies of all time. How did they do this? They had a vision (and a Hulk) of what they wanted the brand to look like, and they built a catalogue of (mostly) stellar content that drew people in from all walks of life to engage with their content.

Game of Thrones is another one. On paper that’s not got mainstream appeal in the slightest. Quasi-medieval politics with wizards, and dragons, and ice zombies thrown in? Nah. It takes quality to punch through to become a mainstream cultural phenomenon.

Well, not always, there is the Kardashians.

Some things will sneak through, no doubt. Just today, more things are nice than they ever were because of content is so specifically catered. And Game of Thrones--relative to today's fast-paced climate--came out a long time ago...nothing has been that big of a phenomenon since. Not even Marvel, where the movies will create buzz--as most big budget productions will--but the TV shows don't nearly carry as much weight.

Also, lol, "it's cyclical" doesn't really hold weight when wrestling hasn't been mainstream in over 20 years. Think about how long it took to get from the Hogan era to the attitude era. Even in 1990, the product was still mainstream. It only took until 1996 for the nWo to get popular. It's not going to ever happen again--ratings have steadily declined all those years and show no signs of going the other way.

Wrestling just doesn't have the oomph it once did and the stories it tells aren't relevant to most people. It's either like WWE where it appeals only to the lowest common denominator and is total dreck, or it's AEW, and you only understand WTF is going on if you're a big wrestling nerd.

More like Game of Bones


or GOT - Great ole Titties


that's why it was so popular.

its really not. the entire nature of celebrity has completely changed, especially for modern youths. in times past the celebrities were culturally constant. brad pitt was a celebrity. period. doesnt matter if youre 8 or 80 youre at the very least aware of who the guy is.


now, through various apps and the nature of phones in general (pocket universes private to the individual,) you have personalised celebrity. a kid sees kit boga on the street and loses his mind but absolutely no one but that 1 person has ever been exposed to the content even in the smallest way.


and we arent inundated with marketing that cross pollinates these mini celebrities either. the twitch, YouTube and tick tok star doesnt advertise after all and to bring this convo back home wrestling doesnt buy ad time all that often either. personally i pay to skip ads on every device that offers the service.


so we're insulated in our niche fandoms from other niche fandoms. each man carrying along according to his tastes oblivious to any "celebrities" outside of their own purview and this is a pretty fresh reality. its not been this way since the advent of technology that allowed natational marketing. and even then celebrity status was atleast regional. now its almost designer celebrity.

wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener
floppy floppy, floppy wiener, dangle dangle, floppy wieners
one wiener next to yet another wiener
wiener party, party wiener, wiener party, party wiener

goddamnit Destor

Didnt just post block me but bumped me to the next page. What an asshole. How dare you? How absolutely dare you? Outrageous.

now my thougjtful contribution is lost on the last page never to be seen by the eyes of man

PRETTY NICHE POST I GUESS

Game Of Chodes

The last week has been rough in tv ratings:

SD - 1.95 million
RAW - 1.58 million
Dynamite - 833k
Rampage - 464k

833k for Dynamite. Ouch.

Wow, RAW doing 30.5 times the rating Dynamite does

Raw and Smackdown combined doing 90x what Dynamite and Rampage are. Rip.

AEW winning in the easily amused demographic though!

Nobody tell Fan they were down 23% year over year, cause it only matters on weeks they didn't shit the bed :lol:

Nah. YoY is you and Noid’s thing. Haven’t seen it mentioned here outside of making fun of you for it. You seem to be confused by the written word. Wanna talk about it?

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