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RIP SABU
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I don't see the issue in HHH beating Sting.
1) Sting wasn't hurt at all by losing to HHH. Sting does have a name value, and the WWE did do a good job building his name prior to Wrestlemania to give him even more credit. 2) Sting was going away for a while after Wrestlemania and HHH wasn't going anywhere so for that reason alone HHH should have won. |
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HHH is a weekly TV character. If it was Steve Austin coming back to wrestle, then sure, I would say its fine for HHH to lose. But Sting is not Austin. HHH got the win, but they moved mountains to protect Sting in that match. The other thing that gets ignored is that from his debut, Sting never really got the type of pop you would expect from a top level star. It was a nice pop, but I remember hearing it, and thinking I expected more. |
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O shit was the Sting/HHH thing in the other thread?
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The pop for Sting was fine. Hinter is not going to be hurt by a Sting loss and using Sting to sell the Monday Night Wars is a bigger waste of Sting than anything he did in TNA beside the Jeff Hardy incident. Wish Sting would have stayed away from WWE and just retired. The mans reasoning for not signing with WWE years back is exactly why he should have stayed away. WWE has no idea how to use Sting and really never intended on making Sting look like the Icon he is.
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Its also reasonable to believe that Vince doesn't completely make a decision on some things until last minute.
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MVP Mark
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Yes it is. Did Vince ever tell you that in a notarized letter? If not then bullshit. Must have the stamp to prove it too.
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BAY BAY
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The Micker says this might be his last Raw
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Oh Mick.
I like Mick, I enjoyed his work over the years in WCW, ECW and of course WWE. But the guy is egotistical. Why would he think WWE would randomly call him for his opinion? They have plenty of ex talent on the payroll who they can bounce creative ideas. Everything about that blurb comes down to "its all about Mick". We're nearing Mania season and Mick has an angle he should be involved him. I don't think he's at a stage where physically he should in a WWE ring. He wants everyone to gather around and find out if he's gong to stop watching (spoiler, he won't), does anyone really care? On top of that he doesn't listen to what Vince says. Vince specifically said he thinks one of the problems with guys today is they are afraid to fail. The problem is the talent expects everything to be handed to them. He talks about scripts. This may sound mean, but Mick is likely heavily scripted because they don't trust him to stay on point and within time constraints. New Day talks about how they are not scripted and given the green light to do their own promos. But not everyone is that good, so the guys who are not, are heavily scripted. I believe it was Triple H who said some guys prefer it that way. That shouldn't be an indictment on WWE creative. Mick talks about using blood to get Roman over. Sure, that would be easier. But I don't think Toys R Us and Kay Jewellers would appreciate being associated with a form of entertainment where grown men mutilate their bodies and bleed in front of little kids in the first row. The product is more mature now, more family friendly. Maybe because Mick needed all those gimmicks as a crutch to get over, he can't fathom how it can be done without it. At the end of the day Mick is just trying to get more eyeballs on his blog, which is smart. He'll be watching next week, the week after, the month after, and the year after that. Bank on it. |
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Mick screwed Mick
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I left
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No did it look pretty cool? Post a gif.
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Smackdown viewership reaches record low
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Fun fact, TNA was averaging 1.17 rating with 1.61 million viewers in 2011. they literally reached TNA levels with smackdown last week |
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Is this serious? You guys should all be wrestling journalists. You are all qualified! Real talk time with The CyNick. Smackdown was the 2nd most watched show in its timeslot on cable on Thursday. |
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Considering WWE barely gives a shit about Smackdown, why should the fans?
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BAY BAY
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President of Freedonia
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SmackDown has been completely irrelevant for years. Nothing new or interesting happens on there and pretty much any good SmackDown match will be repeated on Raw anyway.
SmackDown has been that way since the brand split ended. It's just sorta "there" as opposed to advancing any kind of story. |
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But when it moves to USA it will be really important for 1 week.
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Raw was back up BTW
Football was down Still trying to figure out of there is a correlation. |
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Resident drug enabler
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In terms of viewers, still well below their average. If it wasn't for last week's disaster, this week would have been the new record low for some perspective.
8pm getting weaker and 10pm hovering around the sub 3 million levels is what has been hurting the ratings the most for this year. |
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In 2013, the WWE had a viewership of over 4 million viewers on 30 editions of RAW.
In 2014, RAW broke the 4 million plus viewership mark on 34 episodes of the WWE’s flagship program. In 2015, the WWE has only had RAW episodes that had over 4 million viewers watching a total of nine times. Seven of the nine times happened during WrestleMania season, where the WWE peaked the night after WrestleMania with a 5.36 million viewership. After that, the only other shows to crack over 4 million viewers was the go home show to Extreme Rules (4.038 million) and the night after the Money in the Bank pay per view (4.11 million). |
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Yeah but WWE signed a deal with NBC which gave them a lot of money so that means WWE's product is good.
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That said, television as a whole is seeing viewership shrink, they key is understanding how WWE compares with the rest of cable. WWE ratings could decline every year but if they are declining slower than the rest of cable, their TV rights fees will increase. The most important stat that is rarely talked about by anyone other than me is that they added a ton of new advertisers in the latest upfronts. That's the biggest driver of rights fees. At the end of the day you want to generate the most dollars. |
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I don't care how much damn money they make as long as they put on a damn good show. Your the only one that talk about WWEs finances, no one else cares that KFC and Hardies are adverting on Raw.
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RAW used to be #2 until very recently which might explain where some of the lost RAW audience has been heading off to.
For some perspective, NFL lost around 4 million viewers this week because of the poor MNF matchup and yet the WWE barely capitalized on that pool if the number this week is still lower than 2 weeks ago. They gained 200,000 viewers on average from last week but are missing another 100,000 from the week prior. Quote:
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I was really stoked about that specific Barrett return. Big fan of Barrett, but they definitely failed there
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President of Freedonia
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They've dropped the ball with Barrett so many times. It's sad. He can talk, he can work, he's got good size. I really don't know what else they could want from the guy.
Shocked to find he's actually 35 years old already. So he's likely closer to retirement than he is to getting a main event push. ![]() |
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He's english, doesn't really connect with the fans.
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Feeling Oof-y
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The "Bad News" gimmick caught on, so they made him King of the Ring.
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Yeah, Barrett needs to do the whole "Bad News" thing again. People loved that!
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