Would have stayed high if Kane had a full entrance.
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March Wrasslin |OT| Road To WrassleMania
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Fans have probably caught on that Wrestlemania build means nothing and they don't really take any chances with ANYTHING till after Mania.
why cant wwe just be like Nitnendo
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
But the WWE is already PG.
Would say it sucks that ratings are down but that shit show on Monday deserved it anyway.
Nocturnowl
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I'm so sorry for anything I just said, I wish this fate upon no one.
And if Kane had beaten up the man whose name......is Randy Orton (can't believe they did nothing with that bit)
WWE losing their magic? or are we just getting old?
HarryDemeanor
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Clearly the WWE should be concerned with Apple selling 3 million iPads in a couple days of release. We're doomed everyone.
Liquidsnake
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There have been times where the build was better than the show. I am hoping that the show will be better than the build this time, because this has been one of if not the worst build to WM I can ever remember in my life. I mean they have dropped the ball every week.
Next week will probably have a huge bump in ratings. I just hope the RAW before the show is not a snooz fest. I really want to by excited.
The problem isnt their age specifically, it's that it's three guys who we see wrestling like once or twice a year, and they're taking up ridiculous amounts of air time and attention from the guys who are actually going to be carrying the company going forward. Cena/Rock at least has the benefit of including their biggest current active star
not that he really needs to be put over any more
And all they do is go BLAH BLAH BLAH THIS BUSINESS GOING TO END IT HELL IN A CELL GET THE JOB DONE ETC ETC, for like 15 minutes at a time, and as the main event of the show. Meanwhile their biggest championships are treated as second tier stuff.
Professor Beef
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Well I DO long for the days of their great N64 games, just like I do with Nintendo and their Zelda games!
except ocarina of time
BoboBrazil
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"The 3/19 edition of Raw did a 3.1 rating, with 4,382,000 viewers. The show did hours of 3.14 and 3.06. More disturbing is that they lost 216,000 viewers from hour one to hour two, despite The Rock, John Cena, Triple H, Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker all being scheduled to appear. There was extra competition with the debut of this season's Dancing With The Stars but still, those are scary numbers."
pwinsider.com
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Scary numbers, huh? Taker's still got it!
At least the Rocky/ Cena stuff is "fun". The HHH/Taker stuff is TERRIBLE, thanks largely to Taker's performances. Dude needs to retire, like, now.
Well with Wrestlemania still a month away, why would people care about another month of build?
Move them to SmackDown.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Maybe there is just no correlation between the placing of segments and viewers gained/lost later in the show.
The whole micromanagement of segments for the purposes of keeping viewers is so asinine. Just put out a good product and people will watch. Why do they make this so complicated?
The whole micromanagement of segments for the purposes of keeping viewers is so asinine. Just put out a good product and people will watch. Why do they make this so complicated?
The Frankman
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Anyone talking shit about the fate of NBA-GAF should be buried.
What? It's next Sunday, lol.
Liquidsnake
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Ungh there build has been more disappointing than anything.
Undertaker says you're wrong, playa.
Wrestlemania
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Do these numbers actually have any real meaning whatsoever? What gains and loses viewers week by week is so inconsistent that I can't see how they could really hold any value.
Nocturnowl
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After the WWE network fails they'll be moving into hardware manufacturing as Vince's next mad scheme, WWE branded stuff for everything, after all demand for WWE has never been higher according to the boss himself.
Why did I highlight the spoiler!? DAMMIT BEEF!
El Pescado
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I hate dirtsheets. What exactly about these numbers is "scary"?
LOL!! OK, my fault for not getting it. Great stuff Judderman.
BoboBrazil
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A wrestling show should consistently build viewers from hour 1 to hour 2. You have the top of the hour which should always gain viewers and the overrun, which again should always gain viewers due to the original audience and people tuning in for the show afterwards. A pattern showing otherwise is very bad and it's been happening more often than not lately with WWE. Something in the show is turning people off and making people leave. These numbers without football on before the biggest show of the year is embarassing for them.
Just the fact that their biggest stars lost viewers.
The show is a bit shit?
THATS ENOUGH! I don't think you realize how dangerous that thread has become.
It's not always about being number one, it's about threadding with bravery, honor, and respect, and always putting important sticky threads ahead of your own.
And that's somethign wrasslegaf has done every day of it's life.
BillRiccio
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The love affair begins
BoboBrazil
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Yeah it is, but it's definitely been alot worse before and the trend always had ratings increasing in the second hour even during WWE's lowest points. I remember it happening 1 time out of like 5 years before and the WWE thinking it was catastrophic, but since last summer it has been happening more often than not.
Dark Ninja
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They saw Punk in hour 1 so no need to watch the rest of the show
Nocturnowl
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Maybe people tune in expecting to see the old WWE favourites brawl at the very least, instead the most intense it gets is an angry stare after a minor promo quibble, even the casual fan has probably deduced at this point that when WWE start hyping up a Taker/HHH promo for the show finale, well it's exactly that, a promo and nothing more.
Professor Beef
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Net_Wrecker
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Yeah, I really haven't enjoyed how they've handled Taker/HHH, and Rock/Cena. More than ever it feels like I'm watching people perform on a stage with these long winded BORING back-and-forth promo battles instead of watching badass athletes give warning speeches before a FIGHT. I'm so sick of the nose to nose stare downs, and guys turning their backs to head back up the ramp. I feel like I'm watching the same show on repeat every week.
BREAK THE WALLS DOWN...LITERALLY.
Exactamundo
Professor Beef
Banned
Even when they're on the ramp, people are still nose to nose with HHH in the ring!
Net_Wrecker
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Talkin bad bout Da Game is something you just don't do. He's gonna marry into your family and bury you for life. Sorry, mayne. Them's the rules.
It was only the opening match too....the double main event of Hieracon vs. Ophidian and The Colony vs The Batiri were my favorites from that show.
going to have to watch in a while, for right now it's Silent hill time.
SOOOOOOO GOOD CHIKARA.
We need to come up with a NWA chant like that at the start of our show.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I die a little inside every time I see your avatar isn't Daenerys. >=(
This annoyed me too. The lack of physical interaction and intensity has really annoyed me. Same with HHH/Taker. I don't believe they actually want to fight. It just seems as though they want to out-bullshit each other.
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