shaowebb
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Strong styled the fuck out. Real talk though...looks nasty as hell. Hope he doesn't end up with bleeding inside his eye.
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October Wrasslin' |OT| Dia de los Mil Muertes
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Strong styled the fuck out. Real talk though...looks nasty as hell. Hope he doesn't end up with bleeding inside his eye.
sf2fanatic
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TimeEffect
Member
So are the women using weapons in HiAC?
I hate it when they pretend hitting your head on the springy cage is supposed to hurt
I hate it when they pretend hitting your head on the springy cage is supposed to hurt
UrbanDandy
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shaowebb
Member
Tanahashi is the best.
Future Foundation
Member
So we're still blaming Ellsworth for the show happening during Game One of the World Series? Hell, weren't people in this thread already talking about how the WS + NBA meant Smackdown was fucked this week? How did it get shifted to Ellsworth - who wasn't announced for the main event (and didn't wrestle in the main event until right before the match started)?
Godspeed Love all over again?
shaowebb
Member
Man loves his Kamen Rider and I thank him for his open appreciation of it.
Tanahashi and the Kamen Rider Girls Vid were fun
it's the wrasslin thread. when we aren't shooting on each other, we're working eachother. or, at best, worked shooting on each other.
and that's a shoot.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
I would never talk about sports being the reason for its lowered ratings because guess what's on all the time? Some form of sports. It's a poor excuse because it's one that can be used every day, hour, week, year to divert attention away from your own lack of creativity in your product, and it's transparent as hell to see
Wrestling community have been claiming WWE is doomed for 15 years now based on nothing more than the slow rating decline.
It's not sports in general, it's major sporting events.
Monday Night Football is a major weekly sporting event during the season.
The World Freakin Series is a major sporting event.
The College Football National Championship is a major sporting event.
Presidential Debates are major non sporting events along the same lines.
We wouldn't say a random basketball or baseball or hockey game on a Monday night would drain ratings, but major events? Sure. It can have an affect.
Seth v. Nakamura will be a bloodbath.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, I did pass the Bar Exam and continue to pay the state bar their fees, so I am, in fact, qualified to comment on the issue.
Dark Ninja
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Austin's Jesse Ventura interview is great. All worth it for the Hogan story. DON'T TRUST HOGAN
Bluekaveli
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Sweeney Tom
Banned
MNF is major like TNF
Nobody says wahhhhh it's not fair TNA lost to a scrub Panthers game, and it's just as silly to say for WWE losing to a fucking scrub Bears game that also is getting low ratings
Nobody says wahhhhh it's not fair TNA lost to a scrub Panthers game, and it's just as silly to say for WWE losing to a fucking scrub Bears game that also is getting low ratings
So you're saying Monday Night wrasslin' captured the hearts of the nation when they were channel surfing after Monday Night Football left them high and dry?
Then stop putting so much stock in to ratings that don't matter.
If you're to believe Vince McMahon himself, Shane and Steph are supposed to be battling over ratings, so in fact.....ratings do matter.
If ratings don't matter, would their flagship shows still be only viewable on a television set with cable?
Wrestling will never be as big as it used to be. That's just what the internet has done. But that doesn't excuse the abysmal ratings. Raw and Smackdown say that people still watch TV and that it's considered extremely important to them. Football ratings are down drastically and even if they weren't, there's no excuse for their poor ratings other than quality. Beyond freak examples like the most Media circus Presidential Debates in history, the excuse of 'well so and so is on' just makes the WWE look pathetic and defeatist. And it just keeps lowering their bar.
Wrestling will never be as big as it used to be. That's just what the internet has done. But that doesn't excuse the abysmal ratings. Raw and Smackdown say that people still watch TV and that it's considered extremely important to them. Football ratings are down drastically and even if they weren't, there's no excuse for their poor ratings other than quality. Beyond freak examples like the most Media circus Presidential Debates in history, the excuse of 'well so and so is on' just makes the WWE look pathetic and defeatist. And it just keeps lowering their bar.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Then make less obviously false excuses
You know the observer also mentioned those two as competition:
I believe Smackdown might lose some viewers against opening night of basketball and the highest viewed world series since 2009.
because that bad wrestling promotion keeps pilfering good ones
What did the internet do? We're not writing Raw. I take no responsibility.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
The one about how the Network peaked at 1.5 mil, just like it's peak always? It's not doomed. It just reached its max audience, which is a lot less than they hoped for.
This is good and not doomed because now they're disappointed in the Network like the USA Network is disappointed in them
No one specifically. We just know way too much about pro wrestling and wrestlers now for it to be exciting for a lot of people. You can't really be a weekly fan without eventually learning way too much about the product and having the surprises ruined for you.
You seem really obsessed with me, dude.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
The internet made Netflix. Hulu, HBO Go. Etc.
Basically more than enough alternatives from all sides that when WWE piss someone off, someone can move on with their money. And as history and I and others here and others elsewhere and the Network's numbers have shown...most don't come back.
Sibersk Esto
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Endless entertainment alternatives and a complete demystification of the business mainly.
Bluekaveli
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No one is about tna. We're talking about the juggernaut of sports entertainment! Get it right jabroni!
You're a nerd, nerd.
Sweeney Tom
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*Ponders carefully, nods head, writes down giant bold underlined A+ in Sweeney's Fav Posts chart*
A rating I won't regret
Check the bass in your posts directed at my man, yak.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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A lot of projecting going on in this thread right now.
I'd suggest you all go out to the store, buy full body mirrors, and simply stare at them for the next 8 hours. Clothing optional.
I'd suggest you all go out to the store, buy full body mirrors, and simply stare at them for the next 8 hours. Clothing optional.
I'd spend...60 extra bucks a year to get Smackdown Live on demand. I'd pay 24 extra bucks a year to get it next day. I'm a busy man most Tuesdays.
Bluekaveli
Member
Can I stare at Zach's mirror?
Good news friend, you can pay for Hulu and get Smackdown next day right now!
slightconfuse
Banned
Ed O'Neill is a bigger draw than raw
I got hulu. Commercial free even. It's edited. I need Zachdown Live UNCUT.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Sure. He's a WCW fan, so he'll probably just think you're an Ultimate Warrior hallucination.