That entire mini-feud between Bryan and Roman was honestly good. I'd peg that as the one shining moment of Roman's bad WM31 push (and also evidence that Bryan should have been the guy)
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WWE Raw drops to lowest TV rating in 18 years
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That entire mini-feud between Bryan and Roman was honestly good. I'd peg that as the one shining moment of Roman's bad WM31 push (and also evidence that Bryan should have been the guy)
One of the biggest problems.
It's 3 hours with a huge chunk consisting of filler. Also the part where every week is nearly the same as the week before. Vince McMahon's reaction to the constant decrease in ratings has been to play it incredibly safe. Shoving corporate branding and marketing at the viewer, takes precedent over actual storylines and match booking, since WWE seems to believe there's only money in the former.
When the product you're advertising varies from "dripping shit sandwich" to "piece of toast they surprisingly managed to not burn this time ", it doesn't really matter how you brand it.
New Day is easily the best part of RAW every week.
Not like that's saying a lot. There's nothing else that's any good.
New Day is the only good part of RAW every week unfortunately.
That's because, while WWE is bad because it is boring/nothing matters, TNA is on a whole new level of bad. Case in point: The Matt Hardy/TNA Title situation.
The Hardy/EC3 Title match is made during the go home show of Bound For Glory, aka TNA's Wrestlemania. Hardy wins the match and proceeds to forfeit the title the next day on Youtube.
New Day is legit amazing. One of the best tag stables to have ever existed in the WWE. Watching them though makes it obvious just how sterile and shitty the rest of the show is in comparison. They are one of the very few performers that have been given the green light to write a lot of their own stuff. What kills everyone else on the roster is the micromanaging of every single aspect of their character. Everyone else is forced to stick to the worst fucking scripts imagineable and get constantly quagmired in nonsensical feuds.
Something similar happened when wcw died. Those viewers didn't go to wwf, they just kinda vanished.
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Carnby
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was he? I don't think that is a fact, maybe from your own point of view
If Punk took wrestling slightly more serious than he already does, he would think wrestling was real.
Paracelsus
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Except this time there won't be a Punk resorting to shave his head, come out ten or fifteen times and say the word Ass just to get a reaction, just to get noticed. They're painfully and so royally screwed.
You didn't listen to one word he said in the Colt Cabana podcast.
You didn't listen to one word he said in the Colt Cabana podcast.
Heyman has been filling that roll now, but it's not working.
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America has got a severe obesity problem but I'm positive they won't spend their good buck on a shirt based off a walrus. Austin's persona was a redneck but girls screamed for him and men thought he looked badass. Punk was the last "all-rounder" marketable guy outside Cena with enough wrestling and mic skills to be main eventer. Bryan doesn't matter, he was Mankind-over. Ah, right
Adimeadozen midcard mic skills.
You can be right while crying, the sad state of affairs of the program and all the storylines leading to said state match word by word with what he said, you can deny all you want but it won't change a thing. It's 2015, you have a bunch of midcarders nobody of which is over enough to be world champion, and Kane and Undertaker anywhere near the main event let alone competing for a belt.
they'll probably pop a rating on that show with austin, michaels and lesnar and think everything is fine
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That's the drawback with programming your entire customer base to think that you're the only game in town and that no other wrestling product is worth watching. If they get sick of YOU, they're not going to bother seeking out alternatives. They're just going to think wrestling is no longer for them and go do something else. And they WON'T come back no matter what you do. (Apart from nostalgia.)
It's also burnout because you limit your content to such a narrow spectrum. In fact I don't think I watch more than 10 events a year now.
Carnby
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So fucking what. Punk was nothing special. He can piss and moan in all the safest places as much as he wants, but it doesn't change the fact that he was a boring piece of trash midcarder just like the rest of them.
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Maybe Vince McMahon needs to bring back to "Kiss My Ass" Club to help bring back ratings.
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Did Punk piss in your cereal?
UberTag
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You should tweet that to him and share his response with us.
I imagine it will go something like this.
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Yup, no Cesaro equals no ratings.
He's one of those smarks that's totally tsundere for Punk. "I-it's not like I want you to return or anything, Punk-Sama! Baka..."
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well maybe if you guys didn't totally fuck up sandow I'd be watching more
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Biggest fucking crybaby in the world.
Punk and Bryan are the last two guys who've had any kind of crossover appeal since Rock
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Sandow's been wrestling for the WWE in various capacities since 2003.God.... that cash in... Cena with one arm. I am still sad about it
He's given them 12 of the best years of his life and all he's had is the rug pulled out from under him in his two biggest pushes.
God.... that cash in... Cena with one arm. I am still sad about it
Fuck that cash in too. That completely assassinated any push or momentum he had in his career.
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Ah I see
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Speaking of Sandow: is there one, at least one wrestler outside Cena whose booking has been perfectly consistent?
Think Kane as the opposite, going from needing several people against for a pin to lose to Rey Mysterio clean.
Is anybody left a viewer can't say "is that guy now good? Wasn't he losing to Truth weeks ago?".
Cena jobbed a whole lot when he started, after he got the rapper gimmick over he became god. Austin the same, jobbed in 1996, after WM13 and especially 14 he couldn't be stopped (like, you needed Kane AND Undertaker to pin him). You could argue Lesnar, but they bet on the hiatus he had to help people forget he got buried by Cena and HHH.
Think Kane as the opposite, going from needing several people against for a pin to lose to Rey Mysterio clean.
Is anybody left a viewer can't say "is that guy now good? Wasn't he losing to Truth weeks ago?".
Cena jobbed a whole lot when he started, after he got the rapper gimmick over he became god. Austin the same, jobbed in 1996, after WM13 and especially 14 he couldn't be stopped (like, you needed Kane AND Undertaker to pin him). You could argue Lesnar, but they bet on the hiatus he had to help people forget he got buried by Cena and HHH.
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Stephanie always wins. That's something consistent.
Everyone else is her bitch.
You were wise beyond your years.
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You should tweet that to him and share his response with us.
I imagine it will go something like this.
What's he saying? Something homophobic I'm sure. The hero we deserve.
Missing your boring twenty minute Punk promos?
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"I'm a terrible athlete!"
Carnby
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Google search says otherwise. "Sit down homo!"
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Lesnar and Cena are the only two people who aren't booked like midcarders. They tried with Reigns but they sabotaged him with those promos and the Rumble fiasco and his injury didn't help.(he had yet to be established as a good in ring singles competitor by the Rumble)
And Taker but that guy kicks dicks.
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No, the exact quote was "Ni-Nice faux hawk you homo!"
Please, Lesnar would've fucked Bryan up worse than that ladder match did. Bryan was walking-injured and in no way would've come out after a full on Lesnar match in any fit state to do much of anything.
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Pretty much. He's done nothing but whine. Coincidentally it sells his UFC fight, if it ever happens. Keeps getting pushed back.
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