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TheRock1525
10/10/19 7:02:13 PM
#402:


BTW, it seems like people are picking apart AEW on a micro level and ignoring that on the whole, it's a really good product.

Am I mistaken, or is this Jericho's first time leading a proper stable?
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Jakyl25
10/10/19 7:08:19 PM
#403:


The Dodgers/Nationals game did great numbers and killed everything else

Almost double what the AL Wild Card game did the Wednesday before
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scarletspeed7
10/10/19 7:09:12 PM
#404:


TheRock1525 posted...
Looks like with the simulcast it's 1.140 million. 260k isn't that bad, then. Especially with the MLB playoffs competing against it. TNT live, TNT replay, TruTV simulcast put it at 1.5 million, down from 1.832 million debut.

Although at the same time, would it be fair to then count NXT replays on the WWE Network? Especially since NXT doesn't get a TV network replay.

I think the problem there is that we don't get numbers for that, and they tend to be very quiet when that level of viewership is low.

TheRock1525 posted...
BTW, it seems like people are picking apart AEW on a micro level and ignoring that on the whole, it's a really good product.

Am I mistaken, or is this Jericho's first time leading a proper stable?

TheRock1525 posted...
BTW, it seems like people are picking apart AEW on a micro level and ignoring that on the whole, it's a really good product.

Am I mistaken, or is this Jericho's first time leading a proper stable?

Pretty sure you're right. And I agree. There is this horrible trend now of being overly critical at the expense of something that is, on the whole, great.
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Jakyl25
10/10/19 7:09:38 PM
#405:


TheRock1525 posted...
Looks like with the simulcast it's 1.140 million. 260k isn't that bad, then. Especially with the MLB playoffs competing against it. TNT live, TNT replay, TruTV simulcast put it at 1.5 million, down from 1.832 million debut.

Although at the same time, would it be fair to then count NXT replays on the WWE Network? Especially since NXT doesn't get a TV network replay.


Yeah Im down with adding the simulcast but adding the replay is not really a thing worth doing because we dont know Network viewership numbers
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Jakyl25
10/10/19 7:12:32 PM
#406:


Its kind of hilarious to see WWE sending guys like Balor to NXT to prop up a show that has TNA on Destination America level numbers
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TheRock1525
10/10/19 7:38:15 PM
#407:


I think the long term problem with NXT is that I don't see the room for growth the way AEW does. And that's factoring in them being both great products. But I don't think making them a touring brand and upping the production value is gonna move the needle much.

We could be, a year from now, watching Johnny Gargano wrestle Finn Balor for the NXT title and only 300k people are watching.
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TheRock1525
10/10/19 7:47:29 PM
#408:


Although I can't help but think when they're that low and like they have no 18-49 market share, the ads will be nothing but catheters, gold and reverse mortgages.
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Eddv
10/10/19 8:13:57 PM
#409:


Will NXT pop 1 million viewers the first week? The second? We don't know.
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Strife2
10/10/19 9:27:26 PM
#410:


scarletspeed7 posted...
Pretty sure you're right. And I agree. There is this horrible trend now of being overly critical at the expense of something that is, on the whole, great.


Did you forget what this topic is like 99% of the time? Being overly critical of minutiae is like the default setting. That's why I always take time away, because I can't stand it half the time. Also, I didn't go into AEW with any expectations. The Bucks were good, but the announcers hyped them up as the best thing ever, not me. I've never seen them in a match before. Aside from WWE and Lucha Underground (and one night of MLW), I know jack shit about wrestling, and admit as much.

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scarletspeed7
10/10/19 9:36:23 PM
#411:


That last statement wasn't about you at all. It was about wrestling as a whole, Game of Thrones fans, comic book fans, card game fans, video game fans, fans of most anything. If you feel as if you were lumped into that statement, then that's something you internalized about yourself, not me!
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TheRock1525
10/11/19 6:06:36 PM
#412:


Welp I finally bought tickets for NXT.

Weird that when I looked at tickets for tapings they were pretty damn expensive but for next week's show its $16.
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Eddv
10/11/19 6:24:45 PM
#413:


Well 50+ year olds tend to be on fixed incomes
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TheRock1525
10/11/19 8:34:20 PM
#414:


Not where I live.

Boomers rich as fuck.
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Jakyl25
10/11/19 9:37:52 PM
#415:


So WWE managed to fuck up their own draft by accidentally releasing the picks in order when they put out the eligible draftees list
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Maniac64
10/11/19 9:41:54 PM
#416:


Haha that's amazing
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TheRock1525
10/11/19 10:09:12 PM
#417:


Bayley apparently murdered her Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubemen.
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StealThisSheen
10/11/19 10:09:42 PM
#418:


And I am furious
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Jakyl25
10/11/19 10:11:04 PM
#419:


TheRock1525 posted...
Bayley apparently murdered her Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubemen.


And cut her hair short, and used a swear word
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TheRock1525
10/11/19 10:12:08 PM
#420:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGpGAKoUUAANPy7?format=jpg

She now looks like Dakota Kai.
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ninkendo
10/11/19 10:12:32 PM
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TheRock1525
10/11/19 10:15:47 PM
#422:


ninkendo posted...
https://twitter.com/WilliamRBR/status/1182834916343435266?s=19


How evil am I for laughing at this?
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Jakyl25
10/11/19 10:23:48 PM
#423:


Its especially funny when you realize that WWEs key issue is losing young fans
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ZeroSignal620
10/11/19 10:36:22 PM
#424:


So is this how Rollins vs Fiend ends? Or will Bray continue to fuck with Rollins like he did Orton two years ago despite the two being on different shows?
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Jakyl25
10/11/19 10:44:50 PM
#425:


ZeroSignal620 posted...
So is this how Rollins vs Fiend ends? Or will Bray continue to fuck with Rollins like he did Orton two years ago despite the two being on different shows?


Crown Jewel will probably have the blowoff
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Tom Bombadil
10/11/19 10:54:19 PM
#426:


TheRock1525 posted...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGpGAKoUUAANPy7?format=jpg

She now looks like Dakota Kai.


I am usually all for short hair on girls but man that ain't doin' it for me

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Mega Mana
10/11/19 11:31:30 PM
#427:


Tom Bombadil posted...
TheRock1525 posted...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGpGAKoUUAANPy7?format=jpg

She now looks like Dakota Kai.


I am usually all for short hair on girls but man that ain't doin' it for me


She definitely does look like Dakota Kai now, but I also think Bayley just got hundred times better looking without the side pony and the darker shine. She looks amazing.

And also, the only opinion that matters on Bayley's turn:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ItsIzzyMania/status/1182843306482515968
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ZeroSignal620
10/12/19 12:59:08 AM
#428:


Jakyl25 posted...
ZeroSignal620 posted...
So is this how Rollins vs Fiend ends? Or will Bray continue to fuck with Rollins like he did Orton two years ago despite the two being on different shows?


Crown Jewel will probably have the blowoff


Only if Ric Flair recruits The Fiend for his team.
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ZeroSignal620
10/12/19 10:21:24 AM
#429:


Becky vs Sasha to determine first draft pick Monday night.

I'll laugh if The Fiend interferes, but I know Vince would never pull the trigger
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 11:42:30 AM
#430:


Bayley just needs to come out and slap Sasha
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 11:43:04 AM
#431:


SD viewers

2.925M
2.872M

Well thats a loss of a MILLION PEOPLE in one week

Good job Vince
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Fastbreak
10/12/19 11:46:57 AM
#432:


Jeeeeeze

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Strife2
10/12/19 11:47:32 AM
#433:


Wow...

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PrivateBiscuit1
10/12/19 11:55:34 AM
#434:


Imagine if they didn't have the draft.

Or they've beaten everyone down enough with these special celebrity non-wrestlers.

Or they have made the concept of brand separation so worthless now.
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 12:03:55 PM
#435:


Still #1 in the key demo which I think is the line between Fox being happy and Fox being unhappy

But it was much much closer to CBS than last week

And next week will have half the roster!
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TheRock1525
10/12/19 1:12:00 PM
#436:


Jakyl25 posted...
SD viewers

2.925M
2.872M

Well thats a loss of a MILLION PEOPLE in one week

Good job Vince


Well The Rock does say he has millions and millions of fans. I guess he took a million of them away when he didn't show up.
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 1:41:56 PM
#437:


They really put such a minimal effort into this

No roster reactions to draft picks. No suspense, just Steph blandly reading lists of names and leaving without them coming out to present themselves. Celebrities talking about how the guys they remember were great when none of those guys are still around.
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 1:45:42 PM
#438:


Like imagine if the Fox NFL guys were talking about actual current wrestlers and how great they could be instead of Oh I would draft Bruno Sammartino, he was great
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TheRock1525
10/12/19 1:48:34 PM
#439:


To be fair, Samoa Joe - Sports Analyst was apparently so good it was trending on Twitter.
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 1:52:34 PM
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Jakyl25
10/12/19 2:06:55 PM
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ShatteredElysium
10/12/19 5:19:47 PM
#442:


I don't know if it has been said or not already but I want one show to draft Bray and the other show to draft the Fiend
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scarletspeed7
10/12/19 6:00:06 PM
#443:


If I remember right, Cody pitched for a draft year where Stardust was drafted to Smackdown and Cody was drafted to RAW. It's really too bad we never saw that, but I'm on board for this!
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ZeroSignal620
10/12/19 6:54:45 PM
#444:


scarletspeed7 posted...
If I remember right, Cody pitched for a draft year where Stardust was drafted to Smackdown and Cody was drafted to RAW. It's really too bad we never saw that, but I'm on board for this!


Yeah, it was Cody's final suggestion before asking for his release. I'd be on board for The Fiend going to Raw too
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TheRock1525
10/12/19 9:39:18 PM
#445:


Bray to Smackdown.
Fiend to RAW.
Huskus to NXT.
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ffmasterjose
10/13/19 3:33:21 AM
#446:


Can we at least get a Kofi interview talking about how he feels and thoughts moving forward and whatnot, or something? Just shoving him back in the midcard with the New Day acting like he didn't just have a 6 month run as the top champ doesnt feel right
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Panthera
10/13/19 9:24:38 AM
#447:


scarletspeed7 posted...
If I remember right, Cody pitched for a draft year where Stardust was drafted to Smackdown and Cody was drafted to RAW. It's really too bad we never saw that, but I'm on board for this!


If this actually happened I'm pretty sure everyone would have just said "man fucking WWE so stupid acting like we don't know it's the same person"
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Lopen
10/13/19 11:28:15 PM
#448:


Why did Bayley have to kill the Bayley buddies and cut her hair. I really think there's a lot more intrigue if she just went full Bo Dallas. She's probably just gonna be boring now.

Also "Shorty Gable" what is this
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ZeroSignal620
10/13/19 11:29:11 PM
#449:


Lopen posted...
Also "Shorty Gable" what is this


This. This so much. I cringed when I first heard this on SD
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Strife2
10/13/19 11:36:11 PM
#450:


I've sworn off WWE on the basis that anything and everything they do will turn into shit. I'd chalk up both Heel Bayley and Shorty Gable to that same umbrella. Bryan and Dave spent a few minutes the other day talking about the whole pretense of WWE's output being a flat out parody of wrestling in general. A fake sport being taken as fake by the person who doesn't even want to consider it wrestling.

So not only is it fake, I watched a video the other day about a conference call about Vince calling WWE "too pro wrestling."

So uh...what great times we live in. I bet Finn Balor is happy to be back in NXT. God only wonders if that's what Cesaro is trying to do. If they can't get out of contracts, they can at least live in Florida.

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StealThisSheen
10/13/19 11:47:16 PM
#451:


So I didn't watch Smackdown. Did they give a story behind Shorty Gable?

Like, I know it was a Corbin thing, and I could see it making sense if like, Gable had lost that match and that's why he was now stuck as "Shorty Gable." But he won, didn't he? So... Why?
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