Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 463: Better Viewership Than Raw

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well I was watching lucha underground until netflix dropped it!

still watching Stardom tho
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I will point out again that the following Lucha Underground talent are in Impact right now:

Jeremiah Crane
Cage
Johnny Mundo
Pentagon
Fenix
The Mack
Taya Valkyrie
Sometimes King Cuerno
Recent leader of the Rabbit Tribe (Killer Kross)
Hernandez (looks like he's finished in Impact though)
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I should definitely watch more of other stuff and less of WWE.

I at least managed to get through all of Lucha Underground "you're too slow" Tom.

Right now it's just... watch most of Smackdown most of the time. Watch like 20 minutes of Raw many weeks due to abusing the hell out of fast forward (it's almost getting to the point where I'm not even going to bother with Raw because so much of it has been skip). Watch bits and pieces of other wrestling. I wish the Impact Roku app was better right now I can only watch the current one on through non-Roku avenues, which is doable but facilitates viewing less. Same with NJPW which doesn't even have a Roku app yet.
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The idol wrestling show was unironically the most fun wrestling series I've seen in the past few years.

Had an arc, went from point a to b, wrapped up the plot, had a fun post series special and that was that.
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I don't know if everybody counts GLOW as a wrestling show (probably not), but I think that's great.
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well if we're counting wrestling-adjacent stuff then Tiger Mask W was pretty fantastic

I imagine more so if you actually know NJPW at all
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Tiger Mask W is fucking amazing.

IT'S THE ACE!

Also Naito just not showing up.

And Kenny Omega eating ALL THE CANDY.

GLOW is also great and I love it.
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I've also started watching Being the Elite, like, three years behind the rest of the world
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This week's episode was pretty meh, sadly. Yujiro remains a delightful character though.
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Lopen posted...

Right now it's just... watch most of Smackdown most of the time. Watch like 20 minutes of Raw many weeks due to abusing the hell out of fast forward (it's almost getting to the point where I'm not even going to bother with Raw because so much of it has been skip).

Have you tried just watching This Week In WWE?
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Oh god listening to Dave weigh out whether the main event will help retain viewership or not for the third hour is great

Okay youve got Seth Rollins who is probably their hottest star right now besides Rousey, and its an IC Title match, but even thats not enough to overcome the viewership negative of announcing a Baron Corbin match. But with the TLC stipulation too, is THAT enough?

Should have called in Scott Steiner
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Hey scarlet is there an easy way to way to watch old impacts? I don't have Roku

I'd like to go back to see the Eddie Kingston stuff if I were to start watching.

Also I'm still watching CHIKARA both new and old.
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The GWN app has all of them from mid 2016-present I believe

And theyre adding the rest from the beginning slowly
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I don't know of any way other than the GWN app, unless you want to bootleg it a bit.

Btw, don't start the Eddie Kingston stuff before he starts working with LAX. That's where he starts doing cool things.
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Yeah the LAX stuff is what I'm interested in

Jakyl25 posted...

The GWN app has all of them from mid 2016-present I believe

And theyre adding the rest from the beginning slowly

How much?
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$8 a month I think?
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Yeah $7.99 a month
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Trying to think of what other CHIKARA stars you might see

Jigsaw is on a couple X-Division shows
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The Young Bucks are on some older PPVs
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Honestly, if you like Chikara story arcs, you'll like the Allie story arc.
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Oh I'm sure we would enjoy it just not sure it is enough to justify the cost
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I am terrible at watching anything right now but Impact/Progress is basically the best 1-2 punch in wrestling.
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Hour 1: 2.35M
Hour 2: 2.19M
Hour 3: 2.05M

So no Dave, nothing could overcome Corbinpalooza
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How does this compare to last week again?
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Pulling for my man on Smackdown to take over.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

How does this compare to last week again?

Lower.

Last week was
8 p.m. 2.26 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.40 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.20 million viewers

So hour 1 was up but then...yeah

Also the overall average this week was 2.19M viewers, right after Eddv declared 2.2M to be the floor >_<
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The audience under 50 didn't tune out at the same levels as usual, and teenage boys grew throughout the show. Women declined, but the big decline was over 50 viewers which fell 18 percent from hour one to hour three.

Teenage boys of America, we need to have a frank discussion about your interests
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Im actually a bit morbidly curious to see how the pre-taped, meaningless (more than usual) episodes that will air on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve will do

Imagine the kind of person who spends their NYE at home watching a throwaway 2018 Raw
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So Smackdown's gonna have Bryan vs. Ali for I have no idea why but I'll probably watch now
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Bryan: Look, if we dont give a shit about ratings until next year, let me book my own non-sequiter fun matches
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The finals for the MMC is literally Alicia Fox & Jinder Mahal vs. Carmella & R-Truth.

Lol.
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That's... a great reason for me to not worry about ever catching up on the MMC.
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I think those are only teams that never got hurt.
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Wow. Jeez, I guess that might as well be a fair enough reason to give them the moral victory. A perfect attendance award.
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Final card for TLC
Bryan vs Styles for the WWE Championship
Corbin vs Strowman in a TLC match - Corbin's GM position and a possible Strowman/Lesnar title match are on the line
Rollins vs Ambrose for the IC title
Becky vs Charlotte vs Asuka in a TLC match for the SD Women's title
Rousey vs Nia for the Raw Women's title
McIntyre vs Balor
Orton vs Mysterio in a Chairs match
Lashley vs Elias in a ladder match with a guitar at the top
The Bar vs New Day vs Usos for the SD Tag Titles
Murphy vs Alexander for the CW title
Natalya vs Ruby Riott in a Table match
Mahal/Fox vs Truth/Carmella - Winning team gets #30 in their respective Rumbles next month
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so, end of year awards will be coming up soon and i'd like to make a case for zack sabre jr in every category

https://twitter.com/hairywrestling/status/1072585912788361216

sorry zack sabre cannot be the best by virtue of not being la park
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we'll see about that

la park is too fat for zack to lock in a submission hold
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Does anyone want to host them or should I do it again?
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Jakyl25 posted...

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

How does this compare to last week again?

Lower.

Last week was
8 p.m. 2.26 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.40 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.20 million viewers

So hour 1 was up but then...yeah

Also the overall average this week was 2.19M viewers, right after Eddv declared 2.2M to be the floor >_<

As it turns out we are on an elevator.

Also here's a reason to watch Impact

https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1072883787070144512?s=19

Full on That 70s show bs.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Does anyone want to host them or should I do it again?

I still don't feel like I paid enough attention this year to properly host.
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Eddv posted...

Full on That 70s show bs.

Scarlett teleporting was the funniest shit. Her character absolutely slays me at this point. Admittedly, it took me a couple weeks to get the joke, but now that I do, I'm all aboard.
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Admittedly I didnt expect her character arc to resolve with a pun either so I definitely get it.
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*rings bell loudly and screams in people's faces*

SMACKDOWN IS BETTER!
SMACKDOWN IS BETTER!
SMACKDOWN IS BETTER!

(Didn't bother with RAW this week)

<3 Asuka!
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Hardcore_Adult posted...

SMACKDOWN IS BETTER!
SMACKDOWN IS BETTER!
SMACKDOWN IS BETTER!

He says, following it with

Hardcore_Adult posted...

(Didn't bother with RAW this week)

Even if it's true that Smackdown is better, come on. Stop this sort of bad presentation. You didn't watch RAW. You don't even know.
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I don't know how you can even have a conversation about which is better between raw and smackdown. It's the same show but in blue.

One is SHORTER
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You would think that would help 205 Live because they're all shorter.
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Switching gears, Anyone watching Edge and Christian Season 2?
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