Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 486: Board 8 Does Dallas

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You might even say he's the best in the world.
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Eddv posted...

Hey if you're willing to spend like a 14th hour a week watching WWE knock yourself out.

11 episodes left!
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So RAW was down this week, from 2.49 to 2.35.

The weird part? How steady viewership held:

Hour one: 2.38 million
Hour two: 2.35 million
Hour three: 2.32 million
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They were so dumbfounded by the Mixed Tag Elimination match they couldnt move for hours
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Or that an entire night of DREW MAC kept them glued to their TVs.
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Honestly the real tragedy is that the Home Run Derby gets big ratings

Its the silliest popular thing in sports
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dude cosmic....

the Eddie depression episode of Frasier is on TV right now....
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Kofi should have won

but I mean, Roman beating cancer is pretty great too
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Renee calls him Bobby Roode for at least the second time on Main Event lol. Was there ever any official reasoning for the change so late into his WWE run?

ffmasterjose posted...

Was there ever any reason?

Never
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WWE's target demographic, the 12-17 age, is down 52% over 2 years. They lost literally over half their teen audience in 2 years.

It ain't getting better with the young viewers sick of this show.
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Why wont 50+ tune out at the same rate?

Its always been a mystery why older people arent more offended by the product. Theyve seen so much better!
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Jakyl25 posted...

Why wont 50+ tune out at the same rate?

Its always been a mystery why older people arent more offended by the product. Theyve seen so much better!

Why haven't you tuned out?

I mean you're not 50 yet, but at some point you will be, and you'll still be watching!
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Hey I didnt watch a full episode of Raw for like a year and a half
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I'm just saying, you're the last person to be criticizing loyalists for not dropping the terrible product!
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Im only here to chronicle the decline of the company from worldwide mega force to Saudi nostalgia show
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But social media presence GUYZ! WWE KICKED ALL THE ASS AND TOOK ALL THE NAMES AND WILL SOON VENTURE ONE THE ONE NIGHT THEY GO EXTREME! ISN'T IT COOL, GUYZ?

*Shelton shifty eyes*

To be fair, it isn't the PPVs that suck (mostly), it's getting there that sucks now.
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What the hell is the Shelton thing by the way
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A gimmick change for a guy who could still put on good matches in the midcard instead? I dunno.
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But what is the gimmick I mean

If its a reference to something, it goes over my head
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Jakyl25 posted...

But what is the gimmick I mean

If its a reference to something, it goes over my head

I've seen some people say it's a possible reference to Brock Lesnar cashing in.
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I don't get any of this at all
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https://twitter.com/FairGameonFS1/status/1149445637038960645?s=20

FS1 host mortified by WWE labor conditions and suggests they get a CBA

Host: Youre Superstars! You dont get a driver and a full tank of gas?

Bayley: They cant do that for 30 superstars every night!

Host *very skeptical*: I dunno, I think they make a lot of money off of you.

I would laugh so hard if a relationship with a major media company forced their hand to more scrutiny
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lmao Fox paying them the money they do. "They can't do that for all of us!"

Okay.
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To be fair, I don't think she was really trying to tow the line with that answer as much as, it's easy to think "Getting drivers for 30+ people every single day is alot," especially since she seemed to "...well, yeah" when she thought about it.
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Yeah, Bayley comes off as someone who just kinda buys what WWE sells her most of the time.
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Juice vs Dragon was LIT.

Go figure the G1 comes back on the day I work a double.
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Loving how over both Mox and LORD Taichi are.
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Taichi vs. Moxley the match of the year TBH
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okay so it was funny as fuck but

I didn't want Naito's G1 to start like that
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StealThisSheen posted...

To be fair, I don't think she was really trying to tow the line with that answer as much as, it's easy to think "Getting drivers for 30+ people every single day is alot," especially since she seemed to "...well, yeah" when she thought about it.

If only there was a type of vehicle used to transport a large group of athletes from place to place all at once.
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Maniac64 posted...

StealThisSheen posted...

To be fair, I don't think she was really trying to tow the line with that answer as much as, it's easy to think "Getting drivers for 30+ people every single day is alot," especially since she seemed to "...well, yeah" when she thought about it.

If only there was a type of vehicle used to transport a large group of athletes from place to place all at once.

You know, I feel like I've seen some of those.

Like, when I go to events, there's these giant vehicles. They actually HAVE these athletes' faces on them! I can't recall what the name of them are though.
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You mean the equipment trucks? That's how R-Truth made it to the next show, hiding in an equipment case.
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Oh ya first powerbombcast in nearly 3 years

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/the-powerbombcast-26-new-blood/2970-19445/premium-podcast

I think I'm in the same boat as Jeff where wrestlemania this year was really good everything since then has not been great but I'm cautiously optimistic about Heyman and Bischoff taking over
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Maniac64 posted...

StealThisSheen posted...

To be fair, I don't think she was really trying to tow the line with that answer as much as, it's easy to think "Getting drivers for 30+ people every single day is alot," especially since she seemed to "...well, yeah" when she thought about it.

If only there was a type of vehicle used to transport a large group of athletes from place to place all at once.

To be honest, I feel like many of them would rather drive themselves, able to stop and go at their leisure, than be cramped with their stuff on a bus with 30 other people. That shit sucks.
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True but at least then it would be their choice.

Or you know cover the travel cost for hotels and gas.

Driver for everyone is really to much but gas money or a bus option wouldnt be. Minor league baseball can do that much.
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Or compromise and have like 10 drivers taking 3 people each. And, yeah, you can just give people the choice.

There's loads of ways to do it
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Oh, yeah, there are definitely other ways to do it. I'm just saying "team bus" is probably appealing to literally nobody because team buses suck

Like, I'd much rather just drive myself because I can write it off on taxes and avoid the bus

But yeah it'd definitely be much better if WWE did almost anything else
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FWIW, New Japan does team buses

Each faction gets their own
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That's actually pretty interesting. Would I be correct or incorrect in assuming the average size of your typical WWE star is probably larger than New Japan, though?
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Probably not, actually. At least not by very much.

Especially if you take on average literally because WWE has women bringing that average down
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That's fair, then.

How often does New Japan travel? Like, is it an every day kind of thing? And how many people in each faction?

Sorry, I don't know much at all about New Japan (though I want to change that!)
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Its an every day kind of thing when theyre on tour for a month, although never more than three days in a row.

And then there will generally be a couple weeks off between tours.

Also I imagine driving around Japan is probably less time than even driving around, say, Texas

As for factions, LIJ is the smallest at 6 people, and the general unaffiliated babyfaces would be the biggest at maybe 15

And then other production people split between the remaining room on the buses
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That's interesting to know

I admittedly base my "team buses suck" on my own experience of being on a bus with a bunch of other 6 foot, 200+ pound guys for several hours even just once a week

Noise, space, scheduled stops, and other factors just made me never, ever want to do it again
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Also the hilarious thing about this is that team buses is exactly what WWE does when theyre overseas in places like England and Germany driving from town to town. One for faces and one for heels.

Maybe thats why Big Show turned so much. He was looking for the most comfortable bus.
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They could bust out the Lex Express!
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https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/13/wwe-wrestler-jeff-hardy-arrested-public-intoxication/
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Jeff...jesus man.
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What did no one watch Fight for the Fallen?
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