WWE General Discussion II

Post #1561 » by **Stanford** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 4:53 am

I miss Kairi already.

Post #1562 » by **Ruzious** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:32 am

Stanford wrote:I miss Kairi already.

The ultimate professional and a smile bigger than her face.

tugs · Post #1563 » by **tugs** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 5:00 pm

Wait for real she's written off like that?!

Damn. Not probably the most distinct characteristic for most but her screams are very adorable yet express raw emotions during her matches. Gonna miss that

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Post #1564 » by **Stanford** » Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:47 am

I've never seen WWE roll out the red carpet for someone on the way out like they have for Kairi. Makes me think she'll be back for the occasional match.

iMoreland · Post #1565 » by **iMoreland** » Sun Aug 2, 2020 1:02 am

They need to do another draft, its been the same matchups for forever now

tugs · Post #1566 » by **tugs** » Sun Aug 2, 2020 1:55 am

Indeed, but ironically, all have delivered and somehow I'm not getting bored with them

Well, perhaps the Black-Murphy matches are getting stale

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Post #1567 » by **spykelee** » Wed Aug 5, 2020 9:14 pm

So uh, Marty Jannetty allegedly confessed to murdering somebody

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2020/08/05/marty-jannetty-apparent-murder-confession-columbus-police-department/

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Post #1568 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Aug 6, 2020 5:42 pm

spykelee wrote:So uh, Marty Jannetty allegedly confessed to murdering somebody

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2020/08/05/marty-jannetty-apparent-murder-confession-columbus-police-department/

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reading that it looks like more than one somebody

Post #1569 » by **Ruzious** » Thu Aug 6, 2020 7:47 pm

Shaazzam wrote:
spykelee wrote:So uh, Marty Jannetty allegedly confessed to murdering somebody

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2020/08/05/marty-jannetty-apparent-murder-confession-columbus-police-department/

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reading that it looks like more than one somebody

Well, Marty was part of the 2016 class action lawsuit against the WWE regarding head trauma. Just sayin. The facts might be a little messed up in his head.

Dominator83 · Post #1570 » by **Dominator83** » Sat Aug 8, 2020 3:29 am

Ruzious wrote:
Shaazzam wrote:
spykelee wrote:So uh, Marty Jannetty allegedly confessed to murdering somebody

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2020/08/05/marty-jannetty-apparent-murder-confession-columbus-police-department/

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reading that it looks like more than one somebody

Well, Marty was part of the 2016 class action lawsuit against the WWE regarding head trauma. Just sayin. The facts might be a little messed up in his head.

Looking forward to that Dark Side Of The Ring episode

Celtsfan1980 · Post #1571 » by **Celtsfan1980** » Sat Aug 8, 2020 2:54 pm

A Smackdown battle royal has 128 million views on Youtube. The most viewed wrestling video I've ever seen on that site.

The WWE completely dominates the other leagues on Youtube much more than they do the ratings. Even if they eventually fall to number 2 in the ratings they'll still be the most watched overall(possibly by a great distance) unless one of their opponents has a golden age.

JohnPferdelack · Post #1572 » by **JohnPferdelack** » Sat Aug 8, 2020 3:25 pm

The storylines are so weak and weird at the moment, so only a few ones spend times in front of the TVs. So right now it's enough to watch the highlights on YT.

JohnPferdelack · Post #1573 » by **JohnPferdelack** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:06 pm

Ask HHH!

Post #1574 » by **Ruzious** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:23 pm

Celtsfan1980 wrote:A Smackdown battle royal has 128 million views on Youtube. The most viewed wrestling video I've ever seen on that site.

The WWE completely dominates the other leagues on Youtube much more than they do the ratings. Even if they eventually fall to number 2 in the ratings they'll still be the most watched overall(possibly by a great distance) unless one of their opponents has a golden age.

This is one of the reasons that the tv ratings are so overrated. You'd think the tv ratings meant the WWE was dying if you listen to some (maybe most) of the internet experts. I think Stanford said something about that a while back.

Spens1 · Post #1575 » by **Spens1** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:11 pm

Celtsfan1980 wrote:A Smackdown battle royal has 128 million views on Youtube. The most viewed wrestling video I've ever seen on that site.

The WWE completely dominates the other leagues on Youtube much more than they do the ratings. Even if they eventually fall to number 2 in the ratings they'll still be the most watched overall(possibly by a great distance) unless one of their opponents has a golden age.

They have some big population markets on lock in terms of interest (India being one). So that does help with the youtube views.

Youtube views isn't going to translate however to continued big money tv deals, especially if the tv ratings are going to settle between 1.5-1.7 million, not when AEW gets similarish demos on about 1/5th of the price and fairly decent ratings on their own right and even NXT getting decent ratings for even less.

Whilst they won't die, if the money doesn't continue rolling in from the tv rights deals, they're going to have to downsize and cut their roster significantly (then again they've probably needed to do that anyway for ages).

LLJ · Post #1576 » by **LLJ** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:55 pm

If you look at the financials, the biggest % of their profits this year is from their TV rights/deals. Everything else is miniscule. YT views is barely even 1/15th of their overall revenue. It should be said that for Q2 of this year, if they were still on their old TV deals, they'd be in the red.

The current TV deals gives them time to turn it around, but if they don't, they'll be a much smaller company in 5 years.

Spens1 · Post #1577 » by **Spens1** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:24 am

LLJ wrote:If you look at the financials, the biggest % of their profits this year is from their TV rights/deals. Everything else is miniscule. YT views is barely even 1/15th of their overall revenue. It should be said that for Q2 of this year, if they were still on their old TV deals, they'd be in the red.

The current TV deals gives them time to turn it around, but if they don't, they'll be a much smaller company in 5 years.

This, they'll end up going back to homegrown talents and would have to hoard less by default (which ain't a bad thing), but also i'd imagine production values will go through the floor in comparison.

jakecronus8 · Post #1578 » by **jakecronus8** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:25 pm

SCSA in Larry King said if he could have one last match in wwe his dream opponent is CM Punk. He then said he’d consider actually doing it.

Punk then goes and adds it to his IG story.

Couple of cock teases, those two.

JohnPferdelack · Post #1579 » by **JohnPferdelack** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 12:56 am

Oh ****, not at her home:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/08/16/obsessed-with-lutz-homeowner-south-carolina-man-came-to-kidnap-him-sheriff-says/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Scott Hall · Post #1580 » by **Scott Hall** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:45 am

Just got in a debate with longtime respected wrestling journalist Mike Mooneyham this man has been
covering wrestling since most of us were even born.

He tweeted that Flair is the GOAT me and a couple of people took exception with that. He literally has nothing
to prove that Flair is the GOAT in anything he's pretty much tapped out of the convo. Really though he's a guy from
the Carolinas aka Flair country who's grew up on 70's-80's NWA and I'm just exposing that he's a Flair fanboy.

I guess we're all marks even guys like Meltzer, Mooneyham, Vince and even the boys.

As for Flair he probably was the GOAT in the mid 80's but there's been way better Draws, workers and
possibly mic workers (debatable). But unless you're a guy who was born in the late 60's early 70's and grew
up on him especially in the South what makes Ric Flair the GOAT in any measure? He was never the guy
in any of the wrestling booms.