All-Purpose News Thread Part II

[GKJ]

Reportedly a crowd shot from MSG:

5th time they ran the market since September 10 too. The Raw in Brooklyn also did poorly. Survivor Series was cold. The first house show had to get loaded up. And AEW beat them in UBS arena. WWE just doesn’t have demand in New York.

 

[NextBigThing]

I don't know where you're going here but 5,700 is not 89% or 92% of 14,000. The Knicks did almost 20,000 the day before. It's not Covid. Vaccine mandates should, in theory, attract more people, not less.

WWE live events are attended mostly by families. There's a lot of parents who are wary of getting their children vaccinated. Not really a shocker that they aren't drawing as well as they have in the past.

With 3 separate billion dollar deals, house show attendance means very little to WWE. It seems like nearly every quarter they are setting records for revenue and profit.

 

[NextBigThing]

Sonny Kiss uses the AEW women's locker room. This piece of news is causing quite the reaction on social media. Not sure how I feel about this.

SOURCE: Sonny Kiss Uses AEW Women's Roster's Locker Room

 

[GKJ]

WWE live events are attended mostly by families. There's a lot of parents who are wary of getting their children vaccinated. Not really a shocker that they aren't drawing as well as they have in the past.

With 3 separate billion dollar deals, house show attendance means very little to WWE. It seems like nearly every quarter they are setting records for revenue and profit.

Families went to the Knicks game, too.

 

[Jussi]

Families went to the Knicks game, too.

It wouldn't matter if the Knicks went 0-82, the 3rd World War was going on, New Yorkers would still go to watch the Knicks.

 

[Jussi]

5th time they ran the market since September 10 too. The Raw in Brooklyn also did poorly. Survivor Series was cold. The first house show had to get loaded up. And AEW beat them in UBS arena. WWE just doesn’t have demand in New York.

Are you going to ignore the MSG Smackdown?

 

[GKJ]

Are you going to ignore the MSG Smackdown?

I forgot that one, which date was that? Was that before the house show? That was right about the same time right? Cena did the house show because they needed to sell it. It would only prove the point further that they ran in New York too many times.

 

[Jussi]

I forgot that one, which date was that? Was that before the house show? That was right about the same time right? Cena did the house show because they needed to sell it. It would only prove the point further that they ran in New York too many times.

September 10th.

 

[GKJ]

September 10th.

Ok so what’s the problem then? They ran 5 times since that date like I said. You acted like I missed another date on purpose. September 10 wasn’t the 5th - or 6th - time in 14 weeks they ran New York. Like I said though, you want to use that date in the mix it just further proves the point, you run the same market too often, you saturate the market. The December 26 house show is traditionally their biggest house show of the year. Even more now since they aren’t hardly doing any house shows at all now (and they shouldn’t).

 

[GKJ]

Toni Storm was released. This was her call it sounds like and they gave it to her.

 

[Sheppy]

Toni Storm was released. This was her call it sounds like and they gave it to her.

Good for her, probably saw that she was going nowhere on the main roster and wanted to go elsewhere and thrive. Pretty soon the WWE will have 6 female wrestlers and Tamina will still be one of them.

 

[GKJ]

Good for her, probably saw that she was going nowhere on the main roster and wanted to go elsewhere and thrive. Pretty soon the WWE will have 6 female wrestlers and Tamina will still be one of them.

Basically it’s gonna be the horsewomen and whoever they want to try to get over with a few jobbers to get them to Sasha and Bayley. And then they’ll get buried by Charlotte and Becky when they don’t know what to do after that. Asuka and Alexa are around for when one of them gets hurt.

 

[Megahab]

AEW needs to be careful on their signing of so many ex-WWE people but Toni Storm is someone I'd 100% sign.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Toni Storm was released. This was her call it sounds like and they gave it to her.

I thought she was getting a bit of a push for a week or week and a half there at one point

 

[Merci Saku]

How can a company like WWE can’t see a star in Toni Storm, unbelievable

 

[GKJ]

How can a company like WWE can’t see a star in Toni Storm, unbelievable

Sucks to have an accent, there's only room for one of those

 

[NextBigThing]

Why would any woman want to go to AEW? All you're gonna do is job to Baker. Ruby debuted to a big pop from the marks in Chicago, lost to Baker a few weeks later and hasn't been heard from since.

 

[NextBigThing]

Sucks to have an accent, there's only room for one of those

You really want to compare the diversity of the rosters between WWE and AEW? lol

 

[GKJ]

Why would any woman want to go to AEW? All you're gonna do is job to Baker. Ruby debuted to a big pop from the marks in Chicago, lost to Baker a few weeks later and hasn't been heard from since.

Ruby is in the TBS tournament final which very likely is the main event on the debut on TBS.

You really want to compare the diversity of the rosters between WWE and AEW? lol

No, I already had that one and we know the discussion is bullshit.

 

[Megahab]

Why would any woman want to go to AEW? All you're gonna do is job to Baker. Ruby debuted to a big pop from the marks in Chicago, lost to Baker a few weeks later and hasn't been heard from since.

Who in AEW do you think should have already beat Baker?

 

[NextBigThing]

No, I already had that one and we know the discussion is bullshit.

How so? I don't follow either promotion closely anymore, but I recall just a few months ago WWE had more POC champions on the main roster than AEW had entirely.

 

[GKJ]

How so? I don't follow either promotion closely anymore, but I recall just a few months ago WWE had more POC champions on the main roster than AEW had entirely.

I went through this already in one of the AEW PPV threads.

Additionally though, WWE sent this out 6 months ago



And all 4 are now gone. In fact 2 of them were in Jacksonville last night (Mercedes was on TV).

 

[NextBigThing]

AEW’s Viewership, Like Its Main Event Picture, Is Very White

Even mainstream media is noticing how white AEW is.

 

[GKJ]

AEW’s Viewership, Like Its Main Event Picture, Is Very White

Even mainstream media is noticing how white AEW is.

Yeah, again, we talked about that back in September when the article was written. Feel free to search it, or lay out which POC (male singles I’m assuming because both the women and tag division have had (or are) POC champions) were available to be inserted at a main event level.

 

[Megahab]

AEW’s Viewership, Like Its Main Event Picture, Is Very White

Even mainstream media is noticing how white AEW is.