The Ratings Thread - a lot of people watched wrestling on Super Tuesday, sort of

[Khelandros]

 

[Jussi]

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[Jussi]

Raw might take a hit in the second hour next Monday. Disney decided to move up the release date of the first two episodes of Skeleton Crew.

 

[Khelandros]

 

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[Jussi]

Only 7K gap.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Those are rough numbers for both shows.

Guess Bishcoff is ratings poison and I don't know what is doing on with Dynamite. I guess this Death Riders storyline isn't clicking for people

 

[Khelandros]

Those are rough numbers for both shows.

Guess Bishcoff is ratings poison and I don't know what is doing on with Dynamite. I guess this Death Riders storyline isn't clicking for people

Quarter hours are out but I don't have access to them, but if I had to guess, based on passed history the last 2-ish months, 586K is being super generous due to the lead in/overrun being included.

It's not just the Death Riders stuff that isn't working.

 

[Fro]

It's weird, they have put out some great shows and have really improved on storytelling...weird it isn't picking up...maybe just too much wrestling on tv?

 

[Khelandros]

It's weird, they have put out some great shows and have really improved on storytelling...weird it isn't picking up...maybe just too much wrestling on tv?

April; Elite "takeover" AEW.
September; Moxley "takes over" AEW.
January 2025; Hurt Syndicate will "takeover" AEW.
May 2025; Top Flight will "takeover" AEW.
etc.

 

[Fro]

April; Elite "takeover" AEW.
September; Moxley "takes over" AEW.
January 2025; Hurt Syndicate will "takeover" AEW.
May 2025; Top Flight will "takeover" AEW.
etc.

Meh. That's literally extrapolating it too far, not nearly that bad or serious

 

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[Jussi]

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Giulia = ratings$$$$

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Jussi]

Now that's what I call a hot take, considering AEW was down too

 

[Jussi]

Giulia = ratings$$$$

Or as they said on Reddit: "You put Oba Femi in and 100 000 Feminists tune in."

 

[Emperoreddy]

The Moxley beatings will continue until ratings improve.

 

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[MVP of West Hollywd]

I just finished the Dec. 4th Dynamite and the main event was a solid match between Claudio and Brody. Here's an exercise I came up with though, how many singles wrestlers in 2024 have had more "important" years than either of them:

Moxley, MJF, Ospreay, Swerve, Page, Cassidy, Darby, Danielson, Jericho, Christian, Okada, Perry, Black, Garcia, Fletcher, Copeland, Samoa Joe, White, Takeshita, Kingston, Roddy, Briscoe, Hook, Pac, Cole/Lashley (even based on limited time, at least the latter gave them one big PPV match for example).

That's 26 guys! Omega just misses 2024. So the Dynamite main event is between two guys not even in top 25? And how protected is the AEW roster, you can be someone not even in top 20 like Pac or Brody and not really take losses unless they have to like on PPV or tournament. They would even be afraid to make Nick Wayne or Hobbs be in continental classic and go 0-5 or 1-4, and they're not even really sniffing that top 25.

Or, there's another way to look at it. Perry vs Roddy probably isn't a main event of Dynamite right, even though they undoubtably have had bigger years storyline/belt wise. So, maybe the fact that Claudio and Brody felt more like a main event match means something, and they should be giving midcard run to stronger guys instead of Roddy, Garcia, etc. Then again Takeshita who is another strong guy is international title holder and it seems irrelevant because he can't talk, so I understand there is a trade off.