Too bad The Ultimate Maniacs didn't get more of a run

Yeah, it does about average of what FS1 usually does for cheap (maybe even nothing). That’s a damn good deal when there is nothing live on. Keep in mind this is a satellite to being #1 in the alleged key demo and having 1.9 million viewers on a Friday.

Lol, if AEW was getting 200k for a show that wasn’t Dynamite you would be pissing your pants with excitement calling it huge.

Cool channel that has a bunch of 50's wrestling from Chicago.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWX...ryBPpjIw7Dl9Tg

I can't imagine I'll ever get that bored.

Don't worry, it wasn't posted for you.

The Chicago Film Archive channel is mint. I remember going through these videos a couple years ago

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I can’t find a better picture of it, but during the hype package before Savage/Warrior they showed footage of Savage and Warrior teaming up against the Nasty Boys and Warrior was wearing this singlet. So he looked naked except for spray painted pubes.

Yeah, Warrior was transitioning off the gas so he started wearing that. Same reason why Savage wore the gear he did at around that time. Savage started doing it because he was off the gas due to wanting to start a family with Elizabeth

New WWE President is Nick Khan (no relation to Tony), who represented WWE as an agent and got them their current TV Deals


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Not only that..."the first time" suggests he's done it more than once.

Marty Jannetty: Homophobe. Racist. Wants to fuck his daughter. Murderer? Definite nut job.

Also clearly just trying to get attention while on drugs.

He's been my facebook friend for a long time. Interesting guy lol

"GODDAMMIT this AEW shit has got to stop! Do what we did to every other territory. Steal their guy! Steal their top guy!"

"Who? Moxley? Jericho? Omega?"

"No, get Khan! Get that Khan guy."

"...uhhhhh. Okay, will do boss."

Brock was very well received and his title reign didn't feel out of place. He had dominated for a few months and won a great King of the Ring tournament and a feud with RVD. Also most smart fans knew that Rock was taking off and that Lesnar was taking the belt.

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One of those things I have grown to appreciate is how Rock helped cultivate that reaction at SummerSlam. Few guys could play to a live crowd like Rock. He knew he was dropping the belt and he heard those boos, so he played into them and became a guy you wanted to see lose. It really fed the match a lot and make it a lot "cooler" when Brock won.

The WWE really should have kept Brock floating between both shows and really doubled down on the big man. I'm imagining what Brock vs. Austin or Brock vs. Michaels at Mania XIX could have been like. Or even just Brock vs. Angle with Triple H vs. Michaels underneath.

McAfee vs Cole is gonna be a thing lol.

The way they've handled both Lee and Cole since that hyped up Double Champions match has been pretty bad.

Lee's Double title reign didn't even get a chance to get off the ground before he quickly dropped the NA title via a promo. Cole went from being NXT's top guy and being a strong focal point of NXT for the past 1-2 years with Undisputed Era to quickly doing nothing of real note since I seriously doubt this feud with McAfee is going to help him.

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Bayleys supposedly going to use that at WM 37 as her entrance. Its...ok..but not really an entrance theme

Longtime indy wrestler Mitch Ryder has passed away, just days after his 48th birthday

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Have to feel sorry for the guy, lost both legs and according to him got screwed out of money big time.

Ugh, Kamala's story always makes me sad.

Oh yeah and with his passing......Mitch Ryder had one really good story I remember. Mike Quackenbush was known to send out company wide e-mails to the entire roster critiquing each match from the previous night's show. Well Quack went out of his way to call out Mitch Ryder for wearing "bargain basement" gear so Ryder responded by quitting in front of the entire roster.

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Kamala also burned bridges with every promoter known to man. He would just up and leave anytime he had to do a job

Well he couldn't work a fucking lick, so all he had was the "aura of invisibility."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">here's tony khan at ECW The Doctor Is In<br><br>wearing a huge Taz shirt and holding tiny signs <a href="https://t.co/nNyHr56vqr">https://t.co/nNyHr56vqr</a> <a href="https://t.co/OqKrxnEjdE">pic.twitter.com/OqKrxnEjdE</a></p>&mdash; Maffew #BLM 🏳️█🌈 (@Maffewgregg) <a href="https://twitter.com/Maffewgregg/status/1291067302935494660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Apparently Impact Wrestling has an older tv viewership than WWE at least in regards to this year according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Meltzer did some numbers crunching to find out the current impact the coronavirus has had on televised wrestling and revealed that Impact has the oldest mean viewership age between them, WWE, and AEW.

In terms of WWE and AEW, NXT is the closest to Impact in terms of age.

Smeat. I have to ask...do you actually find those demo breakdowns interesting?

Sorry, I know this is kind of snarky, but I'm not meaning to be (as I'm a fan of your work on the forum). View it as colorful feedback and realize I still consider you an A-plus poster.

Ratings are just so utterly irrelevant at this point. I'd get them being a legitimate talking point if a substantial amount of people watched these shows. However, they don't, and it really offers virtually zero insight and just gets people arguing about nothing. I mainly blame dirtsheet Dave for this inane demo dialogue. Honestly, what are we supposed to do with the fact that of the 7 people who watch Impact, 6 of them are over 50?

Gonna go to the ICW No Holds Barred Deathmatch Circus tonight lol

I'll side with Dale on this one. Can't seem to care for demos or ratings. But that's just a personal preference.

Yes to a certain degree and mainly in terms of it being a useful way of tracking how wrestling is both doing and heading for the short and long term.

Like almost all of WWE's current woes with ratings can be traced back to their utter failure to turn Cena's young fans into their future new core for TV. The lack of a real "Next Gen" era also didn't help. NXT failing to be that "Next Gen" isn't helping either.

In regards to AEW, I find this stuff a lot more interesting since not only do you get to witness a new wrestling company its early beginnings, the ratings and viewership will help reveal if a next wrestling boom is even possible. The last one only really happened because wrestling managed to get very popular with younger people and an outside company was strong enough to seriously challenge and force WWE to actually change for the better.

I don't really blame Meltzer for the craziness that has become ratings talk online since it just ended up being a microcosm of how social media and the internet has gotten worse or toxic over time for quality discussion. He mentioned before that the only reason he stopped doing detailed ratings stuff after the Attitude Era ended was due to him getting bored over the lack of a notable wrestling war and AEW vs. NXT reigniting that passion he once had for it. He does go a bit overboard with it at times, especially whenever he starts overanalyzing things instead of keeping it simple. All that does is give more ammo for added ridicule and scorn by people who already hate him for various reasons.

Interesting!

That is inaccurate.

TV shows still get deals based on their ratings and still get canceled due to a lack of ratings. RAW dropping 700k viewers from the start of 2020, with no sign of that changing soon, is an interesting story.

NXT and AEW retaining and growing viewership is as well. We're seeing a shrinking of the hard-core base and I'm fascinated to see how low it could go and where it will end up at.

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JR was really cranky that day :lol:

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Piper talks about a tape sent to Russo and Bischoff about turning wcw around, always thought that was just bs, apparently not.

Basically a ton of rambling and a scream mask at one point...