I’ve found myself watching SmackDown a few weeks in a row. Raw and NXT are still usually getting a miss.

Andrade has been really impressing me lately. He does some stuff I really shouldn’t like (the missed moonsault into a standing one every damn match), but I’ve been enjoying the attention to detail he’s been putting into his work. He’s got good facial expressions too. He doesn’t get the best reactions when he comes out, but he ends up getting over by the end. He’s doing really good stuff. PrettyCool he got to get out of AEW and have this run.

Sorry, but Solo Sikoa is so underrated. Definitely worthy of his main event spot.

Oh, fuck me, the forums working for another 5 mins.

I last visited: 10-20-2015 at 04:14 PM

We missed you

I'm tired of the forums going down.

Yeah big same.

Need to hold a seance to contact the spirit of Triple A

His ghost cant be bothered. Too busy jerkin it

Can you blame him? What with all the hot ghost brauds around

You can see right through them!

RAW going to 2hrs in Oct, Nov and Dec is great...hope Netflix keeps it around the same running time

Can't imagine anyone wanting to do that.

Netflix doesnt run commercials so extra ad blocks doesnt bring them more money

Or wait...did they add a free tier? I definitely dont get ads but maybe im remembering an ad based tier...

I haven't been following any wrestling news since the forum started crashing daily, it's kind of eye opening how little you hear about Dave Meltzer outside of wrestling.

they had a free tier for a bit but now it is a cheaper, ad-supported, tier for like $7 a month or something

just looked it up:

ad-supported is $6.99

standard is $15.49

"premium" is $22.99

So raw being 3 hours would only benefit them assuming the ad tier is a significant portion of their revenue. Hard to say. It might make sense for them to push for a longer show.

Extremely interesting... i want the answer to that question...netflix data is so sketchy though

The ad tier is so much cheaper though it has to be that...yeah?

i only ever hear about him when this site is running

The lack of Meltzer has been glorious.

The only time I see his name is on YouTube now whenever he gets bashed.

It’s refreshing to see more and more people calling out Meltzer’s lack of credibility in 2024.

I wonder if Meltzer just makes up AEW’s PPV numbers? It wouldn’t shock me. It’s a little suspicious that every metric seems to shrink except the alleged PPV numbers that we just take Meltzer’s word are smash hits.

How many Dave Meltzers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

2, 1 to screw in the light bulb and 1 to say "plans change" and unscrew the light bulb.

An additional 30 to clean up his room and find the light bulb.

I’ve found myself watching Raw the past two weeks. Raw went for 3 hours again this week, yeah? It was stretched out to that long over here anyway lol.

Raw thoughts:

* CM Punk cut a money promo. It was like a masterclass in how to do that.

* Sheamus and Pete Dunne had a really good match. Pretty crazy how good Sheamus is at like 45 or whatever. I thought he had spinal stenosis or something, but that was probs reported by Meltzer. Pete Dunne has been doing good work.

* Joe Tessitore is really good. I like him and Wade together.

* Bianca Belair and Iyo Sky work really well together.

* Ludwig Kaiser really impressed me. Sami Zayn is so good at doing what he does.

* The Judgment Day story threading throughout everything gives the viewer something to follow through the show. It’s still surreal seeing Carlito back lol. JD McDonagh is really good. Dominik Mysterio is obviously one of the best things in wrestling. Liv is so much better at this.

* I’m not into the Jey Uso “Yeet” stuff, but he’s got good intensity when he has something to bite into. Him and Bron Breakker for the IC Title gives me Rock/HHH vibes. Bron is so good. I think I might be the only person who DOESN’T think he’s going to end to back in Roman’s orbit.

Plans change

Sheamus could lose a “All or Nothing” match with Bron Breakker for the IC Title at some point. Sheamus goes down to NXT — tries to win all the titles there.

Sheamus vs. Oba Femi would be pretty fucking sick.

I read the other day that RAW will be back to 3 hours once it hits Netflix.

I’d rather each show spin off with an extra hour than go 3 hours.

SmackDown was a good show. Jacob Fatu always stands out. I like what they’re burning with Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens.

NXT has been really good lately. WWE has been such an easy watch lately. And they don’t just feel like 3 variations of the same dish. NXT especially has been more kinetic like an Attitude era show.

NXT has been really good lately. WWE has been such an easy watch lately. And they don’t just feel like 3 variations of the same dish. NXT especially has been more kinetic like an Attitude era show.

The NXT debut on CW averaged 895k viewers. I thought it was a very clever show. Themes ran throughout. A little detail I loved:

NXT crushing Dynamite with a tenth of the budget is hilarious.

And on a dead network

I keep thinking about this post

NXT - 874k
Dynamite - 329k

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