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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
They’re beating WWE’s C-show. That WWE has, and still does, use their A-show talent on. Some people definitely over-hype that fact but I think you’re under-hyping it. It’s pretty much the best start that could be expected.
And I’m not even saying that’s as much praise of AEW as it is damning on WWE’s part. Putting their A-show stars on a primetime version of Velocity in the early 2000s and making them “Velocity champions” would have led to Velocity smoking any new competition. They’ve lost that luxury. That’s a pretty big deal in the grand scheme of things.
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I...dunno about that. Like, I loved me some Velocity back in the day, haha, but I don't think Chris Benoit vs. William Regal was going to smoke TNA or whatever. And the "A-show" talent in WWE aren't popping ratings on bigger shows, let alone smaller shows. I agree on that being an indictment, but using those stars on the show is mainly for their storytelling purposes and to just generate that content, content, content.
If NXT really wanted to beat AEW in the ratings, they'd have some a really big fucking angle by now. Daniel Bryan would have gone back to try and win the NXT Championship. Rey Mysterio and Ricochet would be having a best of seven series. The Bullet Club would have been feuding with The Undisputed Era. John Cena would have come back to humble Tomasso Ciampa for talking shit about the main roster and been the outside heel coming in. All those things are
easy. Having Charlotte Flair win the NXT Women's Championship is...yeah, that's not them busting it.
And I personally think AEW could be doing much better. There's no reason you can't get the eyeballs that float around cable looking for wrestling onto you with a decent product. I honestly think the quality does matter, as it did with TNA.
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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat
Because if the numbers were a lot stronger, then NXT would constantly be in the Top 2-3 for the Network's weekly show rankings when that hasn't been the case the past few months. Plus wouldn't need the Network for NXT if you have DVR capabilities on your tv to watch the show later.
Network likely does skew older considering how much its been struggling to grow compared to other streaming services and a lot of its content caters towards older WWE and wrestling fans.
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Obviously some fans have jumped from the Network to watch on USA, so of course it would drop down the charts there. I mean, is there any data to suggest what number it gets? It just sounds like pure speculation either way. And I don't doubt not needing the Network for NXT. But if I had the Network, even if I didn't need it, I might will watch it on the Network instead of on DVR, so I don't really get that point. I'm sure some people do DVR it, and I've heard the numbers for that are quite high. But there's no way to tell whether those people have the Network or not.
I'm sure the Network has been struggling to grow, but what does that have to do with age and not just a market cap? And what content actually caters to older fans? I'm not fucking Ride Along, haha. What's to suggest younger people aren't watching NXT, 205 Live, old PPVs and documentaries on there? I mean, until we have the data we can't really say that it skewers towards old people. That's just what you want it to do, haha.