Jmare007

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Yeah, I just thought the Cell was always a big draw until they went overboard with it in the last couple of years. Just curious though, did Flair/Michaels had a better build up than Piper/Hogan (the "big" undercard match for Judgement Day 03')? Was is it seen as a bigger match at the time?

I'm amazed that Brock vs Taker in a HIAC match didn't mean a thing (it drew the same as Unforgiven 1 month prior) but Nash vs HHH in HIAC meant a 70k boost less than a year later.

yeah, but if we don't even know the estimate of how many households could get PPV, there's not a lot we can get from the buyrate percentages.

JNLister posted it in this thread

Awesome idea. I'm the guy who did that thread in the-coli . Pre-2000 is very difficult to know what numbers are 100% credible. Hell, most of the ones I've got from the Observer change from time to time too (I've seen Dave report Wrestlemania V doing 780,000 - 767,000 and like 725,000 buys for example). Nowadays you get like 2 or 3 reports for the same PPV and it's never is the same number . I tried to always put the latest information on every show, but I'm sure there's a couple of PPVs were there is more updated info. When it comes to ECW, I remember listening to Dave Lagana's podcast were he told that they were doing between 90,000 and 60,000 buys at their peak.