goc Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 This week's show had 4,124,000 viewers. Last week's show had 4,360,000 viewers. I wish people would post actual number of viewers instead of ratings points. First hour had 3.8 million viewers, 2nd hour was 4.25 and 3rd hour was 4.35. Take out the first hour and the rating drop is really not that big. To me, it seems more like people are just deciding not to tune in for the first hour and just stick to the long tradition of "Raw starts at 9." WWE makes this very easy for you to do because they only show a million fucking recaps during the show to make you feel like you can completely skip the first hour and not miss anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 I think part of the problem with Heyman's performance was that they didn't use the announcers to try to get over what exactly was happening. The way I read it was that he being sarcastic as if he was mocking the idea that he'd be shocked & horrified by Lesnar breaking Michaels' arm. If that was the idea, Heyman did a perfectly fine job. If he was supposed to ACTUALLY be shocked and horrified then he did an absolutely awful job. Michaels...well, he wasn't too good, especially the repeated "DON'T TOUCH IT!" No idea how anyone would think it was noticeably above average, even by the standards of Michaels being especially over-dramatic. At least it wasn't as bad as when the live crowd was audibly laughing at him because his selling of a head injury during...was it the Jericho feud?...was so over the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Orton feud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 The people at the bar I watched WM28 at were laughing at Shawn's attempts to be dramatic in the Taker/HHH HIAC. I recall Dave and Bryan praising that performance as well. Maybe they just don't know what good acting is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Well, yes. They thought Edge was a good actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Well, yes. They thought Edge was a good actor.Why do people pay to hear their opinions on wrestling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 This week's show had 4,124,000 viewers. Last week's show had 4,360,000 viewers. I wish people would post actual number of viewers instead of ratings points. Yeah, the ratings number was all that I had. You adding the actual numbers is a nice addition to it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Can anyone think of good Shawn acting performances? The Owen concussion angle Sid powerbombing on RAW DX State of the Union DX play pool at his house And umm, Debra striptease at Rock Bottom 98? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzombie1988 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Holy crap guys, I just watched 3/6/1982 Memphis TV and it may be equal with the legendary 2/27/1982 edition. This show had it all. Hart debuted "We Hate School", Lawler cut an awesome promo vowing to retire if he loses to Mantel again and then Steve Keirn broke down after losing to Norvell Austin. Full Review here, don't miss it: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/cw...-tv-361982.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Yay, both of the stories I emailed to Deadspin made it into this week's Virgilbag: In the Summer of 2003, I went to one of Frank Goodman's infamous USA Pro Wrestling shows in Long Island. CM Punk came out to watch the show after his match and we chatted for a while before he went to look at some photos some fans had taken at another show. In the meantime, since the match in the ring was an awful one featuring Goodman's trademark ticket sellers (untrained guys who get on the shows for selling X number of tickets), I went to look at the gimmick tables. This is where I encountered... WRESTLING SUPERSTAR VIRGIL! Well, this predates the banner and meme, but there he was in his NWO shirt, doing his thing. As I approach the table, it looks like he has nice 8x10 glossies of a pretty cool looking WWF Magazine cover with him and Ted DiBiase, so I figure there's no harm in asking, as his rep wasn't as well known yet. As he tells me the price, I got a closer look at the photos: Instead of scanning the magazine cover, he took a photo of it, and he did such a terrible job that there was flare from the flash right in the middle of of the print. Obviously I wasn't going to buy it, so I decided to make my escape with an "Umm, ok, I'll think about it for now." At this point he does the usual switch from fan-friendly Virgil to the Virgil who's going to try to bully you into buying a photo, so I walk away. Fast forward a little bit. Punk ends up sitting at Virgil's table and talking to him for a little while. After going to the restroom or another gimmick table or something else I can't remember, I was walking by the table to get back to my seat. Virgil is STILL pissed off at me for not buying one of his awful photos, and decides that he needs to get revenge. By shooting rubber bands at me. A grown-ass man and minor celebrity decided to shot rubber bands at me for having the temerity to ask how much his awful photos were and then not buy one. So I stood there wondering if I was hallucinating as an angry Virgil shot rubber bands at me while CM Punk looked on, stunned into silence with this amazing "What the FUCK?" look on his face. In the first half of the 1990s, a guy named John Arezzi had a well-known wrestling radio show in New York and also promoted annual "Weekend of Champions" wrestling fan conventions at the Ramada Inn by LaGuardia Airport. As a kid who loved wrestling, they were amazing. Tons of famous wrestlers to meet and the vendors had everything you'd ever want, including customized WWF LJN action figures (the big rubber ones) years before customizing action figures were actually a thing. In 1993, one of the wrestlers doing signings was Terry Funk, and as you'd expect, was the nicest guy in the world to precocious 8 year-old me and signed his page of the event program "Stay out of jail! -Terry Funk" Unfortunately, in 1999, my family's apartment building had a fire. Thankfully for me and my family, our floor only got water damage from the effort to put out the fire and we were able to salvage just almost everything we'd want to rescue, with the rest being covered by insurance. Still, one of the spots where the ceiling buckled was right over my bed. That program was in a box of old wrestling magazines under it the bed and nothing in the box was salvageable. So, four years later, in 2003, when Jersey All Pro Wrestling announced the awesome main event of Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk and someone organized a cheap (as in $25 including the ticket to the show) bus trip from Manhattan, I knew I had to go, and I made sure to take something for Funk to sign. The show was in a nice looking small venue, some kind of "Hungarian-American Hall" in Woodbridge. Before the show, Funk came out and walked behind the row I was in along the back wall of the building, shaking hands with every single fan. He shook my hand, walked past me, stopped, and then turned around. "So, didya stay out of jail?" HOLY SHIT. Somehow, 59 year-old punch drunk Terry Funk who had been wrestling around the world for 38 years and met countless fans recognized 18 year-old me as a kid he met exactly once for a couple minutes 10 years earlier and made a point of letting me know and asking how I was doing as I sat there in shock and awe. A little later, when he was signing the magazine I brought, he apologized for not remembering my name. TERRY FUNK IS AWESOME. P.S. Yes, I know he regularly signs autographs "Stay out of jail!" That doesn't make what happened any less amazing. And yes, I do have witnesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 The people at the bar I watched WM28 at were laughing at Shawn's attempts to be dramatic in the Taker/HHH HIAC. I recall Dave and Bryan praising that performance as well. Maybe they just don't know what good acting is. That. They've been brought up on Wrestling Acting, which is worse than Porn Acting, which is worse than Soap Opera Acting. They don't know what good acting is. You get the sense that if those two sat down to watch Robbie Coltrane in Cracker that they would spend the entire time talking along the lines of... BA: "Isn't that Hagrid?" DM: "Really? I thought he was in one of those Bond movies." BA: "He was in one of those Bond movies, and he was also Hagrid." DM: "Who was the Bond? Was it Remington Steele, or that dude who had the Duran Duran title song?" BA: "No... Duran Duran did that really cool Roger Moore title song. That Other Dude Bond had an A-ha song and that chick who did That's What Friends Are For." DM: "Diana Ross?" BA: "No... damn... the Pips woman..." DM: "Dionne Warwick?" BA: "No... that was the Psychic Friends Network woman..." DM: "That Psychic Friends Hotline raked the money in back when I was doing the WON Hotline... like more than $100M." BA: "Whatever happened to Steve Beverly?" DM: "What?" BA: "You know... from the Hotline. What happened to him?" And totally be oblivious to what "Hagrid" was doing on the screen in Cracker. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Great Terry Funk story, Bix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/s...-220136514.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Damn I hope it's the Ghost of Katie Vick terrorizing Wrestlemania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerpride Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Whatever happened to USA Pro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Aaron Weiss has sold his wrestling footage. If you don't know who Aaron is, the article explains. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2012/08/08/20078746.html I'd love to know what the Corino incident mentioned in it was all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Hmmm, so will Scott D'Amore market it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Maybe he just bought it because he has the patience to wait for the WWE to buy it, and hopes to make some money in the long run. Judging by the article, Weiss did not want to wait for negotiations with the WWE to come to an agreeable price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Do we have any clue what's actually in there that's not already available? Not that it's going to come on the market easily or anything but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Do we have any clue what's actually in there that's not already available? Not that it's going to come on the market easily or anything but still. This is/was some of the more interesting stuff, but it isn't complete. I got this list after most/all of the Maple leaf Wrestling stuff had already been sold off. Film Reel 1961/ 1962 ( 12 minutes) Kalmikoff Brothers v Tony Marino and Johnny Angel Ivan kalmikoff v Bulldog Brower kalkikoff Brothers v Frank Townsend and Johnny Demchuck The Wrestling Bear Bulldog Brower v Tony Marino Whipper Watson 1980's Wildman event Bulldog kent v Duncan Mctavish Sabu and Snake Williams v Wildman/Joey wareagle Midgets- Little T Women Ricky Johnson v Jet starr *1 film reel from 1961 Maple Leaf Gardens- -12 minutes in total -featuring highlights of bouts between 1 and 2 min and 30 seconds per clip. -Never before seen footage. -Killer Kowalski v 'Bulldog" Brower -Also, two bouts with former NWA World Champion Gene Kiniski - Plus former NWA World Champion Whipper Billy Watson KILLER KOWALSKI COLLECTION REEL Killer Kowalski v Bulldog Brower Gene Kiniski v Bulldog Brower Lord Athol Layton v Dick "Bulldog" Brower Whipper Billy Watson v Bulldog Brower Lord Athol Layton v Sato Keomuko Gene Kiniski v Bulldog Brower Gallagher Brothers v Bearcat Wright (under 1 min) Superstars of Wrestling Episodes Episode 5 ( 1975):Killer Kowalski v Kimba Kahn, Osborne Brothers v Terry Yorkston and Zarnoff, Jim Lancaster v Dino Bravo, Eric the Red v Austin Episode 6 (Oct 21 1975): Mark Zarnoff v Bud Osborne, Luis Martinez v Jim Lancaster, Killer Kowalski v Jim Hutchison, Mongols v Kimba Kahn and Frank Marconi. Episode 7 (Oct 21, 1975 ):Osborne Brothers v Kimba Kahn and Jim Hutchison, Mongols v Dino Bravo and Luis Martinez, Mark Zarnoff v Eric the Red, Killer Kowalski v Dino Bravo, Dino Bravo v Terry Yorkston Episode 1 ( Sept? 1975): Steve Boulas and Pepe D.Pasquale v Osborne Brothers, Dino Bravo v Bull Johnson, Kurt Von Hess v Terry Yorkston, Luis Martinez v Hartford Love Episode 2 (Oct 2, 1975): Bud Osborne v Jim Hutchison, Mongols v Terry Yorkston & Bobby Marshall, Kimba Kahn v Eric the Red, Bruce Swayze v PepeD. Pasquale Episode 4 (Sept 10, 1975): Terry Yorkston v Ray Osborne, Sailor White v Dino Bravo, Ron Davies and Pepe D. Pasquale v Kurt Von Hess and Eric the Red, Bull Johnson v Bolo Mongol Plus most of the Pro Wrestling Superstars PPVs they did in the early 2000's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 I'd love to know what the Corino incident mentioned in it was all about. http://www.worldwrestlinginsanity.com/artm.../article_99.htm The show was also significant because it was being recorded by Canadian Aaron Weiss for his wrestling pay per view series “Pro Wrestling Superstars” and it will be airing here in the United States for “On Demand” pay per view in the next few months. Speaking of Aaron Weiss, he was chewed a new one by Steve Corino. Apparently Weiss had mentioned in an interview that Steve Corino was unprofessional. Well Mr. Corino reads the internet. He saw the interview in question and when meeting Weiss, commented on Weiss feelings considering the two have never spoken or met before. Corino threatened to show Weiss what unprofessional is but decide that common sense would prevail and other than give Weiss a brow beating, he did not physically assault him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzombie1988 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Just watched Memphis 3/27/1982 today. This was a MUST-SEE episode of Memphis wrestling. The Lawler vs Dutch Loser Leaves Town match was 5 stars with a classic angle. You have to see this one ASAP. This is Memphis at its best. Dutch was the biggest douche ever and they had me believing like I was a little kid again. Full review here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/cw...eaves-town.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 This is really random, but going back & watching some early 90's stuff...I forgot how much I used to love Rick Steiner. Scott Steiner was fun too & I was a super mark for the Frankensteiner but I completely forgot about Rick Steiner playing the role of the "powerhouse" of the team. You think about it nowadays with how big Scotty got & it's pretty crazy. But Scott Steiner used to hit belly-to-belly suplexes on people like Vader or Abdullah the Butcher. Fuckin' crazy! Also, watching some of their work in Japan, especially with the Road Warriors...those guys didn't have a whole lot of pace. HA! I think the very first move of the six-man that I watched was a double-underhook suplex which was promptly no-sold. Much like the piledriver that followed not too long after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted August 19, 2012 Report Share Posted August 19, 2012 First WWWF title belt discovered, after being lost for nearly 50 years. http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/throwback/...-new-york-attic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzombie1988 Posted August 19, 2012 Report Share Posted August 19, 2012 First WWWF title belt discovered, after being lost for nearly 50 years. http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/throwback/...-new-york-attic I thought that was pretty interesting. I wonder how much WWE would offer for that, if anything. You would think it would be alot, but I wouldn't be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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