WWE TV 8/1-8/7 - Needs more tractors

[KawadaSmile]

Tonight has been almost nothing but amazing wrestling. That's good, but Trips will need to show more than that.

[Tenese Sarwieh]

14 minutes ago, Johnny Sorrow said:

Gideon Guys. It's me, a LoT superfan and my pal Vancouver actor Travis Woloshyn who's watching it for the first time. We're currently in the middle of season five. 

Cool, will listen asap.

[Johnny Sorrow]

Just now, Tenese Sarwieh said:

Cool, will listen asap.

Thanks! The first season eps are us figuring out what the show is and have a couple of sound quality issues here and there, but it's evolved into a really funny show. I'd recommend starting with our CW Crisis On Infinite Earths mini-series from this year.

[sek69]

Dom out here living the internet's dream of being choked out by Rhea 

[KawadaSmile]

Did Dom really lose here?

[KawadaSmile]

I am 100% sure Rhea did that just to see them thirsty tweets, too .

[sek69]

I like the approach being taken so far. I'm sure the folks expecting Hunter to blow everything up on day one and start over are disappointed, but small changes over time is the better approach (not to mention one not likely to spook the stock price). 

[Al]

9 hours ago, sek69 said:

I like the approach being taken so far. I'm sure the folks expecting Hunter to blow everything up on day one and start over are disappointed, but small changes over time is the better approach (not to mention one not likely to spook the stock price). 

It also gives you a better idea of what the fans accept and what they reject. 

[KawadaSmile]

Is the average viewer even aware that Triple H is in charge? Maybe the card being well-defined in advance helped, too.

[sek69]

They probably don't know Triple H is in charge, but they know Vince isn't. Also they were going to get a post PPV bump since SummerSlam is the second biggest show of the year. so the combo of those two factors were apparently huge. 

[KawadaSmile]

35 minutes ago, sek69 said:

They probably don't know Triple H is in charge, but they know Vince isn't. Also they were going to get a post PPV bump since SummerSlam is the second biggest show of the year. so the combo of those two factors were apparently huge. 

The Summerslam bump is big, but even then, this year's was the biggest since 2015. Just having a show ready seems to have worked wonders. I know I was sick of tuning in to RAW and having no fucking clue about what was going to happen, as in nothing was advertised. 

[KawadaSmile]

+27% is some insane shit. I know a lower total viewership can have a bigger relative growth, but even so that's a huge bump.

[sek69]

11 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said:

Just having a show ready seems to have worked wonders. I know I was sick of tuning in to RAW and having no fucking clue about what was going to happen, as in nothing was advertised. 

Yeah, it turns out you can get people to watch your show if you tell them what's going to be happening (and then actually deliver on the matches you promised). 

Also it turns out than one of the tidbits that came out after Vince leaving is that he was frequently having memory issues and half the reason he was ripping up scripts and doing the same thing over and over was him not remembering what he did before. 

[Jmare007]

I wonder what HHH's idea of a big angle with this current roster might be. It feels they are primed to shoot one soon so they can keep this momentum going.

[The Thread Killer]

27% is one hell of a big bump in the ratings, no matter how you look at it.

[sek69]

9 minutes ago, The Thread Killer said:

27% is one hell of a big bump in the ratings, no matter how you look at it.

Indeed it is. Wrestling is so much better when there's two (or more) companies thriving on top. 

WWE's biggest weakness by far was having the wrestling equivalent of Joe Paterno running things in 2022. There will still be things that miss, but now it will be from trying new things that didn't connect rather than having to book squarely around the interests of a bizarre old man.

[Coffey]

1 hour ago, Jmare007 said:

I wonder what HHH's idea of a big angle with this current roster might be. It feels they are primed to shoot one soon so they can keep this momentum goin

A stable will attack WWE & destroy property. Then it will be revealed that HHH & Steph are in charge of the stable. Authority 2.0.

[KawadaSmile]

Authority was bad but what nearly killed my interest in WWE was that run Corbin, Strowman, Lashley and McIntyre had where every single week they ended the show on top.

[KawadaSmile]

Leon and Feroz rule, motherfuckers. It's that King of Fighters love that unites Mexico and Brazil.

[KawadaSmile]

aw fuck they got eliminated

[KawadaSmile]

Ivy Nile is essentially Katsuyori Shibata.

[sek69]

Watching Kasey....err KATANA CHANCE reminds me of how average to small sized dudes love working with Rey because they can work big man style and do power moves. 

[KawadaSmile]

A great fatal 4-way tag match and now Frazier vs Melo? Damn

[sek69]

Are the Creeds finally going to kill Roddy? 

[sek69]

"YOU'RE A NERD!" *slap* 

I died laughing