KrisZ Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 What did Google trends should tell him is that the interest in UFC is really low as the coverage of it in the WON is extremely high Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 I think Dave is scrambling for a fresh metric in the "brand is the draw" era and this is the best he's got. I also think it is indicative of something but not what he thinks necessarily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pol Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 It's clearly indicative of something; how could it not be? Mass trends don't simply appear out of thin air. That said, Dave using Reign's placement as evidence that the WWE has successfully made him a star seems pretty dubious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Evidence of something, yes. But what is the right action a wrestling promoter should take based on this? How do they capitalize on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Apparently, it's been a shockingly accurate predictor of PPV buys in most cases, with a few obvious outliers (Ronda Rousey is a pretty girl so more people will search for her anyway, while Anderson Silva's last fight ended in his leg breaking brutally and thus tons of searches right after the show). And that's cool. But reading about it applied to individual wrestlers and popularity isn't that interesting except for a couple weird outliers like how much Punk and Undertaker are still being searched for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Sibling vs Sibling is one thing. How many memorable twin vs twin or character vs impostor matches have there been? L.A. Park (original) and La Parka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 But reading about it applied to individual wrestlers and popularity isn't that interesting except for a couple weird outliers like how much Punk and Undertaker are still being searched for. Looking at the hits for Cageside Seats articles, Punk stories always do really well, so him being the second most searched for pro wrestler (I don't count The Rock, as this year it's been all acting accept for his cameo at WrestleMania) wasn't surprising to me. Regarding Reigns, he was behind Bryan and Orton (amongst others) and only one spot ahead of Nikki Bella, which proves that he hasn't broken out of the pack yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Maybe I don't understand how web logistics work, but I don't get how hits on a CS article has any bearing on someone breaking out of the pack. Especially when Nikki Bella probably has a lot of Total Divas-centric stories boosting her hit counter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Maybe I don't understand how web logistics work, but I don't get how hits on a CS article has any bearing on someone breaking out of the pack. Especially when Nikki Bella probably has a lot of Total Divas-centric stories boosting her hit counter. It has nothing to do with number of stories. It's about how many times X is searched for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Yeah, I was talking about the Google trends in my post (so Roman Reigns has been searched for slightly less than Randy Orton and slightly more than Nikki Bella, which isn't mind-blowingly impressive). My point was that from my experience at Cageside Seats, that Punk stories generate a lot of traffic (much from search engines), so his high placement wasn't surprising to me. The rest of my post I wasn't referring to CSS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Dave is a pretty decent fella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Dave is a pretty decent fella That was really cool, no pun intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 That was so Dave, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I like him sticking the newspaper on the chair along with the book. Couldn't those things get ruined? 34 years is damned impressive though. My wife's sister died of ALS. She passed a year after her diagnosis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruiserBrody Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 Dana White called out Dave on the UFC pre-game for saying the gate tonight will be 500K instead of 700K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 Also the UFC twitter was basically subtweeting Dave with comments on how impressive the gate is for the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKWildcat Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 Dave is a pretty decent fellahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-Jd9EiBPg I'm actually shocked Dave looks so much like old late 70s/early 80s ICW wrestler George Weingeroff (back row in red shirt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 I always thought Dave was a dead ringer for Brian Adias (or perhaps Adias was a dead ringer for Meltzer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKWildcat Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 I always thought Dave was a dead ringer for Brian Adias (or perhaps Adias was a dead ringer for Meltzer). Nice call as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 The joke in the early 90s was that Dave Meltzer, Brian Pillman and Scott Levy all looked identical, but obviously that wasn't the case after a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 the more I think about it I think Dave resembles Matt Stone. Maybe I'm the only one but I definitely see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 I like him sticking the newspaper on the chair along with the book. Couldn't those things get ruined? First thing that came to my mind. Funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 The joke in the early 90s was that Dave Meltzer, Brian Pillman and Scott Levy all looked identical, but obviously that wasn't the case after a few years. I always thought young Dave looked like Brian Adias. Some in the lucha community in the early 90s thought he looked like Emilio Charles Jr., which sounds like a joke, but before Emilio's head all got scarred and he grew a beard there was some sort of a slight resemblance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooley Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 the more I think about it I think Dave resembles Matt Stone. Maybe I'm the only one but I definitely see it We'll need to hear him say "I think unicorns are kick-ass" to be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 I like him sticking the newspaper on the chair along with the book. Couldn't those things get ruined? First thing that came to my mind. Funny. He brought it up on today's show, ha: Dave Meltzer: "Can you believe my stupidity of pouring ice and water all over myself without taking the newspaper and book out of the chair? Goddamn, that was so stupid. But it's actually fine, I didn't get that much water on it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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