They'll never sell out the moon.Shit, we're gonna have to move the goalposts again, huh.
If AEW keeps this up, we're gonna run out of pitch to move them to.
They'll never sell out the moon.Shit, we're gonna have to move the goalposts again, huh.
If AEW keeps this up, we're gonna run out of pitch to move them to.
The goal post moving is kind of transparent.
I suppose that unless AEW immediately jumps to beating RAW overall, and unless AEW doesn't maintain that indefinitely it doesn't count for anything? Even if it was guaranteed that AEW would get there (which obviously it isn't) this would always have to be a milestone along the way.
Demo wins are the only wins ad execs care about and are of paramount importance in the only conversation that matters (ad revenue and lucrative television broadcast deals).People really dismissing the demo win, it's the demo that buys shit. It's the demo that made WWF big in the 80's and the demo that made WCW big in the 90's and the very same demo that made WWF huge in the 90's too. The goalpost twitter is pretty apt tbh, AEW is making good business and it shows in the face and health of its wrestlers..
Well they've already beaten Smackdown in the key demo (and total viewers actually!) so RAW was the only one they hadn't beaten yet.I find those moving goalpost pretty stupid, but we also need to be aware that this is *just* the beggining. I have no doubts that AEW will keep moving foward, but this is the beggining of when the bigger headlines will come: beating them in overall ratings, for several weeks. And fuck RAW, the goal needs to be the A-Show which is Smackdown nowadays. And I'm pretty sure that's the current long term goal for AEW, since beating Raw is at rock-throwing distance
In any case, AEW going up like this is the best possible thing. Either WWE steps up or bites the dust, both outcomes are good in one way or the other for Wrestling.
WWE is lucky that a lot of WWE fans are creatures of habit. It is crazy that such aggressively bad TV still can get 1.8-2 million total viewers.I was at All Out, which was just an incredible wrestling show top to bottom. Wife and I were at a bar the day after for a drink after dinner and they had Raw on. I saw something called Moist TV, a guy getting shot with a squirt gun mid match, some kind of incoherent tag tournament match that they seemed to just forget about halfway through and move on, and a talking doll. It was the first I've seen of Raw in maybe 5 years and boy, was I not prepared for how bad it was. I truly can't believe they still get the numbers they do.
WWE having no real competition for 20 years has just been terrible top to bottom for pro wrestling.WWE is lucky that a lot of WWE fans are creatures of habit. It is crazy that such aggressively bad TV still can get 1.8-2 million total viewers.
Yup. All of this. So true that the product started to become stale in 2003-2004, when most of that stacked roster they had from 2001-2002 started to leave and Cena and Orton started coming up. Not only that, but the format and product itself started to become stale, clean, bland and, predictable. I slowly stopped following it during that era and just watched occasionally and read some dirt sheets. Worth noting, does anyone else feel that WWE from 2004/5 - 2014ish just blends in together? When I was growing up, I was able to distinctly tell the difference in WWF 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, and so on. It's astonishing how many chances WWF took from 96 - 98.Vince is in real trouble. Way more than he was in with WCW in the 90's.
Vince took his father's business and despite his father's wishes, did exactly what his father feared: he killed the territories. Vince Jr. raided talent from all the territories, and to his credit, managed to merge and make professional wrestling mainstream. He rode that train all through the mid 80's/early 90's until that talent he raided was on the way out, and new talent had to be built. His idea? Gimmick after gimmick after gimmick. Doink, Duke Droese, TL Hopper, etc. He rode the talents hard during that era with a brutal road schedule, no time off. WWF in '93-early '96 was a taste of what was going to come without competition. When Hall and Nash jumped, WCW got hot and Vince stuck by his warped way of thinking, pushing people like Mabel. Talent flocked because of the easier schedule and more money WCW was offering. Vince was backed into a corner, he panicked, we got Billionaire Ted era and the fake Razor and Diesel. He sat on great talents, and only pushed them when he was forced to. Talents like Stone Cold, who was extremely unhappy at the time, and actually was leaning to asking for his release. He approached Vince about a character change into the Stone Cold character, and Vince's genius ideas were: Fang McFrost, Otto Von Ruthless, Ice Dagger. He had a talent in Dwayne Johnson, and instead of realizing the guy was a natural heel, he instead shoved him down the fans throats (doesn't this sound familiar?) until Vince was forced to let Dwayne turn heel and become The Rock. He had a talent in Mankind that he legit only hired to try and send a message to Jim Ross. Vince's words to Ross on hiring Foley were "He's going to break your heart." He turned WWF into trash TV because he literally had no other choice and had a wider net with USA Network than WCW did with Nitro at the time. Sure, we all know how it ended, but it wasn't BECAUSE of Vince, it was IN SPITE of Vince. Once competition was out of the way, the company has honestly been shit since 2003-2004, outside of a few bright spots.
Vince is in the same boat again, and this time it was his own doing. All Vince had to do was let Jericho put Owens over at WrestleMania for the title. All Vince had to do was let Cody build out a program with Dustin. AEW in their first year was barely a mention on the WWE shareholder talks. Second year, a little more, now his shareholders are pissed because talent is wanting out left and right, and Vince has no avenue for them because he honestly has no clue on what he's doing, and hasn't for a long, long time.
WWE's reach is far, my friend.
It's been a while since we've heard ol' Vinny Mac say "We're not in the wrasslin' business, we're in the entertainment business."
Thinking we'll hear that again soon.
Expect WWE to respond to this with a big announcement for next week's Raw. That's how they generally operate.
aaaaand there we go:
the upcoming PPVs main event has been moved to this monday's raw.
aaaaand there we go:
the upcoming PPVs main event has been moved to this monday's raw.