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Monday Night RAW Weekly YouTube Report (4/28/18)

Published

6 years ago

May 2, 2018

As we all know, social media and other outlets have become a huge means of drawing in interaction and viewers for WWE. Most people will point to television ratings like they did during the Monday Night Wars in the late 1990’s, however that can be skewed with so many various means of watching today that do not include cable television.

As you’ve become accustomed to, here is this week’s RAW YouTube Report (2:30 PM EST, 5/2/18):

Roman Reigns Addresses Greatest Royal Rumble Steel Cage Match – 2.9 million views
Strowman, Reigns & Lashley vs. Mahal, Zayn & Owens – 2 million views
Intercontinental Title Match: Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor – 1 million views
Natalya vs. Mickie James – 738k views
Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel Try Joining Rollins & Balor – 665k views
No Way Jose vs. Baron Corbin – 459k views
Sasha Banks vs. Ruby Riott – 440k views

On a night where there was no Brock Lesnar and the residual affects of the Superstar Shake-Up seem to have worn off, Roman Reigns dominates the evening with the top two spots to no surprise. People can continue to say what they want about him, but the bottom line is that he draws. It’s also interesting that his promo topped a match that included some other favorites like Braun Strowman, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, but it’s important to remember Roman’s promo was the opener of RAW. Thus, it’s had more time to be viewed as well.

The main event comes in at the third position, mostly because of people’s love for Rollins and Balor. Not to mention that they have a knack for putting on great performances. Most nights, viewership generally dips on television for the main event, but with this being YouTube, it’s much more convenient.

Some may look at Natalya vs. Mickie James in the fourth position and wonder why, but the answer’s quite simple: Ronda Rousey. Should she be featured in the title or main image for the video, I’d be willing to bet that number would be higher, as we’ve seen proof of her drawing power in previous YouTube reports. I believe we’ll see a trend of Nattie being featured in some of the higher viewed clips due to this association.

Lastly, for the second week in a row now Elias and Bobby Roode have struggled to bring in views. Just look at what’s ahead of them on this list. Baron Corbin vs. No Way Jose and Sasha Banks vs. Ruby Riott. Sasha is certainly a face of the Women’s Division, so a case could be made there, but I don’t know how you explain Corbin and Jose outranking Elias and Roode. Additionally, Elias and Roode was on earlier in the show, so you can’t even go with the “more time for more views” argument.

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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

Published

5 months ago

November 27, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Did your picks win points?

The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!

Here are your Gold League standings!

Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
Rush: 0-1, 0 points
Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points

Here are your Blue League standings!

Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete

My Thoughts:

Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.

Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.

In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.

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AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

5 months ago

November 22, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”

Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:

Blue League

Bryan Danielson
Andrade El Idolo
Brody King
Claudio Castagnoli
Daniel Garcia
Eddie Kingston

Gold League

Jon Moxley
Swerve Strickland
Rush
Mark Briscoe
Jay Lethal
Jay White

Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:

Every match has a 20 minute time limit
The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action

Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!

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