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WWE News: RAW Weekly YouTube Report (5/7/18)

Published

6 years ago

May 9, 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, 5/9/18):

MITB Qualifier: Roman Reigns vs. Sami Zayn vs. Finn Balor – 1.5 million views
MITB Qualifier: Braun Strowman vs. Kevin Owens – 1.2 million views
MITB Qualifier: Sasha Banks vs. Ember Moon vs. Ruby Riott – 844k views
IC Title Open Challenge: Seth Rollins vs. Mojo Rawley – 691k views
Kurt Angle, Kevin Owens, Braun Strowman opening segment – 678k views
Kurt Angle, Zack Ryder, Jinder Mahal backstage segment – 376k views
Heath Slater & Rhyno vs. Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler – 355k views

I feel like again this week, we have some fairly simple explanations, although there are certainly some unexpected names. On a week that viewership was down across the board in the TV ratings (the worst of 2018), there’s abslolutely some reflection of that on YouTube.

Numbers 1-3 were really the main focus of the entire program, as WWE shifts towards the Money In The Bank pay-per-view. For everyone’s complaints about how many MITB matches there are or how it should be formatted with the event being dual-branded again, the bottom line is that mostly, people still love the concept of it. MITB is arguably WWE’s most anticipated PPV that doesn’t include ‘The Big 4’, so that draws interest on its own. Add in our weekly top draw Reigns, as well as the consistently viewed Balor, Strowman (and to an extent) Owens and Zayn, plus Sasha (one of your most recognizable women’s stars), this is nothing short of what I anticipated.

Then you have number four, which is obviously all on the back of the red hot Seth Rollins. ‘The KingSlayer’ can seemingly do no wrong right now and has really put himself in the conversation for best wrestler in the world. Still being able to draw that number with THAT opponent speaks volumes about just how highly regarded Rollins currently is.

When it comes to 5-7, I think 5 is easily explained in my first paragraph. It’s only a backstage segment, but you still have Strowman, Owens and now you’ve added Kurt Angle to the mix. You may not think Angle makes much difference, but I think that’s the only logical reason for Zack Ryder and Jinder Mahal coming in at 6 with another backstage segment. You ask yourself, who’s the biggest name of the three? It’s Angle.

Number 7 is intriguing because you know it’s likely not Heath Slater and Rhyno people are clicking in to see. I feel that there’s general interest surrounding the tandem of Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. This comes in above your RAW Tag Team Champions Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt, both the Bobby Lashley video package and interview, plus Elias vs. Bobby Roode (who don’t even crack 200k).

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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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