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WWE News: SmackDown Live Weekly YouTube Report (5/29/18)
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 SmackDown Live YouTube Report (2:30 PM EST, 5/31/18):
- MITB Qualifier: Daniel Bryan vs. Big Cass vs. Samoa Joe – 1.2 million views
- Lana vs. Naomi in a Dance-Off – 987k views
- Asuka vs. Mandy Rose – 596k views
- Big Cass interrupts Samoa Joe & Daniel Bryan – 587k views
- Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tye Dillinger – 474k views
- The New Day vs. The Bar & The Miz – 405k views
- Paige unveils her plans for Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair next week – 344k views
Once again, The Yes Movement’s conductor rings the bell as the top view-earner in this week’s main event. Bryan has held strong with numbers in the low-one million range and the only one to do so this week. Just line them up, Big Cass, Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy…I don’t care who it is. Daniel Bryan brings home the vegan bacon. The only surprise to me is that his other segment only comes in at number four.
The real story of the night here is SmackDown Live’s ladies, taking up three spots in the top seven at 2, 3 and 7. I’ve seen all the complaining before, “Lana’s only where she’s at because of her looks” and yada-yada-yada. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times; if you want just wrestling, then you’re watching the WRONG television show. It does not matter why you’re drawing eyes as long as you’re drawing them. Lana can do that. Period. Same goes for the number three spot, Mandy Rose. Asuka has shown a propensity to bring in solid numbers, but men love Mandy the same way some women love Roman.
The fifth and sixth positions are reserved for the rest of the action from the blue brand as Shinsuke drags Tye Dillinger out from relative recent obscurity to be at number five. Meanwhile, The New Day’s issues with The Miz and The Bar remain around the 300-400k mark per usual, good enough to crack in at number six.
What’s interesting this week is you won’t see the WWE Champion AJ Styles as he was only used for a backstage promo that barely garnered over 110k. Newcomer Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas also falls short of our list again this week as he comes in just over 240k.
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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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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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