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EA’s Weekly RAW YouTube Report (7/30/18)

Published

6 years ago

August 1, 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, 8/1/18):

Brock Lesnar snaps and attacks Paul Heyman – 7.3 million views
Roman Reigns calls out Brock Lesnar – 1.4 million views
Roman Reigns gets escorted out of the building – 1.3 million views
Heyman pleads with Lesnar – Ronda Rousey brawls with Alicia & Alexa – 1.2 million views
Braun Strowman vs. Jinder Mahal – 1.1 million views
Brock Lesnar reminds Paul Heyman they aren’t friends – 1 million views

Jackpot, baby! We have a new RAW YouTube champion (at least as long as I’ve been covering these) as Brock Lesnar defeats our previous top earner Ronda Rousey with a whopping 7.3 million views, the most of anybody over the past handful of months. The entire focus of RAW, outside of Ronda’s return, was all on Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar, as evidenced here by our top seven. Five of those seven spots are occupied by the night-long angle between the SummerSlam opponents, so go ahead and tell me again why WWE would want ‘The Beast Incarnate’ to leave the company? Look, I get it. Lesnar’s Universal Title run hasn’t been fun, but that doesn’t mean he needs to leave WWE just because you haven’t liked this reign. The numbers we see here, ALL raking in at least a million views, are a prime example of why Brock is valuable. There’s no argument against it, so don’t even try me!

One of our two spots that wasn’t about Brock or Roman was a tie for fourth, the red brand’s other YouTube “titan”, Ronda Rousey. Her return seemed a bit overshadowed on the program due to Lesnar and had he not been there, this spot likely would have been number one like it is almost every other week when she’s involved. RAW overall bored me to death this week, but when it comes to YouTube it’s not always about the action. Are there cases where a great match can draw views? Of course, especially if there’s a title change. However, when it comes to these reports, nine times out of ten it’s all about star power.

The only other spot left open for someone outside of Reigns, Lesnar and Rousey is number five with the smoldering hot Braun Strowman. His streak of raking in tons of views continues and is the only match to make our top seven this week. ‘Mr. Monster In The Bank’ again proves that he’s on a roll because looking at this list, it’s an accomplishment to be on it considering the competition as he keeps right around the one million mark. If you want someone to take Roman’s spot as the “top guy” in the company, nobody’s hotter than Braun right now. Funny side note: all these people that cry about Reigns being shoved down their throats every week are the same ones complaining about Strowman having the Money In The Bank. If you want someone to take Roman’s spot, stop being so damn picky and quit’cha belly-achin’ every time someone else gets hot!

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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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