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EA’s Weekly RAW YouTube Report (9/17/18)

Published

6 years ago

September 19, 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, 9/19/18):

Roman Reigns & Braun Strowman call out Brock Lesnar – 2.4 million views
Ronda Rousey & The Bellas fight off The Riott Squad – 2.1 million views
Roman Reigns vs. Baron Corbin for the Universal Title – 2 million views
The Undertaker says he’s not coming alone to Super Show-Down – 1.6 million views
Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Title – 655k views
Dean Ambrose vs. Drew McIntyre – 616k views
Elias gets interrupted by Lio Rush – 547k views

Ho-hum, The Shield leads the way once again. Although this week, they’ve been separated to take up four of our top seven spots. To no surprise, Roman leads the pack with at least two million views on two clips at spots one and three. Meanwhile, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose don’t do nearly as well on their own at numbers five and six, just going over 600k views. Quite a difference when you put them all together compared to when they’re apart.

Number two this week is another name you’ve become accustomed to seeing near the top, as Ronda Rousey’s open challenge ends up with her being attacked by The Riott Squad. Rousey’s status as a “YouTube Titan” for WWE has been well established at this point, but when you add two more mainstream stars as The Bella Twins make the save, you whip up a surefire way to gain views. I still say the majority of the draw here is Rousey though.

The Undertaker came back to RAW, this time advertised in advance, to reveal he will have Kane in his corner when he faces Triple H at Super Show-Down. Get used to seeing guys like Taker, Shawn Michaels and Triple H near the top of our weekly YouTube reports going into November. This is all clearly leading to Shawn/Triple H vs. Taker/Kane and nostalgia of this magnitude will now and forever garner interest. They may not be at the top of the list every week, but they will continue to pull into the millions.

Lastly, rounding out our top seven is the real introduction of Lio Rush to the RAW audience (even though he appeared in a backstage segment last week). On a night where the red brand’s top dogs dominate our list once again, the aura of a new personality (since I’m assuming not many that watch RAW watch 205 Live) helps put this in the top seven over the rest of the contenders that were more like “pretenders”.

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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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