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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (9/18/18)

Published

6 years ago

September 20, 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 SmackDown Live YouTube Report (2:30 PM EST, 9/20/18):

The Miz welcomes Maryse to MizTV – 1.7 million views
Becky Lynch celebrates her title win – 1.1 million views
AJ Styles vs. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas – 667k views
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Rusev – 568k views
Randy Orton reviews his assault of Jeff Hardy at Hell In A Cell – 434k views
Kofi Kingston vs. Cesaro – 210k views
Billie Kay vs. Asuka – 190k views

Topping this week’s SmackDown Live YouTube Report is our opening segment of the show where a surprise guest was teased for MizTV, however it merely turned out to be Maryse. It wasn’t a stellar night for the blue brand in terms of stories or big names, but this clip was the follow-up to arguably SmackDown Live’s hottest angles. Add that Daniel Bryan was involved, Maryse announcing she will be gone again for a while and just having more time to be viewed and you’ve got a clear cut number one.

The second spot in our list is reserved this week for the other angle that has an argument for being the blue brand’s best, Becky Lynch and Charlotte. This was the main event segment and regardless of how people have felt about Becky’s booking, they’re interested, which is the most important factor. I’m mostly interested to see where they go with this feud from here and with 1.1 million views, I don’t believe I’m alone on that.

Numbers three and four this week were two tremendous matches that draw well enough to get high spots on a lackluster list. While in-ring action is great and what a lot of fans (at least on social media) tune in for, it just plain doesn’t draw to the level people think it does. If that were the case, AJ vs. Almas would have been number one. Nakamura vs. Rusev is interesting because we finally saw the official split of Rusev Day. I’ve argued before that Rusev isn’t as over as people think and I feel like this is more evidence of that. It’s a moment that’s been teased for a while that finally happened, so why aren’t people more interested?

The last three spots on our list…well, they are there by default. There were only seven clips to choose from this week, so basically all you had to do was be on the show to rank this week.

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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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