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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (9/25/18)

Published

6 years ago

September 27, 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, 9/27/18):

Aiden English reminds Rusev & Lana about Milwaukee – 720k views
Samoa Joe visits AJ Styles’ home – 654k views
Daniel Bryan is the guest on Truth TV – 528k views
Lana vs. Becky Lynch – 388k views
R-Truth vs. The Miz – 302k views
Asuka & Naomi vs. Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville – 285k views
Becky Lynch ambushes Charlotte Flair during a photo shoot – 284k views

Not much to write about this week with our SmackDown Live YouTube Report, as we see a lot of brutal numbers across the board. It only takes a mere 720k views to top our list as the next step in Aiden English’s turn on Rusev reveals something happened with Lana back in Milwaukee. That’s about all we got for details, but this was the biggest angle of the evening, which followed up our number four spot. Becky Lynch has drawn well recently with her segments with Charlotte Flair, but in this case she’s just playing a bit role in the Rusev Day storyline. We will see her again at number seven, but it’s not the views we’re used to seeing.

Sliding in at number two this week is Samoa Joe paying a visit to AJ Styles’ home for the main event segment. This feud has seen its ups-and-downs on YouTube and I thought there was a shot this could be number one. The personal nature of their rivalry has pushed their numbers, but on a week where no clips hit a million, I’m a little surprised to see this segment draw so low.

Number three was our opening segment that had its moments where it was entertaining, but it also missed on a couple of things and honestly, felt a little too overscripted or contrived. It wasn’t the usual laugh out loud segments we’ve seen recently from Carmella and R-Truth, but it was solid and continued the issues between Daniel Bryan and The Miz. It didn’t take much for the accompanying match to make our list either, coming in at number five with just 302k views.

Our entire list this week closely resembles my usual “best of the rest” clips, as evidenced by spots 4-7 all being within (roughly) 100k views of each other. A night that was overall lackluster for the blue brand means that Asuka and Naomi in tag action gets enough play to come in at number six, just edging out number seven by 1k views. This was a nothing match that was basically a glorified squash/advertisement for Asuka and Naomi’s upcoming match against The IIconics at Super Show-Down. Again, not much to write home about 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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