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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (10/2/18)

Published

6 years ago

October 4, 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, 10/4/18):

Aiden English presents ‘One Night In Milwaukee’ – 1 million views
Paige is ready to fire Samoa Joe – 987k views
Becky Lynch reveals her Super Show-Down surprise – 770k views
Randy Orton assaults Tye Dillinger – 721k views
R-Truth & Carmella vs. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas & Zelina Vega – 567k views
The Bar ruins The New Day’s pancake cooking – 373k views
Daniel Bryan vs. Shelton Benjamin – 311k views

SmackDown Live fell short last week, but the anticipation of what exactly Aiden English has been referring to gets one clip from this week to hit the million mark. Easily, this was what fans looked forward to most this week, but I think a lot of them were left disappointed. What we got was a bit of the “easy way out” and right now it appears as if everybody can predict the outcome. Here’s to hoping WWE swerves us all.

For number two, we’re back under a million views, but not by much as General Manager Paige opens to show to discuss Samoa Joe’s actions from last week. The Styles/Joe feud hasn’t done well in our YouTube reports lately, but the same could be said for most everything on SmackDown Live outside of the spotty up-and-down movement from what comes in at number three, the Becky/Charlotte rivalry. Becky’s reveal was again likely another disappointment, showing that she merely made her own version of the Super Show-Down poster. Can we not tease surprises if they don’t deliver?

Coming in at number four, Randy Orton’s rampage continues as ‘The Viper’ is by far more invested than he’s been in quite some time and that’s translating into interest in his angles. With the way he’s tortured Jeff Hardy over recent months, people just plain want to see what Orton is going to do next. Believe me, nobody’s watching this clip because of Tye Dillinger, who has been pretty absent for nearly a year.

We continue to slide down in views the lower we go on the list, number five being nearly 200k less than number four. R-Truth and Carmella are certainly on the come-up and have turned into one of the more entertaining parts of WWE television in recent weeks. It will make them some noise in our weekly YouTube reports, but I’m not so sure they can climb much higher in numbers than where they’re at unless they are matched up with more star power.

Our final two spots this week are my “best of the rest”, as there is only four clips remaining from the entire show after our top five. Daniel Bryan gets number seven because…well, he’s Daniel Bryan and he should be beating out a Susan G. Komen presentation and an Asuka vs. Peyton Royce match. Unfortunate that’s what he’s contending with though. Same goes for number six.

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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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