Connect with us

News

WWE News: SmackDown Live Rating Dips, Election Night Dominates Rankings (11/6/18)

Published

on

SmackDown

While Monday Night RAW is coming off back-to-back weeks of dropped ratings, WWE’s SmackDown Live was able to increase its audience last week and also continue holding onto the top of the Cable Top 150 Rankings for the 18-49 demographic. However, there’s some much different competition this week.

The numbers for last night’s SmackDown Live are in and we’re heading back downward with a 2.088, a dip of 1.04% from last week. Here’s a look at the last four weeks of ratings for the blue brand:

  • October 16th: 2.545
  • October 23rd: 2.087
  • October 30th: 2.110
  • November 6th: 2.088

Now, generally when SmackDown Live’s ratings have not performed, they have still been able to take the number one spot in the Cable Top 150 Rankings in the 18-49 demographic. Unfortunately for the blue brand, last night was election night here in the United States and SmackDown Live was not only knocked out of the top five, but fell all the way to number 17 with a 0.68 share. Interestingly enough, the only programming not based around the election to jump ahead of SmackDown Live were the College Football Rankings show and two College Basketball Regular Season opening games. Here was the top five:

  1. Election Night (9PM) – CNN – 1.96
  2. Election Night (10PM) – CNN – 1.88
  3. Election Night (8PM) – CNN – 1.58
  4. *TIE* America’s Election HQ (9PM & 10PM) – FOX News – 1.39

EA’s Take: Well, I certainly didn’t see this coming. Scold me all you want, but I don’t get into politics in the least, so let’s not get into them here too much. I was not even remotely thinking about the elections when it came to something that could affect WWE in the ratings (I say ratings, but it mostly affected them in the Cable Top 150). If anything, I still attribute this week’s drops for RAW and SmackDown Live ratings to both episodes being pre-recorded. The numbers in the 18-49 dropped some, which I also would attribute to that as well because that number is virtually the same for WWE every week.

 

Continue following TheChairshot for all the latest skull smashing opinion, news, reviews and so much more! @theCHAIRSHOTcom on Twitter
Always #UseYourHead


Powered by RedCircle


Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

AEW Coverage

Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

Published

on

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.


Powered by RedCircle


Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!
Continue Reading

AEW Coverage

AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

on

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!


Powered by RedCircle


Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!
Continue Reading

Sports

Entertainment

Sports Entertainment

Buy A Chairshot T-Shirt!

Chairshot Radio Network

Trending

WP Twitter Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com