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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (12/25/18)

Published

5 years ago

December 27, 2018

A look at the YouTube performance for this week’s WWE SmackDown Live!

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, 12/27/18):

AJ Styles punches Mr. McMahon – 1.6 million views
United States Title: Rusev vs. Shinsuke Nakamura – 915k views
Mandy Rose tries getting Jimmy Uso under the mistletoe – 766k views
Daniel Bryan ruins R-Truth & Carmella’s Christmas celebration – 694k views
Daniel Bryan attacks Mustafa Ali – 453k views
Mustafa Ali vs. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas – 445k views
Jeff Hardy vs. Samoa Joe – 442k views

This week’s SmackDown Live YouTube Report differs from that of RAW (see RAW’s YouTube Report) in that we do have Superstars with multiple clips in our top seven, however not at the top. Number one this week stays within the McMahon Family after Shane came in first last week, but this time it’s Vinnie Mac getting dropped by AJ Styles. It looks like they’re trying to sprinkle some “Vince dust” onto AJ and possibly help get him to that top of the pack level where the likes of Roman Reigns, John Cena and Brock Lesnar reside. Either that or we’re going to see a more aggressive Styles moving forward, maybe even perhaps a combination of both.

At number two was our blue brand main event this week featuring two Superstars who almost never get this close to the million view mark in Rusev and Shinsuke. So what’s the difference this time? The title change. Even fans who knew it was coming due to reading spoilers will still tune in for a title change, as we’ve previously discussed in our YouTube Reports.

Sliding into third this week is the continuation of the feud between Mandy Rose and Naomi, but now with a new twist as Mandy got under the skin of ‘The Glow Queen’ by using her husband. Personally, this rivalry that started on social media does nothing for me, but if you’re going to use Jimmy and give it the ‘Total Divas affect’, we’ve seen it be successful with him and Naomi in the past on YouTube. So maybe this is what this feud needs.

One of our two “repeat offenders” for SmackDown Live on YouTube this week comes in at number four with the WWE Champion Daniel Bryan spoiling R-Truth and Carmella’s fun. I’m fully behind this character change for Bryan, it’s obviously something he can get behind and the realism of it makes it all the more interesting. Plus, he’s helping put others on the map such as Mustafa Ali, as their issues continue in the fifth spot, which the follow-up to the clip at number six. I think we all know Ali is likely never going to be anything more than MAYBE a United States Champion, but considering his fight to even get here, that’s a win for him.

Finishing up our top seven this week was the next step in the heated rivalry between Jeff Hardy and Samoa Joe. Quite frankly, this could very easily be in the fifth or sixth spot, so there’s nothing really negative I can say about it. Outside of our top two/three clips this week, a pretty standard showing for SmackDown Live on YouTube overall.

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

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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.

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

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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!

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