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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (1/1/19)

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A look at the YouTube performance for this week’s 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, 1/3/19):

  1. Becky Lynch answers John Cena’s challenge – 3.6 million views
  2. John Cena & Becky Lynch vs. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas & Zelina Vega – 2.1 million views
  3. Who will challenge Asuka next? – 869k views
  4. WWE Title #1 Contender’s Fatal 5-Way – 867k views
  5. John Cena shares his thoughts on Becky Lynch – 606k views
  6. Rusev’s US Title celebration is ruined by Shinsuke Nakamura – 490k views
  7. AJ Styles doesn’t regret punching Mr. McMahon – 484k views

A big difference at the top for SmackDown Live this week compared to RAW (see the RAW YouTube Report) as our numbers one and two clips go into the multi-millions. Now I know that because Becky has such an outpouring of “smart fan” support right now, a lot of these huge views will be attributed to her. I’m here to tell those fans how wrong they are because this is all about John Cena’s return. It’s his first appearance on WWE television in forever and a day, he’s the mainstream star, he’s the reason for such big viewership. Becky helps, but spare me. It’s all about Cena, so much so that a mere post-show interview with him comes in at number five.

Sliding into third we see a bit of Becky again, as a number of SmackDown Live’s female Superstars all make their case to get a shot at Asuka’s title next. There’s a combination of things in play here: you’ve got possible title implications, possible pay-per-view implications, a McMahon and arguably the three hottest stars on SmackDown Live right now. Also, it’s evidence that my reasoning for numbers one and two are correct with Becky being part of this clip and the viewership being drastically lower than the others with Cena.

At number four is the blue brand’s main event, which again, pay-per-view and title implications. I think that WWE could make things more interesting now that they’ve supposedly done away with the automatic rematch clause for Superstars who’ve lost their title. At the same time (and this is certainly no complaint on AJ Styles), if they’re going to do number one contender matches and just have the former champion win anyways, what’s the point? Nothing against great matches, but personally I don’t find them great if the winner becomes predictable.

Lastly, numbers six and seven this week are on the fringe of “best of the rest” territory. On the other hand though, they continued storylines and felt more important than the competition which consisted of Jeff Hardy vs. Samoa Joe, The New Day’s New Year celebration and Naomi vs. Sonya Deville.


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

What a start to the tournament!

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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!

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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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