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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (1/8/19)

Published

5 years ago

January 10, 2019

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, 1/10/19):

Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Carmella – 819k views
Naomi attacks Mandy Rose backstage – 742k views
Rey Mysterio & Mustafa Ali vs. Samoa Joe & Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas – 492k views
The Usos vs. The Bar – 439k views
Daniel Bryan is sick of consumerism – 430k views
Daniel Bryan vs. R-Truth – 359k views
Rusev seeks out Shinsuke Nakamura – 305k views

Yikes, quite the disparage in views between SmackDown Live and RAW (see that here) this week on YouTube. The red brand sports nearly a full top seven of clips with at least a million views, meanwhile the blue brand doesn’t have one. Topping SmackDown Live was the main event of the night that saw Becky Lynch, Carmella and Charlotte Flair battling for a shot at Asuka’s SmackDown Women’s Title at Royal Rumble. I may have addressed this before, but can we stop with comparing Becky to people like ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin? There may be some similarities, but it’s still way too early in her rise to go there. If anything, interest has dropped since her initial hot streak if you go off of YouTube numbers.

Sliding into second this week is another clip that will go into my “Evidence Of Prior Statements” book with Naomi going after Mandy Rose after she had cost The Usos their match against The Bar, which comes in at number four. This doesn’t seem like a clip that should be this high up on the list on any given week, especially considering what it’s beating out. Hardcore wrestling fans will deny the importance of mainstream or casuals until they’re blue in the face, but they consistently show up for Naomi and Jimmy Uso clips. Why? Total Divas. So you may wonder why Mandy’s interference in the number four clip doesn’t help it out some. I’d say it’s because of no Naomi.

In third for SmackDown Live this week was easily the best match of the night, but honestly all of the clips from here on down performed poorly. This tag match was a bit of a Men’s Royal Rumble Match showcase with all four Superstars being entrants, but outside of a good match, there was nothing on the line and was of little importance.

The WWE Champion Daniel Bryan continues to stay low on the YouTube charts, coming in this week at numbers five and six with our opening segment and first match of the night. R-Truth doesn’t move the needle on YouTube, so that certainly isn’t helping Bryan’s YouTube performance this week. At the same time, it’s pretty fascinating to see how easy it was for Bryan to make the WWE Universe hate him after loving him for so long. Finishing things up at number seven is the next step in the feud between Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura, which really is only here because there was nothing else on SmackDown Live to challenge it on our list. Just a disappointing effort from top-to-bottom really.

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!