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Greg DeMarco’s WWE Smackdown Rating Analysis (6/4/19): #1 For All Of Cable For Tuesday

Smackdown is #1 in the ratings again!

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Greg DeMarco chimes in with your June 4 WWE Smackdown rating. What does it really tell us? Greg tells you!

We now have your June 4 edition of WWE Smackdown rating, and it continues to be good news for the show! Let’s start with the breakdown of the show’s rating.:

  • 2.016 million viewers
  • .60 rating in the all important 18-49 demographic
  • ranked #1 among all cable shows for the night

Here are last week’s results:

  • 2.072 million viewers
  • .69 rating in the all important 18-49 demographic
  • ranked #1 among all cable shows for the night

(Available via ShowbuzzDaily)

But what does the WWE Smackdown Rating really mean, Greg?

Smackdown maintained it’s hold on the #1 rating, even if it lost some viewers after gaining over the past two weeks. This was a difference of 56,000 viewers, which some would consider slightly above a rounding error. The share (your portion of the total audience) dropped from .69 to .60, but they still held the top spot for the week. Share can be interesting, as Smackdown had a higher share (.61) two weeks ago but a lower overall viewership.

You can manipulate numbers like viewership and share to suit almost any narrative, but in the end the Top 5 is the most reliable ranking because it puts everyone on the same playing field–competing for the same audience (viewers) on the same night (Tuesday) on the same medium (cable television). No matter what the Internet Wrestling Community will tell you (that’s the narrative I referenced in the first sentence of this paragraph), that is what advertisers care about. And WWE knows this as well, that’s why they’ve dominated this for years, and are trying to take steps to keep it. Remember, we’re in the summer now, and this is when WWE throws stuff against the wall to see if it sticks.

That doesn’t mean you can’t be unhappy with the product… what it does mean is that you can’t use ratings to justify your opinion. And you don’t have to–it’s your opinion! My opinion likely differs, but that’s what’s supposed to make this fun. As for the actual product itself, if you separate yourself from any hate about WWE going to Saudi Arabia in general, this is actually a well built card on such a short time frame. I think it might be the best of the three iterations of Jam In The Sand so far, too.

On the AEW front, Tuesday continues to be a great option for their eventual TV show (potential preemption issues notwithstanding). No shows offered by TNT finished in the Top 150 for Tuesday on cable. None. Zero. We need to make Tuesday Night Dynamite a thing!

As always, you can expect to see YouTube numbers for Smackdown tomorrow, as Raw’s came out today!


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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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