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EA’s Weekly RAW YouTube Report (8/6/18)
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 RAW YouTube Report (2:30 PM EST, 8/8/18):
- Ronda Rousey vs. Alicia Fox – 3.2 million views
- Paul Heyman sits down with Renee Young – 1.5 million views
- Roman Reigns addresses Baron Corbin’s lack of action last week – 1.1 million views
- Roman Reigns vs. Baron Corbin – 988k views
- Braun Strowman vs. Jinder Mahal – 666k views
- Braun Strowman tips over The Kevin Owens Show – 506k views
- Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre – 432k views
RAW’s top dog on YouTube returns to the number one position this week, as Ronda Rousey made her RAW in-ring debut against Alicia Fox. Consistency is the name of the game when it comes to Ronda, who only was outdone last week by Universal Champion Brock Lesnar in our YouTube Report. I think this is a perfect example of what I wrote about yesterday in the RAW ratings article (find that here). People aren’t tuning in anymore on cable just to see what one specific Superstar is up to because of the convenience of YouTube clips. Case in point, Rousey vs. Fox was the main event of RAW, yet the hour the match was in did the lowest of all three hours of the red brand. Meanwhile, another whopping amount of YouTube views.
The number two position is reserved for the greatest wrestling manager in the game (in my opinion), Mr. Paul Heyman with a follow up from last week’s events when Brock Lesnar surprisingly put hands on his advocate. People can say what they will about WWE booking Roman vs. Lesnar once again this year, but the bottom line is that the angle is interesting. Anything revolving around it has drawn big YouTube numbers the last two weeks. So in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Stop whining!”.
Sliding in at the third and fourth spot this week was RAW’s opening segment and match, focused once again around what happened last week with Lesnar while Roman Reigns had been “kicked out of the building”. Again wrestling fans, not everything on the show is FOR YOU. Despite what you all may think or believe to be real, casual fans matter. Just look at ANY of the YouTube reports on weeks where Roman is involved. Numbers never lie is more than just the name of a crappy, cancelled show on ESPN.
‘Mr. Monster In The Bank’ Braun Strowman continues to rank in our top seven on a weekly basis, coming in at numbers five and six this week despite seeing a drop in views from previous weeks. Is it an indication that fans are tiring of his angle with Kevin Owens? Possibly, but I see it more a problem with today’s society more than the booking. People have zero attention span anymore and granted, some longer running feuds have definitely gotten stale (for example, Baron Corbin vs. Finn Balor), but I see nothing wrong with a storyline that runs for a couple of months. You can’t have Superstars moving on to a new feud every month because eventually, the well runs dry.
Lastly, the slide continues for the Seth Rollins/Dolph Ziggler/Drew McIntyre angle, another case of people getting just plain tired of a storyline. Again, I don’t fully understand it. Nobody was hotter than Rollins coming into the Summer, these guys continue to put on excellent matches, yet the feud has been too long for some fans. So go ahead and continue to poo-poo things like you did at Extreme Rules because clearly, some fans have shown that no matter what you do they will not be happy.
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Chairshot News Report: TNA Impact Results, AEW Speculation For Ricochet & Shane McMahon, Vince McMahon, More!
Your Wrestling News for July 5, 2024, including TNA Impact, Ricochet, Shane McMahon, his daddy Vince, and more!
Your Wrestling News for July 5, 2024, including TNA Impact, Ricochet, Shane McMahon, his daddy Vince, and more!
Welcome to your daily dose of pro wrestling news–and analysis you can trust! We take all wrestling news with a grain of salt here at The Chairshot, and we hope to steer you in the right direction.
Results: TNA Impact (July 4, 2024)
Here are your results from Thursday night’s edition of TNA Impact (originally taped on June 28 at the 2300 Arena in Philly):
- Trey Miguel vs. Leon Slater ends in a no-contest after WWE NXT star Charlie Dempsey attacks everyone.
- Dani Luna battled Jody Threat to a time limit draw in the 10-Minute Challenge. They were granted the customary “5 more minutes” but were attacked by Alisha Edwards & Masha Slamovich. During the match it was revealed that Nic Nemeth had been attacked backstage.
- Frankie Kazarian defeated Mike Santana by countout to advance to the TNA World Championship Match at Slammiversary.
- Matt Hardy & Reby Hardy beat Eddie Edwards & Alisha Edwards.
- Joe Hendry pinned Jake Something to advance to the TNA World Championship Match at Slammiversary.
No surprise that Joe Hendry advanced to the world title match, but Santana-Kazarian could have gone either way. A promo video to end the show implied that Kazarian was the one who took out Nic Nemeth backstage, seemingly creating a story for them within the Slammiversary title match. No shocker that The Hardys won the tag team match, but a great surprise with Charlie Dempsey getting involved in the opener. That TNA/NXT collaboration continues to be a lot of fun.
You can catch Andrew’s Review of the event here.
Ricochet Expected To Sign With AEW
Many outlets are reporting that Ricochet’s expected landing spot remains AEW, with additional reports surfacing that his agent has been working out the details on his behalf.
Personally, I’d rather see him back in WWE. Even after an initial push in AEW, he will be a novelty act much like PAC, so I don’t see the difference. But if he’s going to AEW, here’s hoping that agent does a great job and secures quite the bag for ol’ Ric.
Vince Russo Suggests Shane McMahon As A Front Man For Vince McMahon to Purchase AEW
”We saw this with WCW, it happened before. It (purchasing AEW) could be under the guise of Shane, that’s what I’m saying. Shane is as clean as whistle. Vince could be behind it without anybody knowing it, bro.”
Those are the words of Vince Russo, who on the surface seems to be spouting nonsense. Time will tell if there is something to it all, but I wouldn’t place any wagers on this one. Shane McMahon to AEW would be an entertaining shocker, but that–like many things in AEW–would quickly wear off.
Shawn Michaels Discusses NXT Releases, Referencing Drew Gulak
During the NXT Heatwave media call, Shawn Michaels was asked about the release of Gable Steveson, but also lumped Drew Gulak in his response about main roster viability:
“From my understanding, nothing on anyone’s part other than contracts being up. Certainly, in the place of Drew Gulak. From a company standpoint, there not being anything from a main roster standpoint that they were going to be using him in. In NXT, over the last year and a half to two years, we’ve been trying to get into the process of keeping it fluid. It’s all about getting to the main roster when everything is said and done. In two or three years, if that doesn’t happen, we bring other people in or see if we’re ready to move on.”
If anything, it’s a stark reminder that NXT still exists to, above all else, populate the main roster. It’s quite the delicate balance between booking your own television show and preparing for the future, one that HBK has arguably done better than Triple H himself.
Other Odds & Ends:
- According to reports, the mini-stroke referenced by Britt Baker (DMD) on AEW Dynamite is legitimate. If so, both she and Adam Cole have been through a ton over the past 24 months.
- Mason Madden (Mace) and Mansoor, now known as the MxM Collection, showed up in ROH when featured in a vignette on this week’s broadcast. They might not have made it in WWE, but it’s good to see them getting work, and a second chance to make this gimmick their own. YEAH!
- Cody Rhodes continues to be the ultimate good dude, this time helping a fan who won tickets to Money In The Bank actually attend the event. The fan who won the tickets is in a wheelchair, and there were no more accessible seats left. That was, of course, until Cody got involved. Now the fan can be there and enjoy the show as intended when he won the contest. Cody wins again!
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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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