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EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (11/6/18)

Published

5 years ago

November 8, 2018

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 (2:30PM EST, 11/8/18):

Paige reveals the SmackDown Women’s Survivor Series Team – 931k views
Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas – 850k views
Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy to qualify for Survivor Series – 837k views
Daniel Bryan and The Miz are named Survivor Series co-captains – 835k views
The New Day vs. The Usos to be named Survivor Series captains – 493k views
Nikki Cross accepts Becky Lynch’s challenge – 484k views
Becky Lynch responds to Ronda Rousey’s words from RAW – 461k views

After last week’s SmackDown Live YouTube Report saw multiple clips reaching the million view mark, this week it only takes 900k-plus to top our list. Really, in order to have any spot on this list, it was related to Survivor Series in some fashion as the company quickly has to prepare with just over a week remaining. So sliding into number one this week is SmackDown General Manager Paige revealing that the blue brand will be represented by Asuka, Naomi, Sonya Deville, Carmella and Charlotte Flair (should she finally accept) at Survivor Series.

Coming in second this week is Rey Mysterio, who has held between 800k and a million since his full-time return back at SmackDown 1000. This was easily the most anticipated match on the show, as WWE gave fans a quintessential “dream match” that also saw Mysterio earn his spot at Survivor Series. Again, that was the main theme of the evening with another match to determine a spot on SmackDown’s squad coming in third, the main event in which Samoa Joe qualified.

At fourth this week is the reveal of the Men’s SmackDown team captains, as Daniel Bryan takes a big slide from last week when he drew over a million views in a WWE Title Match against AJ Styles. More captains are named at number five, this time through tag team action as The Usos and The New Day give another superb showing. Ultimately, does it really matter who is named team captain? Does anybody care? I don’t think they do.

We see a long-awaited debut at the sixth spot this week, the follow-up match to the promo by SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch as Nikki Cross rejoins SAnitY, but loses to ‘The Lass Kicker’. On a week of taped WWE programming, I think the number six clip is a perfect example of what spoilers can do for viewership on television and other platforms like YouTube. This was a debut by a Superstar that’s quite popular in the NXT circles and with that fan base, yet the clip can’t even pull 500k views. Certainly a disappointment, but like the performance of the promos by Rousey and Lynch. It’s a shame they couldn’t have found a way to get these two actually in the same place/room/ring for some of their brief build to Survivor Series because the YouTube views would be a much different story.

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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.

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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!

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