Financial Times: "WWE Stock Slammed As Ticket Sales And TV Ratings Drop"

[Yade]

you're right. what they're doing is LIVE re-runs

Got damn it’s makes so much sense by looking at it that way

 

[dh86]

Becky Lynch was never hotter than she was when she challenged Ronda to her face the day after the Rumble. To go blame her now is bullshyt. Adding Charlotte to the main event was an even bigger fukkup than we all thought at the time. If you’re going to put someone over, PUT THEM OVER

 

[TobiOT]

Smackdown is following Raw in its rating dive, dropping to tie the USA Network low for the show. Tuesday night’s episode brought in a 0.54 rating and 1.833 million viewers, down a rough 24% and 12% from last week’s 0.71 demo rating and 2.072 million viewers. The demo rating matched the 0.54 for the July 3rd, 2018 episode, while the viewership was the lowest since the February 5th, 2019 episode brought in 1.841 million against the State of the Union address.

Smackdown ranked #7 for the night among cable originals per Showbuzz Daily, well below what it usually does. The two NBA playoff games topped the night (2.43 demo rating/6.073 million viewers and 1.66/4.044 million), followed by the post-game show (0.95/2.213 million), Curse of Oak Island on History (0.67/3.321 million), Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (0.59/1.699 million) and the NHL Semifinals game (0.58/1.664 million). Obviously, Smackdown was up against some hefty competition in the sports playoff games and the Rockets vs. Warriors game drew a huge rating, but it still was not a good night for the show in any context.

A quote from one of the shills

I don't get it. People got what they wanted: Seth as champion, Becky ("Two Belts" lol) as champion, Kofi as champion, Brock off their TV sets...and viewership numbers drop. You watch and bytch and moan about needing to get the belt off Brock and that Seth should be the one to beat him, Becky Lynch needs to win at WM, and Kofi needs to overcome the odds and beat the man who ironically had the same path to the belt at WM 5 years ago, it happens and you tune out! Make up your minds, folks!

Maybe cause the show is

That Smackdown thread was barebones and Raws

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

A quote from one of the shills



Maybe cause the show is

That Smackdown thread was barebones and Raws

They have three champs that you could throw in such amazing storylines:

• Kofi meets Mr. All in the Videos and plays his game
• Seth second guesses himself due to The Shield breaking up (Ambrose leaving) and Reigns scoping the belt (thought provoking story in the making)
• The Man goes in a madness angle with Nikki Cross rather than Cross just pop up because "fukk a storyline amirite"

This whole "larger than life" wrestler shyt is a outdated term when you have a buffet of talent without no ability to make them stand out in this mark ass era. You have the older fanbase just tuning in to see if the shyt will finally get better, youngins trying to figure out what's so special about this shyt, and fans treating the shyt like it's background noise. ALL AROUND BAD BUSINESS. Yet, nothing will change and WWE will continue to do what they do best and that's sit on their lazy asses and count the checks.They literally being social ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, yet folks will continue to use burner accounts and watch the shyt for the memes

those the breaks

 

[TobiOT]

 

[mson]

I had stock in the company at $15 and sold it all around $24.Then it went on to hit $90.

 

[RammerJammer]

WWE is reminding me of TNA in the mid 2010s, nothing but bad reports

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

WWE is reminding me of TNA in the mid 2010s, nothing but bad reports

And even then, TNA in 2010 wasn't that bad compared to WWE in current time:

• fukkery despite the ridiculous booking
• MCMG/Beer Money series
• A turn of tides with the direction from the Hogan era
• Broken Hardy

Yeah on a business side TNA fukked up but somehow they survived after all of these years which is crazy. Meanwhile, WWE's foolishness is almost super villain cartoonish. From taking social media passwords from wrestlers, sitting on contracts, and even adding months to contracts of wrestlers wanting out. At least TNA let their wrestlers do indy shows and somehow live a normal productive life.

 

[Reality Check]

They've been producing live reruns of their show for the last decade now.

I'd argue that it started when Cena was moved to RAW in 2005.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I'd argue that it started when Cena was moved to RAW in 2005.

This is the correct answer. That’s when they began the practice of sabotaging the faces they didn’t want at the top and feeding everyone to the face they want that the crowd doesn’t want. As bad as it could be at times from 2002-05, heels were booked like heels and faces were booked like faces so the show felt coherent. They also weren’t in the business of having main event caliber guys feuding over the IC and US titles just to give them something to do. They had an effective formula that they completely went away from solely because it was getting guys over enough to become mainstream stars.

 

[NYChase718]

The smarks get what they want and who they want to headline and win belts
the casuals dont care about those characters and dont watch

 

[jackswstd]

If they aren't worried yet, they better start worrying.

 

[dh86]

The smarks get what they want and who they want to headline and win belts
the casuals dont care about those characters and dont watch

3 weeks is far too little of a time to judge Becky, Seth & Kofi. If you think putting the belts back on Brock & HHH would change anything then

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

The smarks get what they want and who they want to headline and win belts
the casuals dont care about those characters and dont watch

I don't think the casuals care about Lars Sullivan or Lacey Evans either. I wouldn't be surprised if the lack of Cena had something to do with the most recent decline

 

[HoldThisL]

This is all because of shytty writing and direction. Writers killed off Becky, Kofi, AJ Styles, Seth, Nakumara, Asuka, Braun etc hype by placing them in shytty storylines. Casual fans and smarks want storylines that they can get invested into, gimmicks they can relate to, and matches that tell a story.

That is why I applaud the Kofi/Daniel shyt. It could have been even way better than what it was, but I actually tuned into SD each week to see how it would play out. This Kevin Owens thing is so damn predictable and the same ole shyt.

They gotta clean house on the writers, and get cokehead outta here.

Look at the storyline they got The Usos in, making them seem like a big fuking joke.

Then u got this Gene Snitsky looking muthafuka Lars Sullivian coming out every week and doing stuff that seems like it has no impact or reaction to it whatsoever. Looking like a Generic CAW