The "let's not take this shyt so seriously" AEW news & fukkery thread
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Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
Man....the devil nonsense should have never stopped the movement. I'm not going to lie, MJF works best with a tag partner or somewhat a stable. Solo, he's mid AF.
Even when he worked with Jerikkko, the chemistry was there despite Jerikkko being a blob of flab
The devil storyline was cursed from the jump. Started the night of Brawl Out 2022, came back in '23 around the time that Punk got fired (safe to say he was probably the original pick for the devil since storyline wise that would have made the most sense), then their backup plan (Adam Cole) shattered his foot at Grand Slam and was out for the better part of a year.
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Finn Baller
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You know how many mediocre Thursday night Titans vs Jags games I’ve watched over the years?
I like live sports and I like wrestling both better than just about any scripted shows or what’s on streaming so I’m gonna sit through the games or the shows and critique/share my opinions whether they are predominantly negative or not. It’s not my fault if the Giants are ass or if AEW is presenting a mediocre product
at least I’ll explain why it’s ass and give stats to back up my opinions.
Dude I was so invested and at the edge of my seat concerning that segment.
Even the reveal, I was locked in because Demon Cole
And sighs ...
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Lol @ justifying hate watching now.... I'm going to dismantle this poor logic on here real quick. To me, NXT is still the best weekly wrestling show on TV. It has pretty much everything I want out of wrestling because it's a very good mix of story telling and workrate combined with some ridiculous backstage stuff and dope characters.
WWE is presenting it as a 3rd brand again. They routinely have main roster talent on, all the key signings are going through NXT first, they are taking it on the road again, etc.
I don't use outdated metrics to say whether it's "successful" or not but let's look into it. After the first couple weeks, the show is now sitting around 600k viewers on a national broadcast station. It does around 0.19 in the key demos.
If I was to sit here and discuss those metrics for it, is it doing well... The CW is in every single household in the United States. NXT was doing pretty much the same numbers on cable as it is now on broadcast TV with ~40 million more homes that have the opportunity to watch it. Their second show in St. Louis was supposed to be in a 15,000 capacity arena and they moved it to a 1500 capacity setting because tickets weren't selling.
Does any of this affect my enjoyment of the show? Absolutely not...
Does it even matter what they do on The CW? Not really, no... because they have a lengthy contract that's bringing in more TV rights media money than ever before.
Do people even discuss what it's doing on a weekly basis? Nope. Because these AEW discussions were never about "success".. they are about stanning something.. It's always been about being a stan.
Do people discuss how SD! lost 700,000 weekly viewers when they moved from FOX to USA? No, because that's again broadcast vs. cable and also SD! got their money anyway from USA... it was a big increase.
From an objective standpoint, it doesn't matter what the AEW ratings on TBS are either and when they are simulcast on Max in January, we will have no clue how many people are actually watching the product.
WWE is presenting it as a 3rd brand again. They routinely have main roster talent on, all the key signings are going through NXT first, they are taking it on the road again, etc.
I don't use outdated metrics to say whether it's "successful" or not but let's look into it. After the first couple weeks, the show is now sitting around 600k viewers on a national broadcast station. It does around 0.19 in the key demos.
If I was to sit here and discuss those metrics for it, is it doing well... The CW is in every single household in the United States. NXT was doing pretty much the same numbers on cable as it is now on broadcast TV with ~40 million more homes that have the opportunity to watch it. Their second show in St. Louis was supposed to be in a 15,000 capacity arena and they moved it to a 1500 capacity setting because tickets weren't selling.
Does any of this affect my enjoyment of the show? Absolutely not...
Does it even matter what they do on The CW? Not really, no... because they have a lengthy contract that's bringing in more TV rights media money than ever before.
Do people even discuss what it's doing on a weekly basis? Nope. Because these AEW discussions were never about "success".. they are about stanning something.. It's always been about being a stan.
Do people discuss how SD! lost 700,000 weekly viewers when they moved from FOX to USA? No, because that's again broadcast vs. cable and also SD! got their money anyway from USA... it was a big increase.
From an objective standpoint, it doesn't matter what the AEW ratings on TBS are either and when they are simulcast on Max in January, we will have no clue how many people are actually watching the product.
Finn Baller
Superstar
you sure do love to undermine the success of your alleged “favorite show” but that’s just the life of a “neutral” mark I suppose 
Nobody here thinks you like NXT more than AEW, especially now that your idol is there, dunno why you try so hard to convince people otherwise
Nobody here thinks you like NXT more than AEW, especially now that your idol is there, dunno why you try so hard to convince people otherwise
Saysumthinfunnymike
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See this is why this guy isn't very bright. He reads that and thinks it's "undermining" when all it shows is how outdated all of these "metrics" that the beards cling on to really are.... It's not undermining at all. In fact, I say in that very post that it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the show. It's still the "best" show in my opinion.
But that's how you view the world when you are a stan... you justify your "opinions" with metrics that mean nothing and if you really wanted to discuss outdated metrics, you'd do it for all of the shows and not just the one you are hate watching.
And if you want to look into my posts, does anyone see me discussing Collision and Rampage on a weekly basis, no they aren't really for me. I don't feel like much happens. But do I watch NXT every week? Sure do.. I'm in those threads every week. That's what you do when you enjoy something or what you do when you aren't enjoying something. People who are sane don't watch things they dislike on a weekly basis.
But that's how you view the world when you are a stan... you justify your "opinions" with metrics that mean nothing and if you really wanted to discuss outdated metrics, you'd do it for all of the shows and not just the one you are hate watching.
And if you want to look into my posts, does anyone see me discussing Collision and Rampage on a weekly basis, no they aren't really for me. I don't feel like much happens. But do I watch NXT every week? Sure do.. I'm in those threads every week. That's what you do when you enjoy something or what you do when you aren't enjoying something. People who are sane don't watch things they dislike on a weekly basis.
I enjoyed Collison last night 
Saysumthinfunnymike
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I enjoyed Collison last night
Now that they are doing CC matches on there I may give it more of a chance..
Finn Baller
Superstar
Fans should never watch their teams the moment they fall under .500 apparently or else they aren’t sane apparently
What type of participation trophy “if you can’t say anything nice” ass mentality is this
Quiet as a church mouse when the white people are around or when people try do the same exact thing you whine about in the WWE live threads though
What type of participation trophy “if you can’t say anything nice” ass mentality is this
Quiet as a church mouse when the white people are around or when people try do the same exact thing you whine about in the WWE live threads though
Norrin Radd
To me, my board!
I see the 'lets not take this shyt so seriously' went out the window. Really starting to feel like SCJerk around here
Saysumthinfunnymike
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@ this wild tangent lol.... Comparing sports is also illogical. When the season starts, it takes at least a few weeks generally to see if your team has a chance at making the playoffs and in the NFL, forget it.. unless your team is complete trash, they are likely going to be alive for a playoff spot until the last couple weeks. When the season ends, it ends... you can look into what the Draft is looking like and free agency but there's no more games to watch. You are on a 6-month break from watching it.
Wrestling doesn't have breaks. That's why you hear sane people say "I'll watch when things get better..." it's 52 weeks out of the year.
If you hate it for 3 straight years, that means you've watched it for 150+ weeks straight and it still hasn't gotten better for you.... that makes you the crazy person, not Tony Khan Lol.
I gave up on watching several wrestling shows over the years until they got better.
Also, what's "good" to you is subjective in wrestling because it's an art form. A sport isn't subjective. A team is trash or they aren't. Using metrics that clearly studio heads don't even give a fukk about is all part of stanning more than anything else. If The CW doesn't care or if Warner Bros. Discovery doesn't care, then why should someone at home who has ZERO investment care
I see the 'lets not take this shyt so seriously' went out the window. Really starting to feel like SCJerk around here
"feel" lmao sweet summer human, thats why the church door is open
VegetasHairline
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Posting walls of text about playfighting on a Sunday!
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Worried about another man on a Sunday
And I'm watching Liverpool/Man City relax..
And I'm watching Liverpool/Man City relax..