Wrestlemania buyrate "downright shocking"

[Kimo_bud]

Nobody wants to see an old, washed up rock struggle his way to get thru 1 match lol. Now the mania buyrate is low and rocky is sitting at home with every bone in his body broken by cena

 

[Tide Run This]

Nobody wanted to see a pointless Lesnar/Triple H rematch. The first match was boring and the buildup to the rematch was

Rock vs Cena was the same damn build from the year before except a title was at stake. Why not turn one of these motherfukkers heel and mix shyt up. DJ wasn't even on Raw for a majority of the build. Why the fukk I wanna spend 70 dollars on a halfass effort.

Use the part time guys to put over some of these young guys. Why not put the Shield over and make them tag champs. Shield vs Hell No would've tore the house down. No one gave a fukk about the Shield vs 3 of the stalest characters on the roster.

They just need to learn how to build up quality angles to get people invested into the matches. Fandango/Jericho got a 2 week build. Bryan and Ziggler wrestle ever week on Raw adding Kane and Big E into the mix makes me wanna change the channel so I damn sure ain't buying a PPV to see it.

No celebrities being involved too kinda killed the hype and i'm not counting a shytty solo performance from Puff.

WWE really need to start swinging for the fences during this summer stretch. Give some new nikkas some shine and see who has it and who doesn't. Punk being out for a while may be the best thing to happen to the company. One of these guys that is going in circles like he was can be the guy that takes the throne.

Give D-Bry another solo run and give him a feud with Cena. Cut the corny comedy out and make dude look like a badass. Stop putting guys that aren't over in the main event scene. Del Rio and Swagger types need to be blacklisted from the main event scene until they can out pop their own managers.

 

[Tres Leches]

imagine if they had punk-taker for the title streak vs streak as the last match








































instead we got a mediocre rematch main event , boring chants, rock injured, and low buyrates

 

[StatUS]

Still no numbers yet

 

[MBwithadream]

When you give shyt, you will get shyt

 

[R=G]

Nobody wanted to see a pointless Lesnar/Triple H rematch. The first match was boring and the buildup to the rematch was

Rock vs Cena was the same damn build from the year before except a title was at stake. Why not turn one of these motherfukkers heel and mix shyt up. DJ wasn't even on Raw for a majority of the build. Why the fukk I wanna spend 70 dollars on a halfass effort.

Use the part time guys to put over some of these young guys. Why not put the Shield over and make them tag champs. Shield vs Hell No would've tore the house down. No one gave a fukk about the Shield vs 3 of the stalest characters on the roster.

They just need to learn how to build up quality angles to get people invested into the matches. Fandango/Jericho got a 2 week build. Bryan and Ziggler wrestle ever week on Raw adding Kane and Big E into the mix makes me wanna change the channel so I damn sure ain't buying a PPV to see it.

No celebrities being involved too kinda killed the hype and i'm not counting a shytty solo performance from Puff.

WWE really need to start swinging for the fences during this summer stretch. Give some new nikkas some shine and see who has it and who doesn't. Punk being out for a while may be the best thing to happen to the company. One of these guys that is going in circles like he was can be the guy that takes the throne.

Give D-Bry another solo run and give him a feud with Cena. Cut the corny comedy out and make dude look like a badass. Stop putting guys that aren't over in the main event scene. Del Rio and Swagger types need to be blacklisted from the main event scene until they can out pop their own managers.

They wont use the part time guys to put anyone over because they dont plan on pushing anyone new. Same faces..same motherfukkers as always. Sheamus hasnt lost all year and Cena puts absolutely no one over. If he cant put anyone over, how is someone who actually brings in money supposed to? They could made of made Ryback last year. They didnt. They could of had AJ swerve Punk and give Bryan the belt. They fukked that up. Kofi kicked heel Blandy's ass in 2010 and got a great reaction. They still didnt pull the trigger. They want them to be losers. Apparently they botched the Fandango thing on Monday in some weird segment. Wade Barrett should be a top heel and should have top flight protection but a Cena payback was more important...just like it was when he squashed the shyt out of Ziggler.

 

[Brad Piff]

Yo no bs.. I accidently hit a banner on here and it sent me to autism speaks smh lol

 

[MBwithadream]

I know he's too tall, he gotta swing down at you in that wheel chair.

You say your Magneto, but you're really Professor X

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Well, you know basbeball was on that night....then there was basketball on too.....and you know it was cold weather in many states and it was snowing. Not to mention it fell at the end of the first week, so the ppl who got paid on the 1st had already spent their money.

All of these things affect buyrates.

They didnt run Mania promos during Law & Order on USA

 

[R=G]

Apparently there was tech issues from Comcast Infinity and Verizon and apparently if that's not the case, John Cena is to get the BLAME at long last. One way or another, the Rock walks away unscathed and they want him RIGHT BACK in the main event of WM XXX And WWE Network may be a potential disaster if this all comes to be as well.
TEAM BRING IT 2013

If the number comes in low, there are several factors to consider. First, what impact did PPV outages have on the final number? The WWE iPPV feed was a complete disaster, with some not being able to access the show for hours and others never being able to access it. However, one would think based on historical iPPV numbers in the US that this wouldn't make the difference between, say, 800,000 US buys and 500,000 US buys (just throwing numbers out there, so please don't report elsewhere that I said WrestleMania did 500,000 buys in the US). Most likely, less than 50,000 people, perhaps substantially less, tried to order the show online. I did, however, hear during the show that there were traditional PPV providers unable to process orders, both in specific cities and also, according to several reports, nationwide for periods of time through major providers (Comcast Xfinity was mentioned along with Verizon and others). I do remember thinking at the time that if the reports were correct, that could gravely affect the US PPV numbers. But at the moment, it's impossible to determine how many people were actually unable to order as compared to how many had problems but were finally able to pay. Plus, whenever something like this happens, you largely hear from those who had problems, not those who were able to order successfully.


If the number is low due to a tech issue, that's obviously terrible for the company since they're out perhaps millions of dollars through no fault of their own, but at least it's not a situation where the company felt they were hot but were in fact selling their audience something they didn't want to buy on the biggest show of the year. I did hear from people after Royal Rumble that they weren't buying WrestleMania because they had no interest in Rock vs. Cena II, but part of me thought that, at the end of the day, it was WrestleMania in the New York and the vast majority of regular WrestleMania buyers would buy again when the day came. If it turns out that the number is low and the cable issues weren't nearly as widespread as first reported, well, this has far-reaching ramifications.


First, if interest in this show was down significantly, the first thing that you have to point to is obviously the main event. Rock won't be around much at all, but John Cena is now champion and face of the company yet again (not that he ever wasn't even when CM Punk held the title for more than 400 days). Granted, if the public is starting to tire of him more than believed, they could always take the title off of him and push someone else into that position (easier said than done, obviously, but it's not like they are trapped with him as champion). The bigger issue, moreso than the possibility that they're pushing a guy that after a full decade has finally worn out his welcome as a big-time draw, is the idea that if the US number is low – say, 500,000 to 600,000 buys – that makes the idea of starting up the WWE Network look even worse than it was before last Sunday.

 

[DoubleJ13]

I did hear from people after Royal Rumble that they weren't buying WrestleMania because they had no interest in Rock vs. Cena II

:punk:

 

[R=G]

No one buys Cena matches. No big revelation there. He's been non existent on PPV since 2006. They bought WM 27 and 28 for the Rock and wanted him to face someone different at Mania 29. Go figure. If they did the Rock vs Punk match at Mania 29, it would of been the loudest match of the year by far and definitely would of been louder than the Taker/Punk fiasco.

 

[ML29]

Hopefully the low number will motivate them to actually put some effort into next years mania. ..... who am i kidding

 

[The Great One]

WrestleMania 29 did 1,048,000 million buys, according to the latest estimates released by WWE. The official total will be released by WWE when the second quarter earnings report is released in August. Read more at Corporate.wwe.com.

The number is down from the early estimates. WWE previously listed 1.2 million buys for WrestleMania when the early figures were released last month.

Lower than HBK/Cena, highest bought Mania of All time

 

[StatUS]

Lower than HBK/Cena, highest bought Mania of All time

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
WWE's WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view did end up being the single most purchased pro wrestling pay-per-view event in history, based on new data that are likely the final numbers for the event.

These updated numbers include late recorded buys and have WrestleMania 28 doing 1,253,000 buys - 733,000 domestic and 520,000 internationally. The international number would beat the all-time record by a significant amount. There have been several events over the years that have topped the domestic number.

The 1,253,000 buys for WrestleMania 28 beats out the 1,250,000 buys for WrestleMania 23 in 2007 with Donald Trump. Technically, when it's all said and done WWE is able to round up to 1.3 million buys and claim the biggest pay-per-view of all-time.