The Wrestling Thread: AEW Dynasty

Slimgrady wrote:The Samoa Joe/Brock Lesnar brawl from last night already has 2.5 million views on YouTube! Less than 12 hours after airing live! Shows how people, including myself, are watching the product these days.

Now surpassed 3 million.

RAW did 2.5m on USA Network. So it's officially happened: more people are now watching the RAW highlights on YouTube than on cable (UK, Canada, US, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden and Italy combined).

KK wrote:
Slimgrady wrote:The Samoa Joe/Brock Lesnar brawl from last night already has 2.5 million views on YouTube! Less than 12 hours after airing live! Shows how people, including myself, are watching the product these days.

Now surpassed 3 million.

RAW did 2.5m on USA Network. So it's officially happened: more people are now watching the RAW highlights on YouTube than on cable (UK, Canada, US, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden and Italy combined).

Maybe because there was a stupid technical issue during the confrontation on Sky.

The crowd are now beginning to turn on Bayley because of stuff like this. Almost 1,000 dislikes on this video.

'I don't want to hurt people'. Because wrestling doesn't hurt unless there's weapons obviously.

She wasn't the only one - Akira Tozawa looked like a massive dork as well!

KK wrote:

The crowd are now beginning to turn on Bayley because of stuff like this. Almost 1,000 dislikes on this video.

'I don't want to hurt people'. Because wrestling doesn't hurt unless there's weapons obviously.

She wasn't the only one - Akira Tozawa looked like a massive dork as well!

Yeah, I had such high hopes for bayley, she was good on nxt, I really liked some of her work with Finn Balor, they seemed to have great chemistry but it's like they are trying to make her the lamest, wettest character ever.

They've turned her form one of the most over people on the roster to a creepy geek.

Didn't realise Money in the Bank was this Sunday. Might stay up and watch it since those matches are almost always good.

SmackDown Live viewership has now dipped under what it was doing taped last year (2million approx). That momentum for Money In The Bank. :datass:

SmackDown has been declining in quality since the roster shake up, for my money. For some reason it's just not clicking as well as it used to. It doesn't help having a jobber champion. I'm a huge Styles fan, but haven't enjoyed the Ziggler feud at all. I'm looking forward to those guy's moving onto new feuds. Bizarrely I've really enjoyed the Breezango push and skits.

I've started to enjoy Raw so much more. The main event scene there is now so much better. The matches with Joe, Rollins, Balor, Wyatt and even Reigns have been so good. Despite being a part-time champion, it was cool seeing the Lesnar and Joe segment this week. And Strowman is apparently due back.

Really looking forward to seeing the Woman's Championship and ladder matches on Sunday for the simple reason they're the first. Be interesting to see what they are able to come up with.

What do people round here make of the latest development in the long running Cornette Russo feud? Cornette in one of his trademark rants made an open challenge to Russo; I believe the deal was anytime, anywhere, no guns. no knives, no cameras, come alone, with Cornette offering $5000 if Russo can take it from him.

Now I usually find Cornette's interviews etc. pretty entertaining but I think this is getting a little out of hand and frankly pathetic, bordering on my dad's bigger than your dad playground bullshit.

Jim Cornette's a prick, I can't stand him.

I find the problem with Cornette is he now literally lives his gimmick (has been for years) and he's an annoying prick for it

There's a Table for 3 with Cornette and Bischoff on the Network that's worth a watch.

KK wrote:There's a Table for 3 with Cornette and Bischoff on the Network that's worth a watch.

As I understand it this open challenge arose out of the fallout from that show. Russo called BS on some of it, invited Cornette to talk about the matter on his vlog and Cornette just flipped.

Russo appears to have made several attempts at burying the hatchet even offering a round table type debate with proceeds going to charity but Cornette just won't let it lie. He's increasingly coming across as this sad, bitter old man forever stuck in the past and I actually think Russo comes across as the better man in this whole debacle.

KK wrote:There's a Table for 3 with Cornette and Bischoff on the Network that's worth a watch.

I found that a bit disappointing, Bischoff is probably just behind Russo on his hate list and there was just a couple of slight disagreements at the table and they all lived happily ever after in the end. God knows why Hayes was there either, Heyman would have been much better.

A lot of interest in MitB :dread:

Rumours that Maria and Mike Bennett might be debuting tonight or on Smackdown.

I feels like there's a PPV every 2 weeks.

...

Oh wait, that's because there is!

Mafro wrote:A lot of interest in MitB

Rumours that Maria and Mike Bennett might be debuting tonight or on Smackdown.

Their run in Impact was so good. It's a shame they presumably won't be able to use the Miracle gimmick, I loved Maria's entrance promos. SmackDown is probably the best place for them, their shtick is very similar to The Miz and Maryse, best to keep them separated. I hope they rekindle my love for SmackDown, it just hasn't been as enjoyable recently for me.

I've been really enjoying the Tony Schiavone podcast in which they rewatch old WCW shows as they record the podcast and they discuss what was going on at the time and give a lot of insight into his commentary and so on. Tony just doesn't give a gooseberry fool and is clearly having such a great time rewatching everything again.

http://www.mlwradio.com/tony-schiavone.html

The Hype Bros return to action on KickOff right now. Wonder if one is going to attack the other.

Hope it's not this hot for the next PPV. :cry:

The Wrestling Thread: AEW Dynasty

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