The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Dante]

Q7: Lost 145,000 viewers (Vince McMahon & Hornswoggle mocking Jim Ross)

Good

Q12/Over-run: Gained 721,000 viewers (Vince McMahon/Show/Cena/Laurinaitis segment) to close on a massive 4.0 rating.

Damn

[KK]

IMPACT WRESTLING LIVE! Ratings Breakdown 31st May 2012

Show did a 0.9 rating.

Quarter 1: Show opened at an abysmal 0.7 rating (Sting vs. Bobby Roode)
Q2: Lost 190,000 viewers (continuation of Sting vs. Roode and Hulk Hogan announcing the Slammiversary main event)
Q3: Lost 58,000 viewers (Bully Ray/Park segment; Austin Aries vs. Chris Sabin).
Q4: Lost 88,000 viewers (Joey Ryan Gut Check evaluation backstage with Taz, Al Snow and Bruce Prichard). Show was now at a quite ludicrous 0.5.
Q5: Gained 321,000 viewers (Dixie Carter’s Hall of Fame announcement; arrival of Brooke Hogan)
Q6: Gained 29,000 viewers (Devon vs. Jeff Hardy)
Q7: Gained 59,000 viewers (Gut Check verdict)
Q8: Lost 28,000 viewers (A.J. Styles vs. Christopher Daniels/Dixie Carter cliffhanger) to end on a 1.0.

IMPACT WRESTLING LIVE! Ratings Breakdown 7th June 2012

Show did a 1.0 rating.

Quarter 2: Gained 51,000 viewers (Crimson vs. Austin Aries; Brooke Hogan backstage with the Knockouts & Velvet Sky getting the Montgomery Gentry gig)
Q3: Gained 89,000 viewers (Hulk Hogan promo, being interrupted by Bobby Roode; Roode/Sting brawl; Joseph Park quick promo)
Q4: Gained 38,000 viewers (Miss Tessmacher vs. Velvet Sky vs. Tara vs. Mickie James)
Q5: Gained 242,000 viewers (Joseph Park Bully Ray contract signing) to do a 1.1.
Q6: Lost 89,000 viewers (Devon vs. Robbie E)
Q7: Lost 91,000 viewers (Hulk Hogan coming back out & announcing Jeff Hardy vs Mr. Anderson vs RVD for the PPV)
Q8: Gained 115,000 viewers (Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles & Sting vs. Roode, Kazarian & Christopher Daniels) to close on a 1.0.

[Barley]

AJ V Daniels loses viewers to end the show and over in WWE they have a skit with Vince, Cena and Big Show which gains. Sickening really. Wrestling fans in the US.

[Barley]

I don't believe that's entirely true. It was a pretty huge increase. The sad thing is Cena = Ratings.

[Something Fishy]

Mr Kenanderson as a number one contender? Yeah right.

This tna thing has been good but some of the deadweight is still there sadly dragging them down.

I reckon their own developed taken is the best thing they have.

[Dig Dug]

Ken ain't that bad.

[Dante]

Ken ain't that bad.

He is, should be nowhere near main event matches/Title matches

[Something Fishy]

That's my feeling. I don't know if he's as stiff as he used to be but he still looked poor in that match i just watched. Not at all skilled or convincing.

[Zellery]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Tag Match from Slammiversary.

Easily one of the best matches I've seen in a very long time. All four competitors should be extremely proud of that match.

[captain red dog]

Hmm the ratings for Punk/Bryan have been pretty weak for the whole feud. That's worrying.

[Something Fishy]

I haven't got there yet Zel. I was impressed with Austin Aries. His promo seemed poor but his wrestling was very good.

[KK]

(^ skip to 0:32)



Alberto Del Rio is a pretty good singer...

(How awesome would it be if they did something like this on RAW while he's injured...)

[Something Fishy]

The tag match was great. I felt like Angle was very limited though. A few perfectly executed Germans and not much else.

The other three were superb.

The crowd overall doesn't seem as hot as deserved. And there was some bloody woman who screamed every time people spoke and sounded like a hooter going off.. they need to muzzle her in future.

Overall i'd say a good not amazing PPV but not too much Russo style BS (though the Park angle is stupid and a pointless waste of a slot and the main event ending was pathetic). Maybe WWE need to look and see what focusing on wrestling can do and give the wrestlers more time and promos less, copy the good bits not the gooseberry fool bits.

oh and chants of "you've still got it" to Sting. He hasn't really has he. Another one who needs to make way for the youth. Anderson is not part of that youth, he's gooseberry fool.

[Zellery]

Kurt gets an A+ simply for his double german spot to Kaz and Daniels. That match was seriously great.

Aries and Joe was amazing as would be expected, Bully and Joe Park was also entertaining, I even enjoyed Super Mex against Kash.

Slammiversary also had its biggest crowd in American history so that's also a big deal. I really think they're turning a corner with the product and I'm extremely excited about the whole thing.

[Something Fishy]

Aries was very good. Even my wife sat down and watched that one. That and the tag were the highlights.

If they can do more of that then they do have a good future.

[Zellery]

Aries was very good. Even my wife sat down and watched that one. That and the tag were the highlights.

If they can do more of that then they do have a good future.

That's the thing. They've always done that.

The wrestling has never been the issue, it's the writing. However, there's two very intriguing story lines going on at the moment and they've decided that longer story arcs are the way forward so I'm hoping they can continue their momentum going forward.

[KK]

Overall i'd say a good not amazing PPV but not too much Russo style BS (though the Park angle is stupid and a pointless waste of a slot)

Behind Dixie Carter/AJ, this is my second favourite storyline at the moment! I think one of the signs that it's working is that this could have easily been something the Live crowds shat all over, yet everyone in the IMPACT Zone and in Texas have been willing to play along, which is remarkable in this day and age when you think about it. I don't buy that the majority of the crowd aren't aware of what's really going on, especially on a Pay Per View where fans generally tend to be more in the know anyway.

[Zellery]

Overall i'd say a good not amazing PPV but not too much Russo style BS (though the Park angle is stupid and a pointless waste of a slot

Behind Dixie Carter/AJ, this is my second favourite storyline at the moment! I think one of the signs that it's working is that this could have easily been something the Live crowds shat all over, yet everyone in the IMPACT Zone and in Texas have been willing to play along, which is remarkable in this day and age when you think about it. I don't buy that the majority of the crowd aren't aware of what's really going on, especially on a Pay Per View where fans generally tend to be more in the know anyway.

It is a great storyline. I'm not sure Fishy knows that this all stems back to last November and has been the single best slow build story line in recent memory.

[Cosmo]

The Joe Park ESQ/Abyss angle is the best angle in pro-wrestling today. He's so great at playing a bad worker.

[Something Fishy]

To be fair no i don't know the history so catching it at the end might make it unfair to judge it then.

At the mo it seems rather silly when it's bloody obvious that one man is playing himself and his brother and has a bit of a non wrestling match with someone else.

and why is Bubba now called Bully? to confirm he bad now?

from an outsider it was always going to be the top class wrestling that caughy my eye I guess.