The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[YouSmellOfWee]

Let's all go to WWE City

[KK]

Let's all go to WWE City

After the inevitable failure of WWE Network, that'll be next on the agenda. Followed by a WWE themed Hotel...

(I'd actually go to a WWE themed Hotel.)

[Johnny Ryall]

strawberry floating what?

[Dark Ritual]

Let's all go to WWE City

After the inevitable failure of WWE Network, that'll be next on the agenda. Followed by a WWE themed Hotel...

(I'd actually go to a WWE themed Hotel.)

To be honest, in they heydey, you probably could've got some mileage out of "The Smackdown Hotel" being a converted hotel just for PPV weekends or something.

[KK]

WWE have announced that SummerSlam will once again feature a musical interlude, this year courtesy of Kevin Rudolf. Don't Give Up is the official theme song.

[1cmanny1]

WWE have announced that SummerSlam will once again feature a musical interlude, this year courtesy of Kevin Rudolf. Don't Give Up is the official theme song.

YES! I hope his set lasts three hours.

I know WWE's share value has fallen drastically lately, but giving fans more music and less wrestling is absolutely going to work out brilliantly.

Of course, I am pretty sure the WWE knows by now that fans prefer drama and short skits over wrestling. Who would tune in to watch wrestling?

[Chocolate Jim]

You can get £1.83 back on £1.00 for Triple H on Sunday!! Fill ya boots lads

[1cmanny1]

Lesnar will win.

[KK]

WWE RAW Ratings Breakdown 13th August 2012

Show did a 2.85 rating.

Quarter 1: Show opened at at 2.6 (CM Punk vs. Big Show)
Q2: Gained 63,000 viewers (Ryback vs. JTG)
Q3: Gained 186,000 viewers (R-Truth vs. Heath)
Q4: Lost 105,000 viewers (Sin Cara vs. Tensai)
Q5: Gained 516,000 viewers (Piper’s Pit)
Q6: Lost 96,000 viewers (Chris Jericho vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. The Miz)
Q7: Lost 374,000 viewers (Backstage stuff involving Shawn Michaels, John Cena and CM Punk)
Q8: Gained 45,000 viewers (Eve Torres & Beth Phoenix vs. Kaitlyn & Layla)
Q9: Gained 247,000 viewers (John Cena & CM Punk vs. Big Show & Daniel Bryan) to do a 2.9.
Q10: Lost 121,000 viewers (Christian vs. Damien Sandow)
Q11: Gained 431,000 viewers (Brock Lesnar and Triple H H contract signing)
Q12: Lost 394,000 viewers (Shawn Michaels getting assaulted in his car)
Over-run: Gained 817,000 viewers (Lesnar breaking Shawn Michaels’ arm) to close on a 3.4.

[Dig Dug]

[KK]

When John Cena is doing a 2.9 at 10pm, you might have a problem.

I'm expecting the rating to go back up next week though as people tune in for the SummerSlam fall-out. Where this really becomes a problem is when the next season of football starts and the new season of programming on other channels gets under way. If WWE can be this affected during pre-season football, what's it going to be like when the real thing starts? Even the Olympics didn't hurt them as bad.

One thing I'm noticing is, rather than seeing wrestlers once or twice during the course of a normal 2 hour show, because it's now 3 we're seeing the same wrestlers three or even four times. In regards to this week, we saw CM Punk and Big Show wrestle twice.

[1cmanny1]

I really want them to fail, it will serve them right.

[captain red dog]

When they need Big Show to wrestle twice on one show, surely they should realise they are in serious trouble.

The thing is, the roster is big enough but they keep it so thin for TV that it's ridiculous. Guys like Slater, JTG, Tyson Kidd, Truth, Kofy etc should be filling out the IC division. The problem is you need months to establish them and will take a ratings hit to start with but WWE aren't prepared to put the time in to build things.

[Dante]

We decided at work today that Kofi needs a gimmick were he is always coughing due to Ron killings smoking

[Mockmaster]

Review a Wai - WWF SummerSlam '92 w/ Bret Hart, Harry Smith



http://fightnetwork.com/data/podcasts/1 ... -08-15.mp3

Featuring:

**John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWF 'SummerSlam' 1992 from Wembley Stadium

**Bret Hart comments on the match with Davey Boy Smith

**Harry Smith joins us to discussing being in attendance for this show and going back to NJPW

[1cmanny1]

Link doesn't work

[captain red dog]

They are in the process of moving where their archives are stored and at present nothing seems to work. The iTunes file is fine though.

[Mockmaster]

Yeah everything seems borked. I couldn't even use their Summerslam image so I grabbed one off the internets.

[1cmanny1]

Podbean works as well.

[Something Fishy]

I'm watching a lot more TNA now i have no sky. I must admit i'd never really thought about the fact they give away their PPV's and that these contain better wrestling and less BS than WWE's stuff. Yet sky expect you to pay extra for those WWE shows on top of their horribly inflated fees. How do they get away with it? Has to be most people still do it through habit now. Surely as IP TV and so many other easy ways to get it take off it'll be difficult for them to justify their high priced approach (buy everything to watch the bit you wany).