Does Anyone Watch Wrestling? (WWE, AEW, TNA, NWA, etc)

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Raw drew a 2.1 last night, its highest rating since 4th January 2021.

WWE say this past Wrestlemania was its highest attended and highest grossing, just over 150,000 attended over the two nights, it has to be a two-night show from now on if they are getting those numbers, it will be next year.
 
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Raw drew a 2.1 last night, its highest rating since 4th January 2021.

WWE say this past Wrestlemania was its highest attended and highest grossing, just over 150,000 attended over the two nights, it has to be a two-night show from now on if they are getting those numbers, it will be next year.
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If you ignore that they undoubtedly double-counted anyone who attended both nights, but pro wrestling has never been adverse to inflating attendance numbers at large events.

That said, even if the arena was only half full both nights they still wouldn't pare it back to one night. They have no reason to with the restrictions of cable broadcast times removed. And given how well Stand and Deliver did, the NXT side of things may start getting extra time next year too (not a bad thing really, some of the matches this year were quality enough that they should have been on the Mania card).
 
Joe Gacy 'kidnapped' Rick Steiner on NXT last night, this was after Breakker defended his title against Gunther only to find that his dad was tied up an in a cage with a demented looking Gacy and Harland on the outside of it, we're meant to take it seriously but I found the whole thing hilarious....I mean WTF?!
 
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Joe Gacy 'kidnapped' Rick Steiner on NXT last night, this was after Breakker defended his title against Gunther only to find that his dad was tied up an in a cage with a demented looking Gacy and Harland on the outside of it, we're meant to take it seriously but I found the whole thing hilarious....I mean WTF?!
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That whole segement definitely had some major "pre-Nitro WCW" energy to it. I have to admit though, it's got me wondering where they're gonna go with it.
 
NXT's Nash Carter was released today after allegations from his wife Kimber Lee (also a wrestler) that he was abusive and violent towards her, she made the allegations on Twitter in the past couple of days and another saying he had made some discriminating remarks, WWE were quick to let him go.

He was part of the current tag champs MSK so it was a brave move to get rid of one of the title holders, they only won the belts back for a second time at Stand And Deliver on Saturday.
 
WWE doesn't take any chances when those type of accusations are made, so no surprise they moved so swiftly. If the claims turn out to be less than true, they'll likely bring him back in just as quickly. If I remember correctly, that's what happened with Cedric Alexander a while back.
 
Carmella and Cory Graves got married yesterday so congrats to them both, attending the wedding was Renee Young and Jon Moxley, Bayley, Natalya and Tyson Kidd, Sonya Deville, Tamina and Liv Morgan.

Both Cory and Carmella will be off TV for next couple of weeks whilst they are on honeymoon, Jerry Lawlor will keep Cory's commentary seat warm on Raw.
 


harry potter my body is ready GIF
 
It seems that they're just ending the brand extension. Given Roman Reigns is trying to get the Usos to unify the Tag Team Championships. I expect the Women's Championships will go for a similar angle eventually
 
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It seems that they're just ending the brand extension. Given Roman Reigns is trying to get the Usos to unify the Tag Team Championships. I expect the Women's Championships will go for a similar angle eventually
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Even more than hiring away Cody, if you're right then that tells me they absolutely are taking AEW as serious competition now. Or at least I hope so, because WWE can't afford to keep pretending it's competing against itself anymore.
 
Gunther showed up on Smackdown to take on Joe Alonso so it seems he has been called up, his Imperium team mate Marcel Barthel was also there but with a new name of Ludwig Kaiser. No sign of Aichner sadly for him.

Raquel Gonzalez has also been called up but her surname is now Rodriguez, Lacey Evans returned as well to give a video promo about her tough upbringing and it seems they have ditched the southern belle gimmick.

Ronda Rousey challenged Flair to an I Quit match for women's title at Mania Backlash, Ricochet will defend his IC title v Jinder Mahal next week, he has been taken some time off to spend with his son, didn't know he had a son!

Cody Rhodes v The Miz has been made for Raw, Usos will likely be there as well to challenge RK-Bro after what happened last night.
 
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Even more than hiring away Cody, if you're right then that tells me they absolutely are taking AEW as serious competition now. Or at least I hope so, because WWE can't afford to keep pretending it's competing against itself anymore.
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I'm a bit iffy on it. WWE got much better when it reintroduced the Brand Split in 2016, with minor low points like Jinder Mahal and Brock Lesnar title reigns.

It only went downhill once the Wild Card Rule was introduced in 2019 and they confirmed they remerged the writing teams. Which is probably the actual problem. They only have 1 writing team having to write 5 hours of programming every week and has to be approved by 1 Man before it can even have a chance at being on the air. When the brand split was reintroduced we had 2 writing teams which lightened the work a lot and we did get some good storylines especially on Smackdown despite constantly being screwed over by Raw favouritism. AEW seems to not have this problem as the Wrestlers contribute heavily to the stories so the writing team they have have a lot load off their back in comparison

Another concern I have with the brand extension ending is when they ended it the first time, Smackdown might as well not exist, it was a 2 hour Raw recap episode. Now it might be in reverse and Raw will just be a 3 hour commercial for Smackdown. Raw after Wrestlemania ended with Roman saying "Watch Smackdown, lol".
 
Another Wrestling wedding over the weekend and this time it was Alexa Bliss's wedding with Ryan Cabrera so congrats to them both, fellow wrestlers attending included Miz and Maryse, Liv Morgan and Sonya Deville, also former WWE stars Nia Jax and CJ 'Lana' Perry.

Charlotte Flair v Ronda Rousey I Quit match for Smackdown women's title has been made for Wrestlemania Backlash on May 8th, and will likely be main event.

Its been reported that WWE currently have no plans for either the WWE title or Universal title now they have been unified...to the surprise of no-one!
 
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Another Wrestling wedding over the weekend and this time it was Alexa Bliss's wedding with Ryan Cabrera so congrats to them both, fellow wrestlers attending included Miz and Maryse, Liv Morgan and Sonya Deville, also former WWE stars Nia Jax and CJ 'Lana' Perry.

Charlotte Flair v Ronda Rousey I Quit match for Smackdown women's title has been made for Wrestlemania Backlash on May 8th, and will likely be main event.

Its been reported that WWE currently have no plans for either the WWE title or Universal title now they have been unified...to the surprise of no-one!
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Makes me think how quickly CM Punk would've been gone again if he somehow decided to go with WWE instead. He was very outspoken about he always asked what he was going to be doing after his current storyline, wanting to know a lot more ahead of time.

But I guess it doesn't matter for WWE, shove another part-timer/celebrity to lose to Roman Reigns and people will eat it up anyway
 
I'm so glad WWE is NOT putting my concern that Raw will just become a 3 hour advertisement for Smackdown to rest...
 
So WWE are coming to the UK for its biggest show here since Summerslam 92 which was at Wembley stadium.

it will be at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on September 3rd. This is a big deal!
 
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Rumours are now flying around that Roman Reigns is hiding the injury and only him, Heyman, Usos and Vince McMahon know about it.
 
Even though it's highly unlikely. Narrative wise, the Usos needs to lose the Tag Team Championship unification match. There's no direction for the Bloodline to go when they win. At least if logic prevails and the Usos lose. You can have The Bloodline implode and you'd have an interesting Triple Threat angle with Roman Reigns and the Usos
 
That unification match has been made for Mania Backlash, Riddle beat Jey Uso in the main event last night, Roman and Heyman weren't there.

Ricochet defended his IC title with an easy win over Jinder Mahal, next week is a Lumberjack match between McIntyre and Zayn after they had a match last night which went to a count-out win again after Zayn fled again. Drew Gulak is apparently an interviewer now and interviewed Charlotte Flair until Flair put him in the Figure 8.

NXT's LA Knight was involved in the dark match before the show, but as a manager not a wrestler, he was a manager to Mace.
 
In more "WWE and renaming wrestlers silly things", Kay Lee Ray is now Alba Fyre and Kacy Cantanzaro is now Katana Chance; both names, might I add, are decent ska band names.
 
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In more "WWE and renaming wrestlers silly things", Kay Lee Ray is now Alba Fyre and Kacy Cantanzaro is now Katana Chance; both names, might I add, are decent ska band names.
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Katana Chance better have a cyberpunk gimmick now, because that name's giving me some real Shadowrun/Blade Runner vibes.
 
So I saw the headline Austin Theory won the U.S Championship and I was vacant for like 5 minutes because I couldn't think who was the previous Champion.

Remember back 7 years ago when they decided they would care about the U.S Championship by giving it to John Cena in a climatic Wrestlemania match and having him as Champion be a constant presence


....and now I can't remember who was Intercontinental Champion
 
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Theory beat Finn Balor in a very good match to become new US champion, think I might be right in thinking that this is his first title in WWE?

Naomi and Sasha Banks defended their tag titles against Ripley and Morgan and Ripley predictably turned on Morgan after, Cody Rhodes beat Kevin Owens in the main event via count-out after Rollins got involved with Owens and gave him some abuse so Owens walked off, Rollins had picked Owens to be Rhodes mystery opponent.

Earlier in the night Owens had his KO Show with a lie detector test for Ezekiel to prove that he was in fact Elias, Ezekiel passed the test then had a match with Chad Gable after, Edge and Damien Priest jumped AJ Styles, There was brilliant comedy segment involving the 24/7 title and the joint weddings, it was so good mostly because of R-Truth!
 
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Remember back 7 years ago when they decided they would care about the U.S Championship by giving it to John Cena in a climatic Wrestlemania match and having him as Champion be a constant presence
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You mean back when the US championship was as much Cena's vanity belt as the Universal championship is Roman's vanity belt now?

I think the last time any midcard championship was portrayed to actually mean anything in WWE/F was before the European championship was made. Once that came about and Shawn Michaels immediately decided he wanted it just because he wanted a belt to look more important, and the writers were like "well it's supposed to be exclusively for our UK shows but... yeah, okay I guess", that pretty much set the precedent that anyone who had a little pull with creative and got in their ear about it could have a short title run with a midcard title if they wanted. I'd say that they were reining that in over the last few years, but it's pretty much damage long since done on that front.

Yes, I am complaining about fake championships in a pre-determined, choreographed pseudo-sport. What of it?
 
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You mean back when the US championship was as much Cena's vanity belt as the Universal championship is Roman's vanity belt now?
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While the US Open Challenge was nothing more than "lol cena wins". The storylines he got involved with for the PPV were far more interesting and both Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins felt like threats to Cenas Championship.

Granted Cenas whole U.S Championship program wasn't that long compared to Romans right now so that is another factor and Cena could've lost a lot of momentum if he didn't eventually drop it. Issue with Roman's title reign is its length, it got old since after Money in the Bank

However I'll argue The Miz did a great job trying to make the Intercontinental Championship try to mean something during his programs with it in 2016 to 2018. I was invested in a few of his storylines
 
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