The Wrestling Thread

America has year round sport :smiley-laughing002: Vince just gives up

 

* given the improvements he could probably carry ryback into a great little title feud.

Can only imagine the matches he could have with guys like Bryan as well.

Fantasy of course but I feel match and mic wise Seth and Punk would have been todays era of stone cold and rock.

 

Vince gave up years ago



Never mind Lucha Underground is back soon

 

Ratings down again



- Monday's episode of WWE RAW, with Kane vs. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins in a Lumberjack Match, drew 3.285 million viewers. This is down from last week's 3.378 million viewers and another new record-low.

For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.518 million viewers, the second hour drew 3.254 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.082 million viewers.

RAW was #4 for the night in viewership behind the NFL on ESPN, MLB on TBS and ESPN SportsCenter. RAW was #5 for the night in the 18-49 demographic, behind the NFL, SportsCenter, both MLB games and Love & Hip-Hop.



- Monday's RAW ranked #3 among non-sporting events for the night in Nielsen's Twitter TV ratings, behind The Voice and Dancing with the Stars. RAW had a unique audience of 1.213 million, which represents the number of Twitter accounts that commented on the show. This is down from last week's 1.573 million. RAW had total impressions of 7.436 million, which represents the number of times the show was tweeted about. This was down from last week's 7.534 million impressions.

 

Aye that's me posting on WF.

 

thought so :smiley-laughing002:

 

ICW Fear and Loathing has the biggest UK crowd for a UK company since 1981. Incredible. Less than 100 tickets left.

 

Big Daddy went one on one with Giant Haystacks in the main event.



Good stuff hope they do well

 

http://dovathd.com/rpw-njpw-uprising-2015-02-10-15/

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLgJwllJJIc[/ame]

 

The sad thing is, if you look back through history, wrestling should be gearing itself up for another boom period soon.

You had the Sammartino/Thesz/Rogers years in the 50s/60s/70s and then the Golden Age with the likes of Hogan, Flair, Warrior and Savage in the 80s.

Obviously the 90s and early 2000s belonged to Austin and Rock, but since the end of the Attitude Era, the only true shining light in terms of being a mainstream draw (ie, someone that can attract viewers from outside of the current wrestling fanbase) is Lesnar.

Cena is clearly popular with the WWE fanbase, but I wouldn't put him on a par with Brock as far as being a 'brand' goes.

Another boom period just doesn't look likely though, with the way Vince is just half assing everything and has been doing so for a good few years. They don't have that mainstream star that will draw in viewers from other circles, and it seems like they aren't in any hurry to create one.

As Vince gets older, it seems to me as though he is now just content to put out mediocre content, safe in the knowledge that at least 3m people will still tune in each week and watch.

 

Harry Smith has announced that he now owns the rights to the name "The British Bulldog" as used by his father and will now be known as British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith Jr

 

Always liked Harry he's doing well in Japan now



Would love to see him back with WWE at some point

 

only a few months to go this is New Japan's WrestleMania the biggest event of the year.

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rl9wWchPLU[/ame]







Road to POWER STRUGGLE


POWER STRUGGLE PPV


WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2015

Road to TOKYO DOME

all to come before WRESTLE KINGDOM 10 in the Tokyo Dome.

 

WWE in Mexico

















http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/merida-mexico-2015-photos

 

Undertakers WM entrances never fail to give you goosebumps.

 

Can't beat it probably the best in WWE some will disagree about that

 

HHH at WM are always good. Bray Wyatt, if his match with Taker at WM31 wasn't in daylight then that would of been something else.

 

that was so * stupid WM31 with the entrance for Taker Sting and Bray in daylight.

They look *

 

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5i24RGSzn7U[/ame]

 

I wonder how the crowd would react if they had a Sasha Banks and Bailey match on raw, just watching it again * * what a match