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Nothing is as bad as Bayley's finisher, it's just a damn belly to belly suplex isn't it? Or did she finally get rid of that?
She doesn’t win so she doesn’t have a finisher anymore
Andrade ain't been booked this good since he was in CMLL and New Japan over a decade ago. I'd do something really bold and also fresh with the AEW title booking.
She'd have to get a singles match in order to lose. Two broadcasted singles matches since the start of October.
Ya she’s doing tags with Lyra and random stuff
Still wondering if AEW going with mixed tag belts?
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Dynamite’s demo went up damn near 100% compared to last week when the total viewership spiked. Is the momentum of a generally strong year of booking and a hot main event/world title scene finally starting to pay tangible dividends?
You think I’m joking? Nope, only partially, because the female 18-49 demo this week was up 135% over the average of the past four weeks.
And I don’t think the changes to the new methodology have anything to do with this week’s demo pop.
Last week the viewership went up a ton for Dynamite but the demos barely changed, going up merely 0.01 points, essentially white noise worth of difference.
The viewership this week was only 1K greater than last week’s, but the demo went from a .09 to a .15.
So unless Nielsen made more alterations, which I suppose is always possible, that is an insanely high bump in just one week. But mostly everything else outside of wrestling was pretty consistent from last week, so highly unlikely Nielsen made any more alterations.
That’s nearly double what NXT is drawing now and nearly 4x what TNA drew last week, you know the company that Matt Hardy said is going to challenge AEW for the #2 spot
Last week the viewership went up a ton for Dynamite but the demos barely changed, going up merely 0.01 points, essentially white noise worth of difference.
The viewership this week was only 1K greater than last week’s, but the demo went from a .09 to a .15.
So unless Nielsen made more alterations, which I suppose is always possible, that is an insanely high bump in just one week. But mostly everything else outside of wrestling was pretty consistent from last week, so highly unlikely Nielsen made any more alterations.
That’s nearly double what NXT is drawing now and nearly 4x what TNA drew last week, you know the company that Matt Hardy said is going to challenge AEW for the #2 spot
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The whole Raheem nickname is making fun of him because he was trying to explain racism to a black man in AEW. What a moron.
The whole Raheem nickname is making fun of him because he was trying to explain racism to a black man in AEW. What a moron.
Haven't watched wrestling in a bit but apparently things are wayyyy different now. There was a vulgar chant at some minor league that got national attention and the leader of the "internet wrestling community " (Rovert) is declaring victory .
If Stone Cold comes back let me know, otherwise y'all can keep this lol
If Stone Cold comes back let me know, otherwise y'all can keep this lol
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If you are asking if there are any wrestlers that used to play at Kentucky, then yes Steven Borden Jr., the son of the wrestler Sting and former TE for the football team, started his career last year.
AEW is a multi-billion dollar company, that’s no minor league.
Multi billion??? So like more than like most of the NFL, NBA and all of the NHL teams? Thats insane. Do you have a legitimate source for this?
Get your knowledge up.
The average value of an NBA, NFL, MLB, or major Soccer league team is worth between 2.6 to 7.1 billion.
Forbes valued AEW at $2 billion
Nope, allegedly signed to AEW. Wrestling contracts aren’t a matter of public record like in pro sports, so if a signing isn’t announced then we don’t officially know if it’s official signed.
He was part of his dad’s retirement match in AEW then decided to become a pro wrestler after that experience. To get experience he’s working the indies and some matches with ROH, which is basically AEW’s developmental brand. Think of it like how an MLB franchise will sign a player then stash him in the minors until he’s ready to be called up to the major league team.
Maybe they like MJF too - he hasn’t been back very long either?
Maybe your right but he didn’t bring that demo pop to Smackdown and he was on most weeks especially with his Carmelo Hayes feud.
The guy that runs AEW is Tony khan
His dad owns the Jacksonville jaguars and had so much money he told his kids he’d write them a blank check to do whatever they wanted and Tony said he wanted to run a wrestling company since he’s always been a fan and used to go to wwe house shows in Champaign Illinois.
Different audience. Wasn’t presented as a big deal like he is in AEW. Wasn’t stripping in WWE. Wasn’t being a ladies man in WWE.
Didn't Andrade just come back? It's not like he's been doing this gimmick for months lol. There's three women on YouTube who react to wrestling which includes AEW. Fletcher sat with them for a video a while back, which was incredibly smart of AEW to set up. My guess is that's opened up a new audience for AEW plus the new metrics used punished wrestling and no other sport and that's ended. Now NXT (while stripped of talent), SD, and AEW are suddenly doing better ratings wise. MJF also puts himself out there, always has. Turns out, your champion should be doing interviews and appearances galore and not just saying he's the men's world champion as hundreds online repeatedly say "that's our cowboy." MJF is a mini-marketing machine. In WWE, guys like Punk and Rollins are everywhere outside of 'the Universe.' Lastly, a particular chant by AEW fans got mainstream attention and lately, it's been a popular thing to say, so that's gotten more positive attention than negative. MJF's reaction was hilarious btw.
Yup not to mention Rollins was a presenter during the nfl honors - like you said marketing does wonders which I think AEW has room for improvement and MJF helps with that.
Got a link to that YouTube? I'm not familiar with it.
Doubt the "Fuc* ICE" chant this week had much of an impact on AEW's TV ratings. These sepcific Nielsen ratings are live + same day (they track a whole lot more than just live + same day).
My biggest problem with the Elite since day one is their lack of marketing. Bucks and Omega were EVPs but rarely ever got out and marketed the product. Hangman has always been an especially private person. There's certainly responsibilities that come with being in the positions they have been in and are in and I don't feel like they have held up their end of the deal in that respect.
People watching in the eastern and central time zones would have only had 2-3 hours to watch it after it aired live. Pacific time zone doesn't even get the show live but they can watch it live thru the TBS app or on HBO Max, so I'm sure the Pacific folks aren't a particularly large TV audience. Not sure about the situation with the Mountain time zone.
Nielsen Changed the Ratings Again with the Addition of ARF DASH - WrestleJoy
In September 2025, we wrote a technical primer on how Nielsen switched to “Big Data + Panel” and why it caused wrestling ratings to drop. This week, ratings jumped. AEW Dynamite was up 31%. Collision nearly doubled. SmackDown hit its highest 18-49 in months. Here is what has changed. Why Did...
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Above article written by the same guy who discovered a previous flaw in Nielsen's system that they fixed.
Basically, Nielsen was undercounting the # of households that have cable TV. When they measure ratings, it's based on % of households watching. So if Dynamite was watched by 1% of households, and you increase the # of households with cable, they'll see a viewership increase even if it stays at 1%. Because 1% of 1000 (10) is more than 1% of 100 (1), after all.
But as it says above, the size of the 18-49 demo didn't only changed marginally. So Dynamite this week going from 0.09 to 0.15 is simply a massive increase in 18-49s wanting to watch this week as opposed to simply a math change.
To say the new model that punished wrestling has ended is just not true though. All this system did was increase the # of cable subscribers. It didn't fix the problems with the demo rating.