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American Dragon

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Powerhouse Hobbs left AEW two weeks into the calendar year of 2026. He has more TV matches in AEW (2) this calendar year than in WWE (1) since debuting there at the end of January for the Rumble.
 
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MegaBlue05

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One of the new WWE ID signings got his new WWE name last night and they named him after a murderer and kidnapper. Same weird spelling and all.



Does anyone actually watch this?

WWE programming is over saturated.

I don’t even have time/desire to keep up with NXT or TNA and I’m currently only watching Dynamite and bits and pieces of Smackdown/Raw/Collision after reading results.
 
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American Dragon

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Does anyone actually watch this?

WWE programming is over saturated.

I don’t even have time/desire to keep up with NXT or TNA and I’m currently only watching Dynamite and bits and pieces of Smackdown/Raw/Collision after reading results.
About a month or so after it debuted on Tubi it was getting easily under 100K views a week with precipitous weekly drops. I’ve seen nothing about its viewership ever since.
 

Nightwish

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It's out of the Russo playbook and risky to talk about bad creative and low ratings ON THE SHOW, esp. when the company is asking fans to fork over so much. The only positive I see is Pat being a great hype man and good on the stick. He painted Cody as a corporate stooge champ and his promo was almost a call for longtime fans to cheer for Orton, which I think they were doing anyway.

I don't care about the face/heel angle as much. Trick was supposed to be an arrogant heel but fans made him a face. Sami is getting some boos as is Cody. Orton is getting cheered because he's cool and they want to see #15. Roman was cheered after throwing Punk through a table because carnage. Kit Wilson, as a heel, got massive cheers a few weeks ago because he's got a new gimmick.
 

Laparkafan

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It's out of the Russo playbook and risky to talk about bad creative and low ratings ON THE SHOW, esp. when the company is asking fans to fork over so much. The only positive I see is Pat being a great hype man and good on the stick. He painted Cody as a corporate stooge champ and his promo was almost a call for longtime fans to cheer for Orton, which I think they were doing anyway.

I don't care about the face/heel angle as much. Trick was supposed to be an arrogant heel but fans made him a face. Sami is getting some boos as is Cody. Orton is getting cheered because he's cool and they want to see #15. Roman was cheered after throwing Punk through a table because carnage. Kit Wilson, as a heel, got massive cheers a few weeks ago because he's got a new gimmick.
Ya it’s the stone cold cool angle - I thought they were teasing a zayn heel turn with Cody but maybe they’ll do a double turn with trick/zayn eventually
 

Laparkafan

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You got to stop acting like a cry baby whenever someone points out WWE stupidity.
I’m not a crybaby bc I literally don’t care - you’re the crybaby that constantly complains about all wwe stuff - literally no one cares about wwe main event and yet you tell us you care by some weird irrelevant post about a taped online show

Do better oh wait I don’t think you can
 

American Dragon

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Pat McAfee going “yeah this *hit sucks bro” is an odd strategy to pull out of the playbook when ticket sales for WM are down nearly 20% year over year.
 

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Pat McAfee going “yeah this *hit sucks bro” is an odd strategy to pull out of the playbook when ticket sales for WM are down nearly 20% year over year.
I know it’s above your mental capacity but he does talk about wwe on his espn show and podcast that more people watch than AEW I know it’s a sore spot for you but it’s a tough pill to swallow!
 

American Dragon

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I know it’s above your mental capacity but he does talk about wwe on his espn show and podcast that more people watch than AEW I know it’s a sore spot for you but it’s a tough pill to swallow!
What a great way to sell the product. “This stuff sucks, no one likes it, it’s bad business, we can’t sell tickets, we got midgets wrestling for no reason.”

He could have been brought in to the fold without crapping on the product.

But what do I know? Let’s trust the people in WWE who are 19% underwater year over year for WrestleMania ticket sales and who managed to sell -900 tickets since the last WrestleTix update.

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