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Post by spacepope316 on Apr 16, 2009 7:36:47 GMT -5
The two mainevents featuring Edge vs Cena and Orton vs Triple H were too over exposed. Cena vs Orton and Edge vs Triple H would have been better and shoving Big Show into the mainevent wasnt going to bring in any buys at all more likely disuade people from bothering.
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krzykraka
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Post by krzykraka on Apr 16, 2009 8:27:28 GMT -5
Thank god I wasnt a part of the buyrate! I knew WM only had one match (Taker/HBK) I was interested in by the end of the last Monday night Raw before WM and even that match was perdictable as who would win. As great as the one match was when I watched it the next day, it wasn't worth 55 dollars!
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Post by aido67 on Apr 16, 2009 8:36:09 GMT -5
Also with Internet streaming media, some people are just cheapskates.
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Post by metylerca on Apr 16, 2009 10:35:05 GMT -5
Getting mostly cheers on tv doesnt seem to translate into PPV buys, i mean like i said the show he returned on did a terrible buyrate yet his return was overhyped to hell and you'da thought Cena = buys but i guess he's not as popular as he was. If your top face cant get decent buys for his big first show back after a few months off you got problems. Cena may be a cash cow for merch but he isnt for PPV's And how do you know this? Who's to say people weren't interested in seeing Orton in the main event? Why is Cena to blame here? There were plenty of other main eventers on the card, you know.
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Post by MiLo Duck on Apr 16, 2009 13:09:19 GMT -5
Me and my friends bought it out of tradition, but none of us were all that hyped as opposed to previous years. This is odd since I can usually fool myself to mark mode leading up to Mania at the very least. I still did, but it was REALLY difficult and not all that effective.
The lead up to both main events were just so damn awkward and didn't draw me in at all. I'm not even going to get into the execution, the lead-ins were bad enough. The Cena/Show/Edge match had no heart and the comedy factor ineffective at best and cheesy and lame at worst. The Orton/HHH feud seemed rushed despite the build since Rumble. Then they took a situation with all this supposed personal hatred and added a clause in which HHH would lose the belt in a DQ almost assuring us of not getting the payoff needed with such a storyline. That payoff being a hardcore hell in the cell brutality type scenario...which was almost guaranteed to not happen.
And a lame and vanilla match it was! I had this outside hope that HHH would smack Randy with the hammer to open the match, strap the belt on him himself, and then proceed to fifteen minutes of HHH vs Randy unsanctioned brutality!
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