Christianv2
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Christianv2 on Apr 26, 2007 14:13:20 GMT -5
Give Lashley the IC title and move him to RAW, honestly, he just doesnt work in ECW no matter how hard they try.
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Post by Old School Heel mark4Morishima on Apr 26, 2007 14:25:33 GMT -5
Funny. CM Punk doesn't wrestle for two weeks and the ratings go down. Just a coincidence probably.
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Post by mysterydriver on Apr 26, 2007 16:48:34 GMT -5
Sidenote: I really got a kick out of Punk this week.
His no handshake on Burke before coming back and laughing was awesome.
Even better, when Burke was babbling about New Breed going to the top without Punk, CM slides in and says, "Where we going?"
I don't know. I guess he has good comedic timing, cause I laughed at that.
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Post by Michael Coello on Apr 26, 2007 16:50:21 GMT -5
I have a theory: Bad wrestling shows get good ratings. Good wrestling shows get bad ratings. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by mysterydriver on Apr 26, 2007 16:55:49 GMT -5
I have a theory: Bad wrestling shows get good ratings. Good wrestling shows get bad ratings. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Isn't that Russo's theory?
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on Apr 26, 2007 18:41:25 GMT -5
i think its just too much hype for Lashley vs McMahons/Umaga. Thats the focus, and the rating signifies it. Its also the same matches every week. it follows a format. Lashley does something for his feud (boring match or boring promo). Snitsky squashes somebody, and the originals take on the new breed in a variation of a tag match. I personally feel its too predictable, and follows too much a formula. People want new and exciting, not the same thing every week. When your roster is even smaller then Raw and Smackdown, there isn't much you can do. It's the same matches featuring the same people every week. And with the fact of the NB/Originals and Lashley/McMahon/Umaga storylines, there isn't much for guys like Snitsky to do but squash Balls or Richards every week. Also, another sad fact is not one ECW star has the build up right now to be seen as a threat to Lashley's belt, hense the reason why they probably keep him away from everybody else.
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Post by darklurker on Apr 26, 2007 18:57:25 GMT -5
We need more extreme expose..........Nah we need more NB vs Oringinals.
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Post by Free Hat on Apr 26, 2007 19:51:05 GMT -5
I think the main problem is that there's really nothing to distinguish it from Raw or Smackdown. I think the initially high ratings were due to both curiosity and the fact that WWE promised something different from the other brands. Now obviously the God awful first show didn't help, but I think the drop in viewership really began when people realized that this new brand was more of the same, just with a roster comprised of a random assortment of jobbers.
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Post by Old School Heel mark4Morishima on Apr 26, 2007 20:45:53 GMT -5
I have a theory: Bad wrestling shows get good ratings. Good wrestling shows get bad ratings. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) That's why TNA's doing so much better than ECW? Running angles into the ground kills ratings.
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Post by voiceboxisback on Apr 26, 2007 21:12:32 GMT -5
Anyone have the quarter hour breakdown to see what segment got the highest rating? I believe that the final quarter with the New Breed/Originals match and the Punk/Burke part were the highest of the hour.
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Post by Old School Heel mark4Morishima on Apr 26, 2007 22:59:14 GMT -5
When your roster is even smaller then Raw and Smackdown, there isn't much you can do. It's the same matches featuring the same people every week. I don't agree. Counting Lashley, the nine guys in the Original/New Breed feud, plus Richards, Balls and Snitsky, that's 13 workers. With that, you could have: 1 title feud (2 guys) 3 tag teams fighting it out (6 guys) 2 mid-card feuds (4 guys) 1 random jobber And the next month: 1 champion 2 guys contending for a title shot 2 feuding stables (3 guys each = 6) 2 tag teams (4 guys) And the next month: 1 champion 3 mid-carders jobbing to the champion 2 feuding stables (now 4 guys each = 8) 1 heel who comes out and kayfabe injures the champ at the last minute The next month: 1 guy kayfabe injured, title vacated 4 guys heading for a 4-way elimination match for the belt 2 guys to job out to the contenders and build them up 3 tag teams I'm not exactly sure what the combinatorics of it are, but you could definitely run all kinds of fresh angles every month with 13 guys. Unless you just don't want to do fresh angles. And keeping ten guys from the roster doing the same matches over and over again looks like they don't.
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