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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 7, 2013 13:19:57 GMT -5
A PPV 6 days after another? Did they really think this was a good idea?
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Oct 7, 2013 13:27:41 GMT -5
And we complain about 2 ppvs in one month.
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Post by amaron on Oct 7, 2013 13:30:54 GMT -5
It apparently did 400,000 buys and was considered a disappointment yet it was over 100,000 more than this year's Summerslam.
Obviously a lot of things factor into both those numbers.
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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 7, 2013 13:47:01 GMT -5
I like to assume that it was a test to see if Tuesdays could work for PPVs. they did shows on Sundays and on a few Saturdays. plus the Thanksgiving night or eve shows. Seeing if Tuesday could draw means they have a wider range of chances to try and book a PPV instead of it being strictly a weekend thing.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 7, 2013 14:02:33 GMT -5
It's not the worst show ever but it annoys me that Survivor Series was used as a preview show for it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2013 14:08:19 GMT -5
I was hoping for more day of the week themed PPV's like Monday in Milwaukee, Wednesday in Washington, Tuesday in Texas II: Electric Boogaloo and Final Tuesday in Texas III: The Quickening.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 7, 2013 14:14:11 GMT -5
I like to assume that it was a test to see if Tuesdays could work for PPVs. they did shows on Sundays and on a few Saturdays. plus the Thanksgiving night or eve shows. Seeing if Tuesday could draw means they have a wider range of chances to try and book a PPV instead of it being strictly a weekend thing. I know but how didn't anyone think that having one so close to another would sabotage it
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 7, 2013 14:20:46 GMT -5
Should have merged the stories with the Survivor Series. Have Jake vs Macho headline it, and hold up the WWF Championship after the Hogan/Undertaker match. No need for a seperate PPV
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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 7, 2013 14:30:41 GMT -5
I like to assume that it was a test to see if Tuesdays could work for PPVs. they did shows on Sundays and on a few Saturdays. plus the Thanksgiving night or eve shows. Seeing if Tuesday could draw means they have a wider range of chances to try and book a PPV instead of it being strictly a weekend thing. I know but how didn't anyone think that having one so close to another would sabotage it I think they assumed the controversy from the end of the title match plus Savage being reinstated would be more than enough to generate a buzz where people would want to immediately see what was going to happen.
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Post by Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic on Oct 7, 2013 14:42:59 GMT -5
Tuesday in Texas was about half the price of a regular PPV at the time. My parents wouldn't let me order Survivor Series but I talked them into letting me get Tuesday In Texas.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2013 15:49:56 GMT -5
I'm trying to figure out why they put Piper/Flair on as a dark match, I don't think it ever appeared as a Coliseum Exclusive.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2013 16:24:03 GMT -5
They were trying to find a new night to do PPVs on regularly, so they booked this (at half the price) on the Tuesday after SurSer - and they used the PPV to hype the new event, so I reckon that's why they had the 2 so close.
Also recall that in 1991, WWF was doing Survivor Series on Thanksgiving Eve, so it was a 6 day gap and not a (more insane) 2 day gap.
It failed in their eyes, and they scrapped the Tuesday plan until someone in 2005 said "Taboo Tuesday."
There were a ton of dark matches besides Piper/Flair, too; they included Tatanka and Papa Shango (going as Chris Chavis and Charles Wright) before their official debuts, and also a match with the Harris Brothers.
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Post by doinkmark on Oct 8, 2013 6:55:45 GMT -5
It's too bad this show didn't do well. The PPV itself was perfectly fine as I recall. They could have even moved some of the singles matches from Survivor Series to this show and focused on the team gimmick more that year.
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Post by lemonyellowson on Oct 8, 2013 17:19:21 GMT -5
the episodes of osw review that cover these two ppvs make that point a lot, with pretty just cause.
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