IYO Vs Asuka appreciation

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Yea the crowd was ass.

But this match was an absoloute banger both went out there and killed eachother and I said in the live thread but this felt less like a match and more like just an insane endurance test for both and I love that about Joshi matches and this was evident by even just the first commercial break that you could see Asuka was breathing hard as she laid on IYO and IYO's selling had alot convinced she f***ed up her arm when in actuality (unless something comes out that says differently) that is just Io being a magnificent seller on showing how brutal the match was.

And yet what would be considered a MOTY for pretty much any other 2 women in the company...is just IYO and Asuka still holding back.

RUN THIS THE HELL BACK WITH NO ONE ELSE AROUND RINGSIDE PLEASE!

[Renslayer]

I love a TV match that gets time to cook and leaves me wanting more. They kicked ass tonight

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

YES GIVE ME MORE

And if Glendale seriously booed the match (I was in a call so I had it muted) then f*** them. That was a good match.

[clc]

It was a great match. Run the match again! At a PLE. No shenanigans. No dumb old Charlotte lurking about.

[Mozenrath]

Sometimes, frankly speaking, promotions can afford to blow off what the fans are saying/doing if they're wrong. Obviously, this is more in the short term, but if something got killed every time fans didn't initially get it, wrestling would be a worse place.

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Everyone knows how next level IYO's offence is but her selling the arm even to post match really did alot to make both women come out of this better.

IYO comes out of this showing how absoloutley tough and how hard she is willing to fight by not just getting put into the kimura lock but the multiple times she got put into the Asuka lock without tapping and Asuka gets a renewed sense of danger on her wit how relentless she was and everything she put IYO through.

This is again both women coming out of this better...and this is constant with IYO so it comes as no surprise.

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I'd very much love to see them run that back without Charlotte having to be involved like she always f***ing has to be.

[A Little Doo Doo]

Really good match and it felt like they were only scratching the surface of what they can do together. Sucks the crowd wasn't that into it, but to me that says more about the way the women have been booked over the years than anything.

[Lance Uppercut]

Sept 22, 2023 21:22:03 GMT -5 Gus Richlen: Ruffian said:

YES GIVE ME MORE

And if Glendale seriously booed the match (I was in a call so I had it muted) then f*** them. That was a good match.

I didn't hear any boos, but that makes Heyman's "you boo ladies?" line make a lot more sense.

[King Devitt and the Woke Mob]

Just finished watching it, LOVED the match. Didn't like the ending, but I've been waiting for this one for a long, long time. I'm glad we at least got to see it AT ALL.
And it got 2 commercial breaks on Smackdown so I'm glad it was given time.

I didn't hear any boos either. The crowd were "ohhh'ing" and dueling chanting, but it was hard to make out over the weird "underwater sounding" audio that was drowning them out.

Both times it came back from commercial it very noticeable, and sounded warbly and distorted, and when the announcers started talking it evened it out, but once they stopped it went back.
It was so noticeable it started to irritate my ears. Same thing happens with AEW's audio too. And I don't just mean Kevin Kelly!

The crowd was there from what I saw and could hear, but they were presented as being in the background under that weird underwater sounding crowd noise.

I'd like to see some footage from someone in the arena, because the crowd weren't nearly as bad as I was expecting seeing the feedback on here before I watched.

Also it should have main evented.

Wrestlemania.

But I digress

I hope they run it back again, because I want to see it without commercial breaks, and I want to see what they can do when they go into that next gear.
I wanna see it one more time, on a PPV, with a well mic'd crowd, and let them go full throttle for 20 minutes.

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LOL @ Shaynas MY GOD

IYO just stay surprising the f*** outta people

www.youtube.com/shorts/5OialbQaiEA

[msc]

Loved it, though it felt like it ended abruptly.

[PKO]

I’ve seen comments all over the web about the crowd but I really didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary? It sounded like appropriate crowd response that built throughout the match.

It was a fun match that I really enjoyed and I loved that it was given so much time. It wasn’t “blow you out the water, these women are so much better than all the others” like sometimes gets implied and outright stated, but it’s always great to see two wrestlers really go at it like this. It was kinda ugly in parts…which I like; sometimes, especially since the rise of the performance centre, things look so perfect and crisp and clean to the point of artificiality. I like when there’s a struggle and an awkwardness.

[Hypnosis]

Glad this got plenty of time, even with Charlotte being around.

[mistery]

Fightful reported that Kenny Dykstra and Molly Holly were the producers for the Asuka/Iyo match.

[neilc]

Best of seven series, please. I need to see these two wrestle for as long as possible. Just keep Charlotte away.

[mistery]

Iyo and Asuka outdrawing John Cena in terms of total viewership was not something I thought would ever happen, but it happened apparently. The Iyo/Asuka match on Smackdown had the highest viewership of the night, with it only being beat out demo wise by the final segment.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Sept 25, 2023 18:35:52 GMT -5 mistery said:

Iyo and Asuka outdrawing John Cena in terms of total viewership was not something I thought would ever happen, but it happened apparently. The Iyo/Asuka match on Smackdown had the highest viewership of the night, with it only being beat out demo wise by the final segment.

Neato. Finally something tangible that says people like this matchup, because then that will be what potentially leads to more of it.

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Sept 25, 2023 18:35:52 GMT -5 mistery said:

Iyo and Asuka outdrawing John Cena in terms of total viewership was not something I thought would ever happen, but it happened apparently. The Iyo/Asuka match on Smackdown had the highest viewership of the night, with it only being beat out demo wise by the final segment.

Yep the two Japanese women drew the highest peak viewership at 2.3mil.

And to reiterate this was a show that they had John Cena on twice AND plugged at the top about how he may wrestle on the show...and yet the 2 women let alone Japanese women peaked in viewership over him.

RUN IT THE f*** BACK AS THE MAIN EVENT OF A PLE!!

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So not only did they get peak viewership they gained a over 100k viewers from the previous segement.

Needless to say huge f***ing success for those two and WWE have all the f***ing reason to run this the hell back not even just 1 more time...but you have KAIRI incoming so there is so much to get out of this.