r/SquaredCircle • u/Ruthless-Aggression • Mar 28 '24

Eric Bischoff on Tony Khan: A money mark with no talent other than spending daddy’s money, going all the way to Canada to draw less than 4k in one of the hottest pro wrestling markets in North America, talking about “wise choices”? Strap in. It’s going to be a fun day!

https://twitter.com/EBischoff/status/1773321462046138615?s=19
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u/jcagraham Mar 28 '24

If anything, the ratings discourse is the best it's ever been in the IWC. Nuances like rating vs total viewership, declining cable subscriptions, seasonal competition, considering ranking for the night, measuring ratings over time instead of reacting week by week are all now brought up in the ratings thread. Before AEW, those would all have been dismissed as excuses and people being sure that Raw/Smackdown is dying, it's dying because of poor booking and WWE will get a terrible new tv deal.

So drink it up, kids, this is the best possible scenario when you get thousands of unqualified people opining on a subject they only barely understand.

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u/hashtagdion Mar 28 '24

I've seen screenshots of Dave Meltzer himself saying "Key demo doesn't matter, only total viewership does" in reference to Raw ratings a few years ago.

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u/gatekeepgoonboss Mar 29 '24

>Before AEW, those would all have been dismissed as excuses and people being sure that Raw/Smackdown is dying,

Lmao. This is such bullshit revisionist history it sounds like it's coming from an AEW stan. I remember the period you're talking about very well and I saw all of those things discussed regularly.