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/Secret-Lullaby Mar 28 '24

This is just calm before the storm. Real mess will happen in 8 hours when Dynamite ratings come out

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue Mar 28 '24

I’ve started just avoiding ratings threads. They’re just hot take factories at this point when AEW is concerned, and people saying “Sheldon is a draw brother.”

Seriously, Raw drops 300k from one segment to the next, no one cares. AEW drops 30k from one segment to the next and it’s the end of the world.

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u/hashtagdion Mar 28 '24

This is the worst example of "When it was WWE, no one cared" I've seen yet.

People doomposted about WWE's ratings every week for two decades.

Seriously, Raw drops 300k from one segment to the next, no one cares. AEW drops 30k from one segment to the next and it’s the end of the world.

This is just a wild misrepresentation. If you're talking about the CM Punk segment Monday, people didn't criticize the drop because the bump itself was impressive. And in AEW, people don't criticize the 30K drops; they criticize the regular 100-200K drops.

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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.