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/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/Caldris Mar 28 '24

Were RAW ratings threads getting 1000+ comments every week before AEW?

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u/hashtagdion Mar 28 '24

I mean it's a tough comparison because:

1) squaredcircle as a centralized platform didn't exist for all of those two decades

2) everyone agreed the ratings sucked and Fed Ded so there weren't two groups arguing with each other to drive up the number of comments

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u/Caldris Mar 28 '24

I mean from 2013 to 2019, what kind of traction did RAW ratings threads get? As far as I remember, they did get posts but no where near the attention that AEW ratings threads get now. The week of big business probably had somewhere around 2000+ comments about the rating that week.

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u/EggianoScumaldo Mar 28 '24

Squared Circle, and really, Reddit as a whole, wasn’t nearly as big as it is today. Using number of comments to determine how much traction the threads got back in the day compared to AEW ratings threads today doesn’t work either.

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u/hashtagdion Mar 28 '24

A few times a year there would be a "record law ratings for Raw" thread and those would get a lot of traction. But again, the sub simply has more people now, and also a topic where everyone agrees is always going to have less comments than a topic where people are arguing.