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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Interesting look at the Wednesday Night Wars numbers for AEW and NXT
https://nodq.com/news/604799569.shtml
AEW has slid from their heights of over a million people to one of their worst rated shows since July, and I believe this week was their one year anniversary show.
NXT dropped nearly 100,000 viewers since last week.
This can't be written off to NBA basketball, baseball might have taken a bite, though I have my doubts about it.
Chris Jericho has become strangely quiet about the ratings. |
Eh, those are still ratings and demo numbers that TNT and AEW will be happy to take.
There are some things I've been annoyed with lately. Cody coming back with a new look and everything just to end up being the same old Cody was stupid. I also didn't like him going over Brodie Lee so quickly. I would have had Brodie destroy the entire Nightmare Family for weeks and then make Cody run the entire Dark Order gauntlet before he faced the final boss.
I think a few things that are plaguing AEW right now is a lack of continuity and unpredictability. For instance, whole Kenny/Young Bucks angle that happened right after Omega and Page lost the tag titles ended up going nowhere.
In terms of unpredictability, I haven't felt like there have been any surprise winners since Brodie Lee demolished Cody. I guess Orange Cassidy going over Jericho twice kind of counts, but that was always what the smart booking should have been.
Now we're getting a big 4-way tag match next week where The Young Bucks are obviously going over to set up a match with FTR and a tournament that looks like it's obviously going to be Hangman vs. Kenny in the finals. I could be wrong and maybe they pull a swerve, but that's what it looks like to me.
The only storyline that has me particularly interested at the moment is the MJF/Jericho stuff.
I also have no idea why they're running Sammy Guevara vs. Matt Hardy again. Just let Sammy go over and move him onto bigger and better things.