WWE in Fall 2024/Winter 2025: Anyone still watching?

[cobainwasmurdered]

Every time HHH has a fuckup like this, there seems to be a Cody version where he gives a much better answer.

 

[Hawk 34]

According to Meltz, the worked injury angle with AJ Styles has become a shoot.

 

[909]

Responding to that question by saying 'I don't see color' is literally saying that he thinks the black wrestlers he has don't belong on PPV. That's not my spin that's just what he said.

He also said once that 'Batista woke up one day and decided to be Filipino' which is something orange fuck would say, so yeah totally not a racist guy.

 

[Valeyard]

Cody's take is literally that of most people under 65, at least in my experience. I'm not shocked in any way HHH responded like he did, though. I look forward to them booking Rock and saying it proves everyone wrong, though.

 

[Hawk 34]

Important update for all of us who still scroll through Raw via Elon’s hellscape, starting tonight raw is returning to 2 hours for the remainder of its USA run.

 

[Tino Standard]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1843445081145258255

“Look, guys! I’m totally cool with black people!”

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1843445081145258255

“Look, guys! I’m totally cool with black people!”

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1843445081145258255

“Look, guys! I’m totally cool with black people!”

"Hey-uh, this Lil Wayne-uh fella is prettier in-uh person"

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/1fz7n6h

I'm sure WWE will get right on this.

 

[Valeyard]

Whatever. Red or blue. They don't see color.

 

[Brocklock]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1844427031817359828

 

[Valeyard]

Maybe the only thing that would make me interested in watching them again.

 

[Hawk 34]

Dwayne will not be working Mania 41 according to Meltz.

Suddenly his commitments are too busy for him to do the job for Cody or Roman.

 

[Valeyard]

Too black for the top spot.

 

[Tino Standard]

Unless it’s Roman-Cody for the third straight year, I have no idea who they could even throw in there to face Cody in a Mania main event who wouldn’t seem like a huge letdown from recent years.

Edit: And to be clear, the idea of a Rock-Roman-Cody triple threat does absolutely nothing for me

 

[snuffbox]

Randy Orton?

 

[Fall of Epic]

Punk is finally gonna claim his WM main event.

 

[Dandy]

Cody vs Punk (the Rumble stuff)
Cody vs Orton (Legacy backstory)
Cody vs Owens (fresh story building)
Cody vs Gunther (if this Saudi match can set up a future rematch with bigger build; plus the Rumble stuff)

I would enjoy all those and not feel like they are huge steps down from Reigns as good as those stories and matches were.

 

[strummer]

I think Punk is wrestling Rollins at Mania as that was the original plan for last year's show

 

[Valeyard]

Go Dom.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Cody/Punk could weave some "shoot" elements in, with Cody pointing out that Punk felt threatened by his friends and Punk saying something like "Cody, all your friends are losers."

Any iteration of Cody/Roman would be disappointing. Not because of my personal takes on them (literally thought they were the least interesting parts of either night this past WM), but because running the same ME three years in a row is just admitting that you don't know how to make stars.

Personally? Take the restraints off KO. Spend the next three months building KO back up as a violent force of nature, he somehow wins the Rumble, and then spend all of Feb/March having KO try to break Cody mentally. Cut them loose at WM and watch KO fucking kill himself to get his WM main event over as an all-time classic while Cody goes full-on Stinger by overcoming the odds.

Shit, there's your skeleton for the program. Cody is Sting, KO is Cactus.

 

[strummer]

Smackdown has had pretty much the same main event scene the last 4 years or so. Honestly I'm kinda done with the Bloodline stuff

 

[Valeyard]

The Bloodline stopped working after Sami's turn.

I just wish they had the balls to turn Naomi so she can join her family too, though.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Is KO even staying in WWE this time for sure? WWE is cutting back on salaries and AEW has money to spend. There's nothing left for KO to do in WWE.

WWE should probably do Cody/Orton while they can because Orton was already pretty close to retiring after his last injury.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Personally, I'd like to see them take advantage of the two-day format to do something different: Night One, give Cena the Manami Toyota retirement. If nothing else, it'd be a more interesting way of getting everybody a Mania payday than the Andre memorial.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Ah shit, MCMG debut on Smackdown next week. May have to tune in for the first time in forever.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So, it looks like Erik and Ivar have dropped the Viking gimmick and gone back to being the War Raiders.

 

[909]

WWE NXT, Oct 15 on CW: 639,000 viewers; 0.18 P18-49 rating | TV ratings analysis - Wrestlenomics

TV RATINGS WWE NXT on CWTue, Oct. 15, 2024: 8:00 to 10:00 pm639,000 viewers (P2+)P18-49 rating: 0.18 Reported earlier by both Programming Insider and PWTorch. Competition note: The MLB ALCS, Yankees vs. Guardians on TBS led all of TV for the night with 5.4 million viewers and a 1.28 P18-49...

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I really thought these ratings would be better than AEW every single week. But probably not

 

[Valeyard]

The joshi nerds need to talk.

 

[Fall of Epic]

So NXT got a meh rating and the same people that criticize AEW week in and week out are silent and making excuses about it being a development brand even though Hunter has said the opposite multiple times.

This isn't me being a hater but a gentle reminder that ratings don't mean much nowadays and haven't for awhile. I'm sure WWE is getting fat checks on this deal and the CW in general is happy with the ratings just like how WB is with AEW.

Let's cut the shit.