Re: More people watched NXT Takeover than Summerslam on the Network
If you separate all 3 brands, and look at the content, NXT clearly had better showing:
NXT: (watched 2 times)
Aires vs No Way Jose (Great Action, plus Hideo GTS)
Ember Moon vs Billie Kay (Top Rope Stunner)
Bobby Roode vs Andrade Almas (Glourious)
Revival vs Johnny Wrestling and Ciampa (best tag match all week)
Asuka vs Bayley (Asuka was a badass, and Bayley's last match)
Nakamura vs Joe (remarkable and outstanding, can you say 5*)
Smackdown: (watch whole Summerslam, but re-watched almost all the matches 2-3 times)
-(pre-show) 12 Man Tag (American Alpha, Hype Bros, Usos, Breezango, Ascension and Vaudevillians) (amazing)
-Miz vs Crews (not good, but not bad)
-Ambrose vs Ziggler (underwhelming, but not bad)
-Styles vs Cena (Stole the show, best of the week, can you say 5*)
-6 Woman Tag (Nikki, Bliss and Nattie vs Becky, Naomi and Carmella) (amazing)
-Orton (his spots got major pops)
RAW: (Watched whole Summerslam but only rewatched Charlottes, Seths and Brocks match)
-(pre-show) Zayn and Neville vs Dudley Boyz (This was Dudley Boyz last match, think about it)
-(pre-show) Sheamus vs Cesaro
-JeriKO vs Enzo and Cass (Owens and Zayn had a 4.5 star match a month ago)
-Charlotte vs Sasha (botch city)
-New Day vs Guns and Gallows (epic fail)
-Finn vs Seth (raw dropped ball)
-Rusev vs Roman (epic fail)
-Brock (open ending was fucking stupid shit, why no one came out (for Brock's next match) is beyond me, when Shane got knocked out, I was sure Taker would return, WWE fucked up hard not having someone attack Brock in ending, even if Goldberg did it for no reason. Way to show the RAW vs SDL rivalry by not having anyone save Orton, let alone entire roster watches their GM get punked, jesus christ. I loved the Brock beat down, but after it was the bullshit. Like watching RAW with Stephanie beating up Tom Phillips to not see him following weeks.)
^-NXT clearly top to bottom had an amazing show, don't need me to tell you the amazing things that happened.
RAW took up more space, and their people were focus especially in the Main Event, so I see this as a RAW failure, which was epic fail, and without Smackdown, this would have been consider one of the worst Summerslams, especially in terms of how please audience was. Dudley Boyz last match and they are on pre-show along with Neville randomly teamed with Zayn who had a 4.5 rated match from Meltzer without a title involved, on same subject Owens who got that 4.5 also, got put into a random tag to face RAW's most popular tag team Enzo and Cass and they were also on pre-show (fucking turrible). Charlotte and Sasha had a rough start and had many weird botches, I think Charlotte winning was a great thing, but she dropped Sasha on ropes, even worst Sasha fell on her own neck in other spots. New Day with John Stewart is worst thing in wrestling, they were literally champions the whole time Dudley Boyz were back, and Karl and Doc chose this, getting spanked by a man in lgbt bronie outfit, over being year long champions in NJPW. Continuing as if this whole card isn't a fucking travesty, Finn and Seth were best match for RAW, but WWE chose a stupid name for an ugly belt, and Seth put Finn into the hospital, so Dbry, Finn, and Seth all vacated championships (another vacate was turrible). Then we got US Title in what appears to be co-main event, and we don't even get a match, what they fucking did on biggest night of the year, is type of shit you do to hype a big fight, aka shit you do on RAW not on the PPV. Then there was Brock, assuming he was told to open up Randy's head, it was epic fail not setting up Brock's next match, whether Kane, Taker, Goldberg, or anyone but Shane comes out......RAW dropped the ball how many times in 1 night, and how many major mistakes they made, let alone all the missed opportunity.
Smackdown had that amazing 12 man tag match that showcased the division. Miz and Crews didn't have a bad match (which is clearly a good thing looking at RAW). Styles and Cena clearly stole the show, and probably one of best matches I've seen that didn't involve a title. Nikki's Pop, and even if she got the pin, it was a great match, plus pinning Carmella turned into a double turn and we got to see Nikki's new finisher, so all positives there. What can I say about Styles vs Cena that it didn't already say to you, could have stole the show with ease, but put on an exceptional performance and truly was a real dream match (orton vs lesnar was more like a nightmare, in every sense of the word). Ambrose and Ziggler under-performed, but they were put in middle of card over RAW's bullshit. Then Orton turned out to be the more entertaining part of Main Event.