Ratings were fun to keep up with during the Monday Night War, but I have no idea why any fan would care since then.
Only Nerds care about Ratings
Im Fan of AEW, Impact, New Japan and AAA and i dont care how many people watched a Show i dont care about Ratings but about Enjoying the Show i dont win any Money if a Wrestling Show have Good Ratings or not i only care about having Fun i dont understand why some Fans care about the Ratings of a Fixed Sport like Wrestling this Sport is not Mainstream anymore so any Wrestling Company that is not WWE will get a hard time getting Good Ratings
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if they arent on the same night and not stepping kn each others toes( like both airing at the exact same time)....who gives a shit.
just enjoy wrestling.
if they arent on the same night and not stepping kn each others toes( like both airing at the exact same time)....who gives a shit.
just enjoy wrestling.
I feel like this fan obsession with ratings and buy rates only serves to lessen their enjoyment of the product, and that’s fine with me. For example, when some armchair booker whines, “That was a horrible go-home show! How do they expect to create excitement for the ppv!?”
Me? I never base my enjoyment of any wrestling show on that kind of stuff. That’s for the wrestling company to worry about. I just love pro wrestling so much, and I don’t bitch about wrestlers’ bodies or blood or “flippy wrestlers” or whatever. I think the Internet has created a community of miserable fans who think they’re experts and know more than the people who are actually in the business. It’s sad, but I try not to never catch that infection. I am a fan who still loves wrestling as much as I did when a kid, and that’s all I never want to be.
Me? I never base my enjoyment of any wrestling show on that kind of stuff. That’s for the wrestling company to worry about. I just love pro wrestling so much, and I don’t bitch about wrestlers’ bodies or blood or “flippy wrestlers” or whatever. I think the Internet has created a community of miserable fans who think they’re experts and know more than the people who are actually in the business. It’s sad, but I try not to never catch that infection. I am a fan who still loves wrestling as much as I did when a kid, and that’s all I never want to be.
I feel like this fan obsession with ratings and buy rates only serves to lessen their enjoyment of the product, and that’s fine with me. For example, when some armchair booker whines, “That was a horrible go-home show! How do they expect to create excitement for the ppv!?”
Me? I never base my enjoyment of any wrestling show on that kind of stuff. That’s for the wrestling company to worry about. I just love pro wrestling so much, and I don’t bitch about wrestlers’ bodies or blood or “flippy wrestlers” or whatever. I think the Internet has created a community of miserable fans who think they’re experts and know more than the people who are actually in the business. It’s sad, but I try not to never catch that infection. I am a fan who still loves wrestling as much as I did when a kid, and that’s all I never want to be.
amazing post!!!!
I guess at the end of the day, there's no other way to really keep score and people want their "home team" to win
Yeah pretty meaningless unless you're just following in hopes it doesn't get cancelled. Nobody will ever come near WWE on a regular basis.
Kinda annoying how people act like it matters as much as if it was 1998 still. TV has changed soooo much since then and you can always watch it even when its not airing right then and there on tv thru multiple outlets.
Hi I am a nerd and I care about ratings. After watching a wrestling show I love to see if the ratings back up what I think. Good ratings make me smile as if a stranger gave me candy. 
Watching a show like impact or especially New Japan that only a few hundred see is the ultimate "nerd" right there 👍Im Fan of AEW, Impact, New Japan and AAA and i dont care how many people watched a Show i dont care about Ratings but about Enjoying the Show i dont win any Money if a Wrestling Show have Good Ratings or not i only care about having Fun i dont understand why some Fans care about the Ratings of a Fixed Sport like Wrestling this Sport is not Mainstream anymore so any Wrestling Company that is not WWE will get a hard time getting Good Ratings
It triumphs anyone who cares about ratings.
As a niche/hardcore wrestling fan, I wouldn’t want a company I like to get quite that big. It’s like in pop music or blockbusters, casting the widest net and appealing to the biggest audience just means having the most polish and least risky content.Yeah pretty meaningless unless you're just following in hopes it doesn't get cancelled. Nobody will ever come near WWE on a regular basis.
WWE is basically the Whitney Houston level mass appeal titan, doing mainstream at the highest quality. AEW is a newer mainstream radio act that’s less of a multi-generational household name and caters to a slightly more subversive audience, like Kendrick Lamar. Impact is a pseudo-famous mid-size club act like Arcade Fire. And GCW is the gritty DIY punk rock band none of your friends have ever heard of.
Currently the hardcore aew fans dont care about anything but pretending everything is fine then say its meh.. Even after they continue to question why nothing is working. Same reason they are brain washed to be excited about only debuts, returns and announcements. People should somewhat care about ratings. If people are not happy with the product it seriously fucking matters. If the product like it has is losing a lot of peoples interest and ratings flat lined and gone down from year 1 and ticket sales not as good, People should care. You dont need to obsess over it but when you're going opposite direction of where you were it really fucking matters. It will only continue to get worst and then what ? we just have everyone pretend its all rainbows and butterfly's and say everything is fine even though we dont praise anything anymore.
Im actually disappointed in the current aew fan base and how they act. Its only recently they are starting to be honest. Same people that couldnt see through codys bullshit until 3 years in.
Im actually disappointed in the current aew fan base and how they act. Its only recently they are starting to be honest. Same people that couldnt see through codys bullshit until 3 years in.
Then you also don't wan that company to be successful, and you're Kendrick Lamar comparison was just awful since he was one of the biggest acts just a couple of years ago. This thread is just a a space for butthurt AEW fans to cope with their company finally losing that honeymoon period.As a niche/hardcore wrestling fan, I wouldn’t want a company I like to get quite that big. It’s like in pop music or blockbusters, casting the widest net and appealing to the biggest audience just means having the most polish and least risky content.
WWE is basically the Whitney Houston level mass appeal titan, doing mainstream at the highest quality. AEW is a newer mainstream radio act that’s less of a multi-generational household name and caters to a slightly more subversive audience, like Kendrick Lamar. Impact is a pseudo-famous mid-size club act like Arcade Fire. And GCW is the gritty DIY punk rock band none of your friends have ever heard of.
Could it be possible that there are actually fans who really ENJOY AEW?Im actually disappointed in the current aew fan base and how they act. Its only recently they are starting to be honest. Same people that couldnt see through codys bullshit until 3 years in.
It's funny because of how some of you act like such damn crybabies about it. If ratings don't matter than ignore the shit lmao
AEW is easily the #2 wrestling show in North America for both attendance and television viewership, about half the size of WWE’s.Then you also don't wan that company to be successful, and you're Kendrick Lamar comparison was just awful since he was one of the biggest acts just a couple of years ago. This thread is just a a space for butthurt AEW fans to cope with their company finally losing that honeymoon period.
Whitney Houston had 11 number 1 hits, and Kendrick Lamar has only had 2. If anything, AEW would be a bigger act than Lamar in a perfect 1:1 comparison.
It's interesting to see posts like this now given what people were saying two-three years ago.
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I remember a fair amount of people echoing Jericho. Fact of the matter is people should have been more logical when a year went by and AEW hadn't even gotten back to the number of its first few shows.
I remember a fair amount of people echoing Jericho. Fact of the matter is people should have been more logical when a year went by and AEW hadn't even gotten back to the number of its first few shows.
And only an idiot reads a wrestling forum and calls other people "nerds".Im Fan of AEW, Impact, New Japan and AAA and i dont care how many people watched a Show i dont care about Ratings but about Enjoying the Show i dont win any Money if a Wrestling Show have Good Ratings or not i only care about having Fun i dont understand why some Fans care about the Ratings of a Fixed Sport like Wrestling this Sport is not Mainstream anymore so any Wrestling Company that is not WWE will get a hard time getting Good Ratings
People follow the stock market, even companies they dont have stock in. It's interesting to them.
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