Teddy Bearburg
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Post by Teddy Bearburg on Dec 6, 2022 23:32:17 GMT -5
Feels weird saying something should be cancelled when no one knows how much money it makes the companies. The rating could hit zero viewers, but if they still make money from it somehow and it's cheap to produce, I think they'd keep it.
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Post by CM Tusk on Dec 6, 2022 23:43:34 GMT -5
Like, simply don’t watch Rampage if you don’t want to? Haha
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kinnikuman
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Post by kinnikuman on Dec 7, 2022 0:15:16 GMT -5
Why cancel it? Should we also cancel Impact, NXT, MLW, NJPW, NWA, etc too? Ratings are important to one group only: the company that owns it. If it gets low enough they'll cancel it. It's not low enough. Ratings should never be important to wrestling fans. They were once ... during the "ratings wars" where if I'm not mistaken, 5.0s were actually achieved. Not only will wrestling never, ever get 5s again ... but it shouldn't even get 3s or 4s. So to still have wrestling fans argue over ratings blows my mind.
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Post by sonstuds on Dec 7, 2022 10:23:07 GMT -5
It was a card that didn't interest me in the slightest so I didn't bother watching, but in all fairness they told you what Rampage was going to be 48 hours in advance. So it wasn't like it was a bait and switch and I thought I was getting Bandido, Deeb, and Rush only to be blindsided with Cole Karter, QT Marshall, and a Jeff Jarrett tag match in 2022.
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kinnikuman
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Post by kinnikuman on Dec 7, 2022 12:34:27 GMT -5
I think spoilers def play a roll in people not watching.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Dec 7, 2022 15:23:31 GMT -5
I gave up on Rampage months ago because 90% of the talent/matches are folks I either don’t know of or just don’t care for.
I wouldn’t cancel it nor do I feel like it should be. It’s not my call or money to be spent but it gives an hour of tv time to folks who need the exposure.
If it’s only doing 3-400k viewers, that’s still 3-400k people watching wrestling.
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Dec 8, 2022 4:31:31 GMT -5
Nothing matches every week with mid card & even lower card wrestlers in the main event. I would argue the likes of Sunday Night Heat & Saturday Night were better shows because atleast they weren't trying to bullsh*t you that they were anything more than C-shows. How dare you expect fans in the building to sit through a second wrestling show only to have A TRAINER main event the entire event. And ask the voice of wrestling, the greatest announcer in the history of the sport to commentate over this bush league? Unacceptable. You're damn right they beefed up the card this week, but it should have never got to this point.
I don't care if you have to put any 1 of the 200 wrestlers you have under contract on the Rampage card, or even the ones you don't. But dammit, give those fans that paid their hard earned money to A- go to this show & B- stay to watch, A main event with some starpower. If not, then just tape the show before Dynamite for it to air on the Friday. Who cares anyway if they tape if before, when a whole load of nothing happens on Rampage everyweek anyway!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2022 11:47:29 GMT -5
We've had some pretty cool rampage moments recently. It was definitely an afterthought for quite a few months, but I think it's been given noticeably more attention the past while.
We had FTR/Top Flight, Vance turning on Dark Order. Jun/Konosuke vs Kingston/Ortiz, Bandido/Rush, Cassidy/Shibata all on Rampage. Yeah there's still a lot of "filler" matches that are just to get undercard guys TV time, but they've definitely put some big things on there recently.
That said, I really liked OC/QT, and I don't like most lumberjack matches.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2022 23:02:15 GMT -5
Best rampage ever. Loved it.
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Post by CM Tusk on Dec 9, 2022 23:06:28 GMT -5
I’m always happy when Moriarty gets tv time
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Teddy Bearburg
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Post by Teddy Bearburg on Dec 10, 2022 0:03:19 GMT -5
Loved seeing Trent Seven! Such a fun surprise I was not expecting! Match was fun too! Loved the bit with Danhausen/Mark Henry beforehand.
Big Bill is such a weird name change. lol I'm not the biggest fan of The Firm. Like, I enjoy everyone in the group, it's just the group itself isn't entertaining TV to me.
Loved Allie doing Rosemary's Upside Down move!
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Post by finnbalor1 on Dec 10, 2022 11:21:09 GMT -5
Shida/Hayter yes please. Thank you TK,my two favs in the company going at it.
I don't care how many names "Big Bill" gets,I just dgaf about him.
Love Penelope more every episode and give us more Danhausen segments like that.
Wish it didn't get ruined for me but Trent was a nice surpise.
Fun show,that's what we can get from Rampage when TK just puts a little effort in it
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Post by vampiroporvida on Dec 13, 2022 11:51:37 GMT -5
I had never seen Trent before, was heavily impressed. Odd thought, but does anyone else think he looks in the face alot like Marty Scurll?
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Post by Crane on Dec 16, 2022 22:09:24 GMT -5
Maybe not the greatest choice to ingest your opponents blood Mr. Guevara
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Teddy Bearburg
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Post by Teddy Bearburg on Dec 16, 2022 23:47:23 GMT -5
Opening was okay. Just very tired of the JAS/BCC stuff.
Britt/Skye was okay!
Loved the main event! Very fun!
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Post by Crane on Dec 17, 2022 1:06:29 GMT -5
Mox and Guevara was ok, went back and watched Mox and Takeshita from a few weeks back and that was good too.
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Post by LA Times on Dec 23, 2022 22:45:28 GMT -5
Jeff Jarrett looks like he's going to sing a song about hating rap.
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Post by finnbalor1 on Dec 24, 2022 3:22:34 GMT -5
Man this episode took a turn for the worse quick. I enjoyed the battle royale,wish it was for the number one contender but still fun but after that not much kept my attention (Caster's rap was good tho). I don't need to see Gunn or JJ in a main event ever again.
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Post by finnbalor1 on Dec 30, 2022 19:05:30 GMT -5
Didn't see the Acclaimed's rap the other night until today. That was brutal lol.
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Post by LA Times on Dec 30, 2022 22:19:41 GMT -5
Preston Vance is Perro Peligroso now. 🐕
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