Not one dime

>"June 28, 1999: A match where Steve Austin won the WWF title from The Undertaker in Charlotte drew the largest rating and audience to ever witness a pro wrestling match or for that matter, any pro wrestling segment, ever on U.S. cable television. The match did a 9.5 rating, which was 10.72 million viewers. Perhaps the most impressive is that one out of every six television sets in the U.S. that had cable that was on during that time was watching that match. Because for more than a decade, Vince Russo has made it a talking point to say how the “The Is Your Life: Rock,” segment was the highest rated segment in history (it did an 8.4 quarter), to show how skits outdraw matches, it’s become a talking point how that was the highest rated segment in Raw history. Actually there were a handful of different quarter hours that beat that total, including most of the second hour of the May 10, 1999 show."

>>1614060
>WrestleMania 13 was the second WrestleMania to take place in the Chicago metropolitan area, following WrestleMania 2. The event was attended by 18,197 who paid a total of $837,150 in admission fees, and drew a 0.77 buyrate.[4] This is the only WrestleMania in history not to have been a sell-out. Out of a total of 18,197 who attended, 16,467 paid. The remaining 1,737 tickets were given out for free, just to fill the arena.[5] The event as a whole received mixed reviews, and it has been called one of the worst in WrestleMania history.

>>1614064
>As far as popularity, the biggest SummerSlam in history was on August 30, 1998, in Madison Square Garden. WWF had caught fire a few months earlier and a summer-long build for an Austin vs. Undertaker main event, one of the great match builds in company history, produced 700,000 PPV buys. This was the largest number for a SummerSlam in history, a record that still stands. At the time, it was the third biggest number in pro wrestling history for any show, and to this day, it’s the second biggest number for a non-WrestleMania show.

He drew a couple dimes here and there

>>1614066
>The WrestleMania 26 buy rate is in and nobody is celebrating in Stamford, CT. The biggest WWE event of the year drew 885,000 buys worldwide. The number is down from WrestleMania 25 and a huge disappointment for a WrestleMania event that featured Bret Hart, a strong card, and the main event between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels

9.5

>>1614069
Fucking Bret killing the company again

>>1614071
Steven James Williams

Mr. Rating's healer himself

>>1614073
the main event between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels

>>1614074
mark william calaway

>>1614069
The promoted main event was Batista vs John Cena.

>>1614060
>>1614066
Based Austin

>>1614090
no, it was Streak vs Career. Cena/Tista arguably took a backseat to Bret/Vince in the buildup

Whats with this board and the hate on Taker.

5 cents at least

>>1614097
/asp/ is an objective wrestling board that gauges not by smarky fads, but factual measurements, such as drawing power.
Undertetty new drew a solitary dime.

>>1614060
>>1614064
>>1614066
Based Taker bringing the dime in the millions and record highs.

How can the Shieldettys ever recover?

>>1614097
Another case of /asp/ showing how shitty of a place it is.

>>1614384
>Implying Under "record rating/buyrate" Taker isnt THE Draw.

>>1614459
>Taketty
>a draw

KEK

>>1614468
>>1614060
>>1614064
>>1614066
Based Taker working you on the daily.

>>1614471
might wanna read >>1614064 clearly

>>1614471
>Taketty

>>1614473
Yeah?

It shows that WM no Taker=No buyrates

>>1614475
>Seething

>>1614480
>Taketty

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>>1614054
Based Taker. Greatest gimmick and greastest big man to wrestle

>>1614486
>Worked.

>>1614489
He also snatched McCool. Hottest diva to grace the ring.

Based as fuck.

>>1614054
G8 b8 m8
Also, have sex, loser.

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>>1614498
>McCool. Hottest diva to grace the ring.

Most overrated wrestler in history, only liked because he stood with the company so long, had the streak broken, he should of quit

>>1614498
>Taketty

>>1614510
no

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>>1614480
>It shows that WM no Taker=No buyrates

>>1614514
>being a mark for a washed up fatty named mark

Ironic

>>1614054
He's drawn plenty of my dimes, and by extension, my friends' dimes.

UT got me into it when I was a kid. I'm an old fag now (35). Been to countless shows, bought merch, and got many friends into it as well.

Money in the WWE pocket that otherwise never would have been there with based deadman.

>>1614523
*without based deadman.

Reked myself. But fixed that for me.

>>1614523
your dimes haven't made up for the cost of mark's salary faggot

undertaker is not a profitable wrestler

>>1614054
>HIS REAL NAME IS MARK
>HE'S HIS OWN BIGGEST MARK

POTTERY

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>he thinks any single wrestler can draw

>>1614656
Finally somebody with a functioning brain. As much of a GOAT taker is, he still needs somebody to wrestle. He can't wrestle himself

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>>1614775
>As much of a GOAT taker is

So how long until this board is making daily threads about how Hogan wasn't a draw and that the pythons were over, not him

>>1614800
Hogan was a proven draw, though.

>>1614805
That won't stop the contrarians

>>1614656
This. As Roddy Piper was glad to point out, Wrestlemania came to fruition because people wanted to see Hulkamania run wild on him, and 3 wouldn't have drawn shit if Hulkster just sat in the middle of the ring twiddling his thumbs. Almost all wrestlers that continue to persist are draws to some capacity. There's untouchable draws like the Rock, Stone Cold and Hogan. Then there's great draws like DX and the New Age Outlaws. I'd put Taker in the middle, between good And great.

>>1614809
How are people contrarian for saying Taker never drew?

>>1614822
Because he has at times. He's just not a consistent draw like Rock or Stone Cold

>>1614656
>>1614811
But wrestlers appearing on their own has popped ratings. And I guarantee if you announced Stone Cold would be appearing on PPV during the AE, it'd get people in the stadium regardless.
So, single wrestlers kinda can draw. Obviously a good opponent and angle enhances it, but just the fact alone that the announcement of guy's returns/appearances has done business proves they can.

Taker's biggest PPV draw was probably Mania 20 just for his entrance alone. It did like 200-300k better than the previous year despite not having Austin wrestle

>>1614830
That's usually after they stop appearing consistently or stop actively competing altogether. When they're competing that means nothing, of course they're going to be there, but do you think anybody is going to give a shit if you put Stone Cold in his prime against some no name shitter? Would naked Mideon vs Austin put butts in seats?

They can draw when singular when they're retired and drawing from nostalgia, past fondness and the want to see if they still have it, but drawing power as an active competitor is dependent on the talent around you, it's the nature of the business.

It's why Austin took a while to take off even after the 3:16 promo because they had him going against plugs beneath him and he only took his place as the Austin we know and love when he went toe to toe with the top guys of the company like the Shitman and Diesel's twink.

>>1614853

yet because it wasnt the main event people discount it

the main event is the only thing that ever draws, the rest is just worthless filler

>>1614956
Everyone knew Benoit/HHH/HBK were no-draws

Goldberg/Lesnar and Undertaker return were the draws

>>1614967

Meltzer and other smarks will credit the buyrate to Benoit.

Yet look at the pop Taker got when he came out compared to the pop Benoit got when he came out.

Did Benoit win the fans over by the end of the match? Yeah. But they didn't pay to see him.

>>1614538
Imagine being the type of person that would type such a response.

No, really. Do it. It might make you grateful to be you.

>>1614066
>>1614064
>>1614060
hook, line, and sinker