* 7/8 Waco, TX - WWE Raw house show drew 3,500 * 7/8 Corpus Christi,

Based Jinder working the Laredoians away from Smackdown

>>2935852
Monday house shows always draw abysmally, but I've never seen sub-1000. That's really rough

>Battleground drew 12,500
Isn't that really low? Especially for a PPV

>>2935852
I live an hour away from Hidalgo and I've been to plenty of shows. Place always practically sells out.

>>2935852

Based WWE giving Jinder the chance to draw 800 strong

>>2935861
The tickets sold so poorly that they gave away all sorts of deals and discounts on the tickets to try and sell them

They even had the top stars basically beg the fans on twitter to buy tickets

https://twitter.com/JohnCena/status/887742679160958980
https://twitter.com/AJStylesOrg/status/887368095072964609
https://twitter.com/JinderMahal/status/887530462989647872
https://twitter.com/WWEDanielBryan/status/885939028117385216

>>2935888
Lol including Jinder with those three

>>2935888
>tfw one of the literal GOAT wrestlers eddie guerrero was driven to an early grave by the stress of an unsuccessful world title run
>meanwhile this untalented shitter is happy to just coast along with his token minority reign while the bollywood boys are killing themselves unsuccessfuly trying to get people invested in his subpar matches

>>2935852
Here's the Laredo show card, btw
(1) Shinsuke Nakamura beat Dolph Ziggler
(2) Rusev beat Sin Cara
(3) American Alpha beat Epico and Aiden English
(4) Jinder Mahal (with The Singh Brothers) beat Sami Zayn to retain the WWE Championship
(5) Naomi & Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair beat Natalya & Tamina & Carmella
(6) The Usos beat The Hype Bros and The New Day
(7) A.J. Styles beat Kevin Owens and Baron Corbin

>>2935888
>"THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE!"

Wow, desperate.

I don't understand the following:

1) having house shows during Raw
2) purposely making Smackdown worse than Raw
3) making Jinder champion so you can sell Network subs in a country that gets free PPVs despite him making one of your shows actively worse

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>>2935965
It's all apart of Vince's master plan

>>2935923
There were different times. Also, that's a reason why Eddie is GOAT and remembered while Jinder is a flavor of the month

>>2935965
1) smackdown talent don't want to be on the road for an extra day without getting paid
2) why would Vince make his own show worse? What has he got to gain from that?
3) yeah that one is stupid

>>2935888
Truly pathetic.

>>2935861
Yeah it did not even sell out, sad!

WWE should be booking shows in bingo halls and high school gyms at this point.

Texas is always shit for wrestling. Don't even know why they bother touring to so many different cities there.

Why isn't /asp/ discussing the abyssmal Q1 report?

>AT BATTLEGROUND IT WILL BE JINDER MAHAL FACING RANDY ORTON IN THE PUNJABI PRISON!!! DON'T FORGET JOHN CENA HAS RETURNED TO DEFEAT THE EVIL FOREIGNER RUSEV!

>WWE Battleground drew 12,500

>>2937195
And they had to discount seats in fucking Philadelphia, and the crowd was dead. In philadelphia.

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meanwhile in Japan (today)

>>2937169
texas is only shit for WWE's version of wrestling. WCW and other southern wrestling territories always drew there.

>>2937222

Wha'ts the capcity there? 1500?

>>2936032
>2) why would Vince make his own show worse? What has he got to gain from that?

Nothing, that's why it's stupid.

>>2935861
Low for a WWE PPV, yes. They also fucked up by announcing they're coming back for the Rumble in January, so a lot of fans were like "fuck it, I'm not going to Battleground, I'm queuing up outside to get tickets for the better PPV" making tough sell that much harder. Piss poor planning from WWE, they should have announced Rumble tickets on sale the week AFTER the fucking event.

>>2937222
Tons of empty chairs

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>>2937222
Do you really want to do this?

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>>2937222
Reminder this was part of the G1 last year.

>>2937403
Point them out.

>>2937421
Which Night?

>>2937427
27 I believe

>>2937378
They also fucked up by giving a main event push to the worst member of 3MB

>>2937428
>Night 27
>the G1

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Meanwhile in Japan

>>2937415
That's day 18

>>2937421
That's day 26

>>2935852
I've been to a WWF house show that had a dozen people there.

>>2937434
>G1 Climax
>Day 26

Day 18 last year was the B Block Finals you lying sack of shit

>>2937169
Texas hates bad wrestling. Especially yankee scum bad wrestling

>>2937455
Literally google it, it's a capture you hipster

http://s1.dmcdn.net/X1a5A/1280x720-pnp.jpg

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G1 26 Day 4

If you look closely, you can see each individual smark tweeting about how much they hate the Dubya

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>>2937467
Day 2, look at all those marks turned out for the biggest tournament in modern wrestling.

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>>2937471
>>2937467
>>2937431
>>2937421
>>2937415
>When NJPW fags think the benchmark is WWE house shows

EL

OH

EL

Here's another WWE house show

>>2937471
Oh right, now you are just lying, this is this year's Best of SuperJuniors, taped during some house show in some bumfuck nowhere, where they don't have anything bigger.

>>2937471
>Dragon Lee vs. Taguichi
>G1 Climax

>>2937461
>Best guess for this image: Best of the Super Juniors

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>>2937479
Nope

Day 18

>>2937479
>NJPW
>House show

>>2937489
Of course, of course, nevermind mate. Continue.
But be more creative and find some images that doesn't have juniors in singles matches. You know G1 is heavyweights singles only, don't you?

>>2937489
Read the text on top of the tron and feel stupid.

>>2937494
>New Japan doesn't run house shows

>>2937496
>NJPW doesn't run undercards

Do you even subscribe?

>>2937502
>G1 undercards
>singles matches

The utter fucking state of this moron

>>2937421
Literally a bingohall

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Reminder that Nu Japan attendances are total shit compared to real New Japan attendances.

Pic related had 65,000. Literally over double the attendance of this years Wrestle Kingdom.

>>2937502
.... dude.
Undercards are for tag matches. There are no singles in NJPW on the undercard.
The only one incoming is Oka versus Kitamura at Sumo Hall during G1 finals.
That is undercard singles. And it will be fucking awesome.
>>2937494
Stop it. Just stop it. Go look up how many shows they ran last year. And think about how many they televised or streamed. They run plenty of houseshows.
>>2937511
Yup. They are running pretty small towns, cause they can't run big cities all the time not to burn out their customers, not to oversaturate. Basically only place they run multiple times per month is Korauken Hall and even there they were not selling out at the end of last year, cause they gave the crowd there shitty matches and basically all tags that meant nothing.
They changed their approach there and are using Korauken to get people over. Shining example of this was Marty this BoSJ - Korauken Hall knew who he was before he came out and got him over.

>>2937525
Yes. Someone killed the bussines there with his shitty ideas about wrestlers being able to compete with trained fighters. MMA boom killed prowrestling almost dead.
Tanahashi had to try really hard to carry it out of the grave. Now they are only growing year after year. And not only NJPW, but every other promotion (besides NOAH who fucked up last year and crippled itself) is growing.

>>2937525
All numbers before the last few years of BUSHIROAD were kayfabe

>>2937533
>drinking the Bushiroad kool aid

>>2937535
Will they send me that sweet animu cards money? Gimme that Koolaid!
And everything I wrote is correct. Attendances tracking (taken with grain of salt, carnies being carnies) back me up.

>>2937533
A pro wrestler ended up the best mixed martial artist of all time tho.

>>2937534
Attendance for this one looks pretty legit: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4jydu1

>>2937533
I thought Noah was doing better recently..?

>>2935852
>800
That's less than many indie shows.

WWMeme is on its last legs.

>>2937551
They are climbing out of a gutter they dug for themselves. Hard road before them, burned fans were pretty angry at them.

>>2937556
>Indies best shows are almost as attended as WWEs worst attended house shows
I don't see the point fem

>>2937557
What'd they do?

>>2937560
I thought WWE is "the big time" far above other promotions anon

>>2937573
They started this NOAH Reborn thing and now they have set of great wrestlers having good matches at minimum, they are still searching for their new identity, but my friend tell me that he is loving them at the moment. I am already having too much wrestling to watch, so I passed on picking NOAH up, but I guess I will try to catch up in autumn.
Check them out, they are less sports-entertainment I think.
Check GHC Heavyweight Championship
Katsuhiko Nakajima v. Go Shiozaki from Great Voyage in Yokohama, it's supposed to be awesome.

>>2937574
Um they are? If your metric is "can I do better than a WWE house show on a bad day in a bad town" then you're not using your head.

Compare WWEs biggest show to ICWs biggest show, or NJPWs biggest show and you'll see just how big the gap is.

>>2937169

For some reason the Waco crowd was really hot. Which is weird considering the last 2 times I went it was dead as fuck. It was pretty fun though. My wife, brother, and parents all ended up coming and it was pretty cozy.

>>2935861
C tier ppv

>>2937441
How was it?

>>2939097
Previous year's did over 15K