New house show pic -- DEAD IN <5 YEARS

>>3104062
This is what happens when you stick all your draws on one brand and leave the other without any. The brand split was a mistake

>>3104074
There are no draws

>>3104062
What promotion is this? Looks like a bingo hall.

>>3104062
This house show has a bigger attendance than this week SD.

>>3104091
Look at the ring, SD live event.

>Raw
Lesnar
Cena
Roman
Rollins
Ambrose
The Hardys

>SD
Styles
Orton

They deserve these pathetic crowds. They're literally repeating all the same mistakes of the first brand-split, and it's only been one year.

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>>3104062
better view of this dying company

>>3104129
Surely it's not worth the cost and exertion on the talent anymore. This is pathetic.

>>3104062
Vince would just downsize and do raw over again. Sad woukd become the old b brand with no show,

They used to have 3 tours in the 80s at one time.

>>3104129
yikes

>>3104122
First brand split at least had an attempt to create stories and try to get the best out of a shit sandwich. This time they can't even do that.

>>3104135
Sd would *

>>3104129
Holy shit there were more people at the GFW house show

>>3104129
Jesus.

>>3104122
Moving Cena was the death nail for Smackdown.

>>3104129
Is it or is it just a meme?

>>3104062
>>3104129
Hard camera.

>>3104129
If I was in WWE and came out to that, I'd be concerned as fuck right now.
This is what happens when you rely on past stars and refuse to create new ones.

>>3104131
It's mostly for show and expectation at this point,

Once you admit defeat and start running house shows in bingo halls, there is no coming back from that to be mainstream again. You are admitting you are a bingo hall fed.

>>3104129
Brutal.

>>3104144
>>3104148

>Living in denial

Why are they even doing as many house shows as they do? They MUST have run this show at a loss.

>>3104143
>Moving Cena was the death nail for Smackdown.

Sacrificing smackdown to chase a non existent indian market was the death nail

Who would have thought that american fans don't want to pay to see some smelly brown foreigner talk shit about them and then lose to orton by dq at a meaningless house show

>>3104062
They'll be lucky if they can even draw 1k at tomorrow's Monday house show.

Monday house shows without Cena = DOA

>>3104160
It's possible that the company gets really good deals with these small town arenas that justify the trip. I find that hard to believe honestly.

>>3104164
I don't know who thought it was a good idea to do this experiment. Could've just given Jinder the US title and had him make it the Indian title and they probably don't alienate so many of the fans.

Why is house show attendance an indicator for the company's success?

>>3104160
Tv deal offsets fees. If they lose it, downsizing time. They still will above Roh and Gfw.

Wrestling would enter a new dark age.

>>3104182
It's never a good sign when The Hardy's by themselves last year can draw three to four times the amount of fans to a flea market than WWE can to most house shows this year.

One of the problems is that tickets are too expensive for families. I wanted to take my family to an upcoming show but the cheapest seats were nosebleeds for $55. The venue, however, is cutting deals and letting tickets go at $41 a piece if you buy four. After adding up TicketMaster fees, tickets were $225 for four. I can't justify that kind of money for what's going to be a 3/4 hour show when I can spend that much on something like an all day trip to Disneyland.

>>3104182
look for the pic of the crows from last Tuesday's Smackdown hard camera side. It's not all that different.
Before you start to think it was a dark match, look at who's in the ring. It was during Shelton Benjamin's return match.

>>3104129
I swear czw tournament of death in june had more people in the audience than this

>>3104226
*crowd

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>>3104228
Pic related

>>3104243
Well that makes sense. CZW shows are a spectacle where you can see some real weird shit you wont see anywhere else.

WWE house shows are just a waste of time. Who actually wants to see Orton vs Mahal or AJ vs Owens for the tenth time, especially when you already know the guy going in the champion is going out the champion

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>world "wrestling" """""""""entertainment"""""""""

>>3104062
Literally more than all of NJPW shows for the past 3 weeks combined.

>>3104062
I don't even get why people go to house shows anymore

>>3104129
That had to of been some small town out in the middle of nowhere, no? Otherwise pretty sad.

>>3104298
I don't get how people pay for wwe, they literally do everything to spite their fans

>>3104164
>death nail

it's death knell ya pinhead

>>3104352
For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong.

>>3104352
Remember that if you do too much cocaine you get eggcorn dick

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>>3104164
>death nail
I share this board with illiterate mongrels.

>>3104062
Its because people caught on that house shows are just training sessions with audiences.

smack down has been drawing these pathetic crowds since 2009

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>>3104062
Leave it to me! I will finish the job!

>>3104200
Based family man.

>>3104200
dubs of truth right there. Only E DRONES are dumb enough to waste money on WWMEME

>>3104386
Fucking based

>>3104306
I Wireless Center in Moline, Illinois. Population of 40,000.

Imagine paying to see konnor viktor and Erick rowan in a match. Did the guys in the front row pay more than $50?

>>3104143
>death nail
It's "knell".

>>3104074
>WWE
>draws
Good one, Anon!

>>3104150
What do you think is more embarrassing in the mainstream: hosting smaller venues (like UFC does) or not even being able to fill a third of a larger venue?

>>3104122
Orton isn't a draw

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Based PROGRESS outdrawing the E.

>>3104062

This is the current state of the biggest wrestling promotion on the planet, which begs the question.
Why does /asp/ even exist?

>>3104182
Go look up house show attendance during The Attitude Era and feel stupid.

>>3105193
Fuck it, I did it for him:

>WWF @ Moline, IL - August 13, 1998
>9,854 paid
>SELLOUT

Austin wasn't even on the card.

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>>3104062
Welp, time to bury the bingo hall meme.

>>3104062
>>3104129
Jesus, wwe will die in your lifetime.

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They should go back to old school

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>>3104129

>>3104129
I think the GFW house shows had more pople than this

>>3104122
Vince is purposely burying Smackdown Live and has been since it was close to beating Raw in ratings which he would never allow.

>>3104062
I hope Vince is still around when they realize they have to scale back operations significantly. I hope he has to come to the realization that pro wrestling booking is what got him to prominence and sports entertainment production is what killed him.

Fans don't care about anything because no one is given a reason to care. Vince just trots out his garbage gimmicks, puts them in boring garbage storylines and then blames the workers for not being able to get over.

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>>3104062

PROGRESS was drawing around 2,000 for each show in their US house show tour.

>tfw WWE has the same attendance as a small british based company

>>3105390
I don't think they could sell that out currently.

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>house shows in the middle of the ass crack of Kansas don't draw
>WWE is dead I swear guys

>the state of NuJapan fangirls

When are they going to admit to themselves that none of these clowns are a draw?

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>>3105639

>RAW and SD missing entire halfs of their crowds.
>"h-h-hard camera"
>Less than 1,000 people at cheap house shows.
>"it's in the m-m-middle of nowhere!"
>Every other wrestling company are experiencing record breaking years in terms of attendances, wrestling is thriving.
>"State of [Enter Name of better company here] Fans

>>3105639
>>3105196
They used to sell this venue out. Now there's probably not even 1,500 people there.

>>3104074
This is also what happens when you go PG and make a clumsy bodybuilder who wears bright colors and spews memes the top guy.

>>3104143
Cena hasn't been a real draw since 2005. He's only good for selling crap to the kiddies

>>3104129
I honestly thought this was TNA impact for a second. I cant imqgine how in denial Vince and co are.

Even with Cena SD didn't draw that well, without him the show is fucked.

>>3104149
That and when you let your daughter and her egomaniacal husband run unchecked through the company.

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>>3105639
>"y-y-you guys are j-just jealous nu-Japan s-s-sucks"

>>3104062
When vince dies wwe dies, stephanie and triple nose are gonna kill it

>>3105837
good

>>3105672
I went to a smackdown in 2000. And it was one of the coolest most intense energy packed stadium I've ever been in. There were crowds of people outside and inside the place was overflowing with people. EVERY match had the crowd hot and interacting with the match too. I say all this because I cant even imagine going to a live event now and seeing the complete 180 to the experience I had. It makes me sad a lot of these nu wwe fans will never know how fucking awesome this company used to be and what a show they used to put on.

>>3105611
based 1940's cosplayers drawing US dimes.

>>3105990
>drawing US dimes
>nobody knows them
Hmmm

>>3104129
JUST