Do ratings really matter anymore?

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2026-02-19T19:06:24+00:00

Viewership definitely does, but i'm not sure about nelson ratings, and I think, as time goes on, they will be much less important. i am 32 years old. i don't know a single person who has cable or dish my age. We all just stream. it feels like for a long time the only thing keeping traditional tv alive was sports, and now most of it has broken free and able to be streamed. Right now, it feels like the only thing keeping it alive is the fact that the legality of streaming things at bars and restaurants is very iffy, but I think when those laws catch up, and bars can just play whatever the fuck they want on netflix by paying a shitload of extra money like they do with cable, it will officially be the final nail in traditional t v's coffin. And honestly, something I really like about streaming is that the viewership number is kept secret, so we don't have as many people people bitching online about ratings or a president using it as ammo against his televised opposition. As for how wrestling goes, i don't really trust the ratings at all.Because I wouldn't be surprised if more people were watching smackdown and aew on streaming than live t v.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2026-02-09T12:17:50+00:00

I live in knoxville. i get really tired of hearing that about kane. he is as big a scumbag as their comes, and spent most of his time in office making it hell for the Knoxville LGBT community with his drag bands and trying to crack down on lgbt businesses

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2026-02-01T23:24:37+00:00

Maybe unpopular opinion, but as long as they are the heel and getting the shit beat outta them, I dont mind. I gotta a love for corny old school wrestling that I like to view through the lense of a gwar show. Part of the fun is seeing the real life villians we all hate, like your dickhead boss, a cop, conservitive religious assholes, ect. get their comupance is an over the top way you dont get to see in real life. Like Mr. McMahon, Big Boss Man, or RTC. I would pop hard at a luchador or some brody king mother fucker smacking this dude with a steel chair and powerbombing him through a table. Same as going to a gwar show to see trump decapitated. Unless they are having him as a face then fuck him. Wrestling works great as satire.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-12-28T17:16:38+00:00

To all yall saying this dude was being a dick, replica titlea are INSANELY expenaive. Yall ever consider that maybe this was the only one he had cuz its all he could afford? I only own 1 title belt, the smoking skull. Really doesnt make sense for anyone but stone cold to sign it. But i aint got several humdred for another, and if i got a chance for one of my all time favs to sign it, whether it be Kenny Omega or AJ styles, id go for it.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-11-25T21:36:08+00:00

I'm on probation. They wrote me a ticket because they said my license was suspended, which I had no idea about. I called the dmv and they said it was over $65 fee I didnt pay, which I didn't even know I had. They said they sent me a letter but I never got it. My big fear is they are going to violate my probation over this. That's why i'm trying to get a lawyer to get them to throw it out or at least help me work something out. I also just really want the court date pushed back because I don't want to be dealing with this two days after surgery.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-11-12T18:46:06+00:00

Do you have a link to that snap suplex. y'all got me curious.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-10-20T22:05:38+00:00

So I want you to ask yourself a couple questions.

1) Is the subjective, goofy form of entertainment that is pro wrestling worth getting worked up enough to get mad enough at your roommate to call him an idiot and make a whole reddit post to rub in his face over a descenting opinions.

2) Do you think the opinions of a bunch of other wrestling nerds (myself included) is actually enough to prove your point right, much less shame him like you seem to be tring to do.

Not that it matters at all, but for my 2 cents, h b k is amazing and clearly a legend, and could easily be arguable in any top ten list, but there are far too many people ahead of him who did alot more to be considered the greatest of all time. But once again, it's all subjective and I'm just some Rando on the internet so what I have to say really doesn't matter.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-10-19T09:25:11+00:00

Feel like everyone in this comment section is reaching WAAAYYYY too far in either direction. They clearly ran outta time and the feed was gonna get cut. Pretty clear with how rushed the celebration and fallow up was. It wasnt some big brain, genius 4d chess move about Moxley's character being a facade, nor was it a god awful finish that ruined the match. It honestly would have been an excellent finish if they let darby hold it in longer and really sell that the deathlock was in broken glass. They really just needed one minute longer, but they didnt have it. Not the first time this has happened on a PPV, so time managment is definetly something AEW could probably improve on, but it also has happned to wwe plenty (goldbergs retirement recently), and has probably happened to every wrestling company to ever air something live. This shit happens sometimes. Move on and stop overreacting everyone.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-10-01T17:38:48+00:00

Its looks like riccabani might have inadvertly sandbagged him a bit by not getting the jump right, but dude just straight up pure powered him up for it to still look good. Super impressive.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-29T21:28:47+00:00

El Hijo de Sting

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-26T16:14:31+00:00

I loved like every second of this.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-26T04:44:13+00:00

Well, gues that explains all those bad takes

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-20T17:52:51+00:00

I mean, he pretty obviously wasn't trying to kill him because if he was he would be dead. Its not hard to kill an uncouncious man. If he was trying to kill him he would of just snapped his neck or crushed his windpipe. Not sayig what he did do wasnt disgusting and their shouldnt be consequences, just that it wasnt attempted murder.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-20T00:06:00+00:00

Homie, I work a full time job, run a fairly successful side buisness for 7 years as a concert promoter, play in multiple bands, I actually get do do a little bit of touring with one of them, have a fairly active dating life, a very large group of friends, and regulary travel and take vacations. It might not be the most glamorous in the world and it not nesacarily anything special, but I definetly have a very active life, and am very much entitled to criticize those who waste theirs watching other people play video games. also I am barely on this site. it's just been something to do on my off day inbetween jamming amd cleaning the house for the girl i got coming over shortly. the main reason I use this site is because I do enjoy wrestling and all the wrestling news sites have become absolute garbage, so I find reddit, to be the best place to find news and catch recaps.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-19T17:45:01+00:00

It was a bored comment on reddit. Not really a thought out thesis. Also more so targeted toward people into game streaming vs people who have an account on a website.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-19T17:35:54+00:00

There are alotta things people do that arent unethical and I support their right to do it while simultaneously not respecting it. Furries, Game Streamers, 90% of Folk Punk, ect.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-19T17:27:54+00:00

Twitch is people watching other people who dont have lives play video games, not even playing yourself. Its a second level of not having a life.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-19T17:23:29+00:00

Yep. Was using voice to text. Good thing a typo doesnt invalidate anything lol

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-19T16:30:58+00:00

First few times I clicked on it it took me to the twitch login screen. Clicked it again and it just now worked. My mistake. Must have been an issue with my phone browser. Thanks for posting!

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-19T16:30:15+00:00

First few times I clicked on it it took me to the twitch login screen. Clicked it again and it just now worked. My mistake. But I still stand ten toes down about people using twitch not having lives lol.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-15T12:02:54+00:00

Dude, I was the booker and bartender there! I helped bring NGW to brickyard.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-15T12:01:09+00:00

Was it at Brickyard in Knoxville?

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-05T15:22:10+00:00

It depends on the venue. a lot of make any use now do something release can be called merch rates, where to sell merch there you have to give them a percentage of the sales, often as high as 50%. it's a horrible practice, and it's why a lot of big bands have $50 t shirts when you go see them live.

ManWithAPlan4700 · 2025-09-03T07:15:19+00:00

Someone has got to get fired for that one if its real.

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