WWE News and Notes
– Last week’s season premiere of Smackdown on the USA Network actually saw a slight decrease in viewership from the previous week’s show. Despite this slight dip, Sean Ross Sapp revealed that WWE management are still very happy about Smackdown’s numbers.
– The Coach sounds off on Vince McMahon. He says the allegations against Mr. McMahon are disgusting! Vince blew all his relationships. There wasn’t one person who would go hang out with him to watch football or go drinking at a bar. The only time he was out with someone was because they needed something from him.
Source: Gabby AF
– Dave Meltzer has highlighted the positive impact that the WWE working relationship has had on TNA’s business:
“The WWE stuff with TNA has definitely helped them on pay-per-view. Their PPV number was way up on the last PPV, not this show (Victory Road) but the one before (Slammiversary).
“Their live attendance the last couple shows, they used to get 500-800 on these PPVs now their 2,000 selling out. It’s a positive.”
– Jade Cargill (via The Ringer) on WWE travel:
“The travel is brutal. It’s very, very brutal. The fact that we travel internationally, and then have to turn around, and people have to go to RAW… I think that’s crazy. Plus you literally have to share your life with the WWE Universe.”
Yeah, I can see how (gasp) interacting with fans is a new concept to Cargill coming from AEW. Zing! 🙂
Surely she knew about this going into it, though? I mean, for a while there AEW was constantly touting their less travel, “wrestler friendly” culture, so you could make the leap that WWE is more travel? I don’t know which approach to take with this, so choose the best option:
A. I know she’s inexperienced in wrestling, but is she really so inexperienced that she didn’t know any of this was a thing?
B. Oh, poor her, jumping right to the main roster and immediately getting pushed to high heaven.
C. Grass isn’t always greener, is it?