The Pro Wrasslin' Thread (WWE, WWF, WCW, TNA, ROH, NWA, NJPW, etc)

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JWeinCom said:

No_Name_Needed said:

Well I definitely agree that comparing numbers between the two companies is not that useful. I mean one company has been around for decades and has a very loyal fan base, while the other is only three years old and arguably still trying to built it's audience. Sadly, tribalism comes before logical thinking for many people.

While the Monday night wars were fun, nothing like that will happen ever again. In the 90s, it was really hard to follow both, because if your TV was on Raw, you weren't watching Nitro, unless you maybe had a second TV and were taping it.  So it kind of was a zero sum game, especially because it would have cost about 1200 a year to watch all the PPVs for both. Now, channel flipping isn't even a concept anymore. With DVRs and streaming and the WWE PPVs being less than a meal at McDonalds, there's no real reason to choose. If I regularly watched Dynamite and NXT, I'd catch them both this week no problem.

There's only so much wrestling a person can watch in a week, and each company wants more merchandise and engagement, so there's a some competition in that sense, but it's not even close to the existential struggle of the Monday night wars.

Oh yeah I don't think something like the Monday Night Wars will ever happen again, it was the height of professional wrestling's casual fan viewership (among other things). But it seems like tonight both shows are determined to do better than the other, or at least not drop too much in viewership. Hell NXT added Kevin Owens and The Good Brothers (or The OC) to their lineup. At least for one night it will be interesting to see how both shows perform.

Last edited by No_Name_Needed - on 18 October 2022