Sunday, January 26, 2014
Danel Bryant steals the 2014 Rumble and Roman Reigns a fan favorite
The Royal Rumble got booed out of the building as the crowd did not get anything they wanted as Daniel Bryant started the night in the ring and the crowd wanted him to be the last person in the ring. When it got late in the Rumble the Daniel Bryant chants got louder and louder but when Rey Mysterio came in @ #30 and Bryant was nowhere to be found I heard something I never ever had heard before and never expected to hear and that was Rey Mysterio get booed coming to the ring and cheered as he was eliminated from the match. Batista who would be the reason that my local movie theatre had sold out the Royal Rumble at 7 PM eastern (a hour before the event started and 30 minutes before pre-show) and by the end of the night he was being booed out of the building as he ended the night in the final two with Roman Reigns. The crowd that booed the rumble match until it got down to Reigns and Batista the crowd booed when Batista had the advantage and cheered when Reigns had the advantage they cheered him. Roman Reigns set a new rumble record with 12 eliminations including the other two shield member and that may be why he was more over than Batista while the surprise entrants were Diesel/Kevin Nash,Alexander Rusev, El Torito, and the guy that took Bryant's spot JBL who had the stupid spot as he turned his back to his opponents in the ring as he handed Michael Cole his suit just before being eliminated in less than 30 seconds, Batista won the rumble and will likely face Randy Orton at Mania in the first internet/tablets ppv in the WWE while Kofi Kingston had two spots he got thrown out of ring and caught by Alexander Rusev (who has just been elimination) and put on the barricade and jumped back into the ring and the second his shoes stuck to the middle robe and fought his way back into the ring.
Daniel Bryant and Bray Wyatt started the night hot with the other two Wyatt were sent to the back and Daniel Bryant worked on Bray's leg while Bray worked on Bryant's head working off the real life situation of Bryant getting a concussion in the steal cage match with the USO. In the end Bray pinned Bryant and you heard pins dropping everywhere as air was let out of the arena. The fans would let the powers to be who they came to see as Daniel Bryant chants could be heard in the Show/Lesnar match which looked like it was not going to happen as Lesnar attacked Show with two steal chairs but little nature boy (Charles Robinson) got the matched started and it was quick Show got a punch in but Lesnar dazed still got the F5 and won. After the match Lesnar went throw a few more chairs taken out Big Show and will likely get a shot at the chamber in four weeks. The final match before the Rumble which went on last was Cena and Orton and the crowd could cared less if the tried each others move and near falls all u could hear was Daniel Bryant Yes, Yes, Yes and this is awful which was different than the this is awesome that could be heard during Bryant/Wyatt. The got really silly as it went like a hour (likely 20-25) so that the Wyatts turn the lights out so that Orton could RKO Cena for the victory to set up Cena/Wyatt at the chamber and Mania.
Punk was first in and one last four and nobody cared about him or anybody else except Daniel Bryant
Tom Mehegan
Monday, January 13, 2014
WWE Network is not good for business
On the surface getting WrestleMania 30 and Summer Slam '14 for 60 dollars (10 dollars each month min. 6 month) but when u think that the WWE is not putting WrestleMania on PPV where they probably get 900,000 to a million buys at 60 dollars each it will bring the profit down huge. It will not effect the likes of John Cena or Randy Orton who will get their millions but for guys like Golddust, Cody Roades, Kofi Kingston, Zack Ryder, and the Divas who need the Mania bonuses to make ends meet will not be getting them after WrestleMania 30.
This is because after this Mania which will be on PPV internationally so they will still make their millions and the mid card will get their important bonuses it will be tough times as 10 dollars is a lot less than the 25 or 30 dollars that the WWE take home for each PPV buy.
WrestleMania may never be the same again and that will go for all PPV shows as the focus will go from the TV building towards PPV matches to having the PPV leading to TV storyline because the bigger money will be from TV revenue. This is because the WWE are looking for big increases in their TV contracts for Raw and Smackdown which are ending soon and they are hoping that the live TV is must see live like sporting events whose TV revenues have sky rocked.
The WWE network because it take away all PPV buys will mean that they will need a million subscribers to break even and for a non TV product that will be everywhere else like ipads, computers/laptops, video game system buts it will still be extremely difficult to make it reality.
6 weeks before wrestling changes and maybe not for the better
Tom Mehegan
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