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SUMMERSLAM AT A FOOTBALL STADIUM, THE WYATTS BEING SET FREE, WHO WATCHES RAW AND SMACKDOWN AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2014-10-22 09:59:00

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What happened to Darren Young?

He suffered a knee injury in April. He had been rehabbing after surgery. He has also been the guy in the bunny suit for Adam Rose.

Is it just me that can see a Randy Orton face turn coming? There’s definitely legs in an Orton against the Authority run, especially given his character dislike of Rollins and the fact the authority are favouring Rollins over Orton. What do you think?

I could see it happening too. At some point he should “have enough” of The Authority and break away from them. It would make sense but if they do it, I hope they let him be a tough guy and not turn him all generic. That wouldn’t work. He is really a natural heel.

Quick and to the point. What percentage of WWE fans do you think watch BOTH Raw and Smackdown? I watch Raw, but have rarely watched Smackdown (I've always had whatever channel it was on). After WCW went under, I probably have watched 1 or 2 episodes of Smackdown. I just have no real interested in watching an additional 2 hours.  

I think you could find that percentage, with a very small margin of error, by dividing the Smackdown audience number by the Raw audience number. I don’t think there are a lot of people that just watch Smackdown over Raw, so that will give you the percentage, which is generally in the 60 to 70% range.

Help me out here. So the Wyatts start losing steam, IMHO entirely due to booking. And Vince's solution is to "set them free"...? They had all the makings of a powerhouse stable for years. But they dissolve the group. I have my own thoughts to why, what are yours? In what world does the Brood having a longer life than the Wyatts make sense?

In Vince’s world, that’s where! I totally agree with you. It’s Vince’s self fulfilling prophecy at work again. He loses interest in guys, depushes them then says they are not over. Of course they aren’t! I hope setting those guys on their own path ends up being a positive but I will believe it when I see it.

After seeing that SummerSlam 2015 is taking place at IZOD Center, I for one am shaking my head. Given that it's the "biggest event of the summer", why not try for another stadium show, be it at MetLife, either baseball stadium in the city, or even Red Bull Arena, to enhance the spectacle of it. Being 7 hours away myself, I would take a trip for an experience, not another show in a hockey rink.

You can call it the biggest show of the summer, but that doesn’t mean fans will agree with you. WrestleMania is a happening, so it’s a sure thing to sell out a stadium. SummerSlam isn’t. A half full football stadium just doesn’t look good on TV. If they were white hot, like in the Attitude era, they could try it. But they aren’t right now.

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