Report: Horrible attendance at SmackDown tapings..

[Henzo]

I bet if it was one of your boys the excuses would be a dime a dozen but :biztho:

Strawman much?

The Kliq doesn't draw 3,000 to major cities. Maybe a houseshow in Poughkeepsie in 1994 but definitely not a TV taping in the capital of Canada in 2014.

Face it, Jobicho and Wet Shart are played out. Especially Bret. I mean, the only way he gets on WWE TV is to do a half-assed skit with Sandow playing dress-up? It's beyond pathetic.

 

[Tide Run This]

The business stinks right now be real about it. Who the fukk you paying a ticket to see in 2014? Without guys like Rocky or a beast like Lesnar who you paying to see live right now. When you got boring ass Orton the "Demon" Kane and played out Cena in your main angle you know the shows ain't worth seeing. I saw an advert for a show coming up soon pumping up Big Show as a main draw give me a break.

 

[Freestyle Phantom3.0]

Considering it's pretty much a raw recap show nowadays with the same match ups you've seen over and over and over again, they don't make it enticing to go. When was the last time something major, or vital to a storyline happened on smackdown?

 

[Freestyle Phantom3.0]

Double post

 

[PopOnCloud9]

Call up those NXT guys and make Smackdown a wrestling showcase......NXT guys facing off and teaming up with the current roster midcarders. Put Smackdown live on Thursdays again so the E can compete with TNA. it's not much of a competition but right now Smackdown isn't much of a show these days. I don't want a brand split just because they will have Ortons boring ass running one show and Cena running the other. Yet if they did do a brand split Reigns could be built as the new face on one and Bray could be the terror forcing his tirade on the other

 

[Jello Biafra]

-- According to several fans in attendance at last night's WWEMain Event andSmackDown tapings in Ottawa, Canada, the attendance was said to have been "horrible" for a TV taping. The estimated attendance was between 2500-3000 fans and there were some empty floor seats. Another fan said that WWE was handing out free tickets outside of the building before fans were let inside.

:dixie:

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

2500-3000 is not some surprising number.

The WWE runs a lot of shows in small ass venues

I`m sure business is down though. They're in a transition phase with making new stars like Ambrose, Rollins, Cesaro, Bray, Reigns, Rusev

 

[Yung Yogurt]

They need to have at least 1 naked match on smackdown I'm sorry, I ain't even gay but I would pay to see that shyt live.

 

[Nintendough]

1. Its on Friday Night


2. Its taped in an internet world


3. Its advertised as a dumping ground show.

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

My bad, this was the tapings attendance.

Yeah, that's pretty rough

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

This would never happen because of contracts and it's better to put on a shytty show than no show at all, but it would be great if this was a continued trend and they ended up cancelling the show.

They do 3 hours of Raw, one hour of Main Event, one hour of NXT (and one hour of Superstars, still?), that's more than enough wrestling for the week. For me, in a perfect world, Raw would be 2 hours on USA and Main Event would be two hours exclusively on the Network, you'd have one hour of NXT and that's all they would do. I think the less shows they have to do, the better the remaining shows would be.

I feel like the Smackdown brand is at this point though. It's like TNA. There's a certain expectation of what it is and stench to it at this point. I haven't watched a full episode of SD in probably close to 2 years.

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

This would never happen because of contracts and it's better to put on a shytty show than no show at all, but it would be great if this was a continued trend and they ended up cancelling the show.

They do 3 hours of Raw, one hour of Main Event, one hour of NXT (and one hour of Superstars, still?), that's more than enough wrestling for the week. For me, in a perfect world, Raw would be 2 hours on USA and Main Event would be two hours exclusively on the Network, you'd have one hour of NXT and that's all they would do. I think the less shows they have to do, the better the remaining shows would be.

I feel like the Smackdown brand is at this point though. It's like TNA. There's a certain expectation of what it is and stench to it at this point. I haven't watched a full episode of SD in probably close to 2 years.

Well word got out that they don't really give a fukk, and it's clear.

Past writers have said they are fine with putting the same exact match on SD as just was on Raw. It gets treated like a C show, so it's becoming a C show.

At least when there was a brand split there was people who specifically got shine on that show. Now it's just a re-tread of what was on Raw.

 

[El Cocodrilo]

There have been a handful of pretty good episodes of Smackdown over the last few years... but yeah usually its just some bullshyt with a main event rehashed from RAW, shyt sucks.

Im 100% with @Cobratron that they need to cut down on the amount of TV they're doing anyway.

 

[Bob-omb]

Would SD live on Wednesdays w/out a brand split make any sense?

Raw on Monday, SD on Wednesday and NXT on Thursday. I really don't care for Main Event and Superstars

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Hitman making em mad 20+ years