Title: Great American Bash Buyrate...
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Scrooge McSuck - August 10, 2005 08:14 PM (GMT)
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The initial buyrate estimates for Great American Bash certainly don't paint a rosy picture of the state of SmackDown. The PPV, headlined by JBL vs. Batista, scored an estimated 200,000 buys. Although the first estimates are usually a bit lower than the final number, the PPV is still dangerously close to being the worst-performing WWE event this year.
Considering WWE has opted to continue two of the more prominent storylines - JBL/Batista and Guerrero/Mysterio - through Summerslam, the news is extremely alarming.
Prior to this PPV, the WWE No Way Out event was the year's worst performer.
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Dear WWE,
JBL couldn't draw flies off a horses dick
Love, Louis Izzo
dynamite kido - August 10, 2005 09:03 PM (GMT)
I wouldn't blame JBL directly..........they were fucking horribly built feuds.
Scrooge McSuck - August 10, 2005 09:13 PM (GMT)
JBL has "main evented" every PPV in the last year that would be defined as worst buyrates possible. No Way Out? Bombed. Every PPV last year he headlined? Either did very poorly or bombed. GAB this year? Bombed.
JBL is the Diesel of 2004-05, except someone had the brain to finally take the title off of him at Wrestlemania, but didn't have the brain to send him to Midcard Hell where he belongs.
prof_plague - August 11, 2005 05:45 AM (GMT)
Wait, aren't you the one who wanted to see JBL as champion again?
SamoaRowe - August 12, 2005 03:35 AM (GMT)
I don't think there is any one wrestler on the Smackdown roster who is in a position to take the blame for the poor buyrate. The show in general is failing. It was performing poorly when Lesnar, Guerrero, JBL, and now Batista were the champions.
Scrooge McSuck - August 12, 2005 11:08 AM (GMT)
If it was a one-time-only bad number for a SD Buyrate, I wouldn't blame anyone, but every SD show since last years GAB has declined steadily, to the point they are worse than the Diesel Era, and all have been headlined by... JBL.
Unless the Undertaker, Booker T, Eddie Guerrero, Big Show, and Batista are all losers, and are dragging down JBL with them.
SamoaRowe - August 12, 2005 01:09 PM (GMT)
Actually, if I recall properly Armageddon did a rather decent buyrate last year, and it had a craptastic card headlined by JBL, Guerrero, Booker, and Undertaker.
And Raw's Taboo Tuesday did worse than Smackdown's No Mercy, granted the entire Tuesday thing probably played a part.
Scrooge McSuck - August 12, 2005 01:15 PM (GMT)
Armageddon... no idea how that did a good buyrate. Maybe a bunch of stoners ordered the show by mistake, because there was nothing of note from that show.
Taboo Tuesday tanked for the obvious reasons... it was on a TUESDAY, and was sandwiched in between 2 shows within a month. 3 PPV's in a 5 week period is overkill.
SamoaRowe - August 15, 2005 05:45 PM (GMT)
There is a new report floating around the internet stating that Great American Bash did 235,000 buys, which is down only 10,000 from last year. That puts it right on par with such raw gems as Unforgiven 2004 and right above Vengeance 2005.