How do you go from this to Daniel Bryan & Kofi Kingston?

2005 was the first year Raw's ratings increased. Batista was apart of RAW for first 6 months.

WM 21 did over 1 million buys due to HHH/Batista. It was first WM to do 1 million buys since WM 17.

Viewership fell in late 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 (due to Eddie and Benoit).

Batista and Cena were the guys to help ratings increase in 2005 and 2006. Try again faggot.

>fell in late 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 (due to Eddie and Benoit).
lmao okay Paul

Kofi & Bryan debuted while Batista was still in the company tho...

You're gay Wolfcuc

I said it fell in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 due to Benoit and Eddie. Meaning 2004 and 2004 only due to Benoit and Eddie.

That's what happens when the prior year you build your product around Rock, Austin, Goldberg, Lesnar and then they all take off and you replace them with 2 small midcard guys. Fans go bye bye.

HHH was still there in all those years bar most of 2001.

You're still gay Wolfcuc

Batista does not really have much intensity or presence. I never understood his fans, all 100 of them.

Batista was a cuck who was so terrified of crowds that he had to wear sunglasses to hide the fear in his eyes.

>tfw Rob Conway and Chris Masters would probably be more over than most of today's roster
that's probably not even true but it might be

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>Lawler @ 6:55: Look at that glazed look in the eyes of Benoit! I think he's gone.

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wrestling fans are incels now they dont like big strong men anymore they like wimpy looking dudes who talk a lot of shit like them except athletic

this gif launches my sides into orbit every time I see it

Snitsky would be HUGE in today's meme culture

I really like this gif thank you for sharing it

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you're welcome user
checked, and looking back you might be right

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Losing viewers doesn't really mean anything because around that Time people stopped really watching cable television. Its like people who shitpost on here every time "ratings" are bad but fail to realize ratings for EVERYTHING went down, even the fucking Super Bowl has been losing ratings

Why? Not decline in quality, but people are now streaming, using apps, watching replays on events on Hulu or the WWE network. Nobody is watching USA when they can watch a 90 minute version of Raw on Hulu the day after.

Based Big Beard Bryan still making you seethe after 5 years of WM30 and living rent free in Batista's head

>Losing viewers doesn't really mean anything because around that Time people stopped really watching cable television. Its like people who shitpost on here every time "ratings" are bad but fail to realize ratings for EVERYTHING went down, even the fucking Super Bowl has been losing ratings
>
>Why? Not decline in quality, but people are now streaming, using apps, watching replays on events on Hulu or the WWE network. Nobody is watching USA when they can watch a 90 minute version of Raw on Hulu the day after.
the absolute state of edrones

Batista has always looked like a gay porn star

Even Benoit was more believable than most wrestlers today, and he was a total manlet.

Still more than modern WWWHO

>More believable
>Knowingly scripted entertainment
Cringe

>people defend modern WWE
>brainlets who don't understand that their argument of it being scripted crumbles in on itself because in a scripted environment it's predominantly perception that lends believability

New Japan understands this and they're in an upswing.
WWE has forgotten it by spotlighting midgets and womeme, and they're dying.
Seethe, simp?

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Tanahashi, Naito and Ibushi wouldn't look out of place in 205, FYI. They're "midgets" too.

>also a brainlet that doesn't understand regional context

Japs are shorter than Westerners. All three of those guys are notably above average height for their native region.
Also
>Tana and Ibushi not looking out of place on 205

Tana has more mass on him than most guys in WWE in general, much less 205.
Ibushi's about shoot 30lbs heavier than when he competed in the CWC and had to blatantly drop weight to thin down for it, so there's an obvious point of comparison there that undermines your point.
Only guy you could make a case for is Naito but he's not really that cut either.

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>Even Benoit was more believable

Nigga benoit was the most intense wrestler to ever do it. All his matches look 100% real.

Not really.
There were 17 shows on the network tv last night (fox, nbc, cbs, abc, cw) only 7 of them had more than 3.2m viewers
Of the 7, 5 of them were cbs shows which is the old people network, their biggest ratings come from people 50 or older.

LIST OF BABYFACES DANIELLE CRYAN FANS HAVE BOOED BECAUSE THEY HONESTLY BELIEVE THEIR DEAR LEADER IS JESUS FOR BEING BORN A MANLET
The Rock
The Big Show
Rey Mysterio
Batista
Kane
Roman Reigns
Goldberg

LIST OF BABYFACES WHO WERE BEING BOOED BEFORE BUT DANIELLE CRYAN FANS SHIFTED TO CHEERING BECAUSE THEY'RE SUCH OLD-SCHOOL FANS WHO WERE DEFINITELY WATCHING IN THE 90S
John Cena
Randy Orton

LIST OF BABYFACES WHOSE MATCH WWE THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE CHEERS IN RESPONSE TO THE CLAIM THAT IT WAS WORSE THAN DANIELLE CRYAN'S LADDER MATCH AT WRESTLEMANIA 31 DUE TO THE REALIZATION HIS FANS THOUGHT HE WAS JESUS, BUT ACTUALLY CAUSED BOOS
Ricky Steamboat
Randy Savage

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List of wrestlers living in your head rent free

Daniel Bryan

Could imagine some faggot like Joey Ryan trying to do his shtick with Benoit?

6 years of seethe

Worked
Seething
Rent free

Every single thing about this video is better than today's product. The wrestlers, the match, the ref, the announcers, and the crowd.

The commercials during Raw then were better than the commercials now.

>insecure lardass
GOAT physiques are inspirational and not something to be jealous of.

Where the FUCK did the MEN go?

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There's a theory why CBS draws so many old people and it has to do with the fact it's the first channel that pops up on most systems in America when it's turned on.

did they?

Yes, they had a slobberknocker. Then they went backstage and each found a gal to slobber their knocker. It's the opposite today.

You act like "real men" like Hogan and Brutus Beefcake weren't breaking each other's boypussy at least 2 times a week. Hidden homosexuality (or bisexuality for that matter) is common around wrestling since like the 70s.

I never implied otherwise. That "did they" shit just isn't funny.

a golden age of footchads

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2001-2004 Heel Austin to Austin's Retirement nice

social media needs to fucking go

>Rates wrestling based solely off of views
Yikes

Times have fallen.

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>small sweaty men

Yikes

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I just can't understand how some of the fans then could become fans of this shit now, like. What got into them?

2001 Benoit out for injury treatment, Eddie was fired/suspended

2002 Benoit return along with Eddie, and they were involved in midcard or nowhere and got a spot when they became the part of Smackdown 6 with different partner, Chris with Kurt while before with Chavo, Eddie did tag along with Tajiri.

2003 Benoit only involve or bound to world title for twice(RR 2003 and SmackDown in November 2003) while Eddie win the U.S title at Vengeance and retain the title for about 3 months.

2004, it wasn't totally their fault when the rating tanked. WWE kinda suffer after their two big star leave the company, The Rock decided to more focus with Hollywood, Undertaker just made return as Deadman.

see
you fucking retard, and Eddie and Benoit did play a LARGE role in business being down to all time lows because they were the fucking world champions you retarded faggot

>masculine men are all secretly gay
Oh for sure it's the limp-wristed, onions sipping, androgynous cuck brigade that are the true alfa chads.

>Kofi & Bryan debuted while Batista was still in the company tho...
They weren't wrestling for the world championship tho...

brainlet. that was big dimes john doing the drawing.
batista was so bad and unreliable they had to fucking hotshot the belt to fucking khali during this time. it wasn't until 09 that he stopped being a negative dime drawer

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