# Any WWE fans in the audience? (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** boxing-wrestling-mma\ **Created:** [June 5, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124 "2014-06-05T15:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 371
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7403 "2018-05-21T22:39:11Z")
It’s FOX. Of course they’ll cancel it at some point. I don’t think they’ve ever had a contract that says the show cannot be cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7404 "2018-05-22T01:05:29Z")
Alright, this Bobby Lashley Sisters thing is so bad I’m done with RAW for the night. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7405 "2018-05-22T01:05:44Z")
if they do it will just go back to nbc universal … ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7406 "2018-05-22T02:54:11Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > It’s FOX. Of course they’ll cancel it at some point. > > I don’t think they’ve ever had a contract that says the show cannot be cancelled. That was probably tongue-in-cheek, but though scripted, WWE is probably contracting in the same way NFL and MLB contract. There are probably minimum numbers it must bring in, but Fox won’t be able to cancel if they hit the minimums, and likely can’t even move it around the schedule unless mutually agreed upon. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7407 "2018-05-22T15:55:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > [FOX](https://www.yahoo.com/sports/reports-fox-paying-wwe-1-billion-smackdown-tv-rights-195142693.html) is buying Smackdown for a gazillion dollars. > > It might also change to Friday nights. That’s a death time, usually. At least they won’t cancel it if the ratings tank, for 5 years at least. With DVR’s and plus-one viewing there aren’t many “death times” anymore frankly. The closest you’d get is Saturday night. Besides, it’s one day after Thursday Night Football and if you don’t think Fox is using that platform to promote WWE you’re crazy. > [@Chimera](#): > > It’s FOX. Of course they’ll cancel it at some point. > > I don’t think they’ve ever had a contract that says the show cannot be cancelled. I dunno, The Simpsons is still going on… > [@D\_Odds](#): > > That was probably tongue-in-cheek, but though scripted, WWE is probably contracting in the same way NFL and MLB contract. There are probably minimum numbers it must bring in, but Fox won’t be able to cancel if they hit the minimums, and likely can’t even move it around the schedule unless mutually agreed upon. Is that a real thing? The minimum ratings? Do you have a cite for that, because I’ve never heard of that and am interested to learn. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7408 "2018-05-22T17:48:19Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Is that a real thing? The minimum ratings? Do you have a cite for that, because I’ve never heard of that and am interested to learn. No cite, but WWE would be stupid not to make FOX guarantee the slot and FOX would be stupid not to have performance minimums to guarantee the slot. Neither are stupid in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7409 "2018-05-22T17:59:40Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > [FOX](https://www.yahoo.com/sports/reports-fox-paying-wwe-1-billion-smackdown-tv-rights-195142693.html) is buying Smackdown for a gazillion dollars. > > It might also change to Friday nights. That’s a death time, usually. At least they won’t cancel it if the ratings tank, for 5 years at least. Fox had enough trouble with its schedule after losing two hours to the NFL in the fall. Even if it is a Friday, that’s another two hours each week that it loses, unless, somehow (and very unlikely, given that its affiliates love the advantage of having local news an hour before everyone else), it can talk its affiliates into letting it air network shows for three hours a night. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7410 "2018-05-24T15:47:39Z")
The only solution to Reigns’ chorus of boos is to find someone more hated than him, and now that Fox is in the picture it’s only a matter of time before we get Reigns’ new manager: Joe Buck. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7411 "2018-05-24T17:00:17Z")
I don’t get the Joe Buck hate. He usually calls it down the middle. Chris Collinsworth could be a great heel manager. Hmph. Prince Puma took on giants like Mil Muertes and Matanza solo in Lucha Underground. He didn’t need no help. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7412 "2018-05-24T20:31:59Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > The only solution to Reigns’ chorus of boos is to find someone more hated than him, and now that Fox is in the picture it’s only a matter of time before we get Reigns’ new manager: Joe Buck. Since it’s Fox, here’s an idea: in the same vein as “Corporate,” have a new gimmick named “Programming,” and have him talk about all of the shows he personally had Fox cancel. “Brooklyn Nine-Nine? I did that! No more X-Files or 24? Thank you! But I had to make room for classic Fox shows like Utopia! What’s next on my list? The Orville? Bob’s Burgers?” As an added bonus, have as his valet somebody who was a contestant on The Swan, and his stable can be a bunch of masked wrestlers called Mister Personality. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7413 "2018-05-24T23:37:17Z")
No no no, we’ve seen that before. No network guy. Bad idea. I just don’t get WTF WWE is trying to do with Reigns. NO ONE believes this bullshit about him being picked on and pushed down by authority figures crap. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7414 "2018-05-30T01:19:35Z")
For 60 or so $$$ tonight, I could have been in a crowded arena tonight drinking $10 beer. I would have been about half a football field away from the ring and the rasslers would have looked like animated grains of rice. I would have considered Big jaCass money well wasted, as well as that time sink of a dance-off. I pay to watch them pretend fight and potentially injure themselves, fer gosh sake. On the other hand, I would have marked out for Rusev Day and performed the gestapo march to Samoa Joe’s music. I would have counted with Evil Nakamura and Yessed to DB. But, seeing NXT earlier this year was a much better experience, so I regret nothing. Nothing, do you hear? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7415 "2018-05-30T01:36:15Z")
And Big Ass walks out to no reaction. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7416 "2018-05-30T14:31:04Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > For 60 or so $$$ tonight, I could have been in a crowded arena tonight drinking $10 beer. I would have been about half a football field away from the ring and the rasslers would have looked like animated grains of rice. > > I would have considered Big jaCass money well wasted, as well as that time sink of a dance-off. I pay to watch them pretend fight and potentially injure themselves, fer gosh sake. > > On the other hand, I would have marked out for Rusev Day and performed the gestapo march to Samoa Joe’s music. I would have counted with Evil Nakamura and Yessed to DB. But, seeing NXT earlier this year was a much better experience, so I regret nothing. Nothing, do you hear? Smackdown is coming back to Orlando in August and I’m trying to see if I can get seat-filler tickets for it. Otherwise, I might just skip it entirely. I’m still mad I couldn’t use my NXT house show tickets this past Saturday. We had front row and everything!! But Mrs. Cups started a new job and was invited to the company’ suite for the OC soccer game. Figured that was more important/rare of an occurance ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7417 "2018-05-30T18:34:29Z")
Austin Creed/Xavier Woods is filming a D&D episode of UpUpDownDown today, with Tye Dillinger, Ember Moon and a couple of people I’m not familiar with. :D:cool: ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7418 "2018-05-31T14:15:24Z")
They actually know how to play tabletop? Youngsters today don’t know how their fancy video games got started. /fart /fall asleep at 9 Great to see Chris (Donovan) Dijak finally debut in NXT, even if it was a squash job to Ricochet. \*This \*was a Prince Puma match. Deceptively strong and gravity defying. I’m marking big time over his feud with Velveeta. Dijak is already better than Big Crass. Hope he doesn’t fade into sudden obscurity like AoP and sAniTY. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7419 "2018-05-31T14:21:18Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > They actually know how to play tabletop? > > Youngsters today don’t know how their fancy video games got started. /fart /fall asleep at 9 > > Great to see Chris (Donovan) Dijak finally debut in NXT, even if it was a squash job to Ricochet. \*This \*was a Prince Puma match. Deceptively strong and gravity defying. I’m marking big time over his feud with Velveeta. > > Dijak is already better than Big Crass. Hope he doesn’t fade into sudden obscurity like AoP and sAniTY. Spoiler Alert: He will. He loses every single match in the house shows. He’s not even putting over the bigger talents either, he’s losing to Mars and Rocky and Steve Cutler and stuff. I can’t imagine that bodes well for his future. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7420 "2018-05-31T17:37:50Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7421 "2018-05-31T18:01:50Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/WWESheamus/status/1002225589955293184) Awwwwww jeez…I-I-I dunno about this one ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/7422 "2018-05-31T22:38:59Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/WWESheamus/status/1002225589955293184) …and that’s the _waaaaaaaaaaaaay_ the news goes! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124.md?page=370) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124.md?page=372)