August 28, 201411 yr comment_5621746 I think Dave is scrambling for a fresh metric in the "brand is the draw" era and this is the best he's got. I also think it is indicative of something but not what he thinks necessarily
August 28, 201411 yr comment_5621747 It's clearly indicative of something; how could it not be? Mass trends don't simply appear out of thin air. That said, Dave using Reign's placement as evidence that the WWE has successfully made him a star seems pretty dubious.
August 28, 201411 yr Author comment_5621748 Evidence of something, yes. But what is the right action a wrestling promoter should take based on this? How do they capitalize on it?
August 28, 201411 yr comment_5621753 Apparently, it's been a shockingly accurate predictor of PPV buys in most cases, with a few obvious outliers (Ronda Rousey is a pretty girl so more people will search for her anyway, while Anderson Silva's last fight ended in his leg breaking brutally and thus tons of searches right after the show). And that's cool. But reading about it applied to individual wrestlers and popularity isn't that interesting except for a couple weird outliers like how much Punk and Undertaker are still being searched for.
August 29, 201411 yr comment_5621775 Sibling vs Sibling is one thing. How many memorable twin vs twin or character vs impostor matches have there been? L.A. Park (original) and La Parka
August 29, 201411 yr comment_5621782 But reading about it applied to individual wrestlers and popularity isn't that interesting except for a couple weird outliers like how much Punk and Undertaker are still being searched for. Looking at the hits for Cageside Seats articles, Punk stories always do really well, so him being the second most searched for pro wrestler (I don't count The Rock, as this year it's been all acting accept for his cameo at WrestleMania) wasn't surprising to me. Regarding Reigns, he was behind Bryan and Orton (amongst others) and only one spot ahead of Nikki Bella, which proves that he hasn't broken out of the pack yet.
August 29, 201411 yr comment_5621783 Maybe I don't understand how web logistics work, but I don't get how hits on a CS article has any bearing on someone breaking out of the pack. Especially when Nikki Bella probably has a lot of Total Divas-centric stories boosting her hit counter.
August 29, 201411 yr comment_5621786 Maybe I don't understand how web logistics work, but I don't get how hits on a CS article has any bearing on someone breaking out of the pack. Especially when Nikki Bella probably has a lot of Total Divas-centric stories boosting her hit counter. It has nothing to do with number of stories. It's about how many times X is searched for.
August 29, 201411 yr comment_5621814 Yeah, I was talking about the Google trends in my post (so Roman Reigns has been searched for slightly less than Randy Orton and slightly more than Nikki Bella, which isn't mind-blowingly impressive). My point was that from my experience at Cageside Seats, that Punk stories generate a lot of traffic (much from search engines), so his high placement wasn't surprising to me. The rest of my post I wasn't referring to CSS.
August 30, 201411 yr comment_5621932 Dave is a pretty decent fella That was really cool, no pun intended.
August 30, 201411 yr comment_5622022 I like him sticking the newspaper on the chair along with the book. Couldn't those things get ruined? 34 years is damned impressive though. My wife's sister died of ALS. She passed a year after her diagnosis.
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622033 Dana White called out Dave on the UFC pre-game for saying the gate tonight will be 500K instead of 700K.
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622034 Also the UFC twitter was basically subtweeting Dave with comments on how impressive the gate is for the show.
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622037 Dave is a pretty decent fellahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-Jd9EiBPg I'm actually shocked Dave looks so much like old late 70s/early 80s ICW wrestler George Weingeroff (back row in red shirt)
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622053 I always thought Dave was a dead ringer for Brian Adias (or perhaps Adias was a dead ringer for Meltzer).
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622054 I always thought Dave was a dead ringer for Brian Adias (or perhaps Adias was a dead ringer for Meltzer). Nice call as well
August 31, 201411 yr Author comment_5622056 The joke in the early 90s was that Dave Meltzer, Brian Pillman and Scott Levy all looked identical, but obviously that wasn't the case after a few years.
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622059 the more I think about it I think Dave resembles Matt Stone. Maybe I'm the only one but I definitely see it
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622063 I like him sticking the newspaper on the chair along with the book. Couldn't those things get ruined? First thing that came to my mind. Funny.
August 31, 201411 yr comment_5622075 The joke in the early 90s was that Dave Meltzer, Brian Pillman and Scott Levy all looked identical, but obviously that wasn't the case after a few years. I always thought young Dave looked like Brian Adias. Some in the lucha community in the early 90s thought he looked like Emilio Charles Jr., which sounds like a joke, but before Emilio's head all got scarred and he grew a beard there was some sort of a slight resemblance.
September 2, 201411 yr comment_5622299 the more I think about it I think Dave resembles Matt Stone. Maybe I'm the only one but I definitely see it We'll need to hear him say "I think unicorns are kick-ass" to be sure.
September 2, 201411 yr comment_5622361 I like him sticking the newspaper on the chair along with the book. Couldn't those things get ruined? First thing that came to my mind. Funny. He brought it up on today's show, ha: Dave Meltzer: "Can you believe my stupidity of pouring ice and water all over myself without taking the newspaper and book out of the chair? Goddamn, that was so stupid. But it's actually fine, I didn't get that much water on it."
September 2, 201411 yr comment_5622397 Bryan's Ice Bucket video is tremendous: (in before "better booked than current WWE" comments)
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