Early buyrate reports for Backlash

[Guest Heavy As Hell]

Far fewer buys than expected for Goldberg’s debut

 

Original surveys of cable operators had palced the buyrate of WWE Backlash of between 425,000 and 500,000 buys, which is above that of No Way out, but lower than hoped for Goldberg’s debut.

 

However, new reports have the buyrate substantially lower, at around 250,000 buys. For comparison, in its dying days, WCW was getting about 150,000 buys for its PPVs. There are fears that Judgment Day will get below 200,000 buys.

 

credit: Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter

 

Everyone who is suprised, please raise thine hand.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

For comparison, in its dying days, WCW was getting about 150,000 buys for its PPVs.

 

That doesn't sound correct. Some of those late WCW buyrates were in the 0.10-0.15 range. Given that 500 000 buys = 1.0 approximately, those numbers are more like 50-75 thousand buys.

[Guest Quik]

Quick, everyone point and laugh at WWE!

[Guest AndrewTS]

Quick, everyone point and laugh at WWE!

I'll save that when we hit late WCW levels.

 

Oh, what the hell.

 

HA-HA!!

[Guest The Tino Standard]

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[Guest Blue Bacchus]

Does anyone else sometimes get the mental image of Vince playing the Violin while the Titan Towers are burning?

[Guest Quik]

I have a mental image of Vince yelling "Stop it! Stop it!", and then running away in tears as a crowd of smarks points and laughs.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

More like playing in the band while the ship sinks...

 

Where's that "Stand Back" pic when I need it?

[Guest Quik]

Dude, the flute girl ( I forgot her real name... Alisson Hannigan?) looks fucking hideous in that pic...

[Guest Sturgis]

Cripple H: See what happens when we put Jericho in the main event, Vince.

[Guest Heavy As Hell]

It's too bad we'll never know exactly what impact adding Goldberg had on the number of buys positive or negative.

[Guest Showstoppa Icon]

i really dont think theres a huge ammount of WCW fans left, those ppl have either joined the wwe product or moved on with their lives. Vince isnt going to get them back by bringing in former wcw stars. The boost in the Raw rating is probably from once-disgruntled wwe fans, not lost WCW fans.

[Guest Anglesault]

OH DOWN-HOME!

 

 

That Goldberg is really the savior of te world and worth all that money, huh?

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

It's a delayed sort of reaction... In a few months wrestling fans are bound to come around...

[Guest AndrewTS]

OH DOWN-HOME!

 

 

That Goldberg is really the savior of te world and worth all that money, huh?

Downhome never said he expected Goldy to pop a huge buyrate, so let him be. Plus they booked him kinda lousy.

 

Not that I care, although if Goldberg utterly bombs in his future PPV matches I'll be very pleased.

[Guest Mole]

Dude, the flute girl ( I forgot her real name... Alisson Hannigan?) looks fucking hideous in that pic...

Alyson!

 

And one match doesn't make a person buy a PPV. Why would a person waste $35 on one match?

 

The buyrates are down because of the storylines, that is all. One person can't save the company, everyone should know that.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

The WWE clearly doesn't know that...

[Guest AndrewTS]

Dude, the flute girl ( I forgot her real name... Alisson Hannigan?) looks fucking hideous in that pic...

Alyson!

 

And one match doesn't make a person buy a PPV. Why would a person waste $35 on one match?

 

The buyrates are down because of the storylines, that is all. One person can't save the company, everyone should know that.

Also, having these hyped up returns at PPVs, and having debut matches on PPV is pretty damn lame.

 

Vince, you actually expect us to pay to see some washed up WCW hasbeen debut in the fucking MAIN EVENT of a Pay Per View when he was shitty back when he wrestled regularly? Fuck you.

[Guest Anglesault]

The buyrates are down because of the storylines, that is all. One person can't save the company, everyone should know that.

But that's why hewas brought in. To get a monster buyrate. That was the rallying cry of all Pro-Bergers. He failed. He's worthless. Fire him.

 

Downhome never said he expected Goldy to pop a huge buyrate, so let him be.

 

Wht did he expect? What was the point of bringing him in?

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

It's clear from the Raw rating and the Backlash buyrate, that there was some interest in seeing Goldberg wrestle - but very little in paying to see him wrestle... The next Raw rating should be interesting... If it's up (see, higher than avg) that either means that (a)they liked the Austin as GM schtick or (b) they liked Goldberg wrestling...

[Guest Anglesault]

It's clear from the Raw rating and the Backlash buyrate, that there was some interest in seeing Goldberg wrestle - but very little in paying to see him wrestle... The next Raw rating should be interesting... If it's up (see, higher than avg) that either means that (a)they liked the Austin as GM schtick or (b) they liked Goldberg wrestling...

If you want to go by TV ratings until they become consistant, make Sable SD! champ.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

I'm just saying that there was interest in either seeing Goldberg as champ or Austin as GM - which would explain the unusual rating. Also, historically, May has been the highest rated sweeps month for the WWE often putting up unusually high ratings... By no means am I saying that Goldberg should be pushed or even with the WWE... Just trying to put things in perspective.

[Guest HollywoodSpikeJenkins]

Dude, the flute girl ( I forgot her real name... Alisson Hannigan?) looks fucking hideous in that pic...

You should see the rest of her FHM photos....

 

 

 

Ewwww

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, and Vince...

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest THE MIGHTY THOR]

It's not nice to kick a man while he is down, but what the hell..................

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Guest JAxlMorrison]

Now if Judgement Day does a higher buyrate with the Lesnar-Show and HHH-Nash matches as the main attractions, we are all in very big trouble.

[Guest THE MIGHTY THOR]

It won't happen since days b4 the ppv the WWF/E had the Lame harrass people to order the ppv, they do that everytime they know that they are putting out a shitty ppv.