Monday Night Football Kills The Kevin Owens Show

Source: http://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/raw-ratings-plummet-against-first-nfl-competition-season-220781

For those lazy to click the link, Raw got its lowest audience since October 1996 during the WWF’s weak sauce years of getting its ass kicked by the nWo. I suppose someone might blame it on putting the belt on the Quebecois asti tabarnac… but really, who’s surprised by this? For a company that claims to tell stories, they haven’t told any interesting ones as of late.

WWE Backlash 2016

Backlash 2016… when was the last time that there was a Backlash PPV? That’s a bit of a throwback… hey, speaking of throwbacks, this is being touted as Smackdown’s “first” PPV ever… because all those other Smackdown PPVs from ten years ago never happened. I posted some brief thoughts on Monday, but then decided to expand on some of this stuff… not that it really matters.

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Sidenote on AJ Styles

With last night’s title win, AJ Styles is often being credited as being the first guy to have held the TNA, IWGP, and WWE championships, making him something of a Triple Crown champ. Quite an impressive showing all things considered, but did you know that AJ Styles also held the NWA World title during TNA’s Asylum years?

Because TNA didn’t actually have a World title to call their own until 2007, so they just used the NWA belt and AJ’s held that a couple times. So realistically, he should be considered a Grand Slam champion before having held the NWA, TNA, IWGP, and WWE World titles.

Just a thought.