SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, August 20th, 2021: John Cena and Roman Reigns final statements before SummerSlam

[Dale]

Bianca is so good, can't wait to see her mixing it up with the others at some point.

 

[Chris]

Cena promo fucking ruled

 

[Marty McFourth]

The build for Cena/Roman has been fantastic honestly. Been glued to every segment and promo they've done. It's definitely the match I'm most interested to see the outcome of.

I liked how the show ended last night with Cena 'pinning' Roman and shaking him up. Great moment.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Summerslam is not a half bad card this year. Some really good matches and the build on Smackdown has been mostly good. I'll be checking it out. Crowd should be good.

 

[Dale]

Also I never thought I would be so into it but I need more of heel Otis. I'm fine with them being a tag team but I wouldn't be mad at all if Gable became a mouthpiece for Otis who wrestled from time to time. That fucking back elbow he threw.

 

[Loochblade]

Alright... I like Pat McAfee now. "We doing it again Cole, to hell with ya, pal" ...what a fuckin' highlight

Edge promo was awesome and the throwback to the Brood is amazing. Fuck WWE (or FOX) for censoring the "Holy Shit" chants, when they got too loud.

 

[Jimmy King]

Me being excited about going to Raw this coming Monday then WWE announces something for the show



My reaction

 

[Loochblade]

Oh no.. Sorry, man. Moist TV 20 years ago would've been way more fun.

 

[Necro]

We will see how much this moves Monday.

 

[Chris]

The early SmackDown numbers once again included several Fox stations that aired NFL preseason games instead of SmackDown. With the market differences, both the prelims and final numbers are skewed. The early numbers include NFL in some markets, but not as many as last week while the later numbers are affected by markets not airing the show.

The best comparison is markets airing the show. Last week's number was going to be very high, but the loss of key cities put it back into normal range. This week's markets preempting the show were different, so these are major market comparisons.

For homes in the top ten markets as compared to last week (direct numbers with no NFL): New York was down in homes 40%, Los Angeles was down 26%, Chicago was the same, Philadelphia was up 7%, Dallas was up 29%, San Francisco was the same, Houston was down 17% and DC was down 16%,

In 18-49, New York was down 30%, Los Angeles was down 15%, Chicago was down 8%, Philadelphia was down 44%, San Francisco was up 125%, Houston was down 50% and DC was up 25%.

 

[Dale]

So did Shotzi bring the ratings, or did Nattie being there drive them away. That's all I need to know.