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>SmackDown's 18-49 was the best they've done since March 2020 and thats 3 years of TV which is a different world when you compare it to now because consumption has changed and TV has changed.... From Monday to Friday it (SmackDown) was #1 on all of network and cable by a significant margin. I dont know if there's ever been a week where a wrestling show has been #1 for the whole week... Going back 75 years... The segment (Bloodline trial) was unbelievable, Jimmy, Jey, Roman, Heyman, Solo all did their roles to perfection, the focus is on Roman and Jey but there is a strong focus on Solo, you can see them building Roman and Solo, they got alot of juice in this thing. Live attendance is way way up, the MSG show was the largest gate in domestic SmackDown history... There's no signs of a impending slowdown, once you got momentum you just cruise..." (Meltzer and Bryan go into some fantasy booking about the Bloodline) "We are nowhere close to an endpoint... like when Hogan and Andre wrestled they were #33 on TV, even when Gorgeous George wrestled I don't know that they ever got #1 on TV. Even in the Attitude Era it wasnt even beating the top shows, people want to say its not hot but it's the hottest its been since 2001, thats 22 years and people will say oh you're doing 3 million but TV has changed, they certainly weren't doing these crowds on a regular basis like they are now... Merchandise has never been higher ever, not in the Attitude Era, not in the Hulk Hogan era, never been as high as its been now. Roman is the catalyst, Cody Rhodes is doing great on RAW..
