>>11596207the squashes were to elevate the actual relevant wrestlers in the roster and to give them excuses to do promos ahead of the ppvs, while the actual good matches took up most of the runtime
now every rando is getting 20 or 30 minutes for a match nobody cares about
the trend used to be that, no matter where they started, the final quarter used to have similar numbers while the trend in dynamite lately is that any segment not featuring mjf drops viewers and every segment featuring the bucks or women drops like 100k viewers. now collision is losing viewers every quarter to the point where they literally had a few that were lower than anything on rampage