WWE Smackdown Live
According to Nielsen Social, his week’s WWE Smackdown Live social media rankings saw the show bring in 64,000 uniques and 100,000 interactions on Facebook, which is up from last week’s 61,000 uniques and 96,000 interactions.
Additionally, Smackdown saw 16,000 uniques and 76,000 interactions on Twitter, which is equal to last week’s uniques, but down slightly from last week’s 78,000 interactions. Overall, this week’s show totaled 80,000 uniques and 176,000 interactions, which was up from last week’s totals; Smackdown was the third ranked show in the ‘series and specials’ category for the night.
The Nitro Files
As noted earlier this week, Eric Bischoff has a new segment in Sports Illustrated Extra Mustard’s Week In Wrestling called “The Nitro Files”, taking a look at a specific segment in WCW’s history.
This week’s column features Bischoff talking about Chris Jericho’s infamous list of 1,004 holds, and who can be credited with coming up with it; you can read an excerpt below:
“That idea originated with Glenn Gilbertti, aka the Disco Inferno. I just spoke with Chris Jericho, and he told me it was really Disco’s idea to come up with that segment and to roll through the commercial break.”
The credit behind ‘The List’ goes to Disco Inferno, Terry Taylor, Raven, and Mark Madden from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, as well as, of course, Chris Jericho. They knew the storyline, they knew the angle, and they knew what we were trying to get across. Throughout the day, during pre-production, they were bouncing around ideas all afternoon, and they created a great way to position Chris against Dean Malenko.
Dean is a great guy, by the way, and people who don’t know Dean do not understand that he really is a dichotomy. He’s really two different people. At the time, Dean was the stoic, traditional wrestling move wrestler, but he also had an amazing sense of humor. Dean Malenko billed himself as ‘The Man of 1,000 Holds,’ because he really was a technically-oriented wrestler. Chris Jericho, being the character that he was – and still is, to this day – took that to an entertaining and comedic level. So the group of guys got together during the day and asked, ‘How can we really cut a promo that contextualizes and frames that match-up?’ And they came up with ‘The Man of 1,004 Holds,’ and that was really Glenn Gilbertti.”
