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January Wrasslin' |OT| It's a New Year, Yes It Is!
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"Cuz ya had a bad day...."
Daniel Bryan and Damien Sandow would be the co-cover guys
Stop trying to get me to buy bad video games.
Ninja Scooter
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GET UP YA MONKEY DOWN WIT THE SIKNESS!
Making America great again.
slightconfuse
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Raw ratings
Last year
Last year
But Roman is so over.
was last year also competing with the game? and was brock on the show? or vince?
cause that looks like a massive drop.
if these trends continue.... ayyyyyyyyyyyy
notworksafe
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Raw 1/12/15 matches
Seth Rollins def. John Cena in a Lumberjack Match
The New Day def. Tyson Kidd and Cesaro
Roman Reigns def. Luke Harper
Alicia Fox def. Naomi
The Miz def. Jey Uso
Brie Bella def. Paige
The Ascension def. Two local wrestlers
Rusev def. Dean Ambrose via Referees Decision (non-title)
Raw ended with a contract signing of Rollins/Lesnar for Royal Rumble where the Authority made it a triple threat match by adding Cena
Seems Raw really does need its one special ingredient to get ratings...
Seth Rollins def. John Cena in a Lumberjack Match
The New Day def. Tyson Kidd and Cesaro
Roman Reigns def. Luke Harper
Alicia Fox def. Naomi
The Miz def. Jey Uso
Brie Bella def. Paige
The Ascension def. Two local wrestlers
Rusev def. Dean Ambrose via Referees Decision (non-title)
Raw ended with a contract signing of Rollins/Lesnar for Royal Rumble where the Authority made it a triple threat match by adding Cena
Seems Raw really does need its one special ingredient to get ratings...
No nothing at all, I mean why would the network they're on care what ratings they get?
It means nothing to Vince who just does what he plans on regardless of ratings. But they still need people to watch their show to retain advertisers and TV time.
Mr. Luchador
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I'm impressed they've managed to capture his messed up nose so well.
Every other post in 2003 and 2004 was how the ratings were low and this was the end, and then 2006 and 2007 still didn't kill WWE via bad ratings and the last 4 years haven't either.
The moment only 3000 people turn up to a 15,000 seated arena every RAW is when you can call the doomsday but until then give it a rest.
The moment only 3000 people turn up to a 15,000 seated arena every RAW is when you can call the doomsday but until then give it a rest.
slightconfuse
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Ratings are even more important now that USA has loaded up on 5 hour of wrestling in Primetime
Not doomsday because WWE will never die, but we could see other repercussions, like we've seen already with things like no more special set designs for PPVs outside of WrestleMania.
I think problems are just lack of interest in the product and people watching the show through other ways like Hulu and youtube.
WWE basically gives you the whole show in clip version on youtube. Roman title win got 9.4 million views and his match with Vince as the ref got 4.9 million views.
The clips for Mondays show the top 2 clips is Brock showing up at the end and Kalisto title win.
UrbanDandy
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So, when is Itami coming back?
No sets is because Kevin Dunn is a fool.
I'm still surprised people tune in at all, those are the real fools. Conned into wasting their hours watching utter garbage. The ratings show there are stil plenty of gullible people out there.
Unless you work for the WWE you have no idea what is considered good or bad by the network RAW is on. You can certainly assume, and guess but we will never know for sure.
People wouldn't opt to watch RAW in clip form if had at least 1 or 2 hours of engaging television within it's 3 hours of air time. Right now it's about 15-30 minutes that are actually worth a damn. That's a problem.
I can't fathom how people watch it live right now either. Most of it directly insults your intelligence as a viewer and a fan.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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WWE are fucked on their next TV deal, but I think the hope was always to get the Network globally entrenched enough that they would eventually be making enough from it to be able to bear the likely smaller deal they would get next time.
Plus, considering most advertisers don't want to be associated with wrestling, I'd say they have bigger image problems than too low ratings.
Plus, considering most advertisers don't want to be associated with wrestling, I'd say they have bigger image problems than too low ratings.
I have a feeling there are going to be a few changes happening around the time WWE's current TV contract is up. The three hour block will almost certainly be axed. Low ratings are going to only hurt WWE's case to get a better TV deal. Dunn's time is probably up once the next TV deal happens, barring any huge jump in ratings beyond the normal WrestleMania surge.
avengers23
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I can see the Kings Road influence in this spot
DANGEROUS~!
VERY VERY VERY BREAKY BREAKY BREAKY BISHI BISHI!!!
Sibersk Esto
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3 hours isn't going away
Dunn is there as long as Vince is there.
Dead End Irony
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If the rumor is true that he wants to go back to Japan, he may never return to WWE.
That rumor is literally just based off a tweet he wrote about being frustrated. Which is more likely about his injury.
Bluekaveli
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I doubt they are, they make USA look like gods.
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Is this a big deal? He's kind of giving himself way too much credit. Only wrestling fans and MMA fans give a shit.
avengers23
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The part that discourages me is that Stephanie will still be running large parts of the company.
Me too man, me too.
Two things. Ratings and Viewership is down but they are still very high on Cable on Monday only getting beaten by sports and love and hip hop when it comes to the important 18-49 viewership.
Also, the funny thing is with the ratings down they got the ESPN segment. Also, thanks to USA they got 37 new advertisers for the show. They actually got Coke to back the Slammy's.
Dead End Irony
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Actually I'm referring to a podcast where both MVP and his co-host apparently mentioned hearing that Hideo wants to return back to Japan.
Hopefully you're right though.
Mr. Luchador
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Best way to watch WWE TV, I really enjoy it.
That's the definition of a pure rumor.
notworksafe
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Coke is a pretty big sponsor. If they can continue to get deals with sponsors on that level I think they will be fine.
I doubt Vince would let a women in charge even if it's his daughter, it'll be HHH and she will be the vice-whatever.
That's WWE basically piggybacking off of broad NBC sponsorship deals though, isn't it?
Or if someone richer than Vince gets into the business and starts up their own promotion (which is likely not going to happen)
God I hope so. HHH does plenty of his own bullshit but he knows what the fuck he's doing at least.
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