people are real excited for the Rumble

There aren't even any clear cut Rumble favorites. Rollins is the most heavily rumored name but even he's just been.......there.

WWE did a pretty miserable job with the build to the Men's Rumble.

Of the two, Women's Rumble has more interest on paper because of the possible routes WWE can go and crowds actually being interested in both Women's champions. Even then, WWE did a lazy job building up that match as well.

RAW actually went up compared to last week.

Its the yearly comparisons where it went down huge. Almost 700k less than last year's post-Rumble show and over 900k less than 2017's post-Rumble show.

Will be interesting to see where it goes next week, now that the RR is over and both WM main events are announced.

I can't see them going up, because of TV the way it is, but it'd be a pleasant surprise if they did.

So that one actually did go down?

Yeah

That’s...not good.

RAW rating is down from last week slightly

Might sound odd to say as a big fan of WWE/pro-wrestling in general, but my gut instinct is ratings will continue to go down for WWE.

I think ROH, MLW are sustainable where they are at, but I could see IMPACT, NJPW in US not doing great tbh if WWE doesn't. Haven't heard a lot about NWA recently either.

New all-time low for Smackdown's live era even though it does have the excuse of having to compete against the SOTU.

In terms of WWE itself, just an idiotic move by them to cool down what is arguably their hottest feud and star with the lame doctor storyline. Also doesn't help that WWE doesn't really have anything interesting going on for RAW and Smackdown besides the Bryan stuff and Men's Chamber feud.

I haven’t heard a lot about NWA in about 30 years.

I was actually going to add something like this to my last post, but decided not to for some reason. I just can’t see WWE’s ratings going up even if it gets good. I think they are somewhat locked into their slow decline.

For comparison, last year this week had 3.11 million viewers

Kind of bizarre to think if this show drops another 300k viewers on average between now and WM it will be only slightly above 2 million a week.

Clearly the lack of Jeff Jarrett hurt ratings.

Where's Lacey Evans at???

Think she's shown up a few times on Main Event but mostly as just a jobber similar to Nikki Cross on RAW.

Her lack of tv time is probably a mix of her having a bad showing at the Rumble and Creating having nothing for her which is insane considering she was only called up a few weeks ago.

Big rebound for RAW

Having a strong 1st hour really helped a lot considering more viewers tuned out of the show than last week.

I'm going to try to incorporate this metric as well going forward

RAW got a ratings boost this week for live TV, up .15 from last week

Will be interesting if word of mouth of the show actually being pretty good this week, will boost the ratings next week. I still expect them to shit themselves next week. They should bring Brock back next week.

Yay, I CAN'T WAIT for Triple H and Batista to take up 45 minutes of Wrestlemania with video packages, entrances, and the slowest most plodding match ever! Two men 15 years past their primes who need to be carried to good matches. Great.

Can't believe some people are actually exited to see this.

Lots of YT views for RAW this week

SD went up .10 from last week

Went down actually, last week was 2,269,000

lol my bad

Right now it's looking like the best match on the card. Pretty excited for a Batista return. Hope he brings some of that Drax persona in for WrestleMania. And Triple H always brings it. One of the most underrated wrestlers ever. Should be a great match.

Raw ratings for this week (credit - showbuzzdaily)

YT views for the episode