RAW

Worst 3rd hour drop since Heyman took over and wouldn't be surprised if the tag team turmoil match was the reason people tuned out in droves since it was barely entertaining.

Also didn't help nothing really interesting happened in the 3rd hour besides Cesaro vs Cedric.

How those attitude era ratings show how many people have switched off wrestling completely.

Considering it was a holiday and the final week before they get hammered by football, those are decent numbers. 3rd hour having a lower drop and also being stronger than the week before helped a lot.

It's definitely football season

Damn... Shockingly low

Interesting that a meaningless 10 man tag team match doesn't draw in the 3rd hour

Last year's show against the first Monday Night Football games drew 2,740,000... So this show with Stone Cold doing this terribly is not a good sign for the rest of the season.........

I believe this might be the lowest rating for a non-holiday episode of RAW. The previous low rating for a non-holiday ep was 2.16 IIRC

Considering the effort done to stack the show, that has to be the biggest swing-and-miss by WWE in a while.

What hurt WWE a lot was the Texans vs. Saints game being very competitive and had a hot finish.

Comparison from Wrestling Observer board of the raw demos from 3 1/2 years ago and now:


https://i.postimg.cc/RhFs5ymj/WWE-010816-M12-34.jpg


https://i.postimg.cc/pTVkz4mp/WWE-090919-M12-34.jpg

That’s pretty brutal. Raw is about to get less important too. People say it is going to be fine, but WWE have always only been able to favor one, and NXT will be prioritized. It will be interesting. But Heyman might be left to his own devices more.

Football game also had an hour head start unlike usual MNF that doesnt start til almost 8:30, so the end of the game was up against the end of the 9:00 hour into 10:00 vs usual end of 10:00 into past when RAW goes off and there was a 2nd game on fior the rest of 10:00

they should compare the last couple years of RAW vs the MNF doubleheader.

Sounds like RAW could bounce back a little next week in that case....curious to see if NXT gets a big push/character intro videos on RAW next week ahead of it's debut or if they keep the same commercials they have been airing.

Itd be crazy to think that Smackdown on Friday on fox could get better ratings than RAW. I can see over 2 million for SD on fox

Interesting observations on YT metrics for WWE

Big names from the past not passing 2 million within a day (Austin/Taker). Almost as if WWE is bringing back older stars too often.

Bray vids on YT not passing 2 million within a day either...Bray from RAW currently at 430k views.

SDLive

Came pretty close to matching RAW this week which is more of an indication of how badly RAW did this week than Smackdown having a great show (it didn't).

Lol What the hell is 90 Day Fiancé?

It’s a unique strategy to make SD the A-show by shaving half-a-million viewers off Raw.

A reality show where two people meet and have 90 days to get to know each other before they get married

U.S. TV Ratings system getting slightly changed for TV, will it show a slight increase for #WWE ?

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-...-viewing-soon/

Probably but doubt WWE is getting as high of an increase Nielsen is predicting for sports. Places like bars are more likely going to have football than RAW on during the season.

Even if RAW got the 11% increase, that puts this week's RAW at 2.3 million and still well below last week's numbers.

Raw up 140k viewers

As far as Monday Night Football competition goes, last night was probably their best chance to benefit for the rest of the year. It was a pretty bad game between two perennial bad teams that aren’t known as major ratings draws.

The PPV bump is good but that 3rd hour is still a big killer for RAW. If it wasn't for USA Network being terrible at creating new hit shows, that 3rd hour should have been junked with the new tv deal.

Also 90 Day Fiance pretty much replaced Love & Hip Hop as the new random show that gives WWE the most trouble for rankings.

Actually Browns/Jets was up 7% from last year's week 2 MNF game.

Baker Mayfield pops ratings, get over it bro!

SD

NXT Ratings are in

Interesting...

USA Network and WWE have to be very pleased.

Managed to be at the level and maybe even a bit more than what Suits was doing this season and its a strong base number for the series going forward.

Considering the issues the Network had at the start of the 2nd hour, probably had around 750k to a million people logging in at the same time.

Also ended up being over 300k more than the NXT special on USA Network a couple years ago for some comparisons.

Great start. It will be interesting to see if this is something they can build on.

RAW

One of those Good/Bad type weeks but where the bad outweighs the good.

The good being that the show itself was pretty good and the overall drop was very small.

The bad being the numbers started at and were all lower than last week and maybe could have generated a bit more interest had WWE actually bothered to hype up this week as a "season finale." Then you have the lingering issues of all the damage caused by Vince's stupid rules and Heyman being a mixed bag in terms of improving show quality.

Final SD on USA

NXT ended up with slightly over 1 million viewers (1.006 million) but also dropped from 4th to 8th in the rankings compared to last week for the USA Network hour.

^^^ and only 320k of those viewers were in the 18-49 demographic