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04-05-2016 09:19 PM |
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Raw after WrestleMania, usually the highest rated episode of the year, did 4.08 million viewers, down from 5.35 million for the same show in 2015.
The number was the largest for the show since the day after the Royal Rumble (when Dwayne Johnson made an appearance) and was only the second show to hit four million viewers on average since June.
However, the number is well below what would have been expected for the show. For a comparison, the audience grew 1.2 million viewers from the go-home Mania show to the day after Mania show last year, while this year, the increase was just 318,000 viewers.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 4.29 million viewers
9 p.m. 4.18 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.82 million viewers
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For some reference, the last time post-Mania RAW show was under 5 million was in 2013 but had 4.61 million as the average. Post-Rumble RAW managed to be higher than the Post-Mania RAW show this year. In terms of the past few years, only 2015 didn't have an NCAA title game occurring on the same day (2013, 2014, & 2016 did).
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
According to pwinsider.com, Sami Zayn’s injuries last night were simply a storyline device to put Cesaro into the main event of Raw as a surprise. It was also done to intensify the feud between he and Kevin Owens.
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Lots of speculation his dive to the outside caused an injury but Sami is really good at fooling people with injury spots.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The number of people in the building legitimately was 97,769, or more than the 93,000 plus that was believed to have been the total last night. I'm not sure how many events have claimed 100,000 in the stadium but legitimately there have only been a few as this was one of the largest legitimate crowds in the history of AT&T Stadium (wrestling is far from the only people who exaggerate numbers). WWE announced 101,763 as the attendance and a $17.3 million gate. The gate is either accurate or very close to it.
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An earlier figure had the crowd at just under 94k for size. https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/sta...92368188780548 In terms of real records, Mania 32 is actually the 3rd largest ever for a wrestling event with WCW/NJPW holding the joint record for the other two.
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Originally Posted by PWI
There was a lot of back and forth over the last week as to whether Charlotte or Sasha Banks would be crowned the first Women's champion. The final decision to go with Charlotte was made a few days before Wrestlemania we are told. The initial plan was to have the belt introduced on tonight's Raw but WWE changed strategy with the rollout over the course of Wrestlemania week. They are already selling replicas on their website.
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Originally Posted by PWI
What is interesting, however, is that there was a lot of speculation last night backstage that last night may have indeed been the Undertaker's last Wrestlemania. We were told there were a lot of family and friends in Dallas for the match and quite a few people backstage wondered if Undertaker taking off his gloves after had some symbolic meaning. There was a lot of speculation, but as of now, time will tell.
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To be fair a bit, every Mania match for the past few years have had the usual stories and rumors of it being Taker's last match.
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Originally Posted by PWI
During Wrestlemania, WWE production utilized some interesting techniques to get the crowd to respond to the matches during the PPV last night. They played animated videos pushing the crowd to chant "New Day Rocks" and to sing, "Hey, We Want Some New Day" during their match. They also kept a count of every suplex Dean Ambrose took and put up an animated "WOO" every time Charlotte utilized the figure eight.
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Footage from Mania about one of those crowd cues being shown: https://zippy.gfycat.com/AnchoredUnsteadyCaribou.webm
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The WWE announced that as of today they have 1,824,000 worldwide subscribers to the WWE Network with 1,454,000 of them being paid subscribers and 371,000 subscribing on the free trial period. It breaks down to 1,390,000 domestic subscribers (paid + free) with 1,109,000 paid domestic subscribers and 434,000 international subscribers with 345,000 being paid and 89,000 free international subscribers.
Last year after WrestleMania, they reported 1,315,000 total subscribers
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Assuming the 1.4 million monthly needed is still the same, WWE is right at the breaking even point for the WWE Network. Even with the 1.8 million mix, they are still way below what their expectations were for the Network at this point.
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Originally Posted by Observer
2K Sports scanned Legends and Superstars for the WWE 2K17 video game in Dallas this past week, according to WWE Hall of Famer Alundra Blayze (Madusa) on Twitter.
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Prior to the match being setup on WWE Raw last night, Lilian Garcia accidentally started to introduce Zack Ryder’s first title defense match, but she quickly stopped. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, while Lilian was making the announcement, a WWE production worker began banging on the ring apron for her to stop, which lead to Lilian and the worker having a pretty heated exchange in the ring.
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