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The three-hour show did 3.37 million viewers, down 13 percent from last week's unusually large number. However, it was still above the levels of most of the Fall season. Just two weeks ago, the show had fallen to 3.16 million viewers.
Raw probably benefited from a low-rated NFL game on ESPN as competition as the Detroit Lions vs. New Orleans Saints game did 10.90 million viewers.
The first hour started at normal Fall levels, but the second and third hour decline wasn't there at the rate it usually is.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 3.44 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.37 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.32 million viewers
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For some stats, the show managed a 2.33 rating while the average drop was around 547k viewers compared to last week. Did not benefit from the lower than usual MNF game.
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Laura Martin of Needham & Company, a stock analyst who has been super bullish on the WWE Network from the start, claiming that their three to four million subscriber goals were low, published a note about content creators cutting their own throats. She wrote about how WWE in 2013 got $6.37 per viewer per hour on PPV and after moving to OTT, they are now getting 67 cents per view per hour. She warned Viacom and Time Warner could follow suit if they pursue recently announced lower ad rate strategies. Here is the story.
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Basically the good news being the WWE gets a larger percentage from what's left and total ppv revenues is higher than before because of the new percentages. Bad news being the huge drop in ad rates and Network is costing them $100 million on average which has eaten a huge chunk of those revenues made.
http://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=11169298
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WWE is aware that last night's Slammy Awards weren't the most exciting of all time, made worse by the fact that several winners weren't in the building. There are discussions today about tweaking the format, including the idea of doing voting in advance so if someone wins and won't be there, they can air a pre-tape.
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Big E promotes the 12/26 house show in Detroit. He said he'd like a singles match with Brock Lesnar. When asked what would happen in a powerlifting competition between he and Mark Henry, he said, "In his heyday, I'd give him his due. He would have beaten me handily. He's one of the strongest men to have ever walked the Earth. Right now, though, I'd smoke him."
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
PW.net reports that Jay Lethal has yet to re-sign with Ring of Honor. Lethal’s contract is set to expire early next year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
In addition, Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly’s contracts with the company expire at the end of this year, while Steve Corino’s ended with the Final Battle PPV and TV tapings. Corino is still in talks with the company, while Fish and O’Reilly’s conversations with ROH broke down a little bit ago and nothing changed at Final Battle. A deal could still be worked out of course, but if not the duo will be gone at the end of the year.
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John Morrison, who goes by the name Johnny Mundo in Lucha Underground, spoke with Alfred Konuwa of the PodNasty Wrestling Podcast about having more creativity and Seth Rollins currently being sidelined with an injury. Here are the highlights.
On having more creativity:
“I do feel like there’s not handcuffs here, so to speak, and creativity is more encouraged and people are more receptive to ideas here. WWE is sometimes a little bit micromanaged, and backstage everybody’s dragging their feet, walking on eggshells a little bit and here I don’t think that exists.”
On Seth Rollins’ current injury:
“There’s nothing worse than being injured, especially for somebody like Seth because he’s an artist in the ring. To have a broken wheel like he’s got right now has got to be killing him. I wish him a speedy recovery because I want to kick his ass one day. And I will say that I’m sure he can talk all kinds of trash to you or whoever, as long as I’m not in the room with him. But I also think that after his interview with you—and I might have said a few things back—I don’t think he’s ever going to say anything about me again because he knows at the end of the day I’m smarter, more talented, I’ve had a much longer, better career than him and if we’re ever in the ring together it’s going to be painfully obvious how much better than him I am.”
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http://wrestlingnews.co/john-morriso...to-kick-his-a/
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New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the creation of the NEVER Openweight Six Man Titles. The WrestleKingdom 10 match between Toru Yano, Mark and Jay Briscoe and Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale will be used to crown the first champions
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* New Japan Rumble
* IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Champions Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly vs. Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Matt Sydal & Ricochet
* For The Vacant NEVER Openweight Six-Man Titles: Toru Yano, Mark and Jay Briscoe vs. Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale
* ROH Title Match: Champion Jay Lethal vs. Michael Elgin
* IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: Champion Kenny Omega vs. KUSHIDA
* IWGP Tag Team Championship Match: Champions Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe
* Hirooki Goto vs. Tetsuya Naito
* NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Champion Tomohiro Ishii vs. Katsuyori Shibata
* IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Champion Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles
* IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
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Current card for Wrestle Kingdom 10
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There were many Curtis Axel fans in his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota last night wondering why he wasn't on WWE RAW. There was a "Where Is Axel?" search party gathering at Kieran's in downtown Minneapolis before RAW and as you can see, his fans are really picking up on the campaign that he recently started on Twitter.
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http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...el-before-wwe/
When WWE pulled the "Who Killed Vince" storyline years ago, they got in huge trouble with investors who thought it was real and/or a ploy by the WWE to legit change company leadership without their input.
Some other sheet news includes:
- According to the Observer, some new details regarding the TNA-POP tv deal includes ad revenue to be shared between both companies and was confirmed POP TV is not paying TNA to show Impact.
- For those that like ROH and coloring books, the company is selling coloring books now. http://rohwrestling.com/catalog/coloring-book
- Darren Young is rumored to be out again with another injury. May or may not be related to his previous injury.
- TNA recently announced they have signed the Great Khali to a multi-year deal with the company.
- Boogeyman recently revealed on Twitter he has signed a Legends deal with the WWE. https://twitter.com/realboogey/statu...25280472956928
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, baring a sudden WWE title victory, 2015 will be the first time since 2012 John Cena didn't win the WWE (or World) title during the year. Will also be just the 3rd time since 2004 that has happened.
- Update to the Gawker-Hogan lawsuit as Hogan's side could be in trouble soon if allegations of him having law enforcement friends block recent FBI investigations turns out to be true. The basis is the FBI launched a separate investigation related to the leaked tapes and supposedly it suddenly stalling has impacted Gawker's ability to request more info for their side. http://www.f4wonline.com/news/figure...updates-204231