WWE's actual defense give for the inflated attendance numbers that they always announce at their big shows to the audience, is that it's purely for "entertainment" purposes. Lmao.
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WWE and AEW weekly ratings discussion
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The wrestleERA thread was livelier than it had been for a long time. This summerslam must have caught on with the casuals.
That's fine if you want to parade the figure round on Raw but putting on a press release for investors is complete BS.
Ugh. People actively tuning in to watch garbage after witnessing that pretty garbage PPV. But it's a one week pop, and it'll go back down next week.
Typical post PPV rating bump, next week is back to the norm going down. LOL
I expect SD to also get a big rating bump (Becky and Brock might show up there)
Tomorrow is Punk's Dynamite Debut, so it will be interesting to see the numbers for Wednesday and Friday night.
None. Which bodes pretty well for Smackdown this week? Should be the highest ratings this year more than likely
The surly and cynical side of me gets upset when Raw does well given that it's mostly trash TV. LOL
In 2 weeks that number is going down and staying down for 18 weeks in a row. Monday Night Football is coming back baby!
It's really amazing how even on a Friday night at 10pm people still tune out during commercials.
Which I don't get. What else are you flipping around to that late on a Friday? I'm busy fucking around on my phone/laptop.
"fuckin flippy bullshit. i ain't watchin that shit. that ain't rasslin."
"wwe is real rasslin"
*turns on usa*
Everyone over 50 was already in bed before Rampage started.
The olds are the only thing keeping WWE from irrelevancy and keeping NXT from 205 Live levels of views.
They must enjoy watching because they see people wrestling just like them and think that could be me!.
My money is on 1.4 million, but I'd be happy with anything above that.
I think if Punk debuted on Dynamite instead of Rampage they probably would've done over 2 million easy. Definitely curious what the number will be tonight though. 1.5 million kind of seems like a lot when we've already heard from him.
My thoughts are we're going to get the regular AEW fans (which puts us at 900k-1M to start), CM Punk fans who missed Rampage live due to the time it was on/uncertainty on Punk showing up/etc., and those CM Punk fans who are invested tuning in to see what Punk does next. Not having a WWE show counter programming will probably help as well.
... they've done 1.1 without CM Punk being on the card, you don't expect him to have any influence on the ratings?
That was before The Challenge. I'm predicting somewhere between 1.1-1.3 mil, but would love to be wrong and for it to be more.
A bit. I'm just trying to not set myself up for disappointment. I can't stand the bad faith trolling over Dynamite ratings.
Tonight's rating is going to be really hard to predict. It's a weak card, and the Challenge is on, which are two things that historically hurt the ratings. On the other hand, Punk did unbelievable numbers on Rampage at 10 on a Friday night.
My gut feeling is it ends up averaging around 1.2-1.3. But hype and a hot product can lead to incredible numbers, so we'll see.
My gut feeling is it ends up averaging around 1.2-1.3. But hype and a hot product can lead to incredible numbers, so we'll see.
There are a couple of possibilities
One is that Raw, while objectively trash, is still attractive to people.
Second is that the recent bump in interest in Wrestling (mainly CM Punk debut being the talk of the week) also drags WWE ratings up in curiosity.
If the first one holds, we'll see the bump in rating staying or improving. If the second one is, we'll probably see a drop again.
In any case, as much as everybody wants WWE to crash and burn, all three main shows are relatively doing well overall. We shouldn't be surprised to see even the worst of the bunch doing well too.
I think it's simple as raw was really hot last weekend and to the average person Raw is the flagship wrestling show. Hopefully we see a drop next week to highlight that the average person interested in wrestling has better taste than to stick watching raw.
Dynamite, Smack down and Rampage rating are going to be super interesting for various reasons this week.
Dynamite because of CM Punk, people actually knowing he'll be there.
Smack down to see what the Becky and Brock bump will be (from a stats perspective I wish they had come back at different times to see how each performed separately)
Rampage due to it being the first taped show and will it hold onto any viewers from last week or crash down into the expected 600k area.
Yeah that was a strangely booked show IMO for capitalising on the Punk interest. Over a million I'm sure, but I'm not sure how far over. Anything over 1.2 I'll be happy with. More interested to see if that show attracted new viewers to stick around next week.
1.1-1.2 most likely. One of the worst Dynamites in recent memory so it's a terrible way to keep those fans that came for Punk.
the show was very very medium last night and that's being generous. The second hour, besides the Punk promo, was hot garbage.
While I didn't think it was a great Dynamite, I feel like overall show quality is going to have little to do with this episode's pop. Maybe long term but anybody who is in exclusively for Punk would have tuned out either way after his segment, and anyone who was legit going to try this show out hung on probably.
I'm going to say that viewership rose to like a 1.3 million number, then cratered down to 1 or 900k, because mostly everything after Punk was bottom-tier Dynamite.
I'm really surprised to hear all the negative comments about the show. I thought it was an okay show. Fun match to start off with. Good Punk segment. Jamie Haytor looking strong in her first match. Cool Miro promo. I might be the only one but I find QT Marshall to be good heel cause I love seeing him get beat. Fenix is absolutely amazing and I loved seeing the bucks get embarrassed. The Christian, Kenny and Calli's promo was hilarious. It's always fun to see Mix, Kingston and Darby wrestle.
Still I think the show will averaged about 1.2 mil
Still I think the show will averaged about 1.2 mil
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