Your Thoughts On The Monday Night Ratings Beatdown

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

The week before a PPV, the last thing WWE needed was the return of Monday Night Football. Check that, the last thing they needed was the return of a Monday Night Football and an unprecendented doubleheader that would cut into the usually non-competitive west coast airing of Raw. Well, they didn't get the best case scenario last night and it showed in the Raw rating as the show did just a 3.6 cable rating, with a 5.5 share, much lower than the show's recent average. Raw did hours of 3.6 and 3.6 and Monday Night Football on ESPN definitely cut into their audience as ESPN scored the network's highest audience ever for the Minnesota Vikings vs. the Washington Redskins game, which drew a 9.9 rating, and 12.57 million households. To use wrestling terms, it laid the Smackdown on Raw. ESPN's second Monday night game, San Diego's 27-0 win over Oakland which aired live against more than the first hour of Raw on the west coast, received a rating of 8.5 and was seen in an average of 7.87 million households. As I mentioned on the Elite hotline yesterday, this isn't a good sign for WWE through the fall football season.

The 9/9 edition of AM Raw did a 0.7 cable rating, with a 3.1 share.

Credit: PWInsider

What do u think, RD & Blade?

[OGBoardPoster2005]

They don't think

They know

[Lick Ness Monster]

I was actually thinking MNF would do an even bigger number than that - I had in my head like an 11 or 12 rating, so Raw's drop actually doesn't look so bad to me, although it does suck with the PPV coming up.

[tmp2005]

All I can say is I was one of the many who watched MNF instead...I watched my Raiders get their asses handed to them. By the way, was anybody else reallllllyyyyy annoyed by that announcer that started calling Philip Rivers the second coming of Jesus Christ after he threw a screen pass for like 5 yards?

[-Lithium-]

Eh, footballs boring. Run two yards, run three yards, pass. Repeat. So damn boring...

[Milkman Norm]

lousy Vikings won

[nisi]

ravenm said:

Eh, footballs boring. Run two yards, run three yards, pass. Repeat. So damn boring...

[glow=red,2,300]BLASPHEMY!!! HERESY!!! WRONGFULLNESS!!![/glow]

[rdreynolds]

I am not sure how they can complain that MNF is taking away all the viewers when that number is down pretty singificantly from last year's MNF number.

RD