Raw Ratings (Update: Error, Things Actually Got Better)

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Apparently the first 2hrs did about 1.4 to 1.5.....but then comes the 3rd hour and HOLY SHIT!

Update:

RAW AUDIENCE UPDATE
By Dave Scherer on 2021-06-03 14:46:00
John Pollock of PostWrestling.com is reporting that there was indeed an error in the reporting of the third hour of this past Monday's Raw. The actual third hour was 1,586,000 viewers, not 1,186,000 viewers. That makes the actual number for the show 1,551,000 overnight viewers.

~Ric

[kingoftheindies]

Sports playoffs obviously played a part... that being said if you keep giving people boring TV they'll eventually tune out

[spagett]

Obviously the terrible quality of the show is the major reason for why the rating is so bad and honestly until Vince is no longer in charge I don't see how things can change.

But I also think they desperately need to get out of the Thunderdome. The PPV on sunday was a great reminder of how important fans are to wrestling and the Thunderdome feels even more soulless and depressing now.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

That is an unheard of drop. I have no idea what could explain that because current trends (sports, world reopening) plus Memorial Day would in theory take out the audience throughout the show. And they had a big match waiting in the 3rd hour. Just don't know what else to say. It's shocking. We know the show's been largely bad lately and this hasn't been happening.

[Pushed to the Moon]

Jun 2, 2021 17:28:53 GMT -5 spagett said:

Obviously the terrible quality of the show is the major reason for why the rating is so bad and honestly until Vince is no longer in charge I don't see how things can change.

But I also think they desperately need to get out of the Thunderdome. The PPV on sunday was a great reminder of how important fans are to wrestling and the Thunderdome feels even more soulless and depressing now.

"Welcome to Monday Night Raw here in the critically acclaimed, soulless, depressing Thunderdome!"

[Chiral]

1.1....why does that sound familiar......

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Jun 2, 2021 17:28:53 GMT -5 spagett said:

Obviously the terrible quality of the show is the major reason for why the rating is so bad and honestly until Vince is no longer in charge I don't see how things can change.

But I also think they desperately need to get out of the Thunderdome. The PPV on sunday was a great reminder of how important fans are to wrestling and the Thunderdome feels even more soulless and depressing now.

Sadly I think they have invested so much to the Thunderdome that they are stuck with it for I believe this month.

[honsou]

What's remarkable is I haven't watched RAW in about 4 years but I usually knew what was going on by following other twitter accounts and friends that would basically hate watch it as well as listening to the Meltzer reviews but now all the accounts I follow and friends I have just...stopped watching. We keep saying "oh they're only down to the hardcores now" but we might see WWE even run those people out

[The Gallus Mark]

Drew vs Kofi should be a draw...but, not after you do it week after week. Especially when folks are now expecting shenanigans of some sort (usually a roll up DQ)

This old dude needs to go

[ayumidah]

yeesh I'm glad I wasn't eating when I saw that.

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

Lmao Kofimania (and Drew) szn bby!!!

[Perd]

It’s hard to run someone like me away. I have watched Raw for most of my life. But, for the most part, they’ve done it. I did not watch hardly any of the past few Raws. There’s just nothing that I’m even remotely interested in. And I don’t think I’m alone. When you peruse the first page of WWE (Current), there very few threads about the happenings on mainline WWE programming. It’s all NXT and backstage stuff. Because that’s infinitely more interesting.

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Jun 2, 2021 17:44:00 GMT -5 Chiral said:

1.1....why does that sound familiar......

They have a bunch of ex TNA employees and doing show in Florida, it make sense that their slowly turning into Dixieland

[Deleted]

I think I've watched like two entire Raws in the past year and a half and I can't really see a scenario in which I'll want to do so again any time soon.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I can't imagine people are really in a WWE Mood these days. You have people who get paid to review RAW bowing out of covering the show. You have the same shit happening week in and week out with almost no change whatsoever. And now you have YET ANOTHER wave of talent being fired for inexplicably no reason

Yeah the Playoffs might hurt a bit but this is indicative of a lot of other things going on. And now we have a RAW Third Hour that is lower than some of the shows AEW has put on within the last few weeks. It's telling.

[Starshine]

Wasn't the main event a re-run of the same match they had last week?

I can imagine why people decided to do anything else instead.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Jun 2, 2021 18:45:43 GMT -5 Starshine said:

Wasn't the main event a re-run of the same match they had last week?

I can imagine why people decided to do anything else instead.

It was a good match but yeah it was the same long match from last week that could have just had Drew win as the finish but didn't. So they just stretched it out another week to have that same long good match with the actual finish it should have had before.

They are essentially premiering live re-runs at this point.

[Terry McConkey]

RAW is just background noise for me at this point.

Remember when it used to get 7s and 8s for ratings? That feels like decades ago now.

[pippen94]

Imagine when NFL season comes round?!

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

Legit the only reason I watch RAW is participate in the thread. As soon as SD switched to FOX and I lost my ability to watch it with y’all it was dead to me.