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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 31, 2023 16:25:04 GMT -5
They maintained way more of that Raw 30 audience than I imagined. #1 in the demo across cable and broadcast.
They’re up big year over year as well (last year’s post-Rumble show was at 1.8 something million viewers and a 0.47 in the demo).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 16:28:18 GMT -5
Lets hope they keep up the momentum. Helps if Vince can just stay away from creative.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jan 31, 2023 16:30:14 GMT -5
Good f***ing work.
Helps that the show has their centerpiece back now
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Jan 31, 2023 16:31:53 GMT -5
A 0.17 jump year over year is pretty crazy.
I wonder if Vince feels some type of way about how literally every business metric has been up in the 6 months since he stopped booking or if he doesn't give a f*** because it just makes the company more valuable ahead of any potential sale.
Raw and Smackdown's ratings have both been up in the past two quarters year over year and are already all but guaranteed to be up this quarter too while every other wrestling show is way down. Every HHH booked PPV has done great business. Saturday was the biggest Rumble ever. Wrestlemania has already sold around the same amount of tickets as last years final numbers with over 2 months still to go. WWE is hotter than it's been in years and there's no way it's a coincidence it just so happened to happen with Vince now not micro-managing everything on-screen.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 31, 2023 16:33:26 GMT -5
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Jan 31, 2023 16:35:53 GMT -5
No denying that WWE is hot right now heading into WrestleMania season. Really excited about the prospect of a Cody championship reign. It's amazing what the change of scenery has done to rehabilitate him in my eyes. Like so many others, I was extraordinarily tired of him by the end of his AEW run.
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Post by BlahBlah on Jan 31, 2023 16:41:32 GMT -5
Happy to see this because I thought it was an entertaining show.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jan 31, 2023 16:45:33 GMT -5
Cody Rhodes is ready, brother.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 31, 2023 17:22:33 GMT -5
There's been a long tradition in recent years that any special show that attracts a bigger audience tends to be awful to ensure none of those extra viewers stuck around. Not just WWE, many other promotions too.
Seems they finally put on a good show so more people came back. Funny how that works.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 31, 2023 17:39:38 GMT -5
Both Raw and SD ratings will be hot once we have a clear picture of the "big" storylines for Mania (Cody vs. Roman, Sami & KO(?) vs. the Usos).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 17:58:09 GMT -5
Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Jan 31, 2023 18:01:35 GMT -5
Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around. I'm like only half joking about this, a big part of Cody's appeal rn is that he's the only man likely to see some banana hat dudes in the crowd and go I WANNA BE A f***ING BANANA TOO LEMME TRY THAT. Cody was the only dude to actually grab the Mountain Dew at the Rumble scrum and make a whole deal out of tasting it. If you brought a gun to Smackdown you'd end up being an accessory to murder when Cody just unloads the clip on someone.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jan 31, 2023 18:03:47 GMT -5
Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around. I'm like only half joking about this, a big part of Cody's appeal rn is that he's the only man likely to see some banana hat dudes in the crowd and go I WANNA BE A f***ING BANANA TOO LEMME TRY THAT. Cody was the only dude to actually grab the Mountain Dew at the Rumble scrum and make a whole deal out of tasting it. If you brought a gun to Smackdown you'd end up being an accessory to murder when Cody just unloads the clip on someone. He feels like a genuine guy who’s kind of a weirdo and not a robot built to be a good guy wrestler man
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Post by fw91 on Jan 31, 2023 18:07:59 GMT -5
There's been a long tradition in recent years that any special show that attracts a bigger audience tends to be awful to ensure none of those extra viewers stuck around. Not just WWE, many other promotions too. Seems they finally put on a good show so more people came back. Funny how that works. I mean, I'm sure being the post rumble show helped out too.
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Post by lildude8218 on Jan 31, 2023 18:10:43 GMT -5
Roderick Still Strong
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Post by Legion on Jan 31, 2023 18:19:17 GMT -5
Wow, good numbers.
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Jan 31, 2023 18:23:25 GMT -5
I'm surprised it wasn't higher. Realistically they should be pulling 4's
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 31, 2023 18:26:10 GMT -5
I'm surprised it wasn't higher. Realistically they should be pulling 4's Lol
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 31, 2023 18:29:51 GMT -5
There's been a long tradition in recent years that any special show that attracts a bigger audience tends to be awful to ensure none of those extra viewers stuck around. Not just WWE, many other promotions too. Seems they finally put on a good show so more people came back. Funny how that works. I mean, I'm sure being the post rumble show helped out too. Last year’s post-Rumble show was only at a 0.47 demo, so this number is huge compared to that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 18:38:01 GMT -5
Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around. I'm like only half joking about this, a big part of Cody's appeal rn is that he's the only man likely to see some banana hat dudes in the crowd and go I WANNA BE A f***ING BANANA TOO LEMME TRY THAT. Cody was the only dude to actually grab the Mountain Dew at the Rumble scrum and make a whole deal out of tasting it. If you brought a gun to Smackdown you'd end up being an accessory to murder when Cody just unloads the clip on someone. yeah as you said and as moon put it, cody is like... THE corporate guy but he doesn't scream corporate if it makes sense. he feels like a normal dude, does the little things that longtime fans like us dig and he just happens to be a fantastic wrestler, has the history, goated presentation, he is it.
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