Raw Live Raw discussion thread, January 16th 2023: Bobby Lashley to deliver on All Mighty return

[Matrix]

But... Thuginik Mysterio needs to win gold.

No thanks. I'd much rather the two good ones in the team get it lol

 

[Vegeta]

Blaze loves his Georgia boys

Fun fact, my fandom for Theory all started because of TEW. I was playing that game and was signing folks, saw how douchey he looked and I’m like “I’m making this guy a star.” and pushed him to the moon. Then looked into him more and was impressed. Then was happy once he got signed

 

[DammitC]

Highlights of Raw:

- Bloodline/Judgment Day/Mustafa Ali opening pre-match segment + attack

- Cody Rhodes promo vignette

- Cathy Kelley/Judgment Day/Alpha Academy backstage segment

- Becky Lynch/Damage Control segment

- Judgment Day vs Alpha Academy

- Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor vs The Miz vs Dolph Ziggler vs Baron Corbin vs Bobby Lashley Elimination match

 

[Lethal]

Literally everything that happened

 

[DammitC]

no bianca/alexa nonsense; no Ali vs Sikoa; no Mia vs Io; no Omos squash, no Rollins backstage promo, etc.

 

[DammitC]

sure.

 

[Vegeta]

 

[#Waddles]

Yup, already liked it and RT'd her tweet there

 

[Lethal]

Uncle Howdy shit is boring me even more now. what even was the point of that?

 

[Lethal]

and ngl the Raw XXX card/show is looking very good atm, hopefully it delivers.

 

[Y2Jayne]

Gable is so fucking good it's insane

 

[Y2Jayne]

Weird how Bronson Reed only had his first match this week.

 

[Y2Jayne]

Holy shit I'm surprised Tozawa isn't injured after this. He made Reed look like a bulldozer.

 

[Chris]

Going against its toughest competition in many years, Raw on Monday still held up with 1.49 million viewers and a 0.42 rating in 18-49.

While the viewership number is among the lowest in the history of the show, the Dallas Cowboys vs. Tampa Bay Bucs playoff game, which could have been the last game of Tom Brady's career, did 31.10 million viewers and an 8.39 rating in 18-49, which was a combination of 17.76 million/3.81 on ABC, 11.66 million/3.95 on ESPN, and 1.68 million/0.63 on ESPN2.

Raw stayed pretty steady, starting much lower than usual and having a normal-level third-hour drop, given the game was a blowout.

Raw was seventh for the night on cable, behind the ESPN and ESPN2 airings of the game, plus the kickoff show, postgame show, Countdown show, and SportsCenter after the game.

Raw beat an early evening NBA game that on TNT that ended before Raw started, as well as an afternoon NBA game.

Raw was eighth in women 18-49, behind football-related shows and Below Deck. It was seventh in men 18-49, seventh in 18-34, sixth in women 12-34, seventh in men 12-34, and 21st in total viewers.

The only programs with more viewers were NFL-related shows and news shows. With football season now concluding on Monday nights, Raw should start to dominate the Monday ratings next week.

Raw also beat all network programming except ABC and Univision on Monday night.

Raw was down 12 percent in viewers, down 16 percent in 18-49, and down 12 percent in 18-34 from last week, but that was understandable given the competition.

As compared to the same week last year, which also went against an NFL playoff game, but not one that drew nearly the same numbers, Raw was down eight percent in viewers, three percent in 18-49, and three percent in 18-34. But if you factor in lost homes from cable, it was down two percent in viewers, up three percent in 18-49, and up three percent in 18-34.

The first-to-third hour drops were 23 percent with women 18-49, 12 percent with men 18-49, 17 percent in women 12-34, an 18 percent gain in men 12-34, and down 14 percent with people over 50.

The three hours were:

• 8 p.m. 1.56 million viewers
• 9 p.m. 1.54 million viewers
• 10 p.m. 1.37 million viewers

WWE Raw ratings down against NFL playoff game

Raw's viewership held up well given the tough competition.

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