Raw Live Raw thread, August 2nd 2021: Nikki A.S.H. set for big rematch against Charlotte Flair

[Jimmy King]

Yeah, you could hear Michael Cole at one point during an entrance talking about a 16 time world champion lol which is hilarious with the Flair news but I'm pretty sure he was talking about Cena during the comment whenever it actually happened

It was from this.

 

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

Last night's Raw averaged 1.821 million viewers on the USA Network, up 0.4 percent from last week. It's the third straight week that Raw has averaged more than 1.8 million viewers since WWE's return to touring.

The Olympics were strong competition again for Raw, averaging 12.7 million viewers head-to-head. But everything else on cable and the networks were lower than usual, so it led to Raw holding up relatively well.

Raw drew a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demo, up 4.1 percent from last week. So, the increase was stronger with younger viewers than the overall audience. It's just the second time in the last 12 weeks that Raw has been above a 0.5 in the demo.

The actual viewership in the 18-49 category was 657,000, up from last week's 635,000 viewers. As a comparison, AEW Dynamite drew 582,000 viewers in the demo last week, so Raw was 12.9 percent higher.

Year-over-year, Raw was up 6.2 percent in overall viewers. It was even in the 18-49 demo. This is the fourth straight week that Raw has had a year-over-year increase in viewership.

As compared to the 10-week average prior to this week, Raw was up 9.3 percent in overall viewers and up 8.5 percent in 18-49. The last 11 weeks of Raw numbers and the 10-week averages are shown in the chart below:

 

[Dale]

Maybe it's because i'm just enjoying watching wrestling with crowds again but I gotta say, I really like the Ali/Mansoor team and same with T-Bar/Mace..

Like I dunno why they were actually put together other than the obvious...but I kinda like it. I hope they actually run with it though and it's not an Ali heel turn in a couple of weeks. They were fun to watch and I kinda like the story they have going.

T-Bar & Mace really give me Harper & Rowan vibes too. The names still suck but I can get past that now they've lost the masks. Big fuckers but seem super athletic and quick and hit some good shit during this match. I can imagine they will be a ton of fun to watch against teams like New Day, Mysterios, Uso's, smaller quicker guys to bounce off etc.

 

[Chris]

Yeah I'm in the same boat. The names and most of the look still suck but I think T-BAR and Mace are a team you want around in a tag division if you want to actually have a semblance of one on television. Ali should be fully turning face if they wanna give Mansoor the tag title win in Saudi Arabia but that's a couple months a way so god knows what'll happen in between now and then. He might just get a win over Ali in Saudi and call it a day

 

[Dale]

Yeah it deffo feels like a Saudi thing. I can assume they don't want Mansoor winning / holding a singles title yet but winning the tag titles there isn't out of the realm of possibilities and could be a pretty big deal for them.

 

[Chris]

I think Mansoor is good in general too regardless if they only really push him bc of the Saudi stuff, he won me over on those fucking PPV watch alongs they used to do bc he was hilarious

 

[O-Blaze]

He won me over when I found out he was Cole Quinn

 

[Dale]

Other things, give more Damian Priest he's super good aswell and could be a player.

This whole moist shit with Morrison is the drizzling shits though.

Only thing worse than that is Corey Graves, fuck that guy. Seems to literally fucking SHOUT all the time now. Guy just drowns out the other two all the time, bin him off already.