Raw Live Raw thread, October 25th 2021: A New Era begins on Raw’s Season Premiere this Monday

[DammitC]

Highlights of Raw:

- Big E/Seth Rollins/Rey Mysterio/Finn Balor/Kevin Owens/Sonya Deville opening segment + attack

- Street Profits vs Dirty Dawgs vs Alpha Academy

- Zelina Vega queen coronation promo

- Becky Lynch/Bianca Belair segment + attack with kendo stick

- Damian Priest destroys T-Bar post-match

- Seth Rollins backstage interview

- RKBro vs Dirty Dawgs for the Raw Tag titles

- Rey Mysterio vs Kevin Owens vs Finn Balor vs Seth Rollins Ladder match

 

[Jacyfer]

 

[Comrade Khan]

Of course Kevin loses again . January can't come soon enough

 

[Chris]

I thought you'd be happy he was in the main event instead of a random KO show with Baron Corbin again tbh

 

[Comrade Khan]

I thought you'd be happy he was in the main event instead of a random KO show with Baron Corbin again tbh

No one should ever be happy about their fave being on raw . Also pretty predictable outcome when you have only 1 heel in a 4way n the champ us a face xp. I'd rather ko not kill himself right now n stay healthy for the dubs. When's tge last time he even held a title, two years?

 

[Deezy]

Someone reportedly leaving, "he needs a push".

Yeah because that's how this works

Always love when people claim they don't watch something, but seem to know more about the show than the ones who are watching.

 

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

Raw last night averaged 1.66 million viewers, drew a 0.47 rating in 18-49, and drew a 0.29 in 18-34, all numbers well up from last week's episode that set the show's all-time record low in 18-49.

The difference more than anything would be no baseball competition. The New Orleans Saints vs. Seattle Seahawks NFL game did 12.80 million viewers between ESPN and ESPN2, but that was the only sports competition.

Raw was up four percent in viewers, but up 19 percent in 18-49 and 28 percent in 18-34 from last week.

But as compared to one year ago on the same week, Raw was down four percent in viewers and down seven percent in 18-49. The show was up 22 percent in 18-34.

It was back to usual patterns with the third-hour drop, although that drop was all related to women and those over 50. As far as keeping the audience, the ladder match main event did extremely well with men but not as well with other groups.

Raw was sixth for the night, behind only NFL-related programming on ESPN and ESPN2. The show was seventh in women 18-49, seventh in men 18-49, seventh in 18-34, fifth in women 12-34, and eighth in men 12-34.

It was 15th in total viewers, beating everything but NFL-related shows on ESPN and news programming.

The first-to-third hour declines were with women and older viewers largely. Women 18-49 dropped eight percent from hour one to three. Men 18-49 and 12-34 stayed even, which is unusually good, but teenage girls fell 34 percent from hour one to three, and over 50 viewers fell 11 percent.
The three hours were:

• 8 p.m. 1.73 million viewers
• 9 p.m. 1.67 million viewers
• 10 p.m. 1.58 million viewers

 

[Dale]

New opening video and first segment

Was pulling for Alpha Academy in that tag match but given whoever won was gonna be fed to RKBro, i'm fine with the Dawgs winning. Street Profits/AJ & Omos on the horizon though should be fun as hell.

Zelina & Doudrop stuff

Becky and Seth wearing matching outfits / theme That was easily the best segment between Becky/Bianca.

Interesting change for Priest. Don't hate the music but his old was an absolute banger. Can definitely hear bits of the old one in this new one. Really curious on this new direction they have for him because I thought he was on the right path and had been handled pretty damn well the past months.

Can't believe how bad people have been getting worked up over the Bearcat stuff, you'd literally think he came out in a fucking bear costume or something. Thought he looked good, should ditch the shorts though and just go full singlet mode. Got my attention for sure.

Last hour to catch up on but decent show.

 

[Jimmy King]

Yeah, I don’t get why people were so bent out of shape over the Bearcat stuff, I dug it. My only thing is that I would call him Bearcat Lee but I’m sure I’ll get used to what they’re calling him now, I thought he looked really good.

 

[Dale]

The way the ring guy says it is terrible. He either needs to announce it better or just use 'Bearcat' Keith Lee

 

[Chris]

The graphic that popped up saying Bearcat Lee CLAWS his way to Raw or whatever was one of the funniest things I've ever seen but other than that...it's just Keith Lee? It's literally just a nickname change to me lol at least until he cuts a promo or something that tells me this is some sort of gimmick change as well but doesn't seem that way to me

 

[Deezy]

Shakespeare taught me "what's in a name?....would a rose by any other name not smell as sweet?"

 

[Dale]

The graphic that popped up saying Bearcat Lee CLAWS his way to Raw or whatever was one of the funniest things I've ever seen but other than that...it's just Keith Lee? It's literally just a nickname change to me lol at least until he cuts a promo or something that tells me this is some sort of gimmick change as well but doesn't seem that way to me

Nah you gotta overreact and say it's the dumbest shit ever and that he needs to leave ASAP because he had to cover his belly up and now has a new nickname.

 

[Jacyfer]

They're giving Veer hype promo packages but Elias is still MIA...

 

[Dale]

Good. Boogz >