RAW drops below 3 million viewers

[Roadster]

 

[Roadster]

In all seriousness, I want to refrain from blaming Sheamus for this drop. I highly doubt one-night reigns can do such a massive dent in ratings. Mixture of football, dropping popularity, being too long for it's own good and a shitty product. As I said beforehand, WWE was on the fast track to RAW 1997, but it just happened to culminate to this one episode.

 

[Stopspot]

WWE sadly has nothing to worry about from USA as long as they remain their most viewed show. Which they still do by a wide margin.

 

[C.M. Shaddix]

The only thing WWE has to worry about is themselves

 

[Snowman1]

#VinceScrewedVince 2.16

It just didn't have the same ring to it though

As for the rest of the thread, Vince wins, the fans lose, and here's the result.
As much fun as it is to say "Stop pissing off the audience.", it won't change anything.
#NothingEverChanges

 

[The GOAT]

I feel the advice Scott Keith shared on how they could improve their ratings was funny and informative enough to share (I would copy and paste it, but it's a slide show and it won't let me):

Top 10 ways WWE can still boost ratings for 'Raw'

 

[Saylor]

I doubt Sheamus' reign caused this. WWE has been on a crash course for low ratings for the last couple of months. They've been dropping on a weekly basis.

Possibly not, but it will make little-to-no improvements on ratings by having Sheamus as the WWE-WHC.

 

[Snowman1]

Copy/paste from Meltzer

- Stephanie McMahon is expected to appear on RAW more often going forward as her Eisenhower Fellowship ended on November 22nd. She had been in Brazil for the past few weeks.

2.02 next week

 

[Prince Bálor]

Copy/paste from Meltzer



2.02 next week

Yeah, that'll draw.

 

[Farooq]

Can't blame the ratings for dropping. I haven't enjoyed the product myself as of late.

 

[Messiah1]

They don't care anymore. They don't have anybody creeping up on them like they did with WCW in the 90's.

 

[edge4ever]

Raw will get 5.0 ratings when they make..... CENA champ for the 16th time!!!!!!! By beating BRock!!!! LESNAR!!!!! Welcome to WWE creative!!!! Baaaa baaaaaa baaaa baaaa... Daaaaa daaaa daaaaa daaaa!!!! Champ is here!!!! #cenawins

nope:

 

[Snowman1]

Because burying this company is somehow so amusing, lets pile on now, shall we?

 

[edge4ever]

I do love that their ratings drop this bad, yet they give Sheamus the title, DB can't come back, and they won't let dean get on the top

 

[Stopspot]

Dean on top would not cause a ratings boost. Because Vince wouldn't allow it. Vince has his mind set on one guy, and you all know who I am talking about. And only that guy is going to be allowed any focus going forward. Vince thinks he can force this guy's overness and create something, unlike letting something grow organically. There are, as of this writing according to what few sources I have, no wrestlemania plan for Dean (and there hasn't been one since they started putting together the card) of note. And there wasn't even one for Seth either. They had a guy get an 8 month run with the belt, put on some of the best matches in a while and really grow and get over, but Vince refused to plan him into anything meaningful at mania 32 in favor of his guy.

TLDR: Vince doesn't care who we want on top or like or are willing to watch. He only cares about who he wants on top and is trying to force a ratings increase through him.

And that's not going to work, it never has and never will.