Raw on 4/9 did a 3.10 rating and 4.29 million viewers. The show was third for the night on cable. The show did a 2.4 in Males 12-17, 2.7 in Males 18-49, 1.0 in Girls 12-17 and 1.1 in Women 18-49 with a 69.3% male skew. It was down 21% from the 5.46 million viewers of the week after Mania show last year, and last year there was no bombshell along the lines of the Brock Lesnar return on the night after Mania show.
In the segment-by-segment, Brodus Clay & Santino Marella vs. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger lost 99,000 viewers.
Backstage with Laurinaitis with Miz an Cena, Marella looking for the Three Stooges and R-Truth vs. Cody Rhodes gained 255,000 viewers.
Lord Tensai vs. Yoshi Tatsu lost 415,000 viewers.
The mic work between C.M. Punk and Chris Jericho in the top of the hour segment gained 379,000 viewers to a 3.19.
Punk vs. Henry and the post-match with Jericho pouring beer all over Punk, as well as the quick Del Rio vs. Ryder match lost 169,000 viewers.
The Three Stooges in-ring segment lost 240,000 viewers and was the low point of the show at 2.90.
The Brock Lesnar interview gained 423,000 viewers.
And the Cena vs. Otunga match with Lesnar run-in gained 301,000 viewers, which is a very weak overrun number, finishing at 3.42.
Holy fuck. That's....terrible. Like, really bad. Big time ouch there and they weren't even against MNF. Next week is going to murder them lol. Vince is not a happy bunny tonight. Not a clue what the fuck happened in that third hour. Not a one. The overrun should definitely be interesting this time around.
Forgot that it was a holiday actually. I suppose that takes the sting away just a little. Even still, it isn't good at all especially considering what's coming at them next week. That third hour number is rather crazy. I can't even remember what else happened that would turn people away and Cena/ADR was actually a fun match so I'm rather surprised at that. I guess we will just have to wait for the breakdowns to figure it all out.
The only thing to really take from this is the fact that they're going to get murdered next week lol. I'll be amazed if they manage to hold 4.4 million for all 3 hours tbh.
They have a chance to pull a decent number... they just really have to hit a home run with this Heyman/Punk angle and slowly start resurrecting the mid card and build atual stories all around. And keeping Lawler off would be awesome too.. much easier to watch without him.
Holy F balls, what the hell happened in the 3rd? Cena vs Del Rio, And that terrible AJ and Vickie segment. Did Vickie scare away viewers with her sit in? I mean my god, thats got to be the lowest 3rd hour/2nd hour in a long long time
I stopped watching as soon as CM Punk left, i was like "Screw this"
I honestly find 3 hours way too much.. even without commercials it is too long.
I usually just read the results and watch the parts i want to see on youtube..
true story, one night I was so exhausted and I was reading the Raw results and I just could not get through reading the results without falling asleep.. I would read some fall asleep, wake up, try reading again but I kept falling asleep.. it was that boring lol
Holy fuck. Third hour didn't even reach 4 million. That's really bad for them but I think they deserve these bad ratings based on the results which suggests "HORRIBLE".
Even during the attitude era 3 hours was too long,
this is a post I came across on another forum, it is not by me, but I like what the person says about the current state of the WWE
"But the show was dead long time ago, and it's not improving- is this the same plan as the mid-90s, to bore everyone to death and then BAM- come back strong again with another attitude era or something and pull all the fans back in? Or is this for real, where they're just sailing off into the sunset... Vince is getting older, etc etc so the good old days are probably gone and now they're just "maintaining" the show so to speak"
as for the poll in the post, does the WWE draw or do the wrestlers draw? I am sure this has been sound a million times already but "neither draws" haha
Anyway, hour 3 to watch was terrible and slow, which probably is the main reason. The main event match was quite fun, though I was not interested upon hearing it, maybe some viewers thought the same and didn't care for it.
He's the centerpiece of the show. Therefore, it's all Punk's fault the ratings are horrible.
Cena seems to become the new Orton. He has some star power (a lot more than Orton and ten times more than anyone else) but is relegated into having meaningless match on the shows, which kills his drawing power. I'm pretty sure he'll help the ratings in a couple of weeks if he takes the title and ends the biggest reign of terror in history!
Overrun is one big thing that'll hurt the rating. When it was 2 hours, it was basically 2 hours and 10 minutes or something. So you got about an extra quarter rating, which always boosted the rating of the show. Now, they only have like a 1-2 min overrun at most.
Was it one of those quick run in distract Cena so ADR get's the roll up win kinda endings or was it something longer? I read Heyman was there so must of been at least 15mins?
No, it was falls count anywhere and they were fighting in the back. Cena hit the AA to ADR on some stage storage cases, and then Punk just kicked Cena in the head from behind, put Del Rio on him, after Cena lost he gave him a GTS so that his face bounced off a car, bent over and said "RESPECT", got into the back of the car, pulled out his title and raised it up, then the driver's window rolled down and we see Heyman looking disgusted at Cena, then he drives away. Punk's involvement and Heyman's brief cameo was like...3 minutes tops. The entire match itself was probably about 10-15.
I'd hardly call this a reflection of Cena's drawing power lol. We all know he can still pull monster numbers with or without any hype behind him. If anything I'd say it's more of an indication that nobody wants to see Del Rio. But we won't know for sure until the breakdown comes.
Holy shit at that 3rd hour. It didn't even reach 4 million, wtf.
I'm guessing that AJ/Vickie segment made A LOT of people tune out and possibly not come back until the overrun, but we'll see. I'm curious to see the breakdowns now.
Well how come Punk's hours that featured him prominently drew decent viewership and the 3rd hour, which featured him in an unannounced, surprise 3 minute segment in the overrun, was what drew so terribly? As far as everyone was concerned he'd left in hour 2. This rating does NOT fall on Punk. Then again, most don't, yet people just like to blame him anyway. Regardless, in this case there is no possible way anyone can twist things around to make him appear to be the big ratings killer.
"It's a holiday." "School's starting." Dude, I can go back to previous years(Ruthless Aggression, even 2007) and Labor Day Raws weren't 2.8s. Those aren't valid excuses. The third hour score is terrible. Doesn't it usually increase into the 10pm hour? http://www.twnpnews.com/information/wwfraw.shtml
At least it seems like they have a big storyline now that MNF is about to start with Punk/Heyman, but they need to deliver on it.
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