[Punter]

What is that, like a 3.1?

WWE is goin' down after WrestleMania bro's

Shame too, I had money saved up for Mania 29

EDIT: WOW, that's actually a monstrous viewership for the special. Even if the RAW viewership was less then spectacular, glad to see people are at least interested in Rock/Cena

[D.M.N.]

Originally Posted by The-Rock-Says

Rating did go up in the 2nd hour, which is good.

They went up by ten thousand viewers. For your go-home show to WrestleMania, that's alarmingly poor. And the year-on-year comparisons look embarrassing:

2009
Hour 1 - 4.999m
Hour 2 - 5.396m

2010
Hour 1 - 4.141m
Hour 2 - 4.869m
- previous weeks had over 5 million, I think this may have clashed with Impact

2011
Hour 1 - 5.445m
Hour 2 - 6.231m

2012
Hour 1 - 4.438m
Hour 2 - 4.448m

[Green Light]

The ratings have been terrible for this RTWM, no two ways about it. I know buyrates and ratings aren't always correlated but when you have more than one million less viewers than you had the year before it doesn't look good for this year's number. I honestly think they will do less than a million buys globablly, the interest in the product just isn't there it seems

[Punter]

Originally Posted by D.M.N.

They went up by ten thousand viewers. For your go-home show to WrestleMania, that's alarmingly poor. And the year-on-year comparisons look embarrassing:

2009
Hour 1 - 4.999m
Hour 2 - 5.396m

2010
Hour 1 - 4.141m
Hour 2 - 4.869m
- previous weeks had over 5 million, I think this may have clashed with Impact

2011
Hour 1 - 5.445m
Hour 2 - 6.231m

2012
Hour 1 - 4.438m
Hour 2 - 4.448m

Weird how 2010 had better ratings WrestleMania season then 2009...And WOW, were those actually the numbers a year ago? That's really crazy.

Seriously, if that thing up there isn't a wake up call for Vince, I don't know what would be. Seriously, isn't this the worst viewership since the 90's?

[Gang]

Miz as a Champion = ratings.

[The-Rock-Says]

I think the ratings would of been way up if they held off announcing the Cena/Rock match for the year. Maybe announcing it with 6 weeks to go, that would of been a ratings spike.

But they have earned a ton of money off announcing it a year out, with record breaking ticket sales and a likely 1 million buys. So, they haven't lost.

[kokepepsi]

Originally Posted by Hladeit

WOW thats bad!

I dont think they are going to do a million buys. Dave Meltzer keeps pushing this notion that Ratings do not reflect the PPV buyrates but i really dont agree with him on this. Poor ratings shows the lack of interest from the casual fans.

They are banking on the youtube friday thing and the week long special.
No wonder they kept saying they were gonna hit 1.3million for this mania... Vince got some tricks up his sleeve

Don't forget UFC gets shit ratings and they get huge buys
WCW would get good ratings and do horrible buyrates

[Gamblor]

Interesting numbers year by year. Last year of course had Rock when he was still red hot off his return, so the fact the second hour drew over 6 million shouldn't be surprising (also it was the Taker/HHH/HBK segment on that show that was great as well). I'm sure the 2010 show would've been a bit better without Impact being there, but this year there really is no excuse. I suppose the absence of Taker, HHH, and HBK hurt the overall rating a bit, but they didn't get anywhere near 5 million in either quarter. Though the Rock/Cena special doing well is a good sign, and perhaps they did over 5 million at the end, the overall number is definitely way too low for the final Raw before WM.

[TheF1BOB]

Remember, The Rock just came back plus the first Cena/Rock interaction took place as well. It was a big buzz.

12 months later, I literally don't give a shit about this feud like others have pointed out so I don't blame people seeing this as a turnoff.

[metr0man]

That was before WWE Creative had a chance to kill the angle.

WWE writers can suck the heat out of any angle.