[Rock316AE]

Originally Posted by dxbender

Ratings back then were diff than today.

Attitude Era really got like 6-7M viewers. I saw one rating from an archived thread that said one episode in 1999 got 5M viewers with a rating in the 6's.

http://www.wrestlingforum.com/classi...m-viewers.html

6.3 rating got like 4.8M viewers.

If things were done the same today, WWE would be averaging ratings in the 6's as well.

In order to get 4 ratings today, Raw would need almost 6M viewers, so it's like the inverse of what it used to be.

You said the same thing there and even AFTER people explained it to you, you say it again? No. 4.8 is **households**, not actual viewers.

As for 5.0 or even 4.0+ overall. Not happening. The roster is WOAT and the product is cold as hell. They almost did a 5.0 for The Rock's segment in Chicago last year and they actually did 4.1 for the second hour that night. You're not going to see something like that now because back then you had the astronomical buzz from Rock's presence in the wrestling industry again that made the business hot for 2 months.

[Vyed]

3.6 for next week. Doubt they will do 3.8 with three hours.

[DesolationRow]

Yeah, 3.6 sounds right, actually. 3.8 for the final two hours. 3.6 overall.

[Starbuck]

I say 3.7 to be safe lol. I expect a few segments to do big numbers though and get at or around the 4.0 mark, most likely Rock and the title match. Depending on what happens in Lesnar/HHH, that might hit up there too. But yeah, 3.7 overall makes the most sense to me.

[validreasoning]

Originally Posted by Greek_Kane_Fan

Why do you guys think it won't be 5.0 or higher?
During the Attitude Era RAW used to get around 6.0 on a regular basis.
Older fans are bound to tune in for the show.

yeah but a 5 or 6 in 1998 is not equal to a 5 or 6 in 2012, in 1999 a 5.5 was roughly equal to 5.7 million viewers average (depending on what competition was opposite), trump raw did 6.8 million viewers average (including a second hour of 7.9 million viewers, one of top 3-5 most watched raw hours ever) in 2009 but that show only did a 4.5 rating

[#Mark]

If Charlie Sheen tweets, it could break 4.0.

[AthenaMark]

For the 2 hours? It might do a 3.8 or something. Cena is in it and you can't trust people to wanna watch shit he's in. I expect the Wedding to get a decent number though.

[kokepepsi]

Damn Rikishi and that 169k viewer gain

RIKISHI VS ROCK WM30

[Pro Royka]

Originally Posted by kokepepsi

Damn Rikishi and that 169k viewer gain

RIKISHI VS ROCK WM30

How did you know that?

[kokepepsi]

Segment Breakdown
Source same as always

The big story was the last few minutes did a 3.99 rating, which was Cena, Show and Punk out there with them teasing Cena cashing in the briefcase.

In the segment-by-segment, Kofi Kingston & R-Truth vs. Titus O’Neil & Darren Young lost 384,000 viewers.

A.J. and Daniel Bryan backstage and Alberto Del Rio vs. Zack Ryder with the Rey Mysterio return gained 252,000 viewers.

Rikishi vs. Heath Slater gained 169,000 viewers.

The Miz & Eve Torres vs. Bryan & A.J., plus the proposal, gained 282,000, which surprised me because I would have thought the proposal would have done better.

The big surprise, even though it was a drop, is that the Ryback vs. Tyler Reks and Dolph Ziggler/Chris Jericho confrontation lost 20,000 viewers. They usually lose several hundred thousand in that time slot.

Brodus Clay vs. JTG lost 491,000, so what that says is people stayed for the Ryback match and Ziggler and Jericho, but then tuned out.

C.M. Punk vs. Big Show gained 325,000 viewers and the post-match with Cena teasing cashing in the briefcase gained 719,000 viewers.