[NearFall]

They spent 5 million for 28-30ish Lesnar appearances and don't advertise them. Lolwat Vince?

[AthenaMark]

Who cares about Shawn Michaels. He's nothing. But it's odd they didn't advertise Lesnar being there LIVE. I guess when you have a near 70 year old man who has lost his creative edge that made him special that this is just the way it's going to be. Stands to reason considering Cole should of been taken off television close to two years ago now.

[Marv95]

I'm a tiny bit surprised. Thought the rating would drop from last week. And it's surprising that this show isn't routinely in the 2s with the bland product they put out week after week. Still NFL season's approaching...

[DesolationRow]

Originally Posted by Rock316AE

Another drop and that's because they were too stupid to promote that "BROOOCCK LESSNARRR!" is going to be there along with HBK in his hometown. In 80 video packages you can't even throw one commercial? Maybe they're trying to sabotage this program? If not I don't get it. You just say out of the blue that HBK is going to be there like it's happening every week, then bring out Brock without promoting him. Ridiculous.

I have to agree. No mention of Lesnar, Triple H or Shawn Michaels in any ads, nor the wwe.com preview, nor anywhere. I have no idea why they wouldn't plug the hell out of the three of them appearing. At least Michaels and Lesnar, since you can assume by extension Triple H will be there, too. Inexplicable.

[Starbuck]

Originally Posted by DesolationRow

I have to agree. No mention of Lesnar, Triple H or Shawn Michaels in any ads, nor the wwe.com preview, nor anywhere. I have no idea why they wouldn't plug the hell out of the three of them appearing. At least Michaels and Lesnar, since you can assume by extension Triple H will be there, too. Inexplicable.

VINCE. IS. A. RETARD.

I think that should suffice. Stupid, stupid, god damn fucking stupid. They haven't given any promotion to this match. At all. It's ridiculous.

[Shock]

Originally Posted by NearFall

They spent 5 million for 28-30ish Lesnar appearances and don't advertise them. Lolwat Vince?

WWE doesn't know what they're doing in advance, that's the big problem. I guarantee you they had no idea if Brock was going to be on next weeks show when they had Raw 1001. They probably told Brock on Sunday "you're on Raw" because he would have had to make travel arrangements, but even then I doubt they knew how to use him until the show.

[kokepepsi]

Breakdown

In the segment-by-segment, C.M. Punk vs. Rey Mysterio gained 123,000 viewers.

Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian also gained 123,000 viewers.

Randy Orton vs. Big Show at the top of the hour which also coincided with the familiar 9 p.m. start time gained 480,000 viewers.

Ryback vs. Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks plus Titus O’Neil & Darren Young vs. Primo & Epico gained 78,000 viewers. Looking at that lineup, you’d expect that to lose which likely shows Ryback is catching on.

The Damien Sandow/Brodus Clay angle lost 135,000 viewers.

The return of Kelly Kelly, facing Eve Torres, gained 113,000 viewers.

The highest rated segment of the show was Shawn Michaels, Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman and HHH, which gained 232,000 viewers, which is not a strong gain for the 10 p.m. hour, doing a 3.45 quarter.

Dolph Ziggler vs. Alex Riley lost 390,000 viewers.

Kane vs. The Miz lost 208,000 viewers.

And John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan gained 345,000 viewers, which is not a strong overrun segment, finishing at 3.27.

Kind of meh numbers

[Jammy]

All numbers there are meh, every one of them. Not much to discuss I guess.

[Wrestlinfan35]

Orton/Show and Cena/Bryan failed big time. 480k is terrible for the 9 PM, and obviously that's a shit overrun. The Lesnar/HHH/HBK stuff did bad as well, even though the rating is the highest of the night. But as I recall people always telling me, the gain means more than the rating. Just like when Punk/Jericho gained 200k and did a 3.6, it was still a weak showing. Same thing applies here then, no? Just disappointing numbers all around.

[Gamblor]

Sandow loses viewers?

Things are... interesting. This is the second week the 9:15 slot gained (maybe third, forgot the Raw 1000 episode). Sandow/Clay did lose but it didn't lose a lot in the grand scheme of things. The HBK/Lesnar segment with HHH at the end did the average gain for the 10PM slot, but it did peak the show which is telling. Cena/Bryan not having the strongest gain ever, and by my calculations it's actually had the fourth most viewers of the night (behind Show/Orton and Kelly/Eve).

Orton/Show, nothing impressive. Actually could be seen as a disappointment based on the amount it gained, though it did have the second highest number of viewers in the show, so I guess that's good.