[austin316 G.O.A.T]

Originally Posted by TeamRocketGrunt

Lesner is a proven draw, Punk isn't

Proven draw in WWE?

[Choke2Death]

Originally Posted by jblvdx

Punk gets lowest quarter of the night last week. People shit all over him.

Lesnar gets lowest quarter of the night this week. People don't talk about it.

Ahhh, the ass backward nature of the IWC.

Getting the highest rating for the first quarter since the 3 hour thing became permanent is not good enough?

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Nice to see Orton doing his thing and keeping the ratings afloat when he's on at the 9PM spot. Too bad they had him tap out to Alboreto Dull Rio the next day. And Bork is doing what Bork does best and that's bring in viewers. Shawn losing viewers is not even surprising considering how watered down they've made him recently, serving as HHH's bitch who can't fight for himself despite being called Mr. Wrestlemania and the Showstopper. And rather disappointing ratings for the main event. While the two matches preceding it lost 400k viewers, that amount was brought back in the main event but only with 66k more. I guess since Cena was not expected to interrupt, it was disappointing as he usually gains almost 1 million whenever he turns up. Same routine with the anti-draws being their usual self and the proven draws keeping the ratings in the acceptable border.

[Punked Up]

Does anybody know what the overrun with the famous Punk shoot did back then?

[Amuroray]

How consistent is cena?

Incredible.

Bigshow is bringing it aswell

[murder]

What I get from the ratings breakdown is, people don't want to see Clay, the Divas and "via sattelite" promos. Those are the exact same things I don't like about the show. Problem is that Vince won't realize this.

[Rock316AE]

Besides what I said earlier, I forgot to add that Ryback continues to be a big attraction, we are starting to see a Goldberg pattern here. Obviously not in the same league but it's happening.

Originally Posted by Punked Up

Does anybody know what the overrun with the famous Punk shoot did back then?

Punk's overrun promo did a weak 314k gain to a 3.3 number. The peak of that show was a Big Show/Del Rio match with a Big Show/Henry brawl in the top of the hour which gained 471k.

[Choke2Death]

Originally Posted by Rock316AE

Punk's overrun promo did a weak 314k gain to a 3.3 number. The peak of that show was a Big Show/Del Rio match with a Big Show/Henry brawl in the top of the hour which gained 471k.

ROFL, Henry truly is a ratings machine.

[Gamblor]

Originally Posted by D.M.N.

You're welcome.

Quarter Hours - August 20th, 2012
Q1 - 4.292 million
Q2 - 4.301 million
Q3 - 4.499 million
Q4 - 4.532 million
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Q5 - 4.812 million
Q6 - 4.700 million
Q7 - 4.502 million
Q8 - 4.588 million
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Q9 - 4.787 million
Q10 - 4.418 million
Q11 - 4.388 million
Q12 and Overrun - 4.854 million

I'm surprised at how poorly Jericho and Ziggler did in Q11, although being right after a Diva's match can't have helped. Despite Lesnar and Heyman going on first, it was still the lowest rated segment of the night, so they didn't bump things too much, otherwise people would have tuned out for Q2, Q3 and Q4.

So Punk/Cena, 4.854 mill ending. Great stuff. Highest of the night, which is the least you ask for for an overrun. Orton/Del Rio surprised me a bit with the overall number, but what do ya know?

Lesnar got the lowest segment of the night, but it was a great start for the show.

HBK losing dem viewers talking about HHH... not good. Sandow/Clay losing viewers... meh. While it was interesting the first couple of weeks, nothing of significance has happened since. No promo between the two, just Sandow kicking Clay
s fat ass until last night. Hopefully the feud is done.

Sadly Jericho isn't really a draw, and this proves it. Even for his exit he does has one of three lowest segments of the night with Ziggler.

And finally, Ryback WITH DEM VIEWERS! I hate how Ryback is doing, as he really is nothing more than a Goldberg clone, but damn it's been working.

[The-Rock-Says]

Ryback is the man. It pleases me very much that you hate him and hate that he's getting over. Lovely.

[Rock316AE]

The Jericho match lost only 30k on a random slot, not bad at all there. Jericho started doing good numbers again after he came back from the suspension, that's also when he started to be enjoyable to watch again(He is always, but the storyline held even him down)after months of horrible program. He should have been a babyface from the start. Lesnar brought the entire overall of the show up, record number for the opening segment and interest in who won between him and HHH. From next week, there's no Lesnar/Heyman/Jericho and and Orton is going to film a movie soon, add to that the MNF competition and they should get comical ratings.

Originally Posted by Choke2Death

ROFL, Henry truly is a ratings machine.

The entire Show/Henry program did great, RAW and SD. On SD it was to the point where they brought the entire average to RTW levels in October/November or whatever it was.