[Fanboi101]

This show was built around Punk and he had almost an hour of tv time. Result = lowest rating of the year and the lowest viewership for a non holiday raw in 5 years... LOL

Obviously you can't blame one guy but Punk clearly is not someone that brings in ratings, and the show should not revolve around him like it did this week. Just goes to show how weak the roster is right now that a guy like Punk gets the amount of tv time that he does.

I feel like the reality era has been disastrous for the WWE. All of these promos like the one between Foley and Punk that are really serious and weave in and out of kayfabe do not entertain casuals. Casuals like humour and over the top shit, like austin and his trucks or the Rock cutting up an opponent. They don't want to watch a fake version of the UFC.

[funnyfaces1]

Goddammit Phil.

[Jobberwacky]

Originally Posted by apokalypse

RAW need more Cena...

He was advertised as the ME, talking with a sling.

[Arcade]

Monday Night Football plus season premieres of TV shows probably hurt the rating of Raw.

[chucky101]

Originally Posted by Arcade

Monday Night Football plus season premieres of TV shows probably hurt the rating of Raw.

oh please, enough with excuses, in the late 90s ratings were high no matter what else was on

you put on a good show people will watch, the attitude era proved it, stop blaming other shows

let me guess next week you will blame a rerun of pawn stars for raw not getting a 3.0

reality is the show as a whole sucks right now, thus ratings are not great and haven't been even before football

but keep blaming other shows, you really think the new "2 broke girls" is the reason raw never drew a 3.5, yaaaaaa sure

[MikeChase27]

Not shocked as we keep having these 3 hour RAW's that the ratings keep going lower. I can't wait to see what part of the show hurt the rating the most my guess will be the last hour.

Oh and guys lets be honest wrestling just isn't cool anymore.

[The Cynical Miracle]

Caldwell's Analysis: Raw faced a "perfect storm" going up against the Green Bay Packers in football and fall TV season premieres on broadcast TV, but the shows are clearly too long to sustain the audience without burning out viewers. Also, the lack of a hook from last week to this week as WWE just tries to get through a three-hour show every week is coming up in the numbers with an inability to retain viewers.

Yep.

[MikeChase27]

I also don't think a bunch of random tag matches are going to keep the fans tuning in.

[The-Rock-Says]

CM Phil strikes again!

People no selling the 3rd hour.

[PHX]

Originally Posted by chucky101

oh please, enough with excuses, in the late 90s ratings were high no matter what else was on

you put on a good show people will watch, the attitude era proved it, stop blaming other shows

let me guess next week you will blame a rerun of pawn stars for raw not getting a 3.0

reality is the show as a whole sucks right now, thus ratings are not great and haven't been even before football

but keep blaming other shows, you really think the new "2 broke girls" is the reason raw never drew a 3.5, yaaaaaa sure

Just want to address that part only to say it's not the late 90's anymore. I don't know why people keep comparing a time that was the boom period for wrestling to now esp when during that time you didn't have all these tons of ways to watch Raw like you do now. WWE has pretty much conceded to this hence why they upload stuff from Raw and Smackdown on their youtube channel and now have a deal with Hulu to watch Raw and other WWE programming on. Think people on here freak out more about the ratings than WWE themselves do. They seem more concerned with their social media score and shit than ratings nowadays.