[-Skullbone-]

It seems the general consensus found between Starbuck and DesolationRow's posts is shared by the majority of viewers, posters here and likely management themselves:

3 hours is too long to sit through.

One positive that may emerge, however, is how this unflattering format may urge the big boss and his cronies to step up their creative game for the product and for their network's benefit. They have to fight to get people to stay tuned in this time around instead of resting back on their laurels, hands on heads and chortling amongst themselves about those schmucks stuck in TNA .

[Hazaq]

I think the only effective way to prove punk is a draw to the internet fans is with PPV buys. Ratings are not going to help in that case, even if he can draw over million viewers at top of the hour or overrun occasionally, its gonna get dismissed as a one night deal and forgotten because thats how the Internet Community operates. But if he can manage to show strong PPV numbers main eventing with a lesser star, it can be factually proved that he is a draw. Just my opinion on the matter.

[Grass420]

so looking at the break downs..

i wonder if the CM Punk haters will stfu now lol.

CM Punk is the only thing that gained viewers

[BANKSY]

Like I said before this move to 3 hours I can see them keeping the earlier 2 hours when the eventual change happens to make the program more accessible for children.

[Shawn Morrison]

Yeah, and now everyone should forget this Raw and name it one of the worst just because of the viewers. Who cares? fact is the show was booked greatly and IMO was the best 3 hour show since the 1000th Raw.

and i'm pretty sure the Kane/Bryan segment's get low ratings because when the camera's switch to backstage, people change the channel. Backstage segments do bad in general. It feels like an ad more than something thats part of the show. But i'm pretty sure they will do better ratings because the fans DO enjoy kane and bryan.

[Cliffy Byro]

Obviously not if the fans keep switching off during their segments.

[JY57]

Originally Posted by Shawn Morrison

Yeah, and now everyone should forget this Raw and name it one of the worst just because of the viewers. Who cares? fact is the show was booked greatly and IMO was the best 3 hour show since the 1000th Raw.

and i'm pretty sure the Kane/Bryan segment's get low ratings because when the camera's switch to backstage, people change the channel. Backstage segments do bad in general. It feels like an ad more than something thats part of the show. But i'm pretty sure they will do better ratings because the fans DO enjoy kane and bryan.

some jsut want wrestling over backstage segments or hugging. Its not their fault its what WWE is giving them. The re-match they had last week with Kofi/R-truth if not mistaken did good in numbers. Their hug after the match only was 2 minutes of the 15 minutes (next quarter) last week I hardly put major blame on that. the first time they hugged was like 15 minutes; talk about dragging out like hell, you can't blame people tuning out. A hug lasts only 30 seconds not 15 minutes.

but overall if they just have them wrestle 90 % of the time over skits & hugging (they haven't done that since last week Raw seems like BOD is slowing down on that angle along with I am Tag team Champions crap) than they would be fine. But like others said they like to overkill with the comedy stuff like with AJ/Punk/Bryan (it was fine with Kane involved since it was still fresh, but after he left the scene it got overdone fast)

[Choke2Death]

I know Starbuck spoke for me on this one, but Punk gets the peak of the show at barely above 4 million at the 9PM spot in a segment featuring Mick Foley, a legend that has returned for the first time since WM28 if I'm not mistaken, and following two quarters that lost half a million viewers and he's declared as a "draw" here. LOL.

Thank God the Punk/Cena feud #32159739175 is failing to draw. That feud lost what made it special a year ago and now they are trying to use it in hopes of better ratings but it's irrelevant and done with. Keep fallin', ratings, keep fallin'!

[Wrestlinfan35]

The logic in here is mindblowing. Before this breakdown, we saw posts "Of course it got low numbers, Punk was all over the show." then low and behold his segments were the only ones saving the show from being even lower. And again, when we see his segments do good numbers, "oh, but the credit must be shared equally." And once again before the breakdown, we saw that only CM Punk got the blame. If credit should be shared, shouldn't the blame be as well? The lack of consistency in this thread is nuts. But it's not surprising, every single person is biased because of mark wars~!

[The-Rock-Says]

^ Why do you even care? You've said many times you don't care about ratings.

Anytime Punk does a bad rating you're in here saying "So what if Punk drew low, I don't care about ratings"

Then when he does good numbers you are in here throwing a party.

Anyway, this is the comedy club.