[Grass420]

who wants to bet that Raw bombs in the ratings tonight? we should have a pool.. I say it will be 2.4

what has WWE done to promote tonight's show so far?

"This afternoon, mere hours before Raw kicks off in her home state of New Jersey, Raw General Manager AJ Lee posted the following on her official Twitter account"
@WWEAJLee: Been called to an emergency meeting with the WWE Board of Directors at #WWE Global HQ. #Confused #RAW"

that's it...

with all the social media they have, they can do so much to promote their show.. but they don't..

i am re-watching raws from the 1999, and even back then, they did a lot more to promote raw..
even at the beginning of the show, they would tell you at least 3 matches that would take place that night.
you don't even get that anymore, it does not give you a reason to tune in..

if you don't promote the show, or any of the matches, how can you expect people to tune in? you cannot blame wrestlers for people not tuning into their matches when they are not promoted..

so many times we watch Raw and a wrestler will come out, we won't know who he is fighting and it's not set up like an element of surprise, it's just WWE does not tell us.. they are too busy showing recaps and telling people to go on twitter and tout and facebook.

[HHHbkDX]

They're gonna get a sub 2.5 rating tonight. Well deserved actually. Get your shit together WWE.

[Choke2Death]

I think 2.4 is pretty high considering the debate they are competing with, not to mention the usual MNF. I expect something between 1.8-2.3 which is unfortunately going to be the new standard they settle for because they are too lazy to get back their fans.

[Starbuck]

2.3 imo. Too much competition. I'll be impressed if they get above that tbh.

[SinJackal]

Yeah. . .ratings are probably gonna tank tonight. Especially during the midcard. If it's still 2.5, I'll be very surprised. Even though 2.5 isn't great, if they actually do hit that mark again, it should be considered a victory considering how watered down most of the show is right now. . .not to mention all the competion for that timeslot tonight.

[Marv95]

Holy crap are they hyping up the debate tonight. On top of the NLCS and MNF. But if this was 2004 with them against the same amount of competition or if they actually had some sort of big storyline to get people to watch with starpower, the worst they'd do would be a 2.9.

[Hawksea]

I'm willing to bet the extermination of my account for a below 2.0

[chucky101]

it would be shocking if it did more than 2.5, 2.5 is best case scenario

more likely it will be 2.3-2.4, maybe even worse

its tough to call, how knows how many normal wrestling fans are also debate/mlb fans, so its tough, it could be as low as 2.2 or as high as 2.5

if vince gets a 2.5 consider himself lucky

i predict 2.3-2.4 range, but it could even be lower

[TromaDogg]

I can't see them doing less than 2.0, but a sub 2.5 is fairly conceivable given what else is on US TV at the same time.

Though it's not just the competition that's killing their ratings, it's the rut that their product has fallen into in recent months.

They seem to be putting all their eggs in one basket and hoping that Ryback is going to be their 'saviour' of sorts. I'll keep my opinions about him to the Ryback Discussion thread, but I'm not convinced. We'll see over the next few weeks.

[chucky101]

ryback is not the saviour, vince thinks he is but he will be a bust

the fact that there putting all there eggs in the basket shows how bad and desperate they are, the product has been so bad for so long they need some long term solutions

start pushing younger talent like ambrose/ziggler/rollins/etc

either that or keep seeing the rating fall and short term bandage solutions