Raw on 4/9 did a 3.10 rating and 4.29 million viewers. The show was third for the night on cable. The show did a 2.4 in Males 12-17, 2.7 in Males 18-49, 1.0 in Girls 12-17 and 1.1 in Women 18-49 with a 69.3% male skew. It was down 21% from the 5.46 million viewers of the week after Mania show last year, and last year there was no bombshell along the lines of the Brock Lesnar return on the night after Mania show.
In the segment-by-segment, Brodus Clay & Santino Marella vs. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger lost 99,000 viewers.
Backstage with Laurinaitis with Miz an Cena, Marella looking for the Three Stooges and R-Truth vs. Cody Rhodes gained 255,000 viewers.
Lord Tensai vs. Yoshi Tatsu lost 415,000 viewers.
The mic work between C.M. Punk and Chris Jericho in the top of the hour segment gained 379,000 viewers to a 3.19.
Punk vs. Henry and the post-match with Jericho pouring beer all over Punk, as well as the quick Del Rio vs. Ryder match lost 169,000 viewers.
The Three Stooges in-ring segment lost 240,000 viewers and was the low point of the show at 2.90.
The Brock Lesnar interview gained 423,000 viewers.
And the Cena vs. Otunga match with Lesnar run-in gained 301,000 viewers, which is a very weak overrun number, finishing at 3.42.
I didn't even bother watching it on Youtube this week since I knew it would be crap so the number doesn't surprise me. As I said this is the 2-3 months of filler crap before they start the summer angles
Im so glad someone mentioned this. When all the faces start running out and theres Khali just slowly walking down I thought WTF is he doing your supposed to be running to help John Cena and Sheamus. Seriously WWE needs to fire Khali as he clearly isnt very athletic to be in a company like WWE
... Can't believe I'm gonna get to post the breakdown for Raw this week. YAY ME!
- As noted before, the May 21st WWE RAW Supershow scored a 3.03 cable rating with 4.16 million viewers.
In the segment breakdown, the John Cena and John Laurinaitis opener did well with a 3.40 quarter rating. Big Show's explanation and Cena vs. David Otunga lost 139,000 viewers. Santino Marella's angle with Ricardo Rodriguez lost 521,000 viewers and Alberto Del Rio vs. Randy Orton lost 252,000 more. Kane vs. Daniel Bryan gained 390,000 viewers for a 3.01 quarter rating. This isn't a great number for that timeslot but a good showing for a segment with CM Punk and Bryan.
Jinder Mahal vs. Christian lost 259,000 viewers while Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix gained 44,000 viewers. John Cena and Sheamus vs. Tensai, Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler in the Lumberjack Match gained 878,000 viewers for a 3.49 quarter rating in the overrun. The main event ratings went from a 2.3 to 2.5 in Male Teens, 2.4 to 3.1 in Males 18-49 but didn't show any real gains among females.
As usual since after WM, Cena segments do the biggest numbers, which shouldn't be surprising. Punk/D.Bryan/Kane do a relatively good number, though it did start out as a promo and went into a match, which I'm sure lost some viewers. Interesting enough Cena/Otunga didn't lose as many viewers as that slot usually does, which shows even more Cena is the top draw in the company right now... even if he's not amazing himself. Del Rio/Orton being the lowest spot of the night doesn't surprise me, and can't say I care. Divas match gaining, even a small amount in a random time slot is good for them, and the overrun gaining back to the amount of viewers the show started with is a good sign since the match was advertised at that point. The overrun itself was actually shorter than usual if I'm not mistaken (like 3 minutes).
lol @ that shitfest Russo like booking main event gaining 878k.. Vince: "Greaaaaat! Every main event now will end in giant brawl DQs that make no sense and dammit I DEMAND MORE CENA!!!!"
Wow, after losing like 600'000 viewers form the opening segment, Randy Orton, one of the "biggest stars in the the company" lost another 200'000.
Its amazing how a guy who has been pushed so heavily, a guy who's been marketed so heavily, and a guy who is very over with audience, still gets the audeince at home to tune out damn near whenever he's on. Not blaming it all on him because he was facing the most unover man in the buisness, but still, Lol Orton.
:lol come on we all know as soon as people saw Ricardo in the ring they tuned out b/c they all thought ADR was coming out next :troll
As for the breakdwon nothing really shocking. Nice to see a gain for Punk/Bryan/Kane but of course the usual suspects will call it a "weak gain" and completely gloss over the ALL the other segments that lost viewers.
I don't know where to post it but this is a ratings thread, and this is a ratings GOD!(and he's a free agent BTW):
:rocky:flair2:rocky:flair2Gold.
Regarding a return to WWE, some in the company believe he will be brought back because of the WWE Network and because Triple H will go to bat for him to be used again.
Flair's new deal with Coca Cola for a new energy booster is said to be lucrative enough that he could leave pro wrestling and be fine.
With RAW ratings in the sewers, miserable roster and the ridiculous 3 hours move, to bring a proven ratings draw like Ric Flair would be great for the product. Give him 20 minutes segment every week just to talk about whatever he wants and you already got 1/12 of the show covered with pure entertainment.
I wouldn't mind seeing him in WWE but I really don't want to see him wrestling at all. I love the guy but I really wish his last match ever was with HBK.
The promo would be great I am sure, but what would it be for/about would be my question. Flair's great, but in small doeses now, IMO. I wouldn;t really want to see him back in a full-time on-air role.
Wait, didn't they just sign Flair's daughter?
Hey maybe Vince can finally do the incest angle he wanted to with Steph :Vince
I feel like funny throwaway segments with Flair are fine if the rest of the time is used flawlessly. Which neither WWE nor TNA are anywhere close to achieving. I'd be fine with WWE just giving Flair a youtube series to cut promos with/on whomever.
Impact has been interesting. It has some pretty good elements to it now that I didn't find that great before. Joe is back track and this Magnus guy seems awesome. Aries is still fucking awesome. Wish they had a couple more established X-Division guys for him to go against though. Roode has been a great champion. Not too high on RVD (no pun intended) anymore or Jeff and Angle for that matter. Gail Kim is an awesome wrestler, wish they'd use Winter more though. AJ is still pretty good but at this point he's really done everything you can do in the company. Bully Ray is great and DEVON WORLD ORDER. Anderson really let himself go but I still hope the best for him. And meh at Crimson and Gunner.
Prediction 2.6-2.7, I guess that only the great Big Show segments did over 3.0.
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