[WrestlingforEverII]

It still needs to go back to two hours but it needs to go back to two hours with better writing.

[Amber B]

Originally Posted by 4everEyebrowRaisin

OK. You cannot blame the third hour anymore! I'm fed up of seeing the same shit every motherfuckin' week; "THE THIRD HOUR IS THE PROBLEM!!!11"

There you have it, people. ALL-THREE-HOURS drew horrendous numbers.

You can't blame one guy either. The entire roster is fucking terrible.

Way to throw the talent under the bus when they aren't the problem.
I fucking can't with threads like this.

[TheRainKing]

Originally Posted by chessarmy

wow a 2.5? Are they bringing back 2 hours yet or what? This is bad...

Going back to 2 hours isn't gong to save them. The WWE was always going in this direction as soon as they lost all the big names that can actually draw.

[Dec_619]

Originally Posted by Walk-In

It's a combination of all the factors that is hurting RAW:
- Monday Night Football
- MMA
- Wrestling is no longer "cool" or popular.
- The booking/writing is poor & lacks continuity.
- No one has any heat.
- There aren't any stars.
- The titles don't mean anything.
- The wins/losses don't mean anything.
- The show is too long.
- People don't want their intelligence insulted.
- There aren't any fresh match-ups & WWE runs everything into the ground.
- There's no reason to watch each week. Nothing ever changes. There are no consequences or cliff hangers.
- There is no emotional investment, either positively or negatively, for anyone on the entire roster.\
- Too many ads, replays, recaps & media whoring.

THIS

[Kabraxal]

It isn't the roster people... really, this roster has a lot of talent. I'd say equal with any other era in the WWE. The problem is they are all booked to be generic cookie cutter personalities that don't stand out, don't have stories, don't have feuds, and that fans just can't get behind. Add that with horrendous short term chaotic booking and voila... you have this era. Hell, put any of the AE stars so many here love in this exact product and it's still shit!

[jonoaries]

Well....that happened

[Ageei]

Rock should come back with Jericho's Save Us gimmick.

Because for the love of god the G.O.A.T. REALLY IS going to save it.

[Lord Stark]

[WashingtonD]

Batista/Randy Orton/Cena/Triple as champions 3 years ago was doing 4.0's regularly. CM Punk as champ = 2.5.-2.7 ..

Compare Punk to those 4 aforementioned guys and you can see why.

Push Orton, Sheamus, Del Rio and Barrett along with Cena as the top guys in the company and the ratings will instantly go up. People want to see men fight, not boys (Punk).

Also, I guess nobody gives a fuck about The Shield except the online marks. Make a brand split and put Ziggler, Bryan, Punk, Ambrose and co. on Smackdown, and the wrestlers the casuals want to see on Raw. That way, Raw will get both the casuals and the internet marks, as they will watch regardless.

Unlike all you geeks, I have real life friends, 8 of whom casually watch wrestling. All of whom were watching from Royal Rumble up to Extreme Rules, while legitimately none of them are watching right now as they all phased out through the year. Reason: all of them are tired of CM Punk. That's enough first-hand evidence for me to know that it's Punk who is killing the show. I think even Big Johnny Laurinaitis was a bigger draw than Punk.

[MethHardy]

Ryback and Punk fail. Punk is boring as champ. Not his fault really his storylines suck and Ryback is just terrible. If he was over people would tune in to see him beat up Punk but hes not.

I say send both to SD and let them fail there and move Orton/Barrett to Raw in return.