[CHIcagoMade]

Question is why do YOU care if other people care about ratings?

[Shawn Morrison]

agree 100%. people here are starting to prefer quantity over quality, which makes them no different from Vince McMahon, who they happen to always be complaining about. Hypocrites.

[Mike`]

Agreed. Said thing is people on here obsess over ratings but don't even understand how ratings actually work.

[HEELKris]

Originally Posted by Mr.Cricket

My point still stands. You're just mad that Punk is not a draw.

If he's drawing big numbers right now, you'll be like "OMG GUYZ PUNK IS A DRAW. RATINGZ ARE SO IMPORTANT".

Very true

[Ham and Egger]

Originally Posted by Mr.Cricket

My point still stands. You're just mad that Punk is not a draw.

If he's drawing big numbers right now, you'll be like "OMG GUYZ PUNK IS A DRAW. RATINGZ ARE SO IMPORTANT".

Why the fuck would he care about that? I think he'd be more happy that his favorite guy has been champion for over a year and about to have one hell of a feud with the Rock at the Royal Rumble.

[Gandhi]

Originally Posted by Mr.Cricket

My point still stands. You're just mad that Punk is not a draw.

If he's drawing big numbers right now, you'll be like "OMG GUYZ PUNK IS A DRAW. RATINGZ ARE SO IMPORTANT".

Not true,I'd never care if people I enjoyed drawed or not.If I like them I'll like them thats that,I don't care what ratings the guy gets or what others think of him all that matters is that I like them.

[TromaDogg]

I care about the ratings.

Because saying the ratings don't matter is just the equivalent of closing your eyes, sticking your fingers in your ears and singing whilst the show you watch turns to shit.

Like it or not (and the apologists can claim ratings have only been in 'steady decline' all they want), the quality of WWE HAS dipped dramatically in recent years, and this year alone has seen some of the worst booking decisions and storylines in recent memory. Which is proven by none other than....the ratings.

A lot of people only bring up the ratings so much because some of the more obsessive fans on forums refuse to accept that there's anything wrong with what they're watching now compared to how things used to be....if you watched Raw and hated it and someone else argued with you and claimed it was a good show...but the ratings suggested that Raw lost half a million viewers, then it's at least factual evidence that Raw actually WAS crap and you weren't just imagining it.

It's also interesting to speculate on what aspects of the shows work and what don't (by checking the ratings) because fact is, whilst a minority of people will still continute to defend WWE to the hilt and say 'the ratings don't matter to me!', many more people ARE tuning out completely on a regular basis and if nothing drastically changes for the better, then things will only get worse.

[Tango222]

I'm 100% sure that if Punk was doing good ratings, OP would be like "See? The man is great, numbers don't lie".

Dunno what obession your talking about. I guess disccusing ratings in RATINGS THREAD is now called obsession, whatever.

[Teh_TaKeR]

Very nice post OP. Agree 100%!

Originally Posted by Mr.Cricket

OP is only mad because Punk is not a draw.

Obvious troll is obvious.








Please come with something different and maybe you'll be taken serious.

So much blind hate on one person, blaming him for the overall lack of interest in the product is just dumb. It cannot be blamed on a single person, whether you dislike him or not.

[fabi1982]

Totally agree with OP and I read this several times in the ratings thread "it doesnt matter what happens on RAW there will always be x million viewers to watch the show" and it really is (except for some stars who show up like Rock, Undertaker, etc) and for the RTWM because all the old folks who watch wrestling twice a year will be interested again.

If they had put Cena in the one year title rain and give him only the second best spots bla bla it would be the same rating. Or if they had put Cena in the Punk spot and actually give him all the end segments and PPV closing matches, it would still be like this. Also if they had give Punk all the end segments and PPV closing matches. Or Del Rio or Ziggler, even Hornswaggle.

for me its a problem to get young people interested. Everyone can watch horror movies on Youtube or MMA events, real fighting, or other brutal stuff (and porn). So why watch wrestling which is like a Disney-for-men-show (and if it wouldn´t be PG they would have even lower ratings). Back in the 80/90 kids loved to watch wrestling because it was one of the only brutal things they could watch because their father loved wrestling. Today they can get there dose of brutality everywhere.

You even cant blame Vinni Mac, becaue wrestling itself isnt an atraction anymore, which it was 10-20 years ago, because our life changed with all the internet stuff. Kids dont want to wrestle in the backyard anymore, they want to play playstation/xbox360/whatever/watch porn because its cool and wrestling isnt cool anymore and nobody will change that, no Rock title rain, no Brock/Rock/Undertaker/Austin fatal four way title unification ironman match. It will be cool for the match itself, but thats it.

The faster you get this the better your entertainment in wrestling