It's either the live sex celebration or this is your life.
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Which is the highest rated segment in history of WWE?
Can anyone answer this?
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For him,the question would be changed-Highest rated non-Rock segment?LolIt's either the live sex celebration or this is your life.
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He is good with facts though his analysis is biased.But it is biased towards just one wrestler.
This is your life OR Undertaker vs Stone Cold - RAW 1999.
This is your life. But i think the highest rated show (not raw or smackdown) was a saturday night main event with Hogan/Andre 2.
Isn't it that 6 man tag in 1999 with Austin, Rock, Taker, HHH, Shane and Vince? Had something like 10million plus viewers iirc.
Hogan/Andre was seen by 33m people, the most watched wrestling show in history. Make me think what ratings they would have got if raw was around in the 80's.This is your life. But i think the highest rated show (not raw or smackdown) was a saturday night main event with Hogan/Andre 2.
That was the highest rated RAW ever.Isn't it that 6 man tag in 1999 with Austin, Rock, Taker, HHH, Shane and Vince? Had something like 10million plus viewers iirc.
I don't know about highest rated, but the most significant was Mick Foley winning the title on Raw in January 1999. I can't remember an exact figure, but I remember WCW Nitro spoiled the result (because Nitro was live, Raw was taped, so they knew the results before hand) and they said that Foley won the title on Raw, and millions of people changed the channel from Nitro to Raw to see that. Many consider that segment to be the beginning of the end for WCW and the Monday Night Wars.
What about the Smackdown before Survivor Series 2001?
Wwe themselves admitted that the foley title win had 600,000 viewers switch to raw after the spoiler was given on nitro.
Happy 13th Birthday(Today)for the iconic "Rock - This is Your Life" segment. A magic moment that will live forever.
As per wrestling news world, the highest ever rated episode (8.1) was May 10th, 1999 with Shawn Michaels as Commisioner and guest referee in the main event for the night which was Undertaker, Triple H, Shane vs Rock, Austin, Vince but they could be wrong.
What is Dave Meltzer's thoughts on this?
The highest rated RAW segment is 'This Is Your Life'
Highest rated match on RAW is Austin Vs Taker.
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Highest rated match on RAW is Austin Vs Taker.
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.Bill Banks Talks About The Highest Rated Wrestling Segment
The following is an excerpt from Bill Banks' Myspace blog. For those of you who don't know who Bill Banks is, he is a photographer for TNA. He is a genius who tagged a few segments along to Vince Russo.
THIS IS YOUR LIFE:
One of my proudest moments in the wrestling business was coming up with the idea for the highest-rated cable segment in the history of wrestling—the 1999 "This Is Your Life" with The Rock and Mick Foley.
At the time, The Rock and Foley had combined forces as "The Rock N' Sock Connection" tag team. The dynamic between them was that The Rock was too cool for a slob like Foley, but The Rock still had a soft spot for him. In turn, Foley did everything he could to impress The Rock and get on his good side.
When I was providing ideas to Russo and Ferrara on a weekly basis, one of the things I did was scan the TV Guide, reading up on plot summaries for upcoming movies and television shows.
One day, I came across the lineup for a "This Is Your Life" marathon of the old 1950s show. It gave me the idea to have Foley and Rock have their own. Knowing Russo was a fan of old television shows, I typed out the idea and emailed it to him—Mick would celebrate The Rock's life by reuniting him with his former girlfriend, a grade-school teacher, his coach, and some others.
Russo loved it and decided to go with it. I'll never forget watching it from backstage while it was happening in the ring—not only were the fans loving it, but so was everyone in the back. That is, except for Vince McMahon.
The entire segment went for something like 21 minutes, which McMahon was livid about. Even though we had overtaken WCW in the ratings war, they were still competition and McMahon didn't want to give them an inch. He thought it was too much time to devote to a "talking segment" and told Russo and Ferrara to never let it happen again.
So, after watching my idea unfold in the ring, it was a letdown afterwards to see that McMahon didn't like it. Russo and Ferrara were disappointed with Vince's reaction as well.
The next day was the SmackDown tapings. I got a ride from Dr. Tom Prichard from the hotel to the arena and a few minutes after arriving, I saw Russo come out of McMahon's office. "Go look at the door" he told me.
By that, he meant the production office door where the ratings from the previous night's RAW were posted for everyone to see, broken down by each segment. Next to the "This Is Your Life" segment were the numbers 8.4, and someone had circled it with a pen and wrote "Highest Ever."
I stood there for a few seconds letting it all sink in. When I turned around, Ferrara was behind me smiling—"Ya, nobody wants to watch those talking segments," he joked. I don't think McMahon ever apologized or even congratulated Russo or Ferrara.
Well, this is the highest rated match in the history.Isn't it that 6 man tag in 1999 with Austin, Rock, Taker, HHH, Shane and Vince? Had something like 10million plus viewers iirc.
Vince thought 21 minutes was too long. Now every RAW opens with a 20 minute talking segment.
To throw a spanner in the works The Rock is quoted in an interview on YouTube saying Mick Foley came up with the original idea to do This is your life.
No, it's correct, but it wasn't because of anything particularly special going on on Raw that night-- Nitro had the week off for whatever reason, so you had pretty much 70-80% (some Nitro diehards I'm sure didn't bother watching WWF) of the entire wrestling audience (which was maybe 11% of the entire television audience at that time) tuned into one show as opposed to being bisected.As per wrestling news world, the highest ever rated episode (8.1) was May 10th, 1999 with Shawn Michaels as Commisioner and guest referee in the main event for the night which was Undertaker, Triple H, Shane vs Rock, Austin, Vince but they could be wrong.
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