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CaptainCrunch · 08-28-2018, 04:18 PM

Fair enough on the merchandising, I was using info from earlier this year.

just looking at the Raw numbers. The Raw after Reign's title win garnered slightly over 3 million viewers. For the Main Event with Balor, dropped below 3 million viewers, so fans turned off the music for the last hour of Raw which included Reigns in his first title defense.

Raws viewership overall has really been plummeting since about April this year from about 3.2 million down to about 2.8ish. The night after Summer Slam, which featured a major title change from a champion that's hated and they started out strong, but lost their viewership as they went to the main event match.

While this is an indictment overall of the WWE product, Reigns didn't provide an excitment bump from winning the title, what it comes across as is that the fans tuned in, heard about the main event, watched the stuff and when they came to the main matchups switched to reruns of the Golden Girls.

08-28-2018, 04:18 PM	#94
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	Fair enough on the merchandising, I was using info from earlier this year. just looking at the Raw numbers. The Raw after Reign's title win garnered slightly over 3 million viewers. For the Main Event with Balor, dropped below 3 million viewers, so fans turned off the music for the last hour of Raw which included Reigns in his first title defense. Raws viewership overall has really been plummeting since about April this year from about 3.2 million down to about 2.8ish. The night after Summer Slam, which featured a major title change from a champion that's hated and they started out strong, but lost their viewership as they went to the main event match. While this is an indictment overall of the WWE product, Reigns didn't provide an excitment bump from winning the title, what it comes across as is that the fans tuned in, heard about the main event, watched the stuff and when they came to the main matchups switched to reruns of the Golden Girls. __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!