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WWE News: RAW Viewership Continues Trending Up For Post-MITB Episode

Published

6 years ago

June 19, 2018

For the third straight week now, the audience for WWE’s flagship program, Monday Night RAW, continued its trend in the right direction. While the Memorial Day edition of the red brand saw the program pull its second lowest viewership in the show’s history, things have only headed up since then as the Money In The Bank pay-per-view approached, which took place this past Sunday.

This week’s episode saw an increase from last week’s 2.731, up to a 2.903 last night, which is good for a 6.3% rise. It’s also a 16.3% increase since the aforementioned Memorial Day episode of the red brand as we roll into the Summer months. This also put last night’s RAW at the number 2-4 spots in the Top 150 Cable Rankings for the 18-49 demographic, despite seeing some more competition from the FIFA World Cup, plus the MTV Movie & TV Awards that were shown on a variety of Viacom networks including MTV, VH1 and CMT among others. Number one in this demographic was yet again Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta.

Here’s a look at the last four weeks of cable viewership for RAW:

May 28th: 2.495
June 4th: 2.526
June 11th: 2.731
June 18th: 2.903

Source: Showbuzz Daily

EA’s Take: More good news this week for RAW, however I’ll be interested to see what happens next week now that everyone knows what happened at Money In The Bank. I think you could make a case that people tuned in so they could get that information, especially since there were no matches that had a lot of time to be advertised in advance and pull interest, but on the other hand it could also be that we’re inching closer and closer to one of WWE’s most anticipated pay-per-views and essentially its “Summer WrestleMania”, SummerSlam on August 19th. I was a little preoccupied for the first half of RAW with a business phone call, but I must give credit where it’s due because last night’s edition was easily the best effort we’ve seen in a number of weeks from the red brand. The real puzzler of late has been SmackDown Live recently, so I definitely want to see what kind of an audience tonight’s episode can bring in as WWE continues to see very little competition from the sports world as the NBA, NHL and NFL are obviously all finished up now. There’s still Major League Baseball, but it’s no secret that sport has seen dying interest in the past 10-15 years.

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AEW Coverage

Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

Published

5 months ago

November 27, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Did your picks win points?

The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!

Here are your Gold League standings!

Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
Rush: 0-1, 0 points
Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points

Here are your Blue League standings!

Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete

My Thoughts:

Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.

Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.

In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.

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AEW Coverage

AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

5 months ago

November 22, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”

Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:

Blue League

Bryan Danielson
Andrade El Idolo
Brody King
Claudio Castagnoli
Daniel Garcia
Eddie Kingston

Gold League

Jon Moxley
Swerve Strickland
Rush
Mark Briscoe
Jay Lethal
Jay White

Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:

Every match has a 20 minute time limit
The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action

Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!

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