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WWE News: RAW Holds 2-4 Spots, Audience Slightly Decreases (7/23/18)

Published

6 years ago

July 24, 2018

After last week’s post-Extreme Rules edition of Monday Night RAW saw a big increase in the ratings, the numbers are in for last night’s episode of the red brand and while there was a slight decrease in viewership, the show stayed highly ranked.

With the big announcement made by Stephanie McMahon of the WWE’s first all-women’s pay-per-view, Evolution, plus a main event that would determine Brock Lesnar’s challenger at SummerSlam, Monday Night RAW came in with a 2.779, a 3% decrease from last week’s 2.866. Here’s the last four weeks of ratings for the red brand:

July 2nd: 2.707
July 9th: 2.470
July 16th: 2.866
July 23rd: 2.779

As for the Top 150 Cable Rankings, RAW ranked at numbers two, three and four in the 18-49 demographic with the newest season of Love & Hip Hop ranking at number one yet again:

Love & Hip Hop Hollywood – VH1 – 1.05
Monday Night RAW (9PM Hour) – USA Network – 0.93
Monday Night RAW (10PM Hour) – USA Network – 0.93
Monday Night RAW (8PM Hour) – USA Network – 0.91
Great White Abyss – Discovery – 0.82

Source: Showbuzz Daily

EA’s Take: I’ll never understand why Love & Hip Hop continually comes in at number one, no matter what it’s beating out in the rankings, but I digress. What I find most interesting this week is how the 8:00 hour comes in behind 9:00 and 10:00 for RAW. Stephanie’s announcement was promoted to death ahead of time and we all had a pretty strong indication of what it was going to be, so is this an indictment on women’s wrestling? I’d say likely not. It’s a little hard for anyone reading this to believe, but the amount of people who are tuned into the backstage ongoings/rumors/speculation and such is far less than the casuals who tune into RAW. I think that is illustrated here. Plus, you had a main event featuring the top guy of the red brand (don’t @ me, Roman is RAW’s top guy) with SummerSlam implications that had been promoted for a full week. Also, I’m tired of people telling me that Ronda Rousey appearances or absences is the reason for RAW’s ratings increasing or decreasing. It doesn’t work that way anymore. She may draw multiple millions of YouTube views, but nobody is tuning into RAW specifically for her. How do I know this? Look at last week’s show, where the hour her segment was in drew less of a rating than the other two. STOP TREATING RATINGS LIKE IT’S THE ATTITUDE ERA!

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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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