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WWE News: RAW’s Audience Sees Another Drop, Moves Back Up In Top 5 (12/3/18)

Published

5 years ago

December 4, 2018

A look at last night’s ratings for WWE RAW!

Following last week’s widely criticized (and justifiably so) episode of WWE’s Monday Night RAW saw a drop in ratings and the weekly Cable Top 150 Rankings (see that here), last night’s edition at least gave a bit better of a show for the viewing public. Does that translate in the ratings?

Numbers for last night’s edition of the red brand are now available and there’s a big drop again, going down to a 2.286. This is a decrease from last week of 3.5%, meaning the show has lost over 8% of its viewership from two weeks ago. Here’s a look at the last four weeks of ratings for RAW:

November 12th: 2.449
November 19th: 2.493
November 26th: 2.368
December 3rd: 2.286

However, in another case of bad news/good news, Monday Night RAW was able to jump back up a spot in the Cable Top 150 Rankings for the 18-49 demographic, although they maintained their same share from last week. With the red brand also occupying the number six and seven spots, here is last night’s top five:

Monday Night Football – ESPN – 3.62
Monday Night Kickoff – ESPN – 1.46
SportsCenter (12 AM) – ESPN – 1.21
Monday Night RAW (9PM) – USA Network – 0.85
Love & Hip Hop – VH1 – 0.84

EA’s Take: Well folks, more proof that the ratings mean absolutely ‘Dick Cheney’, for the most part. I’d like for anybody to just go look back at the Monday Night Football ratings for the past few weeks because they’re just as up-and-down as WWE’s. Granted, the numbers are bigger, but they’re increases and decreases all the same. Yet, for some reason the sky is only ever falling for the WWE, right? So while that very vocal minority who always wants to boycott or protest is always the loudest, just follow the 18-49 numbers. They’re consistent EVERY week. Ratings are not though and can be affected by so many other factors, especially today, that they aren’t a good gauge anymore. For some reason, all the curmudgeons still seem to use them as a point in their own narratives though, so keep doing you!

Do this week’s ratings reflect how much you enjoyed RAW? Let us know on social media @theCHAIRSHOTcom and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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!

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!