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DeMarco’s WWE Raw Rating Analysis (5/13/19): With No NBA, Raw Dominates Top 5

Still worried about Raw’s rating? Don’t be, they dominated this week. (You can still think it sucks, but ratings won’t support your narrative.)

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Greg DeMarco chimes in with your WWE Raw Rating Analysis for the May 13 episode, as Raw returns to form in dominating the Top 5.

The WWE Raw Rating is in for the May 13 edition, and it’s a return to form for the longest running weekly episodic show in history. Let’s start with the hourly breakdown:

  • Hour 1: 2.576 million viewers, .90 rating in the important 18-49 demographic (#1 ranked hour)
  • Hour 2: 2.391 million, .81 in the 18-49 demo (#2 ranked hour)
  • Hour 3: 2.080 million, .70 in the 18-49 demo (#3 ranked hour)=

For comparison, here is last week:

  • Hour 1: 2.468 million viewers, .79 rating in the important 18-49 demographic (#4 ranked hour)
  • Hour 2: 2.24 million, .73 in the 18-49 demo (#6 ranked hour)
  • Hour 3: 2.024 million, .63 in the 18-49 demo (#7 ranked hour)

(Available via ShowbuzzDaily)

But what does the WWE Raw Rating really mean, Greg?

What do I keep telling you? What matters most? THE TOP 5. With no NBA competition, WWE occupied the Top 3 spots this week, and saw increases in viewership and key demographic rating. Last week they had tough NBA competition, meaning less people watched Raw. But YouTube viewership went UP last week, meaning people cared about Raw, they just watched it in a different manner. Rounding out the Top 5 were Love & Hip Hop In Atlanta 8 (Raw’s archenemy!) and Vanderpump Rules, which Google tells me is a Real Housewives spinoff. I’ve never heard of it–I’ll have to ask Miranda. Or Tunney.

WWE is still money on television. We tend to look at ratings in one week snapshots, because we live in a culture of instant gratification. We’ve literally developed instincts to do that, but that just misguides our energy. Remember, the Top 5 is the most accurate evaluation of Raw’s performance because it measures Raw in the most important way: against shows competing for the same viewers, on the same night, at the same times, on the same medium. That is what matters to TV and advertising executives, not Raw in 2019 compared to Raw 20 years ago. Remember, you can still think Raw sucks, just know that you can’t use the rating to support your narrative.

We’ll have 24-hour YouTube numbers on Wednesday, and we’ll see how it compares.


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

What a start to the tournament!

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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 announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

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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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