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WWE News: RAW Rating Sees Minor Decrease In Ratings & Top 5 (8/6/18)

Published

6 years ago

August 7, 2018

With less than two weeks remaining until WWE’s SummerSlam on August 19th, Monday Night RAW emanated from Jacksonville, Florida last night, looking to continue inching the ratings up after last week which saw a 3% increase from the week prior.

On a night where Ronda Rousey had her first match on RAW, the numbers are now in and despite the big main event, ratings did take a slight downturn. Last night’s RAW comes in with a 2.804, a 3.3% decrease from last week. Here’s a look at the last four weeks of ratings for the red brand:

July 16th: 2.866
July 23rd: 2.779
July 30th: 2.901
August 6th: 2.804

Monday Night RAW also took a slight hit in the Cable Top 150 Rankings for the 18-49 demographic, dropping out of number one and occupying three of the top five spots:

Love & Hip Hop Hollywood – VH1 – 1.00
TIE – Monday Night RAW (8 & 9PM Hour) – USA Network – 0.94
Monday Night RAW (10PM Hour) – USA Network – 0.91
Teen Mom II: Behind The Screams – MTV – 0.69

Source: Showbuzz Daily

EA’s Take: As is the case most weeks, it’s not always particularly easy to tell what causes a difference in the ratings for RAW, especially these small changes. I know many people are under the impression that Ronda Rousey’s first match on Monday night might have made a big difference, but it just doesn’t work that way anymore. Nobody’s tuning in specifically just for one person, not on cable anyways. That’s what YouTube is for! The most sense I can make of the slight decrease this week would be this…last week was BRUTAL outside of the angle with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman. I mean really, last week’s RAW felt like a complete task to watch and I’m generally the guy who tries to stay positive about it. So my thinking is that may have turned some people off for this week’s episode. I’d expect that to turn right back around quickly however, as next Monday is the go-home show for the red brand before SummerSlam.

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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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