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WWE News: RAW Audience Gets Big Increase, Moves Up In Top 5 (12/17/18)

Published

5 years ago

December 18, 2018

How did last night’s WWE RAW ratings turn out?

If ratings is your gauge for how well WWE programming is doing then the sky certainly has been falling of late, as RAW has seen three consecutive weeks of dropping numbers heading into last night’s post-TLC edition. Following a pay-per-view and with Vince McMahon announced to appear, would this be the night the rating goes back up?

Monday’s viewership has been released and last night’s show saw a pretty dramatic rise with a 2.547, up 16.1% from last week and its best since the October 22nd episode. Here’s a look at the last four weeks of ratings for the red brand:

November 26th: 2.368
December 3rd: 2.286
December 10th: 2.194
December 17th: 2.547

In the ever important Cable Top 150 Rankings for the 18-49 demographic, numbers have also dipped just slightly over the past couple of weeks, but not nearly to the extent that the ratings have. After one week down at number five, the best hour of RAW this week at number four, while also occupying spots five and six. Here is this week’s top five:

Monday Night Football – ESPN – 3.95
SportsCenter (12AM) – ESPN – 1.42
Monday Night Kickoff – ESPN – 1.27
Monday Night RAW (8PM) – USA Network – 0.93
Monday Night RAW (9PM) – USA Network – 0.87

EA’s Take: And that’s all it took, folks. I saw a lot of pissing and moaning on social media (as I always do) about The McMahon’s putting themselves front and center again. Well guess what? It worked for the time being. I’ve been saying it all along, people need to relax and just wait until after the holidays. Go back and read any of my last few reports on the ratings, it’s there, I said it. So what did The McMahon’s announce last night? Basically, they came out and said, “Relax, here’s what’s coming”. They didn’t really change anything, they merely gave you a small sniff of what their plans are for January. Will this satisfy people? Of course not, but when the build to WrestleMania begins all this will just be a speck in the rear-view and the company knows it.

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!