Highest ever rating for a wrestling TV show?

[The Mackem]

What company was it for, what show, when and what happened for it to be so highly rated?

[McLegend]

I think it's Raw I just don't know when and what happened.

So yeah I am not really helping that much.

[McLegend]

Acutally I can help a little check this

http://1softball.com/WBS/WrestlingBookingSheet245.htm

That was has of 1999. So it very well could have been broken by now.

[McLegend]

Also this tells you. Just scroll all the way down for the answer

http://www.wrestleview.com/info/faq/wwe.shtml

[John la Rock]

I figured it was "This is your life"

[Loose Cannon]

A WWE Show in the 80's might hold the record. I'll check later.

[Savio]

I think its 8.2 hold on I'll check

[Savio]

Raw: <TABLE borderColor=#808080 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=280 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD>May 10, 1999






</TD><TD>8.1






</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Saturday Night M.E.
<TABLE borderColor=#808080 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=280 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD>March 14, 1987






</TD><TD>11.6






</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Other:
<TABLE borderColor=#808080 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD>WWE The War to Settle the Score






</TD><TD>February 15, 1985






</TD><TD>9.1






</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Highest PPV Buyrate:
<TABLE borderColor=#808080 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD>WrestleMania III






</TD><TD>10.2






</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Undertakers Birthday:
<TABLE borderColor=#808080 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=400 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD>The Undertaker

</TD><TD>March 24, 1962

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[Gerard]

11.6 holee shit :eek:

[Loose Cannon]

Yep, told ya. During Mania 3.

[The Mackem]

How does it work again? 1 point equals 400 000 or something? I can't remember how it's turned into real terms. Plus how can we be sure that the WWE didn't make the figure larger than it actually was?

[The Mackem]

Oh yeah and thanks for Undertaker's birthday Savior, that was a nice bonus right there.

[Xero]

Plus how can we be sure that the WWE didn't make the figure larger than it actually was?
They don't release the ratings, Nielsen Media does, so unless the WWE has someone working in Nielsen Media, they can't fake it.

[Dave Youell]

No Wonder Taker never jobs at mania, it's alway within weeks of his Bday.

Vince: So Mark what would you like for your Birthday this year?
Taker: Not to job at Mania

[Savio]

Yep, told ya. During Mania 3.:lol: you didn't even look at my post did you?

[Ruien]

Acutally I can help a little check this

http://1softball.com/WBS/WrestlingBookingSheet245.htm

That was has of 1999. So it very well could have been broken by now.

That heat does better than Smackdown now a days.

[Loose Cannon]

:lol: you didn't even look at my post did you?

Yes I did. March 14, 1987 = During Wrestlemania 3. Meaning during the time Mania 3 angles were running.

[KayfabeMan]

Hey WWE "wrestling" marks, take that. Hard.

You'll never see ratings like those again, cyclical business or not.

[KayfabeMan]

Also, I just read this on another site - not sure if it's totally accurate or not, but I do assume so, since the article it was in was a very recent one, and is accurate on other things:

"A ratings point represents 1,096,000 households, or one per cent of the estimated 109.6 million TV homes in the United States. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show."

[tucsonspeed6]

I think I remember reading something about an 11 pointer segment in the Death of WCW, but I don't recall it being in the 80's.

[Lara Emily]

Keep in mind that SNME I believe was on NBC at the time, a channel that reaches far more people than USA, SPike, UPN etc...

[Pepsi Man]

Keep in mind that SNME I believe was on NBC at the time, a channel that reaches far more people than USA, SPike, UPN etc...
Yup. There's always been interest in the WWE (or any wrestling company) becoming affiliated with a major broadcast network. (of course I'm talking about interest on the wrestling organizations' parts, not necessarily the parts of the broadcast networks.)

[Gertner]

I'd liekt hat