I suspect it will next week. It barely was above 2 million this week in the 3rd hour.

Note the sharp decline (again) from Hr 1 to Hr 3.

Also, this is the 2nd lowest rating for RAW in 2019, ahead of only last week.

Also, the 5th lowest rated Raw of all time.

Phew. Crisis averted. Time to relax, guys.

If CyNick were still alive he would have made that same post with 0 sarcasm.

Great talent working great matches every week. Great time to be a fan.

I also wish Destor was still here to tell us we're all dumb marks and Vince is a genius who's framed the office as the heels to pique our interest... despite nobody watching.

Destor coming back would be a good way to ensure I take a prolonged break from TPWW.

CyNick would be praising their strategy

I always enjoy when people go on and on about how 'ratings don't matter to WWE' and then every time ratings drop WWE 'all of a sudden, for no reason' decides to make some big change or throw a ton of people on RAW.

Hmmm!

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I love Destor. INCREDIBLY knowledgable about wrestling. But his love of the smell of his own farts became a bit too much to deal with.

And that's why you got rid of him.

My proudest scalping.

You can barely count the number of stars WWE has made in probably the last decade. And you only become a star through two processes.

You either debut straight into the main event and so never get sucked into the black hole that is the WWE midcard (Styles, Charlotte, and The Shield).....and even then Ambrose eventually got sucked into the midcard)

Or you become a star in spite of the booking, rather than because of it as a poster child for fan backlash (Bryan and Becky).

If you don't enter the main roster as a massive deal and go immediately into world title contention, it's 99% likely that you're done right out of the gate.

tbh pretty sure Destor would too

slight rise of 100k for SD

Why did everyone turn on Destor? What did I miss? I liked the guy.

Great talent working the same match every week.

Nobody turned on Destor, he just got really unhappy posting here IIRC

Destor knew a lot about the business since he's supposedly worked the indies (but he never disclosed his ring name)

But he often times seemed like he was just trying to be the forum contrarian.

In Destor’s defense, this place does suck a lot of the time.

Of course, CSL was also in the business and was kinda similar in that he'd be one of the few people defending WWE amongst a sea of negativity.

Maybe there's something to be said about how people in the business invariably view the company differently than most of us because they're focused on more than just "was the show good?" Or more specifically...they have a different way of interpreting if a show was good.

Like that Al Snow shoot I reference all the time where he asks what the best match of WM3 was and when the guy says Savage/Steamboat, he was like "fuck no, Hogan and Andre sold the tickets and therefore it was the best match"

I'd be surprised if Destor thought the current product was good at all tbh

Between here, twitter, etc I have never seen so many people say they are are fed up, not going to watch anymore or just about not going to watch if it continues. Even an account I follow on insta that gets pics of the sets for WM/RR before they leak said they are done.

If you read a lot of comments on WWE's tweets/posts on fb too it's a big trend lately as well.

Note: I try to never read comments on FB posts in general.

There’s a logic to that though. I can understand that perspective without having worked a lick.

I didn’t really get Destor as a WWE apologist, honestly. He seemed more critical of the dirt sheets, which could be a guarded business thing. But mainly he just looked at metrics and made sense a lot of the time. Raw was still doing comparatively well on cable. I’d like to think he’d look at them sliding at a faster rate than other properties and call a spade a spade.

The only WWE apologists I’ve really really seen on here are CyNick and more recently STD for some reason.

Also for what it's worth with Destor - I don't even think it was a TPWW-exclusive thing. He'd mentioned that he also eliminated nearly all of his social media presence and was just spending less time on the internet in general.

I like to think he is living in a cabin with a corgi, miles away from other civilization

Sounds good to me, honestly. More power to the guy.

Find it a bit interesting that the show went up in viewers but the Youtube views took a massive hit going by Most Watched.

Last week was 1 million & 690k for top videos while this week was 680k & 480k going by the posts.

Could just be a simple side effect of them delaying uploading videos or worse, people starting to tune out on not even bothering to watch clips anymore.

The “hardcores” are rallying behind WWE. This is their fan movement pushing those ratings up.

They aren't delayed much, re: YT vids

They just wait until Midnight Eastern to upload now instead of during the show itself, which I don't know why they were ever doing in the first place lol.

Pretty excited about this week's ratings. Don't the taped UK shows typically do a little worse? They're also coming off a shitty week last week.

My guess is the show drops this week. I would guess 1.9 - 2 million.

Taped show + big ratings drops lately + just wasn't very good overall.

RAW went slightly up

Either people were really bored on Monday or someone in WWE sold their soul to somehow get a taped show that wasn't good to actually go up in numbers when the opposite usually happens.

Yeah, really too bad in this instance....we need the show to pretty much crash under 2 million solidly for a bit so WWE feels like they have to make real, substantial changes...not just put a band-aid on larger problems.

Boo. I want this bullshit to crash and burn.

I mean it is, but I mean without reprieve.