Raw rating lowest since July 2012

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Originally Posted by The CyNick Rollins singles push started after 30. He won the title at 31. He's been champ since then. Sounds long term to me. Lesnar-Taker has been a long term program (30 to now) HHH v Rock had seeds planted at 31. Rumor is it culminates at 32. If not Rollins-HHH has been simmering and is clearly a direction eventually. The whole US challenge has been a long term storyline that I think will start a new (day) chapter on Sunday. Reigns-Wyatt was a long term program There's a difference between not liking the current programs and saying they have no direction.

Well that's completely missed the point of what I said.

I didn't once say they didn't have long term plans. At all. To the audience, even if they do, they clearly aren't hooked by the directions they've been going, because the numbers say so. That's it, the crux of my point in a nutshell.

Reigns/Wyatt has been ice cold for the vast majority of its run. Taker/Lesnar 3 has been promoted poorly considering the interest after the Summerslam finish. Rollins/HHH might be going somewhere eventually but they're doing such a balls up job with Rollins that people aren't itching for something to happen on that front by any means. You have no hot top heels and no babyface that feels on the cusp of a breakthrough, and for all the directions they've taken, they've bred a malaise in the audience that has resulted in the numbers falling to the lowest in 18 years. If you feel differently, I'm happy you're enjoying Raw.

I love wrestling and will watch it forever, but the television show is flat, and I'm not suggested they get crazy reactionary, I'm just saying that doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results is a well known definition, and it isn't of genius.