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Monday's episode of WWE RAW, with Vince McMahon featured throughout the show and no NFL competition, drew 3.575 million viewers. This is up 1% from last week's 3.536 million viewers.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.707 million viewers, the second hour drew 3.516 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.503 million viewers.
RAW was #1 for the night in viewership and #2 for the night in the 18-49 demographic, behind Love & Hip-Hop.
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For some reference, same 1st show last year had around 200k more viewers. The 1% increase is a lot lower than the 10% boost prediction due to the end of Monday Night Football season. Also a possible sign that Vince's drawing power is slowly dropping from this feud.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Some additional RAW ratings notes from our Paul Fontaine: “January 2015 was down 10% overall from January 2014. December 2015 was the 13th consecutive month that RAW ratings were down from the same month the previous year and they are well on their way to making it 14 months in a row. This is the longest streak like this since October 2006-June 2008, when they dropped 21 consecutive months. For the record, they were averaging between 3.15 and 3.95 ratings points at that time, about 35% higher than the current rating average.”
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More on the ratings itself and general decline.
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Originally Posted by Observer
TNA Wrestling's debut on POP TV Tuesday night brought in 255,000 viewers for the first airing of the show and 90,000 viewers for the immediate replay.
For a comparison, during November on Destination America (in 57 million homes as compared to POP TV's 72 million), the show averaged 244,000 for the first run episodes and 84,000 for the replay for shows taped months earlier as opposed to the same day with promises of a new start and the ending of a several month long World title tournament.
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For some reference, TNA's debut on Destination America had around 359k viewers watching. 30% down overall in viewers even though they are in around 20% more homes with POP TV. The final show on Destination America also had more viewers than the debut on POP not counting the replays.
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Originally Posted by ProWrestlingSheet
As we previously reported, Storm was never locked down to a long term deal during his two appearances on WWE programming — and James’ former employer desperately wanted him back.
Sources close to the situation tell us after months of negotiations, WWE was only willing to offer him a deal that would bring Storm less than $100K a year. TNA, on the other hand, was offering 2 1/2 times more than that. Plus, he’d get a portion of merchandise sales for the 2-year contract.
Even better, we’re told his new deal would be guaranteed money — he’d still get paid in full even if TNA suddenly went out of business — and the door was left open by WWE officials for a future return.
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Konnor is out with a jaw injury, according to PWinsider.com. The injury is believed to be a dislocation. No word on when he will be returning to action.
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Originally Posted by ProWrestlingSheet
Another wrestler could soon fall victim to The Bullet Club exodus from NJPW … Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Bad Luck Fale is in the midst of renegotiating his contract.
Sources close to the wrestler tell us Fale’s deal with New Japan Pro Wrestling is up at the end of the month and he’s looking for some changes to his current agreement.
Our sources were tight lipped on whether Bad Luck has had any discussions with WWE at this point, but there’s a good chance considering he’s a founding member of the Bullet Club.
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Confirms rumors of Bad Luck Fale also possibility leaving NJPW.
Some other sheet news includes:
- According to a report from Tokyo Sports, Nakamura is expected to be leaving NJPW after the end of this month. Either NJPW wasn't able to give a good counter offer or plans changed enough for Nakamura to drop the IC title a lot soon than was predicted. https://twitter.com/enuhito_eng/stat...33522071535616
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Heath Slater's match this week on RAW already tied the amount of matches he wrestled on RAW in 2015. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...tch_on_raw_as/
- In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Mania 31 ended up being a curse for everyone who won or retained a belt since they all got hurt during the year and all could end up missing Mania 32. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...nia_31_and_by/
- In a third "WWE Did You Know" type fact, this week's RAW was the 17th anniversary of both the Finger Poke of Doom and Mick Foley's WWE title victory.