Raw 8/20/12: Lesnar/Heyman open the show, AJ/Bryan/Kane, The Rebel respected?

[g-ice]

Wait till them vs Monday Night Football numbers (t)roll in

 

[thevarangian]

Post-big 4 PPV

in my little fantasy it's because everyone is tuning in to see Punk turn heel.

yup. makes perfect sense.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

It meant something when Cena was champ.

No it didn't. He hasn't had the title for 9 months and ain't shyt changed so what did he lose?

Belts mean nothing in the WWE thanks to shytty booking. Champs lose all the time for the fukk of it, no one really covets the titles, soap opera storylines are booked as more important than who's the champ. The only guy trying to fight to bring focus and prestige back to the WWE championship is painted as a heel.

Just awful.

 

[JMurder]

I don't know if you remember but Punk made Cena the number one contender under the condition that he bow down to him. Now I don't know about you but that's not something most people are gonna do willingly. So instead he went on a rant which was mostly true.

stop...you're not addressing anything I stated in my post. No...he wasn't supposed to bow down to Punk................so he had to bury him, the title, and basically every past champion that isn't John Cena?

If you look at every promo John's done, he's basically said the same thing...." it don't matter cause you're not John Cena....see you at the PPV."

And that rant that was "mostly true" was actually mostly pandering to the crowd. I addressed the part that was nonsensical....still waiting for your response to what I said

 

[R=G]

WWE Raw on Monday, August 20 the night after Summerslam scored a 3.14 rating for all three hours and 3.21 rating for the standard two hours. This was up from a 2.84 rating for all three hours last week and 2.93 rating for the standard two hours.

Despite the overall rating increasing 10 percent, Raw's key demographic ratings were flat or slightly down compared to last week's show.

- Raw averaged 4.48 million viewers, which is okay for the show after Summerslam. By comparison, last year's Raw after Summerslam averaged 5.05 million viewers for a two-hour show.

Raw followed an interesting viewership pattern with 4.35 million first hour viewers, which was easily the most of the three-hour era following Raw 1,000. Raw then peaked with 4.66 million second hour viewers. The third hour dipped to an average of 4.43 million viewers, which was within 100,000 viewers of the new first hour.

It appears viewers tuned in early for the immediate Summerslam fall-out, including Brock Lesnar's farewell, stayed tuned for Shawn Michaels's appearance addressing Triple H's teased retirement, and tuned out without an announced main event for the third hour.

- On cable TV Monday night, Raw ranked #4 in overall viewers behind NFL pre-season football on ESPN, "Pawn Stars" on History Channel, and "Major Crimes" on TNT. Raw also fell behind the season finale of "Love and Hip Atlanta" on VH1 among all adult viewers.

In the key demographics, Raw ranked #2 behind the NFL in adult males. Raw ranked #1 among younger male viewers.

 

[StatUS]

stop...you're not addressing anything I stated in my post. No...he wasn't supposed to bow down to Punk................so he had to bury him, the title, and basically every past champion that isn't John Cena?

If you look at every promo John's done, he's basically said the same thing...." it don't matter cause you're not John Cena....see you at the PPV."

And that rant that was "mostly true" was actually mostly pandering to the crowd. I addressed the part that was nonsensical....still waiting for your response to what I said

Umm, your whole post suggested that Cena somehow made himself the number one contender when it was Punk who made that decision.

The whole point of the promo was for Cena to tell Punk that demanding respect means nothing to him and to get it he has to beat Cena in his hometown for the belt.

The past victories over Cena don't matter because that's how the Es been booking Punk to still be lower on the card than Cena/Lesnar/HHH/Rock.

So now if he beats Cena in the main event at NOC then he will get that main slot and be cemented as the #1 guy going forward.

Like I said the only problem was Cena didn't go all "fukk you CM Chump you gotta beat me one on one in BAWSETAWN to get my respect bytch," is what's giving some on here problems.

To me none of this is not hard to process, this is wrestling not some Emmy award drama

 

[Da King]

HBGOAT's promo had the audience like the entire time


the emotion from the GOAT

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

So now if he beats Cena in the main event at NOC then he will get that main slot and be cemented as the #1 guy going forward.

What, do you actually think that this would happen if Punk were to win?

 

[KingDanz]

 

[Red Omega]

and the satellite interview with Shawn Michaels lost 198,000 viewers.

kliq

 

[CJ]

"The Divas Battle Royal to name a new #1 contender was the biggest loss of the show with 369000 viewers."

Not the milli I was hoping for but

 

[Swiggy]

Ted Turner stay winning

 

[Red Omega]

"The Divas Battle Royal to name a new #1 contender was the biggest loss of the show with 369000 viewers."

Not the milli I was hoping for but

we all gotta agree to turn the channel for the next diva seg

 

[Swiggy]

we all gotta agree to turn the channel for the next diva seg

I took a shyt during the Diva Hunger Games

 

[Red Omega]

I took a shyt during the Diva Hunger Games