- As noted, the May 20th WWE RAW did a 2.97 cable rating for 4.32 million viewers.
In the segment breakdown, Chris Jericho and The Miz vs. Fandango and Wade Barrett lost 360,000 viewers. Sheamus vs. Titus O'Neil gained 206,000, which is a very good gain for a match like that. Paul Heyman introducing Curtis Axel gained 365,000 viewers. The rest of that segment with Triple H coming out gained 13,000 viewers at 9pm for a 3.10 quarter rating.
Big E Langston vs. Alberto Del Rio and Layla vs. AJ Lee lost 47,000 viewers but that could be considered a success. Cody Rhodes vs. Zack Ryder and Ryback's appearance lost 358,000 viewers. Kofi Kingston, Kane and Daniel Bryan vs. The Shield in their lengthy match gained 290,000 viewers for a 3.03 quarter rating.
Randy Orton vs. Jack Swagger gained 237,000 viewers. The main event with Triple H vs. Curtis Axel gained 551,000 viewers for a 3.44 quarter rating in the overrun.
curtis axel = ratings?
Backstage Reason For The Changes to the John Cena vs. Ryback Match at Payback
What does Vince want from this?
- On Monday's Raw, WWE changed the Payback match between John Cena and Ryback from am ambulance match to a Three Stages of Hell match, which features: a Lumberjack Match, a Tables Match and an Ambulance Match. The reason that the change was made was because Vince McMahon wants to do something epic with John Cena, something that can be viewed as a memorable point in his career.
At this time the booking was not done to prolong the Ryback vs. Cena feud, but WWE creative doesn't have much lined up as far as long term plans go for Cena.
Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter via rajah.com
At this time the booking was not done to prolong the Ryback vs. Cena feud, but WWE creative doesn't have much lined up as far as long term plans go for Cena.
Final number- 2.82
Hour 1 - 3.993 million
Hour 2 - 3.950 million
Hour 3 - 3.891 million
Ryback has been booked horribly. Not even a big fan of him but dude caught on with fans and they've damaged the character so much. They put him in matches and feuds where he couldn't go over. That was dumb. Until WM was over, they should've kept him US/IC/upper mid-card level, where he could continuously go over, without shoving him into main events.
He went from a face monster who always got his ass kicked to a coward heel.
yep, shyt is really tragic when you think about, they really could've had something there with Ryback, I swear us TSCer's on WWE booking commitee would make this wrestling shyt near Attitude Era levels of epicnessRyback has been booked horribly. Not even a big fan of him but dude caught on with fans and they've damaged the character so much. They put him in matches and feuds where he couldn't go over. That was dumb. Until WM was over, they should've kept him US/IC/upper mid-card level, where he could continuously go over, without shoving him into main events.
He went from a face monster who always got his ass kicked to a coward heel.
breh, where you go to watch Full NXT shows? i dont see it on youtube or maybe im searching wrong9 PM gain and overrun gain, respectively.
I just watched this week's NXT, and WWE needs to stop screwing around and call Bray Wyatt up already. He had nothing more than a decent TV match with Corey Graves, but everything he did was crisp, effective, and went toward putting over his character. From the entrance, to the music, to the in-ring, and even the promo he had before his match, he has it all.
WWE'll fukk it up, of course.
Graves looks good as well. Good promo before the match, and he has a character that seems to be a cross between face CM Punk and a face version of Jeff Hardy's darker WWE/TNA Immortal character, which could get over huge. Not quite sold on his in-ring, though. Anything that I should watch to convince me?
breh, where you go to watch Full NXT shows? i dont see it on youtube or maybe im searching wrong
Also, guys whatever happened to Taylor Wilde from TNA?
heard she retired 2 years ago but why? she was a pawg and the next trish
I forgot all about Taylor Wilde