Official Wrasslin' Thread (renamed to reflect the discussion) (14 Viewers)

AEW Dynamite outdrew RAW in the key 18-49 demographic for the first time. If you don't think hot-shotting title defenses is in some way related to that, well...
Dynamite drew a rating of 0.52 in the 18-49 demographic. Do you know what rating last season's MNF debut did in that demographic? 3.62. That's 7 times more than Dynamite and they are in direct opposition to Raw. But yeah, go ahead and keep thinking that the WWE is more worried about AEW than MNF on this very night.
 
Dynamite drew a rating of 0.52 in the 18-49 demographic. Do you know what rating last season's MNF debut did in that demographic? 3.62. That's 7 times more than Dynamite and they are in direct opposition to Raw. But yeah, go ahead and keep thinking that the WWE is more worried about AEW than MNF on this very night.

RAW won't come close to the NFL's number, either. Meltzer is reporting that the WWE is changing things b/c of the AEW number.
 
WWE’s competition is AEW not MNF
Their competition is anyone or anything who attempts to take away their target demographic away from them. That includes the NFL. Just think back to all the time they did big swerves, reveals, etc. at approximately the same time as kickoffs or halftime. Those things weren't done just by coincidence.
 
RAW won't come close to the NFL's number, either. Meltzer is reporting that the WWE is changing things b/c of the AEW number.
Of course, Raw won't come close to MNF's numbers. No one expects them to. The point is that MNF is direct fierce competition for the 18-49 demographic.
The title match between Orton and Lashley was originally planned for Extreme Rules but it's being reported that the WWE moved it up to tonight on Raw because they wanted to juice the ratings for Raw as much as possible against the debut of MNF.

Did the WWE rebrand NXT because it lost the Wednesday night war to Dynamite? I could buy that. Did they put the title on Becky Lynch in response to Punk's hot appearances in AEW? Absolutely. But they could have just waited two weeks to do the Orton vs. Lashley match as originally planned. They moved it up to be strong competition against MNF.
 
Their competition is anyone or anything who attempts to take away their target demographic away from them. That includes the NFL. Just think back to all the time they did big swerves, reveals, etc. at approximately the same time as kickoffs or halftime. Those things weren't done just by coincidence.
Their target demo is kids now not teens and adults
 
Well deserved for Big E. I just hate how they got here. He'll likely drop it right back at Extreme Rules.
Would have preferred for Roman to put him over, but it looks like they want to give Brock another run.
 
Well deserved for Big E. I just hate how they got here. He'll likely drop it right back at Extreme Rules.
Agreed. Big E is awesome (and impossible not to root for), but this isn’t how it should have gone down.

Oh, well, hopefully he’ll go on to have a great run with the belt (although you’re probably right about how it will actually happen).
 

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