Post#1362 » by Spens1 » Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:04 pm
I know, obsessions with ratings and all but this ain't a joke anymore, its downright worrying.
V1 | D1: 1.740M [17th] | 0.510D [3rd]
V2 | D2: 1.609M [19th] | 0.450D [6th]
V3 | D3: 1.535M [21st] | 0.420D [7th]
3V | 3D: 1.628M | 0.460D
This is better than last week (which was about 1.5 mill) but this is still TNA on Spike numbers. With Smackdown getting 1.8ish mill as well, pandemic or not, this is pretty damn catostrophic and honestly. they only have themselves to blame given how bad both shows are in comparison to Impact, NXT and AEW week to week. Not to mention this was the night after extreme rules which should have had a way bigger ratings bump for people curious after the PPV in theory.
The main draw this week was Randy Orton vs Big Show, in 2020 and they promoted it for weeks. I'm sorry to say this but Orton vs Big Show isn't drawing anyone other than those who are already watching WWE and have for the past 20 years, neither are the rock, stone cold, jericho, hhh, taker, angle or any of the biggest stars of the attitude era as well and even that ratings bump is minimal. Here's a novel idea, build your show around your champ and give him good storylines (actual storylines i mean) and not have the same people wrestle each other over and over again for months at a time.
I mean this is without any football and we've seen two of the worst weeks rating wise in the company's history. I'm actually worried that usa won't renew after this (for smackdown, they may put it on Fox Sports 1 with those ratings lets be real) if not outright cancel instead. They need to get it together (and by they, I mean Vince, he needs to step away from basically all creative decision making and they need to hire actual proper writers and wrestling people and agents to not just construct the matches, but the actual storylines around it) or else. Sure, they're not going to die but that doesn't mean that they're not at risk of losing a whole lot as well, the company has not had stability this year (got rid of their two longest non-mcmahon family serving executives, including Dunn for one, they can't tour saudi for at least a year cause of COVID so no money injection).
I can't believe i'm actually saying this (because i really loathe to have him back personally) but they may need Lesnar back for a (non-title) program, or at least have Lesnar put over McIntyre or Strowman well for Summerslam and have either one look insanely strong. He's about the only one not named John Cena who is somewhat protected at this point.
Also as dire as WWE is to watch without a crowd (as is all wrestling, the crowd and its reaction truly is worth at least 1/3rd of a match and the show, its why people hate shows in Corpus Cristi after all), will people even come back afterwards.
