Another Week another loss in Ratings

I'm still waiting for a wrestling website to spell "led" right.

It's still spelled wrong on their site

Keep it up, WWE!

It's like a dripping tap.

I thought Raw was gonna hit it big with the traditional Survivor Series match for the closing of the show, but then they used last years formula with having Woods go first within seconds (much like Mark Henry last year) followed by elimination, elimination, and elimination on both teams.

Having Seth get dq'ed was understandable I suppose, but I hated how they announced that the entire team of Roman's was victorious. Uhhh..... no. For Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns are the sole survivors, not the Usos or Ryback.

I didn't find Raw to be horrible last night, but at the same time I was also drinking during it and usually when you drink, everything at that moment seems enjoyable and fun.

Doesn't surprise me really, WWE has NOTHING going on right now. They have a lot of matches happen on Raw, but almost all of them mean NOTHING! The Diva's match meant something, it had meaning (the winner got a title shot), and it was a 4 way match (not a tag match). Everything else on that show just seemed stale and boring. They have to start giving fans a reason to want to watch Raw and make them feel like Raw is can't miss TV.

Well, they don't have to, but IMO they should. I have watched Raw since I can remember, and I don't want to stop because I like wrestling but sadly they are just not giving me any reasons to watch anymore.

While I think the last two weeks have been positive, in terms of putting the younger, up and coming, talent in the spotlight, the format hasn't really changed. The number one contender Raw was refreshing, and worked, but even with better actual booking this week, the format was still relatively the same. In other words, nothing was happening.

Also, I get that a number of you are "good match" people, but that kind of stuff doesn't necessarily hold the audience. We've seen that, and there is ratings proof that supports that fact. You have to suck in viewers with segments and then make them care about who wins the match. You can't just have random matches, even quality matches, and expect a causal audience to care. It doesn't work that way. Casual viewers need both sports and entertainment. This kind of goes back to everyone knows it's "fake," and because of that they need a reason to forget that the winner is predetermined.

It has to get worse before it gets better. New Gen went through the same cycle. So when you go all-in with stars who don't have big star power, you have to take a hit in order to build up that star power. This is WWE's fault though. Had they invested in younger stars when they had big stars, they wouldn't be in a situation where they have to force young guys into positions where they carry the show before they're ready. Many of us said for years that relying too much on the older stars would eventually bite them in the ass, and we're pretty much seeing that now.

They're biggest problem is that they don't promote any matches. If last week sometime they announced that they would have the Survivor Series Elimination match on Raw, maybe people would have watched.

Guess what? You can have the best Raw ever, and it will still have a craprating if you don't give people incentive to watch in the first place.

Now if im not mistaken next weeks raw is going to be in the UK, so its gonna be interesting to see the ratings next weeks given that the show will be taped and there will full show spoilers out a couple of hours before the show hits the air on usa