The Wrestling Thread

Grant Holt signed a deal with Paige's family to be part of their shows.

* random that.

 

Monday’s WWE RAW, featuring Braun Strowman defeating Finn Balor in the main event, drew 2.668 million viewers. This is down from last week’s 2.741 million viewers for the tapedshow from London. This is also the lowest viewership of 2018 and the lowest viewership since the June 12th, 2017 episode, which drew 2.542 million viewers.

For this week’s show, the first hour drew 2.792 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 2.903 million), the second hour drew 2.767 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 2.692 million) and the final hour drew 2.447 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 2.628 million




This week’s WWE SmackDown, featuring Daniel Bryan defeating WWE United States Champion Jeff Hardy in a non-title main event, drew 2.195 million viewers. This is down from last week’s 2.298 million viewers for the taped show from London and is the lowest blue brand viewership of 2018. This is the lowest SmackDown viewership since the Halloween2017 episode, which drew 2.119 million viewers. The last non-holiday SmackDown episode to do this bad was the June 13th, 2017 episode, which drew 2.072 million viewers.

 

Ronda lookin fine tonight.

 

That Enzo song is absolutely atrocious.

 

Daniel Bryan vs * BIG CASS AGAIN at Money in the Bank?!

I know they're trying to create a sense of "eughhh they're mis-booking Bryan and trying to hold him down!" amongst the fans, but * me why try to create heat that way when you could just put him in actual good matches instead?

 

Isn't it true that Daniel Bryan has yet to sign a new contract and his current one expires in two months? If this is true then maybe it's understandable that at the moment they're holding back on giving him any real push toward the main-event scene/title picture or putting him in any real major feuds because he might just leave soon anyways.

 

Punk & Cabana win against WWE doc Chris Amann

 

Feel sorry for Colt being dragged into this nonsense.

 

Monday’s WWE RAW episode, featuring Finn Balor defeating Kevin Owens in the main event, drew 2.525 million viewers. This is up from last week’s 2.494 million viewers, which was a new viewership low for 2018 and the second lowest RAW viewership in history. Besides last week’s historic low, this week’s show drew the lowest viewership since the September 26th, 2016 episode, which drew 2.478 million viewers and was opposed by the first Donald Trump – Hillary Clinton debate, as well as Monday Night Football.

For this week’s show, the first hour drew 2.594 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 2.593 million), the second hour drew 2.593 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 2.591 million) and the final hour drew 2.390 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 2.300 million).


This week’s WWE SmackDown, featuring a six-man main event with The New Day defeating Rusev, The Miz and Samoa Joe, drew 2.138 million viewers. This is down from last week’s 2.195 million viewers and a new 2018 low. This is also the lowest SmackDown viewership since the Halloween 2017 episode, which drew 2.119 million viewers. The last non-holiday SmackDown episode to do this bad was the June 13th, 2017 episode, which drew 2.072 million viewers.