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Originally Posted by RainMaker
The ratings weren't great for last night's show either. Not sure what to think of that. They are coming off the best PPV in over a decade, have huge question marks regarding the WWE Championship, and biggest superstar is supposedly being fired. You'd think that would play perfectly to both marks and smarks yet still didn't result in much of a bump. Maybe that audience people keep thinking will come back is gone for good. Moved on to other things like UFC.
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You have to remember back in 1998 when WWE was kicking WCW's butt in terms of show quality, but it took a long time for the ratings to swing. People don't automatically hear about a show being good, it takes time to hear about it, and then time to start building that loyalty again.
Right now the WWE can pull some decent ratings with The Rock but it's not a loyal audience. Events steal from the WWE ratings all that time which means they're a sampling audience. Once you build up that loyalty, it'll be the WWE stealing other people's ratings instead, and that's when the ratings will really go up.