Is TNA killing WWE, WWE killing TNA or are they both going to hell?

[Izzy]

WWE Raw drew a 3.1 rating for Monday's three-hour draft special. (3.3 for the last 2 hours alone)

TNA Impact drew a 0.5 rating for their usual two-hour show.

3.6 - combined?

COMBINED?!

Raw was getting 3.6 on its own a year or so ago and now even a three hour edition (which used to enjoy 4's) is getting nothing - last years draft scored a 3.7

What is happening? TNA is clearly being destroyed but WWE needs to start asking some questions too - its ratings are just getting worse and worse  - it was a 2.6 in the first hour (of note WWE got a 3.1 last week too)

Not sure if the monday night war part 2 is just alienating people or if TNA and WWE are fighting for a wrestling crowd barely 5 million strong...

I wonder where wrestling is going - are wrestling fans a dying breed?

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Now may be the time to admit that although I've read about wrestling ratings for ages, I still have no idea what the numbers actually mean.....

I think that maybe wrestling fans are a 'dying breed', at least compared to 10 years ago. They've grown up and the fact that most agree the quality of wrestling has declined (although I'm not as disappointed with it as a lot of others are....) probably just meant people drifted away.

Maybe that's part of the WWE's masterplan: entice the current young generation with the PG stuff then as they grow older, gradually get more violent. The cycle then repeats itself in 10 years time.....

[Gnrfan]

I still think WWE lacks that one "Massive" name. You know the one who gets average viewers to watch.

Guys like Rock, Austin, HHH & even Angle in WWE were known by people who didn't really watch wrestling. I used to have friends who would watch RAW, but if they missed it for something else it would not bother them and i had friends who watched it whatever.... but i also had friends who hated wrestling but people like DX, Rock, Austin etc got them interested because they were so entertained.

Add to that the new PG program and i think you have your reason. Wrestling (and by that i mean WWE) are in a very safe era.... they play things safe, with little risk to their business model. No Chair Shots! No Piledrivers! No ****! No Blood! Little High Risk Moves!

The attitude era was exciting for different reasons, but for people who weren't massive WWE fans, One Massive Chair Shot or Shane-O-Mac jumping from a great height. These things grabbed aload of new viewers.

WWE has stripped it back and focused on a new generation of Fans and a new bunch of Stars. That product and group of stars just don't reach out and get those "extra" fans that the attitude era did

[Rankin]

Ratings were low this week because of the NFL draft & the NHL playoffs.

[Yankee1012]

Well the 2.6 rating between 8-9 from RAW is why RAW got a 3.1 otherwise it would have been a 3.31.


To tell you the truth. TNA is killing themselves by going up against RAW. iMPACT can't compete with RAW. They just can't especially with RAW now having Jericho and Edge.

iMPACT needs to fix their problems and go back to Thursday nights or even go to Friday nights to try and compete with Smackdown (which is a more realistic idea of competition).

Maybe they can give the Monday Night Wars thing a shot again by the summer of 2011.

[Izzy]

The 5/3 edition of Raw did a 3.0 rating, with an average of 4,332,000 viewers. The show did hours of 2.87 and 3.18. It should be noted that due to rounding these numbers up to 2.9 and 3.2, there were people in the business that thought Raw did a 3.1 but it was actually a 3.0.
The last edition of Impact on Monday did a 0.78   rating, with 1,146,000 viewers.

The 5/1 edition of AM Raw did a 0.55 rating, with 609,000 viewers.


a 3? TNA needs to keep up the pressure, Raw is dying

imagine it will get a bounce with impact going back to Thursday

[D]

Problem with WWE is, they alienated the strong audience 18-34 male to cater to kids who these days would much rather watch Disney Channel, Nickelodeon etc. they have way more options for kid programming other than wrestling.

so Vince is killing himself by keeping the dumb ass brand split and going PG.

[Yankee1012]

Problem with WWE is, they alienated the strong audience 18-34 male to cater to kids who these days would much rather watch Disney Channel, Nickelodeon etc. they have way more options for kid programming other than wrestling.

so Vince is killing himself by keeping the dumb ass brand split and going PG.

I have a feeling WWE will end the PG stuff sometime within the next 2-5 years. By 2012-2014-ish I don't see WWE being PG still.