WWE Scraps Big Show and Mark Henry SummerSlam Segment, Did Lesnar’s Title Win Boost Last Night’s WWE Raw Viewership?

August 19, 2014

WWE Scraps Big Show and Mark Henry SummerSlam Segment

According to PWInsider.com, WWE originally had a backstage Big Show and Mark Henry segment written into the SummerSlam script, but sometime on Sunday afternoon the segment was cut from the show.

WWE decided they wanted to focus more on the in-ring SummerSlam product and less on backstage segments.

Did Lesnar’s Title Win Boost Last Night’s WWE Raw Viewership?

Last night’s post-SummerSlam edition of WWE Raw, which featured Brock Lesnar being crowned the new WWE World Champion, took in 4.194 million viewers, which is down 2.5% from last week’s 4.30 million viewers.

The first hour of last night’s show drew 4.281 million viewers, the second hour drew 4.330 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.972 million viewers.

Last night’s Raw went up against NFL pre-season football, and fell just behind the game as well as Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.