Original 7th Money in the Bank Ladder Match Participant Revealed (Photo), Why WWE TV Ratings No Longer Reflect Product Popularity

June 20, 2016

Why WWE TV Ratings No Longer Reflect Product Popularity

Seeking Alpha has posted a new article comparing WWE Raw’s TV ratings to Google Trends, live event attendance and merchandise revenue, and concluded ratings are not correlated to WWE product popularity. The article notes ratings continue to be very important, however, as TV revenue accounts for 35% of their business.

This is appears to be the first time that a comparison has been made between Google searches and Raw’s TV ratings.

Original 7th Money in the Bank Ladder Match Participant Revealed

It’s been brought up on social media that during the most recent edition of “This Week in WWE” on the WWE Network, a graphic was shown, which you can see below, picturing Kalisto as part of the Money in the Bank Ladder Match.

WWE did have original plans to feature 7 competitors in the Money in the Bank Ladder match before ultimately deciding on limiting the bout to 6:

This Week in WWE mistakenly showed the original graphics for tonight’s MITB with Kalisto as the 7th man pic.twitter.com/o4lBkF2IGB

— Jay Hunter (@OSWreview) June 19, 2016

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.