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.
