Earlier Today, Forbes published an article on WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown’s declining ratings.
“Monday Night Raw and Thursday Night SmackDown are supposed to be the cornerstones of WWE programming, but things aren’t exactly going as planned.
Despite having one of its most talented rosters ever, one that features everyone from former independent wrestling studs to household names like John Cena, the WWE simply isn’t attracting the amount of viewers that it once did. In fact, ratings for both Raw and SmackDown are in a downward spiral and have been for so long that anyone in WWE who isn’t concerned must be kidding themselves.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, ratings for July episodes of Raw on the USA Network have plummeted since 2012.”
Anyone who follows all of the major pro wrestling companies has seen that pro wrestling as a whole is struggling to keep pace with other forms of sports and entertainment, as indicated by the failures of TNA.
To read the full article click the link below.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/blakeoestriecher/2015/…
