>>14232622Let me play devils advocate here: People dont wanna dedicate their weekend to a wrestling C-tier show. If its a special occasion, like a PPV, then sure. If its just a normal tv show, kinda hard to convince John McDudebro to watch television.
It is, however, an objective fact that Punk did well for TV, be it on Dynamite or the shitty weekend slot of Collision. When nomilly began to creep in, he was the only act that managed to draw a milly. His segments also brought people back, only on rare occasions did a drop in viewership happen with one of his segments.
Also everytime he was confirmed to be part of a show, be it PPV or main programming, ticket sales recieved a spike. And he was the #1 merch mover during his time there.
Look, I dont like Punk either (who the fuck says "I put him in a legit chokehold and choked him a lil bit, as that was the most sensible option"), but denying he is a draw is being delusional. That one raw segment with him, Seth and Drew got like 2.2 million viewers on RAW, where the average is around 1.8 or something like that.
