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Raw drew a strong 3.84 for the three-hour
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>>5427155 >viewers increase for the main event lol Vince will sacrifice kids to have this back
The thing is WWE refused to stop being awful
When in 2014 Punk left, Bryan retired, Taker lost at WM, Cena became a midcarder after SummerSlam, Roman in main event people left in droves
you can see the fall between 2014 and 2015 year over year
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Holy smokes no wonder HHH was always seething. They had DX, then they had HHH Lesnar, and all his other friends, and Cena still mogged this shit out of everything after 3 hours, and did it with Punk in a match.
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Same people in the back shitting up the company 20 years ago are still there. They're all old and senile.
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The boomer faggots that lurk here will try to claim that wrestling died after the attitude era or something but 2014-2016 was objectively when WWE died. Everything from 2017 to the Thunderdome is a complete blur with nothing meaninful happening.
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>>5427513 Yep. I was born in 02 and I was not into wrestling at all as a kid but I recall at school often hearing the other kids talking about what cena, orton, hhh, etc. did on raw/sd last night. I think the end of taker's streak along with notable guys retiring or only performing part time in the years to come killed it in the long run.
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WWE fans had their last hoorah when Daniel Bryan won the strap at WM30. After that it was all downhill. Cancer started around WM31, time of death was Reigns pinning Undertaker. Nothing against Reigns, a very servicable wrestler, but I cannot thing of a less deserving, bland, boring and unwatchable individual than him to be the top draw of any company. Pound for pound, the worst out of all top draws in time in WWE. Even Brock Lesnar couldn't make him work despite WWE's above and beyond best efforts
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>>5427619 I think Undertaker losing his mystique soured most people watching who were still into it.
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>>5427155 Interest in wrestling is down in general, mostly because console war bullshit like this
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>>5427713 Who said anything about aew
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>>5427701 >WM31 That was WM33
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CM Punk quit, Bryan got injured (and retired shortly after) and WWE decided to push away all the hardcore fans/"smarks" after 2014 to cater to a more casual audience, which was a bizarre decision because the casual cultists will watch literally no matter what.
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>>5427727 You have poor reading comprehension
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>>5427155 Do we never put into account that people just don't watch TV anymore when it comes to this ratings shit? Serious its amazing people are still watching Wrestling on cable. The only thing that is holding cable providers up are sports and live events like wrestling. Most people just stream their favorite 90s show on hulu or netflix. And most autists now just watch live streamers or youtube retrospectives on video games.
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>>5427732 >>5427727 I did write it kinda fast
WM30 was the last good WM
WM31 & 32 was getting gradually worse
WM33 was the funeral
