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>Levesque’s eight months leading creative saw Raw average 1.80 million viewers. The same eight months a year prior, under Vince, Raw averaged 1.77 million viewers. Levesque’s run in the same months was 4% higher than Vince’s, despite Vince’s programs having slightly more households in reach.
>Smackdown under Levesque improved more, averaging 2.28 million viewers to Vince’s 2.14 million over the same months the year before. The Triple H era of Smackdown had 6% higher viewership, again, despite fewer pay-TV households.
>Live event ticket sales are a clearer story. Average tickets distributed, according to WrestletTix, for Raw was higher in every month of the Triple H era. For Smackdown, the Levseque months were higher in all cases but one. This is the case even though the Vince era, in the summer of 2021, benefited from strong initial ticket sales likely due in part to “pent-up demand” as WWE returned to touring, which had been paused for 15 months because of the pandemic.
>The average number of tickets distributed for Smackdown under Triple H was 8,555 to Vince’s 7,532 in the comparable period; 14% higher for Levesque. Raw under Triple H averaged 8,463 tickets out to Vince’s 6,787; 25% higher for Levesque.
>Vince’s period did have a higher average by 2% for domestic house shows, leading 4,436 to 4,357. That lead however is entirely in the early months of Vince’s comparable period, from August 2021 to November 2021, the first months of the return to touring. After that period, house shows year-over-year had higher averages in the Triple H era, with a narrow lead widening in February and March of this year.
Source
https://wrestlenomics.com/2023/04/06/yes-wwe-fan-interest-really-did-improve-during-the-triple-h-era
>Smackdown under Levesque improved more, averaging 2.28 million viewers to Vince’s 2.14 million over the same months the year before. The Triple H era of Smackdown had 6% higher viewership, again, despite fewer pay-TV households.
>Live event ticket sales are a clearer story. Average tickets distributed, according to WrestletTix, for Raw was higher in every month of the Triple H era. For Smackdown, the Levseque months were higher in all cases but one. This is the case even though the Vince era, in the summer of 2021, benefited from strong initial ticket sales likely due in part to “pent-up demand” as WWE returned to touring, which had been paused for 15 months because of the pandemic.
>The average number of tickets distributed for Smackdown under Triple H was 8,555 to Vince’s 7,532 in the comparable period; 14% higher for Levesque. Raw under Triple H averaged 8,463 tickets out to Vince’s 6,787; 25% higher for Levesque.
>Vince’s period did have a higher average by 2% for domestic house shows, leading 4,436 to 4,357. That lead however is entirely in the early months of Vince’s comparable period, from August 2021 to November 2021, the first months of the return to touring. After that period, house shows year-over-year had higher averages in the Triple H era, with a narrow lead widening in February and March of this year.
Source
https://wrestlenomics.com/2023/04/06/yes-wwe-fan-interest-really-did-improve-during-the-triple-h-era
