11 Reasons WWE Raw Isn't Really In Crisis

Crisis? What crisis? Business isn't that bad.

WWE Raw is having a tough time with viewership. The October 12 episode did a record seventeen year non-holiday low of 3.27 millions viewers, a number that provoked talk of "crisis" in the internet wrestling community. In fact, the "crisis" word has been looming for weeks now, with each episode being a creative dud. The truth is that "crisis" is an over-reaction. Granted, you have to go back to 1997, when Raw had WCW Nitro to contend with, to find a non-holiday number as bad as the October 12 2015 show. But analysis of the bigger picture, shows that Vince McMahon won't be crying his eyes out just yet. WWE Raw is, and for the foreseeable future will be, a television powerhouse. Here's the eleven reasons why it isn't in a crisis.

11. WWE Business Is Healthy - Record Revenues Last Year

As a business, WWE is in very good health. You can't throw words like "crisis" around when the company was making a record revenue of $542.6 million last year, up from $508 million the year before. Ultimately there was a loss, but that was as much to do with the WWE Network implementation. So even though Raw viewership has been declining for years, revenues are rising. Loss of viewers isn't having that big of an impact on the business. Indeed, to put it in context, Raw ratings for the October 13 2014 Raw were 3.79 million viewers. This year the viewers for the most recent episode were 3.27. Is that drop-off really going to hurt the overall WWE business numbers? Not massively. It isn't like a million people have just stopped watching. This is a company with money pouring in from all sorts of directions, and they aren't really doing much worse than last year. Talk of crisis when they are dealing in multi-millions of pounds is silly.
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