10 Terrible Recent Decisions That Led To WWE Raw’s Worst Week EVER
9. The Numbers Don't Lie...
...but did WWE when they pitched to Fox just how well SmackDown Live could do for them?
After using Corbin's lack of a drawing power as a stick to beat his character with the previous December, WWE did away with caustic kayfabe logic and actually put a theory into practice.
The rating for April 22nd's Monday Night Raw averaged out at 2.37m, 300,000 down from the prior week, but the breakdown was far more telling than an already-brutal bigger picture.
'The Lone Wolf' secured a spot in the main event with a victory in the opener, viewed by approximately 2.680m. By the time he returned for the Number One contenders headliner he'd qualified for, the number had dropped to 2.146m. Third hours in general suffer by being the third hour of television audiences have been forced to endure, but a double dose of big banter Baron being enough to chase off hundreds of thousands of viewers speaks to the damage done to his character and the success of the aforementioned 2018 "push".
Yet Corbin remains at large. Giving audiences what they want isn't easy, but finding out what they don't want in this manner is a gift WWE have again chosen not to accept.