11 Undeniable Reasons WWE Raw Ratings Are Plummeting

6. Three Hours Is Just Too Long

I get it. USA wants the third hour and, unless something drastic changes, it's not going away any time soon. But when everyone from the hardest of hardcore fans to Triple H himself bemoans producing three hours of Raw fifty two weeks a year that should tell you something. As I mentioned previously, no one is viewed as a star outside of Cena and the part-timers like Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker. And with the exception of Cena, do you know that they all have in common? We don't see them wrestling on free TV every week against the same guys repeatedly. How am I supposed to care about Dolph Ziggler and Rusev having a match when I've literally seen them wrestle 37 times? Overexposure has a seriously harmful effect on these workers, and without cutting the show back down to two hours there's really no way to fix it. Use NXT as the perfect comparison: It's one hour a week of solid, concisely booked wrestling that leaves the fans wanting more. With Raw, most of us are watching it with our DVR remotes in hand and fast-forwarding through the stuff we don't care about in order to get to the intriguing parts of the show (if there are any). I've been a passionate wrestling fan since I could barely walk and mumble words and three hours is a brutal chore for me to plow through sometimes.