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Did anything interesting happen on Raw?

 

No. Nothing on purpose at least. The crowd sorta hijakced the women's segment and it flustered them. Is that interesting?

 

Sami beat Rusev to face Dolph at SS and Seth was named as the fifth team member.

 

Have there been historical examples of European crowds getting that rowdy, other than the last Takeover?

 

I can only imagine how Bayley must have felt!

 

I see the brand split ending next year. I wonder how the numbers look?

 

Brand split isn't ending any time soon. It was done to increase the Smackdown ratings, and its been successful in that sense.

 

- As noted, Monday's WWE RAW drew 2.60 million viewers, down from last weeks 2.819 million viewers. The final rating for the show was a 1.88, down from the previous week's 2.01 rating.

Tuesday's SmackDown drew 2.187 million viewers, up from last week's 2.127 million viewers. The final rating for this week's show was a 1.58, up from last week's 1.56.

 

Smackdown spoilers are real interesting

 

Thank god they are putting some stakes on these SS matches.

 

Yeah, Smackdown Spoilers have me hyped af for Survivor Series

 

Man you think the cruisers get moved to SD? The fact that 205 live will be airing on Tuesday nights after SD make me wonder... but lots of guys will be getting bumped off SD since the show is only 2 hours. And that means more jobber and squash matches to fill up RAW....ugh.

 

I could see it happening. They really only need to take up one slot on the show and the rest of the cruiserweights stuff would be on the third hour. Raw would suffer even more, but like, Raw's going to be bad either way. It could light a fire under Raw creative though because they won't have the built in filler with the CW division.

 

RAW really just needs to go back to 2 Hours. It would solve so many problems. People would want to watch again, it's just so much easier to digest. I FF'd through so many matches last night, we don't need to see freaking Golden Truth vs Colons every week!

 

I wonder if Raw's ratings have fallen.

 

Raw ratings have been falling for years. They'd be this low without the split because of how bad the writing is.

edit: also like henry said, mnf and election season destroyed them this year.

 

They have but you cannot attribute that to the brand split when Monday Night Football is on.

 

Yeah, they'll just move Roman to SD and Dean to Raw. They're not going to undo the brand split anytime soon. lol

 

That's very tongue in cheek, btw. I don't think they're actually going to move Dean to Raw. But they do need to shakeup the rosters at some point.

 

Management isn't going to be a part of the storylines anymore. lol

This fucking company.

 

Are we getting some superstars switching sides after Survivor Series? I thought they said depending on who won the traditional SS matches, that brand would get to swap superstars or something? Did I completely make this up in my head, or did they actually announce that and just have not followed-up on any of it?

 

Winning brand at SS gets to choose three superstars to switch brands.