So we are at the end of 2014 and my friends, I hope you had a great year.

As we do move on to a brand new period though, let's look back over the last 12 months

because you know the deal.

There's going to be a bunch of facts and there's going to be a bunch of figures that you'll go,

I can use that and go and impress my friends.

Your friends would be like, we don't like wrestling.

Then you have to go and find new pals.

Happens every single time. But anyway,

I am Simon Meller and that's right. Open up your brains, Chiefs. This is some wild facts

from 2004. Number 10, the fun facts. So we all know that CM Punk was in the 2024 Raw

Rumble and when he did do that, it was his first matchback on WWE TV for 10 years and one day.

Damn.

So there's longer than Edge who went eight years and 10 months.

Hulk Hogan, who went eight years and nine months.

Rock Lesnar, that was eight years and one month.

We also saw the men's singles titles, and that would be WWW.

World, ICN, and US change hand nine times, which is way more than in 2023 when it over and

happened twice. For all the crazies out there, yes, raw ratings on average were actually down in

2004, but look what the raw after WrestleMania 40 did in terms of ratings. That did 2.36

million and if you go back to 2003, it was the raw 30 episodes that did the best in that 12-month

stretch, but that only did a 2.34. So even when you get into the averages, the averages was down

in terms of one big old smackaroo, 24 wins. Everybody also goes on about Roman Reigns and saying,

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