NEWS - AEW Rampage Beats Smackdown - First WWE Ratings Loss Since 1998! Raw Wrestler To Be Repackaged - AGAIN! WWE Crown Jewel Developments! Retro Raw Is Coming Back?!
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
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Today's wrestling news, including...
AEW Rampage Beats Smackdown - First WWE Ratings Loss Since 1998!
Raw Wrestler To Be Repackaged - AGAIN!
WWE Crown Jewel Developments!
Retro Raw Is Coming Back?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news, going head-to-head with |
| 0:12.5 | AEW Rampage for 13 minutes did not go well for WWE Smackdown. |
| 0:17.6 | A Raw superstar is getting another rebrand. |
| 0:20.7 | I will tell you who made the finals of WWE's King of the Ring and Queen's Crown tournaments. |
| 0:25.7 | The Retro Raw is making a comeback, I'm Adam Wilborn and I'm Andy Murray and this is |
| 0:31.7 | the news. |
| 0:32.7 | We're going to kick things off by talking, rating those with all but guarantees some very |
| 0:37.7 | civil debate in the comment section and around the world today. |
| 0:41.4 | It's not a topic that we brooch often, only when something big, notable and actually |
| 0:46.6 | newsworthy happens and well this is kind of it so the numbers are in from last Friday |
| 0:51.4 | of course, Smackdown pre-empted onto FS1, they shoved an extra half an hour on the end, |
| 0:56.9 | they supersized Smackdown half an hour, going head-to-head with AEW Rampage, here's what we |
| 1:03.0 | have. |
| 1:04.0 | Overall, overall viewership across the full time of both shows, so that's two and a half |
| 1:08.2 | hours for Smackdown and an hour for Rampage, WWE winning an overall viewership 866,578,000. |
| 1:16.1 | In the 18-49 demographic, things were much, much closer across the full shows, WWE 314,883,330,000, |
| 1:27.8 | very close there within the 10% margin of error. |
| 1:31.3 | Smackdown finished fired on the night, among cable shows AEW finished fourth on the night |
| 1:36.3 | both of them had a rating of 0.24 but that's not what you want. |
| 1:41.4 | With this Friday discussion, you want to know how these shows did head-to-head, the portion |
| 1:45.4 | that they were directly competing against each other and in the 18-49 numbers, the demographic, |
| 1:51.5 | the coveted demographic by which TV shows are ranked on the night and which is looked |
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