Who Is RAW Written For?

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Dave LaGreca & Bully Ray look back on the go-home edition of RAW from the week, and ask: just who exactly is RAW written for? They break down audience perceptions & expectations for the red brand, as WWE heads into SummerSlam this wknd; speaking of the wknd, the guys are also joined by Samoa Joe to talk NXT TakeOver 36 this Sunday...

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0:00.0	This is the busted open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday
0:07.0	from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on serious XM fight nation channel 156. Welcome to the busted open
0:14.8	podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca on today's episode WWE Hall Famer TNA Hall Famer bully Ray and I
0:22.6	give our thoughts of last night's Monday Night Raw and we also talk to challenger for the NXT
0:29.3	Championship against Karen Cross on Sunday at NXT takeover 36 Samoa Joe right now on the busted open
0:37.6	podcast. Who does the WWE right Monday Night Raw for? It's funny I thought you were going to say
0:47.8	who does WWE work for? Who does number two work for? Seriously who is this show written for?
1:02.8	Judging from last night people with short term memories because a lot of what we saw last night
1:08.8	we've seen before honestly to answer your question bully I don't know and bully today is a very
1:16.4	very tough show for me to do because you know I think it's become customary on a Tuesday for me to
1:24.4	come on and kind of rip what I saw the night before on Raw you and I have had private conversations
1:31.6	about this it's not what I want to do on a Tuesday morning but bully I really don't I can't answer
1:39.6	your question I wish I had an answer is it kids I don't I may be but I don't know if any little
1:46.4	kids that are watching this show like they were doing during the height of the PG era when John
1:50.8	Cena was on type was on top is it for 18 to 49 year olds it absolutely not I really think it's
1:59.4	for that over 45 year old pro wrestling fan bully that has been watching wrestling for their
2:05.6	whole life like myself and is just a custom to turning on the TV on a Monday night to watch the
2:12.0	WWE I think that's their target audience right now I really don't know last night wasn't a bad show
2:22.5	it wasn't a good show it was just a show it was it was just there you know it is it is what it is
2:30.3	one days it's kind of like God I hate saying it's kind of like music in the elevator or you know
2:39.7	when you're when you're driving with your buddy and you got you know the music on in the background
2:44.8	or it's it's there but is it touching you is it getting are you emotionally invested are you
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