Pfft. Bahahahahaha!
Oh no no no!
Gabriel Murphy
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Kevin King
>Gaytch killed half the ratings
Incredible
Lucas Williams
There's no draws left. Raw ratings swirling down the shitter. hahahaha!
Jacob Rodriguez
What happened between 2000 and 2001 that just killed wrestling?
Bentley Flores
>"Some of you might remember Verne Gagne."
>*crickets*
>"Uh, like, it's called a work, don't you know? Idiots. What, you never heard of tricking people or something? Bunch of morons you are. You probably believe in the media. I was in Ted Turner's office, newsflash guys, the media is a fucking hoax. You know what, I don't give a damn that you have no clue who Verne Gagne was. He was the Justin Biebler of his day, and he chose ME! ME!! NOT YOU! NOT ANY OF YOU! *sniff* YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HARD TIMES ARE, NAPERVILLE! DO YOU KNOW HOW FAR BEHIND WWF WE WERE, HOW HARD I HAD TO WORK TO GET 83 WEEKS ON TOP OF T.V.?!" *cries in his hands*
>...
>"Gotcha, didn't I?"
Jason Moore
9/11
Brandon Cruz
Internet streaming to watch Raw.
Samuel Rogers
Austin was hurt in 2000 and Triple H was the top guy.
Jonathan Peterson
What happened in Sept 99?
Kayden Sullivan
Austin turned heel
Jose Wilson
Several I think of.
WCW and ECW going out of business.
Triple H getting pushed
Stone Cold shaking Vince McMahon's hand at the end of WrestleMania 17.
Nathan Foster
Foley, The Rock and Austin walked off into the sunset. The invasion did no favors for anyone from ECW or WCW except Rob Van Dam, so you doubled the roster and halved the appeal for the strictly WWF audience. It ended the attitude era.
Also this was a big time for Xtreme sports, which probably took a large chunk of the same demographic.
Blake Campbell
I think that was one of those times Raw was in Europe and those shows are always fucking terrible so people don't watch.
Connor Green
Plus this was going on. How didn't want to fuck themselves up and their friends in the 2000-2005 period?
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David Robinson
God the Invasion was so fucking bad. It didn't help Vince was dumping all of his attention and $100 million into the XFL.
Michael Thomas
Also Russo left, they rode the wave for 1 year approx. and then Stephanie took over head of creative.
Russos booking with less focus on in ring wrestling and a lot of soap opera storylines on weekly shows drew lots of non-wrestling fans wether you want to admit it or not.
Julian Jenkins
>Zero competition
>Manages to kill self
Jose Williams
Two episodes of RAW in 2 first weeks of September were pre-empted for Westminster Dog Show and U.S Open. Otherwise normal ratings.
Blake Robinson
>I made this graph in 20 seconds without even thinking about the math lining up
>ive seen it posted like 5 times since
Oliver Rogers
>People skipped prime Monday Night Wars for dogs and golf
Jaxson Bailey
By Q4 of 2000 it was already starting to lose steam. It just wasn't that exciting compared to earlier in the year.
Eli Mitchell
You should have thought about your powers before you have used them, young one.
Hunter Collins
Right around the time Steph became head of creative. Really makes you think
Daniel Evans
they changed networks
Juan Gutierrez
The way they handled the "Who assaulted Austin" shit with it being revealed as Rikishi pretty much was the start of the decline
Alexander Perry
Tennis you uncultured swine.
Adam Baker
I noticed the dip in quality when they did the WCW & ECW Invasion angle. WWE never recovered.
David Butler
Yeah Rikishi was such an odd selection. Basically felt like today's forced midcarder slotted into the main event mix, and then a few months later he was out of the company
Jack Clark
Triple H, Stone Cold's heat died off, nu-metal and rap rock became uncool, The Rock was pushed on top, Russo left, the XFL.
Anthony Roberts
What happened to Nitro in April of 99?
John Cook
Perhaps WWF WrestleMania season with Rock/Austin etc. shifted some momentum for good?