Guest TigerDriver91 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 Fresh off of a PPV, this week's edition of Smackdown did a 2.9 broadcast rating, with a 5 share, according to Nielsen Media Research. That is down from last week's 3.1 and not a good sign for WWE since they went up against repeats on NBC (instead of last week's highly rated finale of Frasier) and no Survivor. PWInsider.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lil' Bitch 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 WWE has no one to blame but them fucking selves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 WWE needs to expand the character of Bradshaw to an even more evil heel.........he needs to show up next week as the grand wizard of the kkk. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TigerDriver91 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 WWE needs to expand the character of Bradshaw to an even more evil heel.........he needs to show up next week as the grand wizard of the kkk. I thought that was Mordecai's job. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 WWE needs to expand the character of Bradshaw to an even more evil heel.........he needs to show up next week as the grand wizard of the kkk. I'd watch Smackdown for that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Trivia247 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 WWE needs to expand the character of Bradshaw to an even more evil heel.........he needs to show up next week as the grand wizard of the kkk. Nah what happens is that Eddy, the Chavos, and Rey Rey comes out to the ring for no apparent reason, then suddenly JBL comes out with Feds and basically proclaimed that they are Illegal and they are All Deported! Eddy goes into im born in El Paso, but Bradshaw just goes into oh he's a lying Wet B&ck and they get carted away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
geniusMoment 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 Good, I hope no one watches smackdown until the product deserves to be watched. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dazed Report post Posted May 22, 2004 The 10 lowest SmackDown! ratings ever... --- May 2, 2002 - 2.9 July 4, 2002 - 2.0 [the date explains the lowest rating ever] August 8, 2002 - 2.7 November 28, 2002 - 2.7 March 20, 2003 - 2.7 August 28, 2003 - 2.6 [doesn't look like a really bad show or anything, surprised that it did so badly, came off SummerSlam, too] October 2, 2003 - 2.9 January 1, 2004 - 2.8 April 15, 2004 - 2.9 May 6, 2004 - 2.8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David Blazenwing 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 July 4, 2002 - 2.0 [the date explains the lowest rating ever] Dude, I watched that show, that was the show where Hogan and Edge won the tag titles from Chuckabilly. Good times, good times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo Effect 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 July 4, 2002 - 2.0 [the date explains the lowest rating ever] Dude, I watched that show, that was the show where Hogan and Edge won the tag titles from Chuckabilly. Good times, good times. I was actually there live for that show. Mark Henry & Randy Orton teaming up against Batista & D-Von? How can that result in 2.0???? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NYU 0 Report post Posted May 22, 2004 July 4, 2002 - 2.0 [the date explains the lowest rating ever] Dude, I watched that show, that was the show where Hogan and Edge won the tag titles from Chuckabilly. Good times, good times. Well, this show WAS on the Fourth of July, so at least the 2.0 rating can be somewhat justified. But the other 2.6s and 2.7s in the summertime are pretty inexcusable, considering the anemic competition they're up against. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes Report post Posted May 22, 2004 August 8th, 2002 had the Hogan/Brock showdown....of course, Brock had generally ZERO heat at the time and was considered the biggest flop in my book at the time, so I guess that explains it. If it were 2003 though, that would've been awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest D'Lo White Report post Posted May 23, 2004 Most of those low ratings have some excuses. The one's in August are from the NFL preseason which pre-empts Smackdown in alot of major markets like New York. One is from Thanksgiving and one from New Year's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Only The Strong Survive 0 Report post Posted May 23, 2004 All this proves is that the so-called "extreme gimmicks" aren't working and that we need matches that are longer than five minutes. Period. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iggymcfly 0 Report post Posted May 23, 2004 Um, actually no. It proves that having hardly any star power on your show including no true main event heels makes people get bored. Midcard comedy matches don't work that well for the whole card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sideburnious 0 Report post Posted May 23, 2004 Yeah they really need more main event talent and Booker would have been that man. Hopefully he still will. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
