what happened in 2001?

7/11

Biggest heel draw of all time Undertaker went from a based satan gimmick to some faggy biker and nobody wanted to watch other fags like Stone Cold or Rock.

>>3067039
WWE buying WCW is widely regarded as the moment the business took a nosedive. 2-3 million of WCW's core audience disappeared overnight and WWE's audience also declined continuously until increasing a little in 2005 & 2006.

>>3067039
The decline started in 2000. Austin was out, Triple H was now more prevalent, Mick Foley who was the unheralded MVP of the Attitude Era was retired, they switched over to TNN and Stephanie took a bigger role. When WCW died, Austin turned heel, and Rock left, the company was finished. They compounded it with the disastrous Invasion and it was goodnight.

>>3067039
Triple H was the most over man in the world got injured for a year and the fans stopped watching. It wasn't the same when he came back.

9/11 causing the Angletty title run. Business has never recovered.

>>3067039
Triple h and stephanie happened

>>3067058
Lmao pls
No one cared about le spoopy shitter ever

>>3067085
>June 28, 1999: A match where Steve Austin won the WWF title from The Undertaker in Charlotte drew the largest rating and audience to ever witness a pro wrestling match or for that matter, any pro wrestling segment, ever on U.S. cable television. The match did a 9.5 rating, which was 10.72 million viewers. Perhaps the most impressive is that one out of every six television sets in the U.S. that had cable that was on during that time was watching that match. Because for more than a decade, Vince Russo has made it a talking point to say how the “The Is Your Life: Rock,” segment was the highest rated segment in history (it did an 8.4 quarter), to show how skits outdraw matches, it’s become a talking point how that was the highest rated segment in Raw history. Actually there were a handful of different quarter hours that beat that total, including most of the second hour of the May 10, 1999 show.

>>3067090
based fucking Austin, Taker actually drew a -2.8 rating (2.8% of viewers who usually watch tuned out due to Taker) so Austin drew 12.3 himself to get the overall 9.5

Rock left and Austin turned heel

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>>3067090
>which was 10.72 million viewers
Raw today struggles to get 3 million

>>3067058
Except Bad Ass Taker returned at Judgement Day 2000. You fags aren't even smart.

>>3067039
>top draw austin turned heel
>second biggest draw haitch got injured

>>3067090
“The Is Your Life: Rock was highest rated segment of RAW

Undertaker vs. Austin was highest rated match

>segment (angle)
>match

The graph in OP is only ratings from Jan - Wrestlemania

Which had little to do with Undertaker

>>3067135
>second biggest draw haitch

um who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?

>>3067090
Stop being such a fucking Meltzer drone.

May 10, 1999 episode of RAW was unopposed by Nitro that night.

TNT aired NBA playoff games instead of WCW Nitro that night.

>>3067157
hello wolfcuck

>>3067157
What is your FUCKING point? You saying nearly 11 million people didn't watch Raw?

>>3067157
NBA Playoffs and Raw is War. What a great night. No one even fucking cared about WCW. What a shit company.

1 - 17
2 - 19
3 - 31
4 - 10
5 - 21

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>>3067039
Obama fly a plane into the Earth Trading center

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>>3067157
the two companies are in a war for higher ratings, and one show's highest rated show ever wasn't even in competition with the other wrestling show but the fucking NBA Playoffs and that doesn't count?

>normally have to choose between WCW and WWF, but WCW isn't on tonight
>having to choose between the NBA playoffs and WWF
>choosing WWF

Based as fuck.

>>3067146
the fourth biggest draw?

>>3067039
WCW died and the Invasion flopped

>>3067039
Attitude Era profits were sunk into the XFL