Current And Former WWE Superstars Discuss Poor TV Ratings For Raw, SmackDown: An Oral History

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WWE's viewership sucks. It's the worst-kept secret in all of professional wrestling the promotion appears helpless to stop it. Though Raw this past week saw a 10% increase thanks to a parlor trick that resulted in an empty promise of Brock Lesnar cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase, the 2.405 million viewers still represented a 41% decrease from viewership this time five years ago. Raw's viewership in 2019 has declined by as much as 30% compared to last year's averages. Former WWE Superstars like Jon Moxley and Cody Rhodes have not only gone public in criticizing WWE's internal problems, they've reinvented themselves outside of the once-monopolistic promotion en route to a rare national

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