[10/7/13]Monday Night Raw: No Champion in the "City of Champions"

[R=G]

That still doesn't make any sense if he's been fired

 

[ML29]

That still doesn't make any sense if he's been fired

Hopefully they'll explain this by saying Vince gave him his Job back. Which is the only thing that would make this make sense.

 

[CJ]

You'd think that ironclad contract would have paid off Big Show's mortgage, at the very least

 

[ECA]

So Bryan def turning heel right? bryan vs cena and we know how that goes

Cena getting layed out in the middle of the ring...AGAIN

 

[DaylitoJames]

Hopefully they'll explain this by saying Vince gave him his Job back. Which is the only thing that would make this make sense.

Actually it wouldn't make sense, why the hell would Vince give Show his job back? Storyline wise Vince, HHH and Stephanie are all on the same page. The only thing that would make sense is that Big Show looked over his "ironclad" contract before Battleground and found out that Johnny Ace gave him a bonus clause that increase his pay for every year he's employed and is truly un-fireable under his ironclad contract and he decided to grow balls and stand up to the Administration.

 

[DaylitoJames]

You'd think that ironclad contract would have paid off Big Show's mortgage, at the very least

You were think Big Show being employeed in the WWE for the past 14 years would have paid off his mortgage, that nikka has been around since WM 15, before then he was riding around with the now with Hogan and company being just toooooo SWWWWWEEEEEEETTTT!

 

[ML29]

Actually it wouldn't make sense, why the hell would Vince give Show his job back? Storyline wise Vince, HHH and Stephanie are all on the same page. The only thing that would make sense is that Big Show looked over his "ironclad" contract before Battleground and found out that Johnny Ace gave him a bonus clause that increase his pay for every year he's employed and is truly un-fireable under his ironclad contract and he decided to grow balls and stand up to the Administration.

No. The fact that we haven't seen Vince since the Raw After Summerslam is enough to plant a seed of some discension between him and the McHelmsley couple. He can simply say that the way Hunter and Steph have been handling things has been "bad For Business". Vince turning against them is the only card they can pull to stop them. the babyface wrestlers can only do so much.

 

[Shadow]

bryan vs cena and we know how that goes

Another great match.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Actually it wouldn't make sense, why the hell would Vince give Show his job back? Storyline wise Vince, HHH and Stephanie are all on the same page. The only thing that would make sense is that Big Show looked over his "ironclad" contract before Battleground and found out that Johnny Ace gave him a bonus clause that increase his pay for every year he's employed and is truly un-fireable under his ironclad contract and he decided to grow balls and stand up to the Administration.

That works, but it makes things way too convoluted. You've now retconned his "ironclad" contact twice, and if the contract really said that, then the first retcon was pointless. "You don't really have an ironclad contract, but actually you do. We just said you didn't so you'd do our bidding for us, and then you fell for it even though you had absolutely no reason to do so."

And it would make Big Show look stupid for spending two months crying and never bothering to read the contract until three days ago.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

No. The fact that we haven't seen Vince since the Raw After Summerslam is enough to plant a seed of some discension between him and the McHelmsley couple. He can simply say that the way Hunter and Steph have been handling things has been "bad For Business". Vince turning against them is the only card they can pull to stop them. the babyface wrestlers can only do so much.

You don't even need Vince for that. Just say employee morale has dipped significantly over the last two months and investors aren't happy, so the board of directors is intervening with they way they're running things.

 

[ML29]

You don't even need Vince for that. Just say employee morale has dipped significantly over the last two months and investors aren't happy, so the board of directors is intervening with they way they're running things.

but who other than Vince would be able to step up and say something like that to them? And have it mean anything. The other authority figures are just puppets who go along with whatever steph and hhh say. The wrestlers don't have that power. And even if they do your idea Vince needs to b the one to say that.

 

[7PHX]

but who other than Vince would be able to step up and say something like that to them? And have it mean anything. The other authority figures are just puppets who go along with whatever steph and hhh say. The wrestlers don't have that power. And even if they do your idea Vince needs to b the one to say that.

Big Show could if Vince hired him as GM of RAW after he got fired as a wrestler

 

[Apex]

Hopefully Bryan is held off the title for some time... the win wouldn't be as dramatic if he were to win it for like the 3rd time in 2 months.

 

[R=G]

He has to win...Blandy can't beat him by himself. That's the point of the storyline. Now..inside the numbers..once again Bryan and Punk get the biggest numbers along with Del Rio vs Ricardo with the Cena annoucement.

Quarter-hour TV ratings for Monday's Raw following the Battleground PPV were below-average across the board. No segment during the regular portion of the show topped the "barometer" 2.0 rating in the males 18-49 demographic that we track.

Only the over-run segment - featuring the end of Team Bryan vs. The Shield and Big Show's return to knock out Triple H - scored above a 2.0. The segment scored a 2.30 rating, which was the highest over-run rating in three weeks.

During the regular portion of Raw, the show topped out at a by Supreme Savings">1.95 rating three times:

- Q3 for Brad Maddox announcing the WWE Title situation for Hell in a Cell.

- Q5 at the top of the second hour for this week's C.M. Punk-Paul Heyman segment.

- Q9 at the top of the third hour for Alberto Del Rio's match segment with Ricardo Rodriguez.

Raw quarter-hour ratings break down M18-49 by Supreme Savings">demo

Q1: Raw started slow despite being the night after a PPV. Raw scored a by Supreme Savings">1.77 rating, which was the same as last week's Q1 rating on the PPV lead-in show, for Stephanie McMahon "firing" Big Show, plus one commercial.

Q2: Raw then scored a near-show-low 1.67 rating for Dolph Ziggler vs. Damien Sandow and one mid-match commercial.

Q3: Raw jumped to a 1.95 rating for Brad Maddox's WWE Title announcement. The segment also contained a six-Divas tag match, but, looking at the minute-by-minute ratings, Maddox's announcement boosted the quarter-hour. There was also one commercial in-between segments.

The segment peaked with a first-hour-high 1.405 million viewers at 8:43 p.m. for the conclusion of Maddox's announcement setting up Booker T's campaign promo.

Q4: Raw fell back to a 1.74 rating for Los Matadores in tag action, plus two full commercial breaks.

Q5: Raw rebounded to a 1.95 rating at the top of the hour for the Punk-Heyman segment, one commercial, and the first-half of Punk & R-Truth vs. Ryback & Curtis Axel.

Q6: Raw slipped to a 1.87 rating for the end of the tag match, one commercial, and Bob Backlund's campaign promo.

The segment was boosted by the end of the tag match, which topped out at a second-hour-high 1.454 million viewers at 9:17 p.m.

Q7: Raw slipped to a 1.80 rating for the drawn-out Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston match, plus one mid-match commercial. This was the lowest-rated segment of the second hour, although the audience did increase by small numbers throughout the match.

Q8: Raw increased to a 1.86 rating for Shawn Michaels's unadvertised return to campaign for the special referee role at Hell in a Cell, plus two full commercial breaks dragging down the rating.

The segment peaked with 1.397 million viewers at 9:54 p.m. when HBK wrapped up prior to the second commercial.

Q9: Raw got a top-of-the-hour bump to a 1.95 rating for Del Rio vs. Ricardo Rodriguez and the announcement of John Cena returning to WWE at Hell in a Cell to face Del Rio. There was also one commercial.

Q10: Raw fell to a 1.72 rating for Fandango vs. Zack Ryder, one commercial, and Real Americans vs. Santino & Great Khali. The matches averaged nearly the exact same viewership in the low-end 1.1 million-viewer range.

Q11: Raw fell to a show-low 1.66 rating for the brief and interrupted Miz TV segment, various promotional videos, the McMahons and Brad Maddox backstage, and two full commercials, which affected the rating.

Q12: Raw rebounded to a 1.87 rating for the Bryan & Rhodes vs. Shield main event, plus one mid-match commercial.

Q13: Raw finished with a 2.30 rating for the end of the six-man tag main event, Big Show's return after being "fired," and Show KO'ing Hunter to close Raw.

 

[MushroomX]

You were think Big Show being employeed in the WWE for the past 14 years would have paid off his mortgage, that nikka has been around since WM 15, before then he was riding around with the now with Hogan and company being just toooooo SWWWWWEEEEEEETTTT!

"We told him to diversify his bonds, but he wouldn't listen."​