WWE Not Happy With Mixed Match Challenge Viewership

According to the Wrestling Observer (via wrestlinginc.com), WWE is reportedly unhappy with the drop in live viewership for the Mixed Match Challenge series on Facebook watch. Live viewership dropped about 32% from the premiere episode, from a peak of about 132,600 viewers for Week 1 to 92,000 for Week 2. Week three peaked at around 62,400 viewers, a decline of 54% from the premiere episode and 32% from Week 2. Total views are 1.9 million views after 18 days (Finn Balor and Sasha Banks vs. Shinsuke Nakamura and Natalya), Week 2 has drawn 1.7 million views after 11 days (The Miz and Asuka vs. Big E and Carmella), and Week 3 has drawn 1.6 million views after 4 days (Braun Strowman & Alexa Bliss vs. Sami Zayn & Becky Lynch).

Opinionated View- Of course viewership isn't doing well. It's a some what interesting idea doing a mixed challenge but they went about it all the wrong ways. The teams are awful. Finn Balor got stuck with fucking Banks and could you think of a worse 3 to put on a debut than Botchy Banks, Stalling Nattie, and the Anine Pervert Nakamura? Week 2 I sure as fuck don't want to see more Miz, Askua, Big E, and Carmella. Now week 3 you have three great talent but than you add in god damn over exposed Strowman you wreck it.

Add into that you are putting this on after Smackdown. You have 3 hours of Raw on Monday and 2 hours of Smackdown and a hour of 205 Live so you are asking people to watch another half hour of wrestling. You would have to the biggest sheep of all the big sheep to watch this show? Also it wouldn't shock me of people that Network subscribers aren't to happy about having to long onto Facebook something they could put on the network. And yes I know the went to facebook due to the TV deals coming up but still when you pay for something already it kind of ticks you off that its not just part of the network.

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