Razão pela qual Bad News Barrett parou de trazer "más notícias"

WWE has lost its actual paying consumers it appears. Half of WWE's viewership audience don't even bother attending shows anymore, the ones that show up are marks who don't pay for shit. Majority of the smark fanbase, who are very vocal and dare I say pathetically passionate("You deserve it" chants at Bryan, seriously? I don't remember even Austin, arguably biggest draw in history, ever receiving these. Again, makes you wonder if fans are so passionate why isn't Bryan capable of doing numbers even above the normal levels?), seem to dominate live events in this era, and it makes sense since most of them fall into 18-39 age group, generally left-overs from the attitude era/New gen Era, but most importantly this tells you why crowd reactions of this smarks driven era don't translate to money.

The latest breakdown of the TV viewers of Raw, Smackdown and Total Divas is this. The average viewer is 41.4 years old, so viewership is getting older, not younger. Because of the preponderance of viewers over the age of 50, that neither UFC nor soccer have to anywhere near this degree, the wrestling audience skews older than both, but still younger than most other sports not mainstream. The audience is 63% male (Total Divas skews that number as it would be closer to 68% for Raw and Smackdown).

The viewership is 19% under the age of 17, 21% between 18-34, 22% between 35-49 and 37% over the age of 50. Once again it shows if you ever attend a live event how the TV viewership does not even come close to reflecting the live crowd. In most sports, the live crowd reflects the viewership but Pro-wrestling doesn’t do a good job of getting half of its audience base to attend events.

Ironically, anyone who has attended wrestling historically over time would know that it wasn’t that case in other generations as there were millions of older fans who would fill arenas and now virtually none attend.