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WWE Raw ratings rebounded this week despite competition from NBA basketball and cable news All three hours of Raw were in the top 5 cable shows this week as reported by Showbuzz Daily But what do these ratings mean? Don't worry, loyal readers The Chadster is here to break it all down for you.   The official[...]

I like to run these video highlights from WWE Raw articles every Tuesday morning to counteract all the negativity from Jude Terror during the Raw live recap Does that guy even like wrestling?! Anyway, The Chadster likes to stick to the true purpose of entertainment journalism: the shameless promotion of the subjects being covered. The official[...]

Things are already going great heading into tonight's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw I'm Jude Terror, and I'll tell you everything that happened, so you don't have to invest three hours of your life into this nonsense. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT[...]

PArticipants for the men's and women's Royal Rumble matches are still filling out. Bayley faces Bianca Belair in an Obstacle Course Challenge on Smackdown ahead of the Royal Rumble In other news, an advertisement for next week's edition of WWE Raw advertised a match between Alexa Bliss and Asuka, who viewers may remember is actually the Raw[...]

No, it's the ratings of WWE Raw, which fell by over 300,000 viewers last night despite an appearance by Triple H and the intrigue of a WWE Champion forced to quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19. The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. My friends, Triple H knows that the wrestling business is all[...]

Hours before WWE Raw went on the air last night, Drew McIntyre tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the WWE Champion to enter quarantine and forcing WWE to find a new main event for Raw, not to mention to rewrite the entire show. To replace McIntyre, WWE brought in Triple H, dispatching him to seek revenge on[...]

With WWE Champion Drew McIntyre out of action with COVID-19 and the Royal Rumble less than three weeks away, Triple H returns to Monday Night Raw to save WWE in its hour of need. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Raw Recap[...]

But I'm here to tell you about updates to upcoming WWE events after last night's episode of WWE Smackdown, including a main event match set for next Monday's episode of WWE Raw and a new Universal Championship match set for the Royal Rumble later this month. Randy Orton will get another shot at Drew McIntyre on[...]

No, The Chadster is referring to WWE Raw's return to the top of the cable ratings charts! Bolstered by the promised appearance of WWE legends including Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Torrie Wilson, WWE Raw scored its highest ratings since the start of the pandemic for the first Raw of 2021, drawing more than two[...]

Yes, my friends, I am talking about Cardi B getting namedropped by Torrie Wilson on WWE Raw last night and her subsequent reaction to said namedropping, which was totally WAP: wonderful and pure! That is what it means, right? Torrie Wilson namedropped Cardi B to get Angel Garza to stop sexually harassing her on WWE Raw But[...]

Coming off a terrible 2020, the first Raw of 2021 looks to the future by… looking to the past It's Legends Night, and WWE is hoping nostalgia can help them kick off the new year right Will it work? I'm Jude Terror This is The Shovel Let's find out. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of[...]

WWE apparently messed up the ending of the first Raw of 2021 when the show ran long and the ending had to be rushed, resulting in an incoherent challenge from Bill Goldberg in response to comments made by Drew McIntyre about WWE's legends that Goldberg interpreted as disrespectful The only problem is, McIntyre didn't make[...]

WWE Hall-of-Famer Hulk Hogan is set to return to WWE Monday Night Raw tonight for a special "Legends Night" edition of Raw as WWE hopes to ring in the new year by popping a rating using the stars of the 1980s and 1990s But when he gets there, he might not get the reception he[...]

The show also featured tributes from Lee's colleagues and videos about Lee himself. In an additional twist, Meltzer credited Lee's death for the increase in WWE Raw's ratings this week, writing: Given that the Brodie Lee story got a general public response at a similar level to deaths of Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage and Roddy Piper, and[...]

In a development that makes The Chadster think that maybe 2020 wasn't so bad after all, WWE Raw's viewership was up for the final show of the year this week Raw's viewership rose once again from it's all-time low two weeks, with Raw ending the year on a thoroughly mediocre note in terms of ratings[...]

WWE Raw rang out the new year with the final episode of 2020 last night, and WWE has now released video highlights from that show, so if you spent three hours watching it yesterday, now you can relive it all again in shorter YouTube clips The Chadster, of course, loves watching Raw twice Who wouldn't?[...]

It's time to recap the last Raw of 2020, which is fitting, because I don't really know what was worse: the year, or Raw Now it's time to look forward to 2021 and the Royal Rumble, traditionally the beginning of the best part of the year for WWE. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE[...]

Following a disastrous week that traumatized the ol' Chadster with the lowest-ever ratings for WWE Raw, things turned around in a major way this week for the WWE TLC fallout episode of The Chadster's favorite show WWE Raw gained 170,000 viewers and .12 in the 18-49 demo for a show that featured Charlotte Flair, who[...]

But how did WWE carry that momentum into Raw the next night? The Chadster has gathered some video highlights from the show WWE posted to YouTube. The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. Retribution escalated their attempts to get Ricochet to join their group on Monday Retribution's recruitment methods leave a little something to[...]

Welcome to The Shovel: WWE Raw Edition, otherwise known as the one where we get to find out whether or not Charlotte Flair is a ratings draw Here's how it works Nobody should have to sit through three hours of WWE Raw So I'll watch it and tell you what happened Then only one of[...]

Announced during tonight's Raw, Hogan, who WWE is hoping nobody remembers was captured on video delivering a virulently racist promo while banging the wife of his friend, Florida radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge, will headline a special "Legends Night" episode of WWE Raw alongside Ric Flair, Kurt Angle, Torrie Wilson, and Beth Phoenix[...]

The New Day defends the Raw Tag Team Championships against Hurt Business Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defend the Women's Tag Team Championships against Asuka and a mystery partner Randy Orton faces Bray Wyatt in a Firefly Inferno match Drew McIntyre defends the WWE Championship against AJ Styles Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship[...]

The New Day defends the Raw Tag Team Championships against Hurt Business Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defend the Women's Tag Team Championships against Asuka and a mystery partner Randy Orton faces Bray Wyatt in a Firefly Inferno match Drew McIntyre defends the WWE Championship against AJ Styles Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship[...]

I think it's finally been long enough that it will click with viewers, and the Raw ratings will go back up, right? Good match, though Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live coverage of WWE TLC I'm Jude Terror, and I spent the entire opening match eating nachos, and now I have a stomach ache. WWE TLC emanates[...]

The New Day defends the Raw Tag Team Championships against Hurt Business Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defend the Women's Tag Team Championships against Asuka and a mystery partner Randy Orton faces Bray Wyatt in a Firefly Inferno match Drew McIntyre defends the WWE Championship against AJ Styles Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship[...]

WWE Raw set a new record earlier this week for low ratings, and if Dynamite stayed close to its rating from last week, it could have beaten Raw this week And with the stronger Smackdown set to air on FS1 instead of Fox, it could have left the week wide open for Dynamite's first-ever victory[...]

After CM Punk was fired by WWE, his wife, April Mendez, worked there for a year. How did it affect their marriage?

Originally, that silly little man Chad McMahon was supposed to write this article, but when he learned that WWE Raw scored its lowest ever viewership and 18-49 demo number, he immediately locked himself in his garage with a 12-pack of White Claw seltzer and has refused to come out since Back in my days of[...]

There's just nine hours left of WWE Raw to go before 2021, and we're going to recap three of them here tonight in this very article Well, these three articles Gotta stretch the clicks out this holiday season, you know? So here's the way it works I'll watch Raw I'll tell you what you need[...]

There's just nine hours left of WWE Raw to go before 2021, and we're going to recap three of them here tonight in this very article Well, these three articles Gotta stretch the clicks out this holiday season, you know? So here's the way it works I'll watch Raw I'll tell you what you need[...]