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WWE Chairman Vince McMahon 'not sweating' about viewership numbers

RAW: 1.628 million

— Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) July 21, 2020

WWE RAW and WWE SmackDown viewership numbers have not been great lately but Vince McMahon is reportedly not sweating on the numbers. As per WrestlingNews.co, the WWE Chairman feels that the numbers will jump back over 2 million soon and should be back to normal by SummerSlam. Their report read:

“Vince is doing what he can by putting on PPV matches on Raw and SmackDown but USA and Fox are happy and everyone knows things will get better when we can get some people back at arenas. This is what he thinks right now and he’s not sweating these numbers.”

Dave Meltzer of WON also commented on the drop in ratings and mentioned that Big Show vs Randy Orton was switched to WWE RAW to try and boost the ratings. It was reportedly planned for SummerSlam but the change was made to improve the ratings. He said:

''With RAW ratings declining so significantly, the Big Show vs. Randy Orton match will air on the 7/20 Raw show in an unsanctioned match. That does make sense because that match isn’t going to add any network buyers, which is how you make money today off a PPV, but after this past week’s record low, Show vs. Orton should avert coming even close to another record low next week. At least they’d better hope for that, because it will be scary if they put that match on television and don’t get a significant improvement.''