Backstage Struggle Between McMahon & Triple H, Scary SmackDown Rating, More

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-- During his absence from television, Triple H has been helping out behind the scenes at weekly Raw tapings. However, one source said Triple H is not as passionate about the product when he's not involved, and the feeling of more than one person is that Raw has featured more comedy as of late because he and Shawn Michaels are not around to lobby against skits in production meetings. If you recall, it was reported a few months ago that Triple H and Michaels were being praised internally for speaking out against the campy comedy McMahon seems to enjoy.

-- Last week's episode of Friday Night SmackDown drew an anemic 1.6 broadcast rating, tying a series worst on myNetworkTV. The show even featured their top program in a one-on-one match as Jeff Hardy took on Edge in a Winner chooses the Stipulation for Extreme Rules Championship Match.

-- Considering Wrestlemania XXV performed so well on pay-per-view in Mexico, more cable systems in Mexico plan on offering more WWE pay-per-view events. For years, all WWE pay-per-view events had been airing on regular television in Mexico because people aren't culturally used to paying for wrestling on television.

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triple h has been "helping" explains why kendrick and young talent bieng buried and why its been shit

also who moved the discussion forums to the top a while back i hated it know i must say its rather lovely

I Think Disco did, it make's the discussion look like the priority though, which is good.

It was my idea.

That explains why Batista is in the Main event 2 ppvs running.

What is said though makes perfect sense, when Michaels and Haitch are involved things do run a lot more smoother, take them out of the equation and we get what we have been getting, its no mistake that RAW has been dire since WrestleMania, which also happens to be the last time Michaels was at work

They obviously understand what the fan wants these days better than Vince does.

I'm really worried that WWE will start changing Smackdown, which has been brilliant, for these pretty much unexplainable ratings.

The ratings are not really that unexplainable in my opinion, think about it, America, their target audiance, are the last English speaking nation in the world to see their own product, Australia get it, we get it and every other English speaking country gets it first, also, its on YouTube up to 17 hours before it airs in the states, its on in a Friday Night too which is also known as the graveyard slot, it has no real star name attractions to kids/marks who only understand the good/bad side of the business and not what a heel like Jericho or Edge can produce entertainment wise

If SD was moved to a Wednesday Night and a different channel it would be hitting 3.0s no problem, the fact of the matter though is that Vince for some reason wants it their, probably as to not be seen as outshining his 'flagship' show

I agree moving it to a better slot but they should also make it live so people can't just watch it online before it's shown on TV.

On the rating's, this My Network TV station isn't widely available in the US as UPN or any other station's that SD have run on in the past, it was a pretty dumb move going over imo, they could've got a better network to pick them up.