The Shield Bad For Ratings?, Pat Patterson On Roman Reigns' Suspension, WWE - UFC 200, WINC Podcast
- Despite not once mentioning Brock Lesnar's fight with Mark Hunt this Saturday at UFC 200 on television, WWE has been pushing the event pretty hard on their social media. As of this writing, there have been nearly a half a dozen tweets today about the event from the official WWE Twitter account.
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- Alfred Konuwa's latest blog at Forbes is titled, WWE's Recent Viewership Numbers Suggest The Shield Is A Ratings Disaster. It noted that RAW has garnered a historically low rating during the WWE World title reigns of Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns.
- Speaking of Reigns, we mentioned earlier that Newsweek is today running an exclusive excerpt from Pat Patterson's autobiography Accepted, in which he talks about how he helped discover Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. They will also be posting a recent interview with Patterson soon. Tufayel Ahmed, who conducted the interview, posted this teaser on Twitter with Patterson talking about Roman Reigns' recent WWE suspension.
Just had chat with @WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson. Roman Reigns' career won't suffer post-suspension, he believes. #WWE #RomanReigns
? Tufayel Ahmed (@tufayel) July 7, 2016
"He's young, people make mistakes" – Pat Patterson on #RomanReigns wellness policy suspension. #WWE
? Tufayel Ahmed (@tufayel) July 7, 2016