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News​Sports Illustrated Looks At The WWE/ESPN Relationship, WWE RAW Attendance Numbers

​Sports Illustrated Looks At The WWE/ESPN Relationship, WWE RAW Attendance Numbers

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Michael Cole announced on RAW that there were 15,615 fans in attendance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York for RAW. That was a legitimate sellout.

Sports Illustrated posted an article and video looking at the ongoing WWE/ESPN relationship. The article notes: “WWE Raw has been a top five talked-about topic over the last five weeks among SportsCenter followers on Twitter and a top 10 topic for 15 straight weeks. Outlets (and I include SI here) would be wise to cater to WWE fans when appropriate given its demos. Website editors and writers will tell you that wrestling content on sports sites draws a ton of page views. There’s no doubt that some ESPN viewers will be unhappy seeing WWE programming on SportsCenter—no, it’s not a sport—but the idea that SportsCenter is sacrosanct regarding sports-only is long gone. The show often has actors and musicians hyping product, cross-promotion with Disney entities, lists of non-note from its anchors, and various personalities screaming about something.”

It also said WWE wanting the mainstream media attention is understandable considering the the very low ratings for RAW and SmackDown as of late.

You can check out the video below:

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