Jon Moxley's vignette has now been viewed by more people than watched Raw this past Monday night.

The worth of WWE is clearly measured in a number of ways. That's why it can be so difficult to tell whether the company is in trouble or not. Last year, Vince McMahon sealed billion-dollar-plus deals for both Raw and SmackDown Live. The chairman can also boast the most talented roster in the promotion's history, although doesn't seem to know how to use it a lot of the time.

That leads us to the number one reason why fans believe WWE is failing, and fast. Viewership. The powers-that-be can only point to DVR's and streaming services for so long. While the shorter and more entertaining SmackDown Live appears to be holding steady ratings-wise, Raw continues to drop to record lows.

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This past week, only 2.158 million people watched Raw live according to Forbes. Not only is that a far cry from the five or six million viewers the show would get during the Attitude Era, but it is the lowest viewership the show has had so far in 2019. To put it into perspective, Dean Ambrose's Jon Moxley vignette has been viewed a whopping 2.63 million times at the time of typing this.

That's almost half a million more viewers than Raw received on Monday. Now, we know this isn't exactly the fairest of comparisons. Although we previously pointed out that WWE can't continue to point to more and more people not watching things live, more people will have watched Raw this week in total than have seen the Moxley video. That being said, Ambrose/Moxley should be extremely proud of the interest his return to the indy scene has already generated.

WWE needs to return to a time when its live shows were appointment viewing. The way its ratings are going at the moment, there is really no point in Raw and SmackDown being live each week. We can't imagine Fox and USA Network are enamored with the downward spiral viewership is taking right now either. We think it's time to ease off on the social media push and focus more on making sure fans feel the need to watch WWE's flagship shows live each and every week.

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