WWF RAW - May 14, 2001 Full Breakdown - WWF's Viewership Free Fall Continues - Vince Shuts Down XFL

WWF`s worrying viewership slide continues with the 6th straight week to see a viewership drop since peaking on the day after WrestleMania 17 averaging 5.35 million viewers on the night in the least watched regularly scheduled RAW show in years that saw it losing over 2 million viewers since April 2 in a sharper drop than any 6 week period in Nitro history
Steve Austin & Triple H hype Undertaker & Kane feud closing PPV matches at Judgment Day on Sunday with things set to go in a different direction from next Monday in an attempt to refresh and bring lost viewers back to the TV product
Steve Austin/Triple H vs. Kane main event
Undertaker being set up by Austin calling the police to tell him that his wife was involved in a car accident to take him out of the main event
Chris Benoit/Chris Jericho vs. Edge/Christian
Kurt Angle vs. Rikishi
Hardys vs. Perry Saturn/Dean Malenko w/Eddie Guerrero turning on the Radicalz
APA/Test vs. Big Show/RTC
Chyna/Lita vs. Ivory/Molly Holly in Chyna`s final RAW appearance
Rhino vs. Crash hardcore title
William Regal books himself against the now babyface Rikishi on Sunday to be confronted by GMS
Trish Stratus hype new divas DVD
SmackDown continues unusual viewership pattern with the show again dropping to a year low 3.7 rating to make it 3 of the last 5 weeks at near record low territory for SmackDown signaling on previously weekly viewers now picking and choosing specific weeks with an almost million viewers margin of casual viewers between the shows in the past 5 weeks hovering around 5.8 & 6.6 million viewers
WWF officially changes July 22 PPV name from Fully Loaded to Invasion with Jim Ross saying that he expects WCW to debut within the next two months with still no news on the status of the Time Warner contracted WCW headliners or the scheduled TNN show
Vince McMahon announces the official shutdown of the XFL in a press conference Thursday night after network TV partners NBC & UPN backed out of airing the second season to cut losses on the league and move on with full focus shifted now to the WCW relaunch in hopes of not making the same mistakes by massively hyping the debut show without following up on it after Vince McMahon`s XFL debut broadcast on NBC saw it opening huge with over 15 million viewers only for it to drop weekly to end with less than 3 million for the championship game.
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