Also, It looks like WWE may have confused themselves with their renaming and shuffling of PPV events. In today's second quarter numbers, WWE compared Extreme Rules 2010 (held on April 25th) with Extreme Rules 2009 (held on June 7, 2009). Given the dates of the PPV events, Extreme Rules for this year should really be compared to Backlash 2009, which was previously the end of April PPV offering.
Here is a breakdown of WWE's second quarter PPV events over the last three years (with the numbers as they were reported at the end of the quarter by WWE).
April PPV
Extreme Rules | April 25, 2010 | 182 |
Backlash | April 26, 2009 | 182 |
Backlash | April 27, 2008 | 200 |
May PPV
Over The Limit | May 23, 2010 | 197 |
Judgment Day | May 17, 2009 | 228 |
Judgment Day | May 18, 2008 | 252 |
Early June PPV
No early June PPV in 2010 | ||
Extreme Rules | June 7, 2009 | 213 |
One Night Stand | June 1, 2008 | 194 |
Late June PPV
Fatal Four Way | June 20, 2010 | 143 |
The Bash | June 28, 2009 | 178 |
Night Of Champions | June 29, 2008 | 273 |
Buck Woodward and I will have full analysis of WWE's second quarter numbers on today's No Name Show.
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