Roman Reigns vs. Penta from RAW said to have done “phenomenal numbers” for WWE
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com discussed the Roman Reigns vs. Penta world heavyweight title match from WWE RAW. Here is what Meltzer stated…
“RAW last Monday, Roman Reigns–Penta, did phenomenal numbers, and the only show this year that beat it was the RAW after WrestleMania. It beat the RAW after Royal Rumble by a small amount, but it did beat it. It was down from the RAW after WrestleMania, but I have heard from people in the company when this thing came out and, like, there’s no denying Penta.”
“Roman Reigns and Penta as a match, I mean, everyone knows that that’s what drew the number. Here’s the thing: it drew the second biggest number of the year against a Monday Night Football game that had 23.2 million viewers. So realistically, if you take away that Monday Night Football game, it probably beats the RAW after WrestleMania. Almost certainly, actually, I would say would beat the RAW after WrestleMania.“
“This match was huge, obviously huge in Mexico, but it was huge in many countries, including countries that WWE usually isn’t huge in. So I think that there’s no doubt that when this number comes out that everybody’s looking at Penta very differently. And also, Roman Reigns as well, as far as he had a match on television that was the biggest match on television of the year for them on RAW worldwide.”