The Mixed Match Challenge has been a lot of fun but the fact it's mostly played for laughs and doesn't really have any consequences has seemingly soured a lot of wrestling fans on the premise. After all, that could explain why viewership for the Facebook Watch show has been falling on a weekly basis and Dave Meltzer is now reporting that WWE officials are unhappy with those numbers.
"Mixed Match Challenge dropped greatly in viewership," he explains. "Even before this week’s numbers came in, we had heard that they were very unhappy about the huge drop from week one to week two and key people were already souring on it." That probably means this will be discounted as a failed experiment by WWE and that we won't see it happen again.
"The second show as really bad," Meltzer added, no doubt referring to Braun Strowman flirting with Alexa Bliss. "This week’s show felt like a harmless gimmick show but there feels like no important reason to watch." He makes a good point and if this proves anything, it's that WWE is going to be best off remaining on network or cable television as opposed to a streaming service.