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The Highest Rated WWE segment of all-time is NOT Rock/Foley "This Is Your Life"

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc..._match_is_the/ Meltzer says that the reason the Rock / Foley segment is pushed so hard as the highest RAW rating is that WWE doesn't want to make it seem that a wrestling match can draw more than a skit, Alvarez says it's because Vince Russo always claimed that and people started to believe it. A match where Steve Austin won the WWF title from The Undertaker in Charlotte drew the largest rating and audience to ever witness a pro wrestling match or for that matter, any pro wrestling segment, ever on U.S. cable television. The match did a 9.5 rating, which was 10.72 million viewers. Perhaps the most impressive is that one out of every six television sets in the U.S. that had cable that was on during that time was watching that match. Because for more than a decade, Vince Russo has made it a talking point to say how the “The Is Your Life: Rock,” segment was the highest rated segment in history (it did an 8.4 quarter), to show how skits outdraw matches, it’s become a talking point how that was the highest rated segment in Raw history. Actually there were a handful of different quarter hours that beat that total, including most of the second hour of the May 10, 1999 show.