{"id":10483,"date":"2011-03-10T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2011-03-10T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:48:22","slug":"wwe-confirms-the-rock-for-live-raw-appearance-to-boost-tough-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/03\/10\/wwe-confirms-the-rock-for-live-raw-appearance-to-boost-tough-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Confirms The Rock For Live RAW Appearance, To Boost &#8220;Tough Enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that seems at least tangentially related to boosting interest in the launch of &#8220;Tough Enough,&#8221; WWE confirmed Thursday that The Rock will appear live on the April 4 edition of RAW.<\/p>\n<p>To be held live in Atlanta, the April 4 edition of RAW is the post-WrestleMania edition of the show and leads into the launch of WWE&#8217;s revived &#8220;Tough Enough&#8221; on USA Network.  Following the reality show&#8217;s season premiere, it will relocate to the 8PM hour as a lead-in to the weekly RAW telecast (meaning it will not have a massive WWE audience on which to draw).<\/p>\n<p>Hooking people with the premiere telecast is thus essential to the success of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Already likely to deliver well from a ratings standpoint, by promoting a live appearance from The Rock, the April 4 edition of RAW is sure to be a hit and should cross the 4.0 cable coverage rating threshold, and one would assume WWE should have no trouble retaining 50-70% of its RAW lead-in for the &#8220;Tough Enough&#8221; debut.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation of Rock&#8217;s appearance also suggests that his booked interactions with John Cena and The Miz at WrestleMania will require some degree of follow-up the next night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WWE Confirms The Rock For Live RAW Appearance, To Boost &quot;Tough Enough&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a move that seems at least tangentially related to boosting interest in the launch of &quot;Tough Enough,&quot; 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