Following a week where the show went against the college football championship game, Raw viewership was up almost 17 percent this Monday night, averaging 2.376 million viewers.
The episode opened with 2.548 million viewers in hour one and stayed relatively steady with 2.492 million in hour two. There was the usual big third-hour drop this week, with only 2.101 million viewers on average sticking around for the third hour and three-minute overrun.
The show averaged a 0.83 rating in the important 18-49 demo, which topped all of cable TV. It was seventh on cable in terms of total viewers, trailing only news-related programming but besting an NBA game on TNT that did just over two million viewers.
Year-over-year, Raw was down only 3.5 percent, right in the range of what the show has been averaging in recent weeks.
The 15.7 percent drop from hour two to hour three was the 10th worst the show has done since moving to three hours, so it seems as if the Lana/Bobby Lashley/Rusev saga may not have the same ratings legs as it did a few weeks ago. This week’s main event segment was Lana & Lashley vs. Rusev & Liv Morgan.
Here’s a look at the last 10 weeks of Raw viewership and their year-over-year comparisons: