This week’s edition of Monday Night Raw saw a big increase in viewership from last Monday’s episode.
According to Showbuzz Daily, the episode drew an average of 2.028 million viewers on the USA Network. This is up from the 1.643 million viewers a week ago.
This was the post-SummerSlam episode of Raw and featured the first live edition in months as well as the first show to be held from the ThunderDome. WWE was also building on the hype for this Sunday’s Payback pay-per-view event.
The 18-49 demos saw hour one had 0.72 then 0.66 in hour two, and 0.62 in hour three. Here is the hourly viewership breakdown:
Hour 1 (8 pm): 2.140 million – last week: 1.730
Hour 2 (9 pm): 2.045 million – last week: 1.697
Hour 3 (10 pm): 1.900 million – last week: 1.502
WWE typically gets a big increase bump for the post-SummerSlam episode of RAW due to curiosity among fans for what happened at the event and how WWE carried out the fallout. Some of the matches featured on the card included Asuka defending the Raw Women’s Title against Sasha Banks in a LumberJack Match and Dominik Mysterio & Rey Mysterio vs. Murphy & Seth Rollins.
