This week’s edition of Monday Night Raw saw a decrease in viewership from last Monday’s episode.
According to Showbuzz Daily, the episode drew an average of 1.896 million viewers on the USA Network. This is down from the 2.028 million viewers a week ago.
It has to be noted that last week’s show not only featured the SummerSlam fallout but also was the first live edition in months as well as the first show to be held from the ThunderDome.
The 18-49 demos saw hour one had 0.63 then 0.59 in hour two, and 0.53 in hour three. This was the post-Payback episode of Raw. Here is the hourly viewership breakdown:
Hour 1 (8 pm): 2.104 million – last week: 2.140
Hour 2 (9 pm): 1.882 million – last week: 2.045
Hour 3 (10 pm): 1.703 million – last week: 1.900
Some of the matches featured on the card included a series of singles matches with the winners of those bouts moving onto the main event, which featured Keith Lee, Randy Orton, and Seth Rollins battling it out to determine a #1 contender. As a result of Orton winning the contest, he’ll challenge Drew McIntyre for the WWE Title at Clash of Champions on September 27th.
