WWE RAW’s latest episode saw a couple of title matches with one title-changing hands as well. Theory beat Finn Balor to win the WWE United States Championship. WWE Raw viewership also took a plunge.
The latest episode of WWE’s red brand saw a dip in the viewership and key demo rating from the previous week. Monday’s live WWE RAW episode was seen by an average of 1.68 million viewers on the USA Network, as per Nielsen via Showbuzz Daily.
This is a significant drop from last week’s average viewers of 1.803 million which was 8.59% more than this week’s numbers.
The first hour of this week’s show drew 1.804 million viewers while the first hour of last week’s show was viewed by 1.836 million viewers.
As for the second hour, the difference was even more staggering. The second hour of this week’s episode was viewed by 1.685 million viewers while last week’s show was seen by 1.935 million.
The last hour of the show was seen by 1.456 million viewers while the last hour of the previous week was seen by 1.639 million viewers.
According to Wrestlenomics, Monday’s RAW drew a rating of 0.47 in the 18-49 key demographic. This is down by 12.96% from last week’s 0.54 key demo rating.
The 0.47 key demo rating represents 615,000 viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 which is lower by 13.38% than the 710,000 18-49 viewers that last week’s 0.54 key demo rating represented.
RAW’s rank dropped from the #1 spot that it achieved last week on the Cable Top 150 with the 0.54 rating to #3 with the 0.47 rating.
Cody Rhodes faced an opponent of Seth Rollins’ choosing in the main event. RK-Bro took on the Street Profits as the smoke lovers are not out of the title picture as yet.
Boss and Glow (Naomi and Sasha Banks) (c) beat Live 4 Brutality (Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley) to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships.
Veer Mahaan beat enhancement talent, Jeff Brooks, in a squash match.
Ezekiel beat Chad Gable by DQ after Otis attacked the former.
Street Profits (Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins) beat RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Matt Riddle) in a non-title match.
Theory defeated Finn Balor to win the WWE United States Championship match.
Cody Rhodes beat Kevin Owens by count out.
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