WWE Raw ratings down big following Superstar Shakeup
Raw last night fell down to well below its pre-WrestleMania season levels with 3.09 million viewers, down 14 percent from the Superstar Shakeup show the week before.
Not including the unusually large numbers from the past two weeks, Raw had been doing consistently well above 3.3 million viewers. This is also the time of the year, with the NBA playoffs, that the show starts declining.
Raw was fourth for the night, including trailing NBA games between the Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves and the Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz that did 3.49 million and 3.87 million viewers.
It also had a 12 percent drop from hour two to hour three, which is back to normal patterns.
Raw averaged 3.62 million for last week’s Superstar Shakeup episode and 3.90 million for the night after WrestleMania.
The three hours for last night were:
- 8 p.m. 3.28 million viewers
- 9 p.m. 3.21 million viewers
- 10 p.m. 2.82 million viewers
Dave Meltzer is the founder and lead writer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the weekly constant when it comes to news and reviews in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts for more than 40 years. Dave also co-hosts Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and had had bylines for The National, Yahoo Sports, MMA Fighting and others.