WWE Raw ratings down four percent from last week
Last night’s Raw, which was the next to last episode before WrestleMania, did 2.59 million viewers. That’s a drop of four percent from last week
The number was down 23 percent from the equivalent show two weeks out from WrestleMania last year.
Raw was sixth for the night on cable in terms of total viewers, while the same show one year ago was first.
The show started lower than it has done in recent weeks, but aside from those over the age of 50, the drops in viewers from hour one to hour three were less pronounced than in recent weeks.
The show also had no significant sports competition and beat everything on cable except news shows on Fox News.
The show had a format change experiment to more matches, but much shorter matches.
The three hours were:
- 8 p.m. 2.70 million viewers
- 9 p.m. 2.67 million viewers
- 10 p.m. 2.40 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.