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Ratings for the July 3rd live broadcast of Monday Night RAW took a bit of stumble compared to last week. The three-hour show averaged 2.839 million viewers, down from 2.977 million last week.

The first hour attracted an average 2.825 million viewers, which included Enzo Amore’s opening promo against Big Cass. The second hour was the most-watched hour of all cable programming on Monday with 2.912 million viewers. The third and final hour of RAW saw viewership decline to 2.780 million. The third hour featured Samoa Joe, Brock Lesnar, and later Braun Strowman.

In comparison to last week, the June 26 episode had a higher audience throughout the three hours. The first hour had 2,887 million, then increased to 3.092 million for the second hour, and finally a small drop to 2.951 million in the final hour. The main event of the June 26 episode was the Women’s Gauntlet match to determine the number one contender for Alexa Bliss’s RAW Women’s Championship.

In the coveted 18-49 age group demographic, RAW finished the night second on cable this week. It trailed Love and Hip Hop Atlanta.

While viewership did slip this week, do keep in mind it was during the July 4th holiday weekend.

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The ratings are in for this week’s WWE SmackDown Live. Following an incredibly disappointing number drawn by RAW on Monday night, SmackDown didn’t do any better. This week’s show drew 2.072 million viewers, down from 2.349 million last week (and 2.350 million two weeks ago).

There’s really no sugar-coating this number. It’s bad. Real bad. Especially considering this was the go-home show for a PPV, Monday In The Bank this Sunday. There was also no competition from the NBA or NHL this week, so there’s really no built in excuse for such a falloff in viewers. The show drew the second lowest viewership since the brand split. The only show to do worse, November 8, was the night of the U.S. presidential election.

In the 18-49 age group demographic, SmackDown was number two for the night on cable behind ESPN. The show drew a 0.63 rating in that demographic. In terms of pure viewership, SmackDown ranked 14th for the night on cable.

We will update this post with the final cable broadcast rating for SmackDown this week when it becomes available.

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This week’s WWE RAW ratings and viewership information is in. The go-home show for this Sunday’s Extreme Rules PPV event drew 2.613 million viewers. Last week’s show drew 2.615 million viewers, so WWE held their audience during the Memorial Day holiday.

While the numbers stayed roughly the same from last week, these ratings figures continue to be thoroughly underwhelming. It wasn’t that long ago where an hour dropping below three million viewers was considered drastic, and now we are routinely seeing all three hours of the show fall far below three million viewers.

The hourly breakdown this week was as follows:

• First Hour: 2.689 million viewers (2.661 million viewers last week)
• Second Hour: 2.681 million viewers (2.759 million viewers last week)
• Third Hour: 2.468 million viewers (2.425 million viewers last week)

In terms of pure viewership, RAW was the most watched show on cable television Monday night. WWE certainly benefitted from their being no NBA playoffs game this week on cable. However, game one of the Stanley Cup did air versus RAW on NBC and drew 4.854 million viewers. When it comes to the all important 18-49 age group demographic, RAW was second for the night on cable behind Street Outlaws on the Discovery Channel.

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