With strong competition from the Emmy Awards (almost 16 million viewers), Monday Night Raw once again declined in viewers for last night's episode. This despite the fact that Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan, and Ric Flair were all advertised well ahead of time, not to mention the return of John Cena following the beating from Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.
The show did 3.97 million viewers for all three hours, down from 4.19 million last week and 4.31 million the week before.
Here's the hourly breakdown:
Hour one: 3.86 million
Hour two: 4.06 million
Hour three: 4.01 million
Next Monday night's episode of Raw will be the last before ESPN begins airing on Monday Night Football with a doubleheader scheduled for Sept. 8 featuring NY Giants vs. Detroit and San Diego vs. Arizona.
For complete results and the live blog from Raw click here. For a full recap with reactions click here. To watch the show click here. Check out Cageside Live reviewing the show here.