WWE Raw viewers down this week

This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw saw a drop in viewership from last week, garnering 2.68 million viewers compared to 2.81 million viewers seven days ago. The hourly breakdown doesn’t look as bad as last week, at least:

Hour one: 2.88 million
Hour two: 2.61 million
Hour three: 2.57 million

That’s a much smaller drop in the third hour than Raw has been dealing with but the show also started with a smaller audience. Last week’s show, for instance, started with 3.14 million in hour one before finishing with 2.43 million in hour three.

Either way, the numbers remain low despite a big late push for the main event match, a Braun Strowman vs. Kane top contender bout with the winner facing Brock Lesnar for the Universal championship at Royal Rumble. A real time indication they don’t care about such a match? Enough knowledge to know a bad finish (double countout) was incoming?

Either way, the numbers tell the tale.

Lesnar, for what it’s worth, returns next week.

For complete results and the live blog for Raw this week click here. To read a complete recap and review of all the night’s events click here. For a full playlist of the show click here.