The rankings for this week’s episode of WWE RAW are in, and so they took a large hit. The decline in rankings for the pink model have been possible resulting from going up towards two NFL soccer video games on Monday night time.
The Nationwide Soccer League season has formally begun, and there have been two Monday Night time Soccer video games final night time. There’s usually just one soccer recreation towards RAW, so this was a very powerful week for the pink model.
In keeping with Brandon Thurston of WrestleNomics, final night time’s episode of RAW introduced within the lowest variety of viewers since July 4th. The September nineteenth version of WWE RAW averaged 1.593 million viewers and garnered a 0.45 (583,000) in the important thing 18-49-year-old demographic.
Whereas WWE RAW suffered a 7% drop in complete viewership final night time, the present managed to get a barely greater ranking in the important thing demo than final week. Monday’s present opened with 1.709 million viewers within the first hour after which fell to 1.449 million within the last hour.
What occurred on this week’s WWE RAW?
Bobby Lashley defended the US Championship towards Seth Rollins to start the present. Matt Riddle interfered within the match and Bobby capitalized with a Spear to retain the title through pinfall. Seth and Riddle brawled backstage and a Battle Pit match was introduced for Excessive Guidelines subsequent month.
Harm CTRL drove to the ring in a cart and celebrated with the Ladies’s Tag Staff Championships. RAW Ladies’s Champion Bianca Belair, Asuka, and Alexa Bliss interrupted their promo. Alexa leveled Bayley with a punch to the face and The Function Mannequin later battled her in the principle occasion.
Austin Concept squared off towards Kevin Owens. Concept tried to make use of his MITB briefcase as a weapon however Johnny Gargano ripped it away. Owens then hit the Pop-Up Powerbomb for the pinfall victory. Gargano & Owens versus Alpha Academy was introduced for subsequent week’s episode of WWE RAW.
The Brawling Brutes picked up a victory over The Avenue Earnings. Ridge Holland and Butch are set to battle The Usos for the Undisputed Tag Staff Championships this Friday on SmackDown.
Dominik Mysterio defined turning his again on his father and his choice to affix The Judgment Day. Damian Priest and Finn Balor then defeated Matt Riddle and Rey Mysterio in a tag workforce match. Through the match, Dominik dared his father to hit him with a chair and Balor capitalized on the distraction with the Coup de Grace for the pinfall victory.
The Miz and Tommaso Ciampa had Dexter Lumis on an episode of Miz TV. He reduce by means of the underside of the ring and The A-Lister ran away. Finn Balor tried to recruit AJ Kinds to The Judgment Day backstage however The Phenomenal One declined.
Bayley defeated Alexa Bliss in the principle occasion. After the match, Harm CTRL attacked and the RAW Ladies’s Champion rushed to the ring. Bayley hit Bianca Belair with the Rose Plant and challenged her to a title match at Excessive Guidelines to shut the present.
WWE’s rankings have been going up as of late, however that pattern has stalled as a result of return of soccer. Solely time will inform if the corporate can carry again a number of the viewers misplaced for subsequent week’s episode of WWE RAW.
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