WWE RAW Viewership Drops Again With Eight-Man Tag Team Main Event, Competition From The NFL

Monday's WWE RAW, featuring RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose teaming with The Hardys to defeat Cesaro, Sheamus, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in the main event, drew 2.903 million viewers. This is down 1% from last week's 2.932 million viewers for the Labor Day edition of the show. RAW also features John Cena vs. Braun Strowman, Jason Jordan vs. Roman Reigns and an appearance by WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar advertised ahead of time.

For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.022 million viewers, the second hour drew 2.987 million viewers and the final hour drew 2.699 million viewers. The drop from the first hour to the third was 11%.

RAW was #3 in viewership and #3 in the 18-49 demographic for the night on cable, behind NFL regular season coverage on ESPN.

Below is our 2017 RAW Viewership Tracker:

January 2nd Episode: 3.046 million viewers
January 9th Episode: 2.907 million viewers
January 16th Episode: 3.271 million viewers
January 23rd Episode: 3.292 million viewers
January 30th Episode: 3.615 million viewers
February 6th Episode: 3.115 million viewers
February 13th Episode: 3.087 million viewers
February 20th Episode: 3.216 million viewers
February 27th Episode: 3.093 million viewers
March 6th Episode: 3.216 million viewers
March 13th Episode: 3.232 million viewers
March 20th Episode: 3.048 million viewers
March 27th Episode: 3.292 million viewers
April 3rd Episode: 3.767 million viewers
April 10th Episode: 3.429 million viewers
April 17th Episode: 3.346 million viewers
April 24th Episode: 3.007 million viewers
May 1st Episode: 2.87 million viewers
May 8th Episode: 2.696 million viewers
May 15th Episode: 2.751 million viewer
May 22nd Episode: 2.615 million viewers
May 29th Episode: 2.613 million viewers
June 5th Episode: 2.994 million viewers
June 12th Episode: 2.542 million viewers
June 19th Episode: 3.102 million viewers
June 26th Episode: 2.976 million viewers
July 3rd Episode: 2.839 million viewers
July 10th Episode: 3.009 million viewers
July 17th Episode: 3.153 million viewers
July 24th Episode: 3.067 million viewers
July 31st Episode: 3.163 million viewers
August 7th Episode: 3.240 million viewers
August 14th Episode: 3.233 million viewers
August 21st Episode: 3.404 million viewers
August 28th Episode: 3.304 million viewers
September 4th Episode: 2.932 million viewers
September 11th Episode: 2.903 million viewers
September 18th Episode: