Unfortunately, the hype for this year's WWE Draft didn't help
RAW's ratings on Monday. In total, the show managed to draw 2.28 million viewers, a drop from the previous week's 2.33 million viewers.
That's only a very small dip in fairness but this is a huge decline compared to the 2.67 million viewers the Superstar Shakeup episode of
RAW received back in April. The show faced stiff competition from the Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions game that drew 13.34 million viewers and the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals National League Championship game that drew 3.65 million viewers.
It appears as if the "Wild Card" rule WWE implemented killed a lot of interest in this year's WWE Draft as they've been appearing on both RAW and Friday Night SmackDown for such a long time now.
Hour one of RAW drew 2.52 million viewers, hour two did 2.32 million viewers, and the final hour (which revolved around the Firefly Funhouse segment) managed to hit the 2.00 million mark.