Viewership for last week's episode of RAW was through the roof as WWE celebrated the show's 25th anniversary. Needless to say, you won't be surprised that this week's numbers were down from last Monday's 4,530,000 viewers but the company still delivered its second-biggest RAW of the year with 3,394,000 viewers. It's a huge drop but that's not a bad result by any means.
Hour one averaged 3,662,000 viewers, hour two drew 3,461,000 viewers, and the final hour of the show averaged 3,061,000 viewers. The third biggest RAW rating was 3,250,000 viewers on January 15th so it doesn't appear as if WWE managed to hook too many of the people who tuned in for that star-studded effort last week. The fallout from the Royal Rumble probably helped too.
There was no sign of Ronda Rousey on Monday but you have to believe a lot of fans tuned in hoping to see more of the former UFC fighter. We did get a lot of great matches, though, and with the Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania on the horizon, chances are ratings will remain strong.