RAW Viewership Back Up Over 3 Million For Great Balls Of Fire Aftermath
Last night's episode of Monday Night RAW, featuring the aftermath of WWE Great Balls of Fire pay-per-view event and a confrontation between Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, and Samoa Joe mediated by Kurt Angle, drew 3.009 million viewers, according to ShowBuzz Daily. This is up almost 6% over the 2.839 million viewers that watched last week's show.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.049 million viewers, the second hour was slightly up at 3.074 million viewers and the final hour dropped to 2.905 million viewers.
The MLB Home Run Derby was a huge hit, runnning away with the top spot on cable and 8 million viewers. RAW came in at #4 in viewership for the night, behind the Derby, the Derby Preview and the MLB Celebrity Softball game. RAW came in at #6 in the highly coveted 18-49 demographic, behind the Derby, the Celebrity Softball game, Love & Hip-Hop, the Derby Preview and Basketball Wives.