Regardless of having some attention-grabbing matches and promising construct in the direction of Payback in September, the August 21st version of RAW noticed an enormous dip in viewers.
In response to Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics, the August 21st RAW concluded with a viewership of just one.591 million viewers. By comparability, the prior week’s episode had a viewership of 1.757 million.
The episode was outlined by a show-long storyline involving extra bickering and strife amongst members of the Judgment Day, who couldn’t appear to come back to a consensus on who would face Sami Zayn and the returning Kevin Owens within the main-event, and whether or not Damian Priest and Finn Balor have been nonetheless on the identical facet.
The present additionally featured a video from Shinsuke Nakamura explaining why he attacked Seth Rollins, GUNTHER retaining his Intercontinental title in opposition to Chad Gable, and two matches being added to WWE Payback: Rollins versus Nakamura and Rhea Ripley versus Raquel Rodriguez.
WWE RAW’s score tip to second-lowest level of 2023
Whereas there was a noticeable drop in viewers in comparison with final week’s RAW, the August 21st episode wasn’t the worst of the yr. That honor goes to the January 16th episode, which solely drew in 1.489 million viewers.
Regardless of this noticeable drop, RAW’s scores have been considerably regular over the previous few years. In response to a Fightful useful resource that has been monitoring RAW’s weekly scores since 2019, the present has remained within the 1.5 million – 1.8 million vary for the reason that starting of the COVID pandemic.
And whereas these numbers pale as compared with pre-2020 numbers that have been nicely above the two million viewer mark, WWE doesn’t look like anyplace close to susceptible to dropping any main TV offers anytime quickly.