**Official RAW / Smackdown Ratings**

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SmackDown Rating

Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown scored a 1.81 in the ratings, which is the same as last week. It got around 2.53 million viewers.

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Monday's WWE Raw Draws Lowest Audience of 2012

Monday's WWE Raw drew the lowest audience of the year with an average of 3.44 million viewers. The news comes just two months after the WWE's flagship drew a record low audience of 3.50 million viewers against Monday Night Football's biggest audience of the season.

Monday's first hour drew 3.58 million viewers, 3.37 million in the second hour viewers, and 3.36 million third hour.

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Cena/Main Event TNA Rating
Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Wednesday night's episode of WWE Main Event, which featured a one-on-one match between John Cena and Damien Sandow, got a 0.8 in the ratings, which is an increase from last week's rating.

This week's episode got around 1.25 million viewers compared to last week which got about 1.20 million and featured Dolph Ziggler vs. The Miz.

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This Week's Raw Ratings Breakdown
Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

This week's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw got a 2.55 in the ratings with a total of about 3.43 million viewers.

Team Hell No vs. The Prime Time Players opened the show with a 2.57 in the ratings.

The Shield attacking Team Hell No, followed by A.J. Lee vs. Tamina Snuka, gained 126,000.

C.M. Punk and Paul Heyman's interview before The Miz came out gained 24,000, but then lost nearly 215,000 when Miz came out.

John Cena/Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler/Big Show gained 138,000 for a quarter rating of 2.63, a low number.

Santino Marella vs. Damien Sandow lost another 226,000.

Alberto Del Rio vs. Sin Cara lost 121,000.

The return of WWE Chairman & CEO Mr. Vince McMahon and his segment with Vickie Guerrero gained a considerable 493,000 for a 2.73 quarter rating.

"The Viper" Randy Orton vs. Brad Maddox, followed by The Shield attacking Orton, lost 167,000.

United States Champion Antonio Cesaro/Wade Barrett/R-Truth/Kofi Kingston lost 169,000.

The final segment of the night where WWE Champion C.M. Punk was taking the lie detector test and The Shield attacked The Miz and Team Hell No made the save gained nearly 510,000 for 2.86 overrun rating.

It should also be noted that the NFL football game where the New York Giants faced the Washington Redskins got a big 11.89 in the ratings with over 16.21 million viewers. This could have, and probably did, have at least some effect on Raw's ratings.

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WWE Raw Rating; News & Notes
Source: PWTorchcom

-- WWE Raw on December 10 scored a 2.67 rating, up from last weeks 2.55.

-- Raw averaged 3.76 million viewers. 3.74 million first hour viewers, 3.88 million second hour viewers, and finally 3.67 million for the third hour viewers. Raw's top competition was the Texans vs. Patriots Monday Night Football game, which drew 14.4 million viewers

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Monday's WWE Slammy Awards Increase Raw Rating

Monday's WWE Raw which featured the 2012 Slammy Awards scored a 2.9 cable rating which is up on recent weeks. The show featured the return of several WWE legends including WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair. Hour one pulled in 4,290,000, Hour two 4,410,000 and the final hour 3,990,000.

WWE was against the least watched Monday Night Football game of the season.

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The 12/19 Tribute To The Troops show did 2,340,000 viewers.

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Big E. Langston is now listed in the Superstars section on WWE.com.

- WWE SmackDown last Friday drew 1.85 million viewers. The episode was a replay of last Tuesday's semi-live episode on the USA Network, which garnered 3.331 million viewers. The combined total between the two shows was 5.181 million viewers.

Last week's episode of WWE Raw garnered 4.23 million viewers, while the December 14th episode of SmackDown scored 2.63 million viewers.

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The Christmas Eve edition of Raw drew a 2.2 rating which shouldn't come as a surprise since it was Christmas Eve.

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Monday's episode of Raw drew a 2.31 rating and averaged 3.552 million viewers. It was the second lowest rating of 2012 for the show behind the previous week's Christmas Eve episode, which was the lowest rated show in 15 years and scored a 2.21 rating with 3.167 million viewers.

As noted earlier, the show drew 3.397 million viewers in the first hour and rose to 3.644 million in the second. Viewers once again dropped in the third hour, which garnered 3.614 million viewers. It was the 20th week in a row where viewership for the third hour was below viewership in the second hour.