Last week’s episode of Raw suffered a drop in the viewership, but it appears that the big returns and multiple Shield segments helped the viewership to stay steady this week.

The episode featuring Braun Strowman vs. Finn Balor and the locker room heels unleashing a beatdown on the Shield recorded 2.872 million viewers.

This is only a slight downgrade from last week. As noted before last week’s episode of the show featuring Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman vs. Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler drew a total of 2.877 million viewers.

The interesting thing to note here is that the third hour of Raw which is usually the lowest watched hour of the show did better in comparison to previous weeks.

The first hour of this week’s episode of the show drew 2.945 million viewers and the second hour drew 2.933 million viewers. In comparison, last week’s episode had drawn 3.076 million and 2.927 million viewers respectively.

The third hour, however, saw a slight increase in the viewership compared to last week and it drew 2.740 million viewers which is up from last week’s 2.630 million viewers.

Though it’s worth mentioning here that next week’s episode of the show will have more competition than this week due to the beginning of pro football season so it’s possible that the overall numbers will see a more significant drop.