WWE RAW Viewership (12/23)

The WWE RAW viewership numbers are in.

Monday’s edition of WWE RAW averaged 1.835 million viewers in Des Moines, IA at the Wells Fargo Arena on the USA Network, which is down from 2.053 million viewers the previous week.

Here is the hourly viewership breakdown, courtesy of ShowbuzzDaily:

• Hour 1: 1.955 million – Last Week: 2.204
• Hour 2: 1.864 million – Last Week: 2.099
• Hour 3: 1.686 million – Last Week: 1.858

The episode was expected to drop in its viewership from last week as this was a taped show. In fact, it marked the second-lowest holiday week episode of the show in history as last year’s Christmas Eve show was the lowest.

In the 18-49 demos, the first hour did 0.67 while the second hour had 0.66 and 0.60 in the final hour.

The biggest competition that WWE RAW faced came in the way of an NFL regular-season game between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings that aired on ESPN did 13.556 million viewers.

Some of the matches that took place include Kevin Owens vs Mojo Rawley in a Christmas Street Fight, Bobby Lashley vs Cedric Alexander, The OC (AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson) vs Randy Orton and The Viking Raiders, Rusev vs No Way Jose, and WWE United States Champion Rey Mysterio vs Seth Rollins in the main event.