– Monday’s WWE RAW, featuring Braun Strowman vs. Big Show in the main event, drew 3.346 million viewers. This is down from last week’s 3.429 million viewers for the “Superstar Shakeup” episode.
For this week’s show, the first hour drew 3.405 million viewers, the second hour drew 3.469 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.165 million viewers.
RAW was #3 on cable for the night in viewership, behind behind the NBA Playoff games on TNT – Indiana vs. Cleveland and Memphis vs. San Antonio. RAW was #5 in the 18-49 demographic, behind Love & Hip-Hop, the NBA games and Basketball Wives.
– WWE announced that WWE United States Champion Kevin Owens has issued the first-ever “Face of America Open Challenge,” which will take place on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live.
– As noted, tonight’s WWE SmackDown will feature a Six-Pack Challenge with Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, Mojo Rawley, Jinder Mahal and Sami Zayn. The winner will earn a shot at WWE Champion Randy Orton. In the video below, Ziggler arrives to SmackDown and says he doesn’t understand how or why he’s in this match. He wonders if he should phone it in or give up, or actually go out and do what he knows he can do better than anyone else.
