Monday’s Memorial Day edition of WWE RAW, featuring the women’s Last Chance Gauntlet Match with Sasha Banks winning in the main event, drew 2.494 million viewers.
This is down from last week’s 2.668 million viewers and a new viewership low for 2018. In addition to airing on Memorial Day, it faced stiff competition against Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, which averaged 14.81 million viewers.
This is the second lowest RAW viewership in history, barely beating the September 26th, 2016 show that drew 2.478 million viewers. That episode went up against the Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, which drew 30 million viewers, plus the NFL’s Monday Night Football, which drew 8 million viewers that night.
For this week’s show, the first hour drew 2.593 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 2.792 million), the second hour drew 2.591 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 2.767 million) and the final hour drew 2.300 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 2.447 million).
RAW was #4 for the night in viewership on cable, behind the NBA Playoffs, Inside The NBA Playoffs and the NBA Playoffs pre-game show. RAW was #5 for the night in the 18-49 demographic, behind the NBA Playoffs, Inside The NBA Playoffs, the NBA Playoffs pre-game show and Love & Hip-Hop.
The NBA Playoffs topped the night with almost 18 million viewers for the pre-game show and the actual game.
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