By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Monday’s WWE Raw television show averaged 1.652 million viewers for USA Network, according to Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics.com. Viewership was up from the 1.581 million average from last week. Raw delivered a 0.44 rating in the 18-49 demographic, up from last week’s 0.38 rating.
Powell’s POV: Solid numbers from Raw while running opposite NBA Playoff games. Showbuzzdaily.com has not listed the chart, so it’s unclear where Raw finished in the cable ratings. The May 10, 2021 edition of Raw delivered 1.817 million viewers and a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic for the WrestleMania Backlash go-home show.
Raw, NXT, and Smackdown all up over the last week despite going up against the NBA playoffs. Why can’t that other “wrestling” company do the same?
I don’t think that it is all that important how the companies right now compare to each other. The WWE has a fairly consistent pattern of having lower viewership than the same show of the prior year; a trend that has been happening for a few years. Even the WCW Thunder shows of the early 2000’s had a higher tv rating, by quite a bit. When wrestling in this day and age can’t even do better than Vince Russo era WCW then all of them should probably focus on why that is, rather than whose weekly viewership is less futile. As if that is some kind of consolation.