WWE Ratings Roundup: Monday Night Raw Finishes Second Behind Pawn Stars, SmackDown Up Again

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The History Channel’s Pawn Stars trumped Monday Night Raw yet again for the top spot in the Monday night cable ratings war.

Raw did finish #2 for the night, scoring a 3.25 rating with 4.62 million viewers. This is down from last week’s 3.55 rating (5.245 million viewers) that was the post-Royal Rumble episode.

Meanwhile, last Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown notched a 2.15 rating — up from last week’s 2.11 — and garnered 3.194 million viewers. Last year at this time, SmackDown drew a rating of 1.94 for its first February show of 2011.

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