WWE Ratings News: Monday Night Raw Down, Friday Night Smackdown Down

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WWE Monday Night Raw viewership numbers are in, and the show did fewer viewers than the week before. Despite there being no Monday Night NFL pre-season game this week (as there was last week on ESPN), the Emmy Awards on NBC were huge competition.

Raw drew 3.97 million viewers averaged over the course of three hours, but The Emmys did 15.6 million viewers. Raw was second to VH-1’s Love and Hip Hop on cable for the night.

8 p.m. 3.86 million

9 p.m. 4.06 million

10 p.m. 4.01 million

This will will likely be a rating in the 2.8 range.

Friday Night Smackdown ended up with a 1.79 rating, slightly down from the previous week’s 1.88 rating. The show averaged 2.461 million viewers across the two hours, also down from the previous week’s viewership of 2.564 viewers.

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