Courtesy of PW Torch:
WWE Raw on Monday, January 30 the night after the Royal Rumble PPV scored a 3.55 rating, up 12 percent compared to a 3.18 rating last week leading to the Rumble.
It was the highest Raw rating since the night after WrestleMania 27 on April 4 last year, which scored a 3.82 rating.
— Raw averaged 5.22 million viewers, up 13 percent compared to last week’s Rumble lead-in show. It was the first time Raw cracked five million viewers since October 10 and the most overall viewers since May 23, 2011 for the first Raw after Randy Savage’s death. Beyond May 23, it was the most viewers since Edge’s retirement announcement on the April 11, 2011 Raw.
See PW Torch for the full Raw ratings report.
Also of note: SmackDown’s rating last Friday was 2.11 with 3.14 million viewers, essentially in line with prior weeks.
CB’s Slant: Nice pop for Raw following the Rumble, which is to be expected for the night after a huge PPV event but still a good sign of things to come for the Road to WrestleMania.
