Raw drew a 3.8 rating, down from the recent range of 3.9-4.1 in recent weeks. The show was doing well, building from a 3.8 opening quarter hour rating to three straight 4.0 ratings, but then it crashed around the time of the John Cena music video and numerous commercial breaks. It dropped as low as a 3.5 rating, then grew only to a 3.8 overrun rating for Shawn Michaels vs. Edge, which is bad.

 

The first hour average was 1.0 higher than the second hour. On Raw, Triple H walked off the show and said he would be missed. Although it was just a storyline scripted line, he may have bragging rights to it being true today.

 

The NBA on TNA did well, drawing a 3.0-plus rating during Raw, so that may have hurt Raw ratings, especially in the home markets for the basketball games including Detroit.

 

Credit - Torch

I'm blaming it on Christian, Shelton, Jericho & HHH all losing. Maybe not HHH as much as the other three but who the fuck cares about Kane, Edge & HBK still?

I agree that the most over guys in the tournament now being out of the picture and having little place on RAW this week probably had something to do with the low rating. I hate it when stuff like this happens though, because I'm sure it will be credited to the lack of HHH.

Who wanted to see HBK/Edge III when I and II weren't anything that great?

The street fight was pretty good, RR was not.

 

They blew their load by doing HBK/Shelton last week. They should have built that match up throughout the tourney. Putting it out there cold was stupid in hindsight.