The Rock leads to huge WWE RAW ratings

[Big Red Machine]

Source: www.F4WOnline.com


By Dave Meltzer | @davemeltzerWON | Jan 26, 2016 1:43 pm


The combination of the day after the Royal Rumble and the appearance of Dwayne Johnson led Raw to huge numbers last night, averaging 4.09 million viewers over the three hours, up 18 percent from the prior week.

For a comparison, the new audience brought in by the usual Rumble bump and curiosity of where that leads saw hour one up 10 percent from last week, so that's roughly what Raw could have been expected to do, or slightly more because last week did have that bad third hour, as compared to last week without The Rock. Where The Rock helped the numbers is that hours two (where he appeared in the last few minutes) and three (where he appeared in the first few minutes) help up far better than usual, and hour two outdrew hour one, a rarity these days.

Still, last year's post-Rumble Raw did 4.41 million viewers and a 3.27 rating for a studio show where they replayed the Rumble itself due to the blizzard.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 4.14 million viewers
9 p.m. 4.18 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.97 million viewers

[KILLdozer]

Pfffttt.

[cero2k]

8 p.m. 4.14 million viewers - waiting for AJ Styles
9 p.m. 4.18 million viewers - AJ Styles match! oh yeah, Rock is here too, let see what he does
10 p.m. 3.97 million viewers - meh....

[Big Red Machine]

10 p.m. 3.97 million viewers - meh....

Which surprised me because I figured Brock would be there, so I expected this hour to be people waiting for Brock.

[cero2k]

10 p.m. 3.97 million viewers - meh....

Which surprised me because I figured Brock would be there, so I expected this hour to be people waiting for Brock.

i realized Brock wasn't there as soon as the Wyatt match ended and no Brock, yeah that fucker is not there.

[KILLdozer]

Again-fuck the fuckin' Crock.