Monday Night Raw Ratings and Audience – April 16, 2018

Shake up or down? This week’s episodes of Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live have been all about changing things up. With a group of new wrestlers coming to the new shows, the interest should have been high. There was a large audience last week due to the post WrestleMania 34 shows, but it wasn’t clear how many of those casual viewers would stick around for such a big two night event as the Superstar Shakeup. So how did this week’s Monday Night Raw do?

Miss this week’s show? Here are some quick highlights:

Top 10 Raw moments: WWE Top 10, April 16, 2018

According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw drew a 1.33 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.622 million viewers. These numbers are down 9% and 8% from last week’s 1.46 rating and 3.921 million viewers. This week’s show was headlined with a ten man tag featuring a mystery partner who turned out to be Bobby Roode. Since last week’s show was a special episode, the best comparison for this week’s show would be to the WrestleMania 34 go home show on April 2, which drew a 1.19 rating and 3.358 million viewers.

Here are this week’s Raw results if you missed the show.

Opinion: Overall, this isn’t too bad at all. The problem with something like the Superstar Shakeup is you can only get so many people watching the full show. This is the kind of thing where you can just look up the results the next day and find out everything you need to know. The audience being this high is a good sign, but the real question is going to be how many people are still watching next week when things start to get back to normal. For now though, not bad.

What did you think of this week’s show? Are the numbers a good sign? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the WWE Grab Bag.

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