The 9/26 Monday Night Raw Ratings Are In

After Clash of Champions 2016, one of the big questions was how bad could the ratings get for this week’s Monday Night Raw. Not only was Monday Night Football looming as always, but there was the first Presidential debate between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, which was possibly going to attract Super Bowl numbers.

According to a report from Wade Keller’s Pro Wrestling Torch, the ratings are in and…they’re actually not horrible. The show scored a 1.75 overall rating, down about eleven percent from last week’s show. There was an average of 2.478 million viewers, down just over 200,000 from last week or about eight percent. To put this in perspective, Monday Night Football was down a staggering thirty three percent.

Overall, this is somehow a positive sign for WWE. Yes the rating was horrible and one of the all time worst, but it could have been WAY worse. This is an instance where you can almost entirely blame the ratings on something outside WWE’s control because people were going to watch the debate like almost nothing else over the entire year. Monday Night Raw did badly last night but it wasn’t the catastrophe they could have, and probably should have, expected.

How should WWE take this rating and viewership? Let us know in the comments below.