WWE Raw ratings down on Labor Day

Going against college football on Monday night, Raw dropped to 1.65 million viewers and a 0.49 rating in 18-49. The 18-49 number was the lowest since the NBA playoffs. This will be the start of Raw’s lowest ratings period for the year, which should become more evident next week going against the NFL every Monday night. We don’t have numbers for competition but the usual college football over Labor Day weekend does hurt Raw noticeably, as it did this year. Raw was down eight percent in viewers from last week and down 13 percent in 18-49. That can largely be attributed to college football and some to the holiday. This is actually more significant because it also was two days after the PLE event from Berlin, so a normal episode would have shown even more of a drop. While Labor Day often starts low and then grows in hour two, that wasn’t the case here generally. The peak here was for the Drew McIntyre-CM Punk segment at 9 p.m. (at 1.87 million viewers), while the main event of Damian Priest & Jey Uso vs. JD