By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

WWE Raw on Monday, April 9 scored a 3.10 rating, down ten percent from last week's 3.43 rating the night after WrestleMania 28.

Raw averaged 4.29 million viewers, down 15 percent from an average of 5.01 million viewers last week. Raw's first hour averaged 4.23 million viewers (down 725,000 viewers from last week's first hour) and Raw's second hour averaged 4.34 million viewers (down 720,000 viewers from last week's second hour).

Average viewership was lower than the Raw leading into WrestleMania on March 26 and the lowest viewership since early February.

On cable TV Monday night, Raw split with History Channel's "Pawn Stars" for the lead in overall viewers and key demographics. Raw was #1 among m18-34 & m12-34, but trailed Pawn Stars among adult males 18-49.

In a week-to-week comparison, Raw's demographic ratings were down half-a-ratings point in all key demos eight days removed from Mania despite Brock Lesnar officially joining WWE TV. The biggest drop-off from last week to this week was among m18-34, which was down 25 percent to the lowest m18-34 rating of the year.

Caldwell's Analysis: WWE brought in Lesnar partially to offset the post-Mania lull that happens every year, but these aren't the results WWE is looking for. Poor performance for a show featuring Lesnar's first official WWE TV appearance in eight years.

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