Raw Rating: Up against Monday Night Football, it’s mixed signals for WWE this fall season (w/Keller’s Analysis)

Monday’s episode of Raw (9/11) drew a 1.97 rating, down from last week’s 2.09 rating and well below the ten-week rolling average of 2.14. It’s the first rating under 2.00 since July 3 and one of only three instances since the beginning of June.

This week’s rating beat the year-ago rating of 1.88, which also took a big dip against the debut of Monday Night Football on ESPN. Last year the rating went from a 2.11 to 1.88. This year it dropped from 2.09 to 1.97, so they actually held more of the audience than last year.

The average rating for 2017 so far is 2.12, and the average rating for 2016 so far was 2.36, so they’ve experienced a big drop.

Keller’s Analysis: Moving John Cena to Raw and featuring Braun Strowman vs. Cena for the first time and having Brock Lesnar on the program paid off in the sense that the dropoff this year up against the NFL was just 0.12 compared to last year of 0.23. It’s key to watch whether there is a bigger dropoff next week without as loaded of a line-up.