Monday’s episode of WWE RAW dropped 634,000 viewers (almost 15%) from last week’s show.
The first hour kicked off with 3,786,000 people, fell to 3,670,000 in the second hour, and finished with a low of 3,518,000.
While it would be easy to blame the drop in viewership on RAW’s main event, which featured Big Show and Kane teaming up for the second time in the night, the show only lost 268,000 eyes from the first hour to the last, which is considerably less than most weeks.
The actual culprit for WWE’s rating woes would appear to be the new AMC series Better Call Saul – a spin-off of the hugely popular Breaking Bad – which outperformed RAW by 33% in the core 18-49 demographic. The new show premiered with a two-day run on Sunday and Monday night, and is the only series to put up the same numbers as WWE this week.
