WWE Raw Rating Reaches NEW Record Low

This is getting a little over-familiar.

Just a week after news broke that Monday Night Raw posted its lowest ever audience viewing figure, numbers released by Showbuzzdaily for the 1 October edition of the show revealed that audiences had plunged from 2.35 to 2.30 million for the episode headlined by The Undertaker and Kane's beatdown of Triple H and Shawn Michaels.

The numbers again peaked early and again didn't hold, with hour one's 2.5 million marginally up from last week before 2.325 and 2.081 figures in hours two and three respectively pulled the overall number down. The latter of those figures marks the 60-minute spell as one of the least-watched hours of the show in two decades.

As noted last week, the return of the NFL in recent weeks was destined to put a dent in figures - Monday Night Football on ESPN was the most-watched cable show of the evening - but the haemorrhaging of viewers in the third hour appears not to be something WWE can fix with their current creative direction.

It's possible the decision to place 'HBK' and co in the closing segment was in direct response to last week's The Shield vs. Authors Of Pain/Baron Corbin main event struggling to retain interest. On the company's official YouTube Channel, the brawl has (as of writing) already garnered 3.1million views compared to the 2.1million for last week's show-closer. However, an even lower turnout for the seniors tour on television may require yet another rethink of how they structure next week's edition to try and buck an unnerving trend.