WWE Smackdown And Raw Ratings Both Up From Last Week
Both brands show growth, but Raw still wins.
Both Raw and Smackdown's ratings showed small but steady growth over last week's numbers, allowing the red brand to keep up its winning streak over the blue side.
Raw scored an average of 3.111 million viewers across all three hours, making it the most-watched episode since Goldberg's return six weeks earlier. Though it showed typical decline across the three hours (hour one drew 3.163 million fans, hour two drew 3.130 million, and hour three drew 3.039 million), the advertised Women's Championship main event of Sasha Banks versus Charlotte slowed the usual trickle, allowing hour three to hit more than three million fans for only the second time since football season began.
Smackdown, meanwhile, did not reach the heights of the 900th episode two weeks ago (that show scored 2.725 million viewers), but the go-home show for TLC was an improvement over last week's show, drawing 2.576 millions viewers as compared to November 22's 2.505 million. The gap between the two brands may close significantly next week, though, as Smackdown will be coming off a PPV while Raw will still be two weeks away from one.