Brock Lesnar's Return Gives WWE Raw Huge Audience Increase

This week's Raw posted some huge numbers for WWE with a reported 4.114 million viewers in the US, which is up from 3.645 million viewers last week, according to ShowBuzzDaily.com. Raw was the number one show on cable for the night. Since Money in the Bank was an event with some interesting twists and match results that got people talking, more WWE fans were interested to see what was going to happen with the leaked return of Brock Lesnar. The show drew impressive numbers of 4.095 million viewers in hour one, 4.249 million viewers for hour two and the third hour drew 3.997 million viewers. Those numbers are even better considering that John Cena wasn't on the show. There was a show long storyline where Triple H and Stephanie McMahon told Seth Rollins they wouldn't tell him who he's facing at Battleground for the WWE Title until the end of the night. That's when Brock Lesnar showed up for the first time in nearly three months to get in Rollins' face as his next opponent. The Money in the Bank event wasn't a major show, but it was the start of some new feuds like Bray Wyatt taking on Roman Reigns and Sheamus holding the Money in the Bank briefcase opens a lot of possibilities. Kevin Owens remains a big star on Raw because of his awesome match with Dolph Ziggler and his promos, but he also drove hip-hop artist Machine Gun Kelly through a table by the ramp.