WWE RAW Viewership and Key Demo Rating for the Payback Go-Home Episode

Monday’s live Payback go-home edition of WWE RAW drew an average of 1.677 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Nielsen via Wrestlenomics. This is up 5.41% from last week’s 1.591 million viewers.

For this week’s show, the first hour drew 1.737 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 1.645 million), the second hour drew 1.729 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 1.664 million) and the final hour drew 1.566 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 1.463 million viewers), according to spoilertv.com.

Monday’s RAW drew a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 key demographic. This is up 2% from last week’s 0.50 key demo rating. The 0.51 key demo rating represents 671,000 18-49 viewers, which is up 2.6% from the 654,000 18-49 viewers that last week’s 0.50 key demo rating represented.

RAW ranked #1 for the night on cable in the 18-49 key demographic with the 0.51 rating. This is up from last week’s #4 ranking.

RAW ranked #10 for the night on cable in total audience with the 1.677 million viewers. This is up from last week’s #12 ranking.

RAW drew the sixth-lowest total audience of the year so far, and the seventh-lowest key demo rating of the year so far, tied with two other episodes. This week’s total audience was below the 2022 average, while the key demo rating was above the 2022 average. This week’s RAW viewership was up 5.41% from last week’s episode, while this week’s key demo rating was up 2% from last week.

Monday’s RAW viewership was down 20.40% from the same week in 2022, while the 18-49 key demo rating was down 13.55% from the same week in 2022. The 2022 episode was the Clash at The Castle go-home show.

Monday’s Payback go-home edition of WWE RAW aired live from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee, with the following line-up announced head of time – the red brand go-home build for WWE Payback, Chad Gable vs. Ludwig Kaiser, The Viking Raiders vs. The New Day, Bronson Reed vs. Tommaso Ciampa, plus Becky Lynch vs. Zoey Stark in a Falls Count Anywhere match, which was the main event.

Below is our 2023 RAW Viewership Tracker, along with the RAW Top 10 video for this week:

January 2 Episode: 1.605 million viewers with a 0.41 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 9 Episode: 1.693 million viewers with a 0.50 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 16 Episode: 1.489 million viewers with a 0.42 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 23 Episode: 2.344 million viewers with a 0.70 rating in the 18-49 demographic (RAW 30th Anniversary