Smackdown had more viewers but dropped in the rankings.
For the third week in a row, Smackdown viewership has been going up starting the week that Raw was at a record low. Last week had nearly 2.3 million viewers on average and this week had 2,340,000 viewers on average according to ShowBuzz Daily.
Despite the viewership going up and the 18 to 49 year old demographic being nearly the same but slightly higher, Smackdown was not ranked as high this week among original cable content. Last week the show was ranked number one and this week it's fourth.
Ranked fifth on the rankings was the debut of Miz & Mrs which has been promoted by WWE and one of the stars the Miz. The first episode was able to average 1,473,000 viewers with a .58 rating in the 18 to 49 year old demographic.
On YouTube, Randy Orton's speech at the beginning of Raw had the most views with over 800,000. James Ellsworth being fired was close with 788,000 views and Daniel Bryan confronting the Miz in the main event segment had 740,000 views. No other videos were over the 500,000 mark.
