WWE Raw's Second Hour Of Historic Gauntlet Match Was Its Most-Watched Since Raw 25

As SmackDown Live keeps on staggering inventively, WWE Raw went for broke Monday night for its Elimination Chamber run home show with a wrestling-overwhelming communicate front-stacked with a two-hour Gauntlet Match. The widely praised seven-man Gauntlet Match—booked by Vince McMahon—was the longest ceaseless match in Raw history.

Gratefully, the hazard paid off as not exclusively was Raw's general viewership up 6%, with a normal of 3.282 million watchers, yet the initial two hours held unfaltering with 3.518 million watchers in the primary hour and 3.509 million watchers in hour two preceding tumbling to 2.821 for an unheralded six-lady label group coordinate in the last hour. Of note, the second hour of Raw was its most-observed second hour since Raw 25.

Notwithstanding less in-ring promos, a gauntlet-style organization and picture-in-picture backstage meetings amid matches, Raw was especially significant for the narrative of Seth Rollins' hour-in addition to execution. An Even-Steven arrange where each WWE Superstar traded aimless triumphs could have spelled fate for this communicate, yet fans in the Talking Stick Resort field progressively got behind Rollins after a couple of profession characterizing triumphs over John Cena and Roman Reigns previously tumbling to Elias.