This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw drew an average of 1,735,000 viewers, up 172,000 viewers from the 4th of July episode.

Raw started with 1,723,000 viewers, and then increased to 1,798,000 viewers in the second hour, before ending the night with 1,684,000.

Raw was #1, #2, and #3 in the top 50 cable chart for the night among the 18-49 demo with 0.46, 0.44, and 0.43 ratings respectively for an average of 0.44, up from the 0.37 of last week. Raw was only beaten by an episode of The Bachelorette on ABC in all of network and cable television on Monday. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)