5 Reasons why WWE's ratings dropped again this week (10-16 June 2019)

#3 NBA finals

WWE knew they had no chance of going up against The NBA finals.

Another thing The WWE Universe needs to be honest about is the fact that Monday Night Raw was actively competing with several shows this week and will continue throughout the year.

Unfortunately for the company, they found themselves up against a crucial game five in The NBA finals, which saw The Golden State Warriors come back to win their second game in the series.

Adding to the importance of the pivotal championship series was the fact that Warriors star, Kevin Durant was returning from injury in order to help his team win the championship from a 3-1 deficit. With that in mind, WWE was up against a championship series with its share of important storylines and probably would have lost viewers no matter what it did.

According to Variety.com, "Game 5, which ended on the incredibly tight score of 106-105 in favor of the Warriors, scored a 5.2 rating in the key 18-49 demographic, and 14.3 million total viewers. Those figures are up a substantial 36.5% on Game 4’s rating of 3.3 and 32.5% on the total viewership for Game 4 which stood at 9.65 million total viewers."

With that being said, Monday Night Raw, only drew a 2.12 this week, and interestingly enough, steadily lost viewership as the night went on.

This is believed to be due to The NBA Finals taking part during that portion of the show, leaving WWE with just over 2 million in its second hour and less than that amount in its third hour of programming.

In the end, WWE was going to lose viewers to The NBA finals no matter what and Kevin Durant's return and the nature of the series only decreased their numbers.

Fortunately for WWE, the series came to an anti-climatic end Thursday night, with the Raptors winning the series, 4-2, which means that The NBA will no longer be a threat in the ratings.