Tuesday’s WWE Smackdown Live averaged 2.885 million viewers for USA Network, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The number was up from the 2.637 million count from last Tuesday’s edition. [Thanks to Darius]
Powell’s POV: The heavily hyped edition of Smackdown featuring the return of John Cena barley topped Monday’s Raw, which drew 2.855 viewers. We hope to have the actual rating later today.
That week’s episode of Smackdown may have been the best pro wrestling non-ppv broadcast of the year. Maybe it would benefit Smackdown to take this approach instead of having traditional PPV. Let that mess known as Raw have their PPV