By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
WWE Friday Night Smackdown delivered 2.166 million viewers for Fox, according to the overnight numbers listed by Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was up from the 2.145 million viewers drawn by last week’s show (the overnight number last week was 2.051 million viewers). Friday’s first hour delivered 2.153 million viewers, and the second hour produced 2.179 million viewers.
Powell’s POV: Smackdown finished with a .7 in the adults 18-49 demographic, and finished third in the men 18-49 demographic in Friday’s broadcast television ratings. The final Smackdown viewership numbers will be available on Monday.
WWE got a million more viewers for smackdown than aew received for washed up nba legend shaq’s “wrestling show”. I like how shaq acted like he was sleeping after he took his “bump” through the fake table.
Wwe has never been as week as they are right now, and yet aew has yet to really put a major dent in Vince’s company.
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People complain about wwe mishandling of their wrestlers, which is completely valid, but aew hasn’t been much better outside of Jon Moxley and a few others.
The funny thing is that WWE is as strong as ever from a financial stanpoint. wwe is making more money than ever in its entire history.
The wrestling media only focuses on “ratings” and “demos” and on aew signing every ex wwe has been on the planet.
The wrestling media has an anti wwe bias especially the wrestling observer courtesy of dave meltzer and bryan alvarez.