By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Friday’s edition of WWE Smackdown on Fox delivered 1.74 million overall viewers, and a 0.4 overnight rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to Deadline.com.
Powell’s POV: Last week’s overnight numbers were 1.859 million overall viewers and a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo. Last night’s show was down presumably due to it being the Friday of a holiday weekend. Aside from the rare absence of Roman Reigns, it felt like it was business as usual for Smackdown in terms of it not coming off as a phoned in holiday weekend episode. The final numbers for Smackdown will be released next week.
Smackdown was pre-empted here in Connecticut because of The Subway Series between The Mets and The Yankees which ironically was rained out. Even with the rainout, they still didn’t show Smackdown.