By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet
WWE Friday Night Smackdown finished with 2.249 million viewers for Fox, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The number is up from the 866,000 viewership count from the previous week’s supersized Smackdown on FS1.
Powell’s POV: The more comparable numbers are the 2.147 million viewers and .52 rating in the 18-49 demographic drawn by the October 8 edition of Smackdown on Fox. Friday’s Smackdown delivered a .58 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which was first for the night against other broadcast network shows.
AEW has reached bottom for a wrestling show. There are 500,000 people that are going to watch wrestling no matter how bad it is. Now we just wait for WWE to continue their steady march toward 500,000 so we can see some real competition.
Shit, my old ass eyes saw 2.049 million somehow, so I didn’t realize they were up. Save this post for next week.