Smackdown Rating: Ouch

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

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Against heavy competition from the NBA playoffs and network TV season finales, Tuesday night's SmackDown averaged just 2.195 million viewers, the lowest number of 2018.

Aside from Halloween night, it was the smallest audience for the show since June 13th of last year.

[mrbananagrabber]

Shame. Good show this week.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Backlash really hurt WWE in the ratings.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

If the number dips much lower, by the time it gets to Fox each watches-every-damn-week viewer will be worth about two million dollars apparently.

[Nosnorb]

When the writing is shite and you have a main event scene in which the challenger chokes every time he steps up to the plate and is given chance after chance, that is what happens.

[Krazee]

thats f***ed up

i felt it was a great show this week

[GuyOfOwnage]

Damnit. The first great show in a while is also one of the lowest rated. And while there are totally justifiable reasons for it, you just know they're going to go back to the usual bullshit in response.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

They're about to move to Fox, so I suspect there might be a better average at least. Probably a big jump night one that tails off.

[RedSmile]

Smackdown is routinely considered, and treated as, the B-show, and its quality has long been inconsistent.

It has a reputation. Moving networks and to Friday nights will not be a magic fix, IMO. They're going to have to be some considerable changes in philosophy and priorities when it comes to Smackdown, in the coming months, or it will continue to struggle.

[Dub H]

Aint that a punch to the nuts

[Raw is Doodie101]

Shrug. Makes sense. Game 4 was the first NBA playoff game of the conference finals to be close. So it did a huge rating and Smackdown suffered. I don’t think it’s any factors about the quality or the B show stuff. Just a good game was on.

[Abdullah]

May 24, 2018 17:16:17 GMT -5 Raw is Doodie101 said:

Shrug. Makes sense. Game 4 was the first NBA playoff game of the conference finals to be close. So it did a huge rating and Smackdown suffered. I don’t think it’s any factors about the quality or the B show stuff. Just a good game was on.

I was expecting this to be mentioned much sooner.

If this repeats next week, especially given the promotion of Joe/Bryan, then there might be a story here.

[Johnny Flamingo]

Lesnar as champ combined with Backlash has absolutely killed my interest in the product right now. Really a shame as I am borderline obsessed with pro wrestling.

[RadcapRadsley]

What a non shock the ratings go down when your most Money Star on the roster Carmella isn't even in a match

[BigAl]

May 24, 2018 18:28:51 GMT -5 RadcapRadsley said:

What a non shock the ratings go down when your most Money Star on the roster Carmella isn't even in a match

Don't give them ideas

[111111]

May 24, 2018 16:06:46 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

They're about to move to Fox.

They're not moving to fox until October 2019

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

May 24, 2018 17:16:17 GMT -5 Raw is Doodie101 said:

Shrug. Makes sense. Game 4 was the first NBA playoff game of the conference finals to be close. So it did a huge rating and Smackdown suffered. I don’t think it’s any factors about the quality or the B show stuff. Just a good game was on.

Yea, pretty much this

It's the NBA playoffs and NHL playoffs so expect the ratings to not be steady if the game is on those days

[Deleted]

People probably saw that Lashley segment the day before and decided to not watch wrestling anymore.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

FOX: Well... SHIT...

[Deleted]

May 24, 2018 20:43:20 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

People probably saw that Lashley segment the day before and decided to not watch wrestling anymore.

I watched it and don’t want to get out of bed anymore.