There was a lot of curiosity heading into this week’s edition of Smackdown Live following the big angle that took place at the end of Raw when the Smackdown roster surprisingly showed up to unleash their #UnderSiege attack on Raw. Some people thought it was cool. Others thought it didn’t make a whole lot of sense. That’s why there was intrigue on Smackdown to see what they might do to explain their actions.
The start of Smackdown featured Shane McMahon talking about the attack on Raw saying that if you want to get into a fight, you might as well be the ones that start it. There weren’t any comments from wrestlers involved in the talk, though, so it was a little disappointing in that way. What wasn’t disappointing is that Smackdown’s ratings went up this week.
The Smackdown audience went up this week with 2.699 million viewers according to Showbuzz Daily. That’s really good considering they were going up against the Major League Baseball World Series as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros in game one, which did 11.5 million viewers on FOX. That’s down from last year, but still a good number obviously.
Last week’s Smackdown did 2.32 million viewers, which was below the average this time of year and then two weeks ago was 2.47 million viewers. The average is usually around 2.5 million viewers, so this week’s number was a nice jump from that.
Next week’s Smackdown has already announced three matches: Kevin Owens vs. Shinsuke Nakamura in a Survivor Series qualifying match, Bobby Roode vs. Dolph Ziggler in a 2/3 Falls match that is also a Survivor Series qualifying match and also AJ Styles vs. Samir Singh. Next week’s show could also feature the Raw roster invading Smackdown although if that does happen, WWE isn’t going to advertise that.
In closing, WWE is probably dancing about the ratings going up and we’d love to see Vince McMahon dance like heel Sami Zayn does.
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