Viewership for This Week’s Episode of SmackDown Live Goes Up Huge

This week’s episode of SmackDown Live emanated from the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. Despite it being a taped episode, viewership goes up huge generating an average of 2.603 million viewers. This is up huge from last week’s 2.119 million viewers. A year ago, the show wasn’t even over 2 million, with 1.921 million people tuning in. Last Tuesday night’s episode of SmackDown Live featured AJ Styles defeating Jinder Mahal to become the two time WWE Champion.
On the night, SmackDown was 8th in total viewership among shows on cable and third overall in the 18-49 demographic rating.