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The numbers are in for this week’s edition of WWE SmackDown Live. Smackdown finished with 2.530 million viewers on Tuesday night, good enough to finish as the fifth watched show on cable television in the Tuesday night ratings.

This number was down every so slightly from last week’s broadcast, which garnered 2.584 million viewers. SmackDown did finish number one for the night in the all important 18-49 age group demographic. It finished the night with 0.77 rating in that demo, down from last week’s 0.80.

SmackDown was defeated in overall viewership this week by the Rachel Maddow Show (3.297 million) on MSNBC, The Last Word with Laurence O’Donnell (2.785 million) on MSNBC,  Hannity (2.675 million) on FOX News, and Tucker Carlson Tonight (2.596 million) on FOX News.

SmackDown was the final cable broadcast before this Sunday night’s SummerSlam PPV. It was headlined by WWE Champion Jinder Mahal taking on John Cena. The match ended in a no contest after Baron Corbin interfered, cashed in his Money In The Bank briefcase, and was then pinned by Mahal.

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This week’s WWE SmackDown ratings and viewership information is in. The August 1st broadcast of SmackDown Live on the USA Network averaged 2.569 million viewers, which was enough to be the third most-watched cable program on Tuesday behind the Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight (2.643 million viewers) and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show (2.571 million viewers). Last week, SmackDown Live averaged 2.535 million viewers.

Last night’s SmackDown Live was an action-heavy show with WWE United States Champion AJ Styles successfully defending the title against Kevin Owens. Since there was another controversial finish, Owens will have a rematch against Styles at WWE SummerSlam on Sunday, August 20th, with SmackDown Live Commissioner Shane McMahon as the special guest referee. Last night’s show also featured the first-ever John Cena vs. Shinsuke Nakamura match to determine the No. 1 contender for Jinder Mahal’s WWE Championship. Nakamura won the match and will meet Mahal at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

SmackDown Live did win the important 18-49 year-old demographic. The blue brand comfortably snagged a 0.76 rating in the important demographic for advertisers, ahead of OWN’s Haves and the Have Nots (0.59 rating).

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The ratings are in for this week’s WWE SmackDown Live. Following an incredibly disappointing number drawn by RAW on Monday night, SmackDown didn’t do any better. This week’s show drew 2.072 million viewers, down from 2.349 million last week (and 2.350 million two weeks ago).

There’s really no sugar-coating this number. It’s bad. Real bad. Especially considering this was the go-home show for a PPV, Monday In The Bank this Sunday. There was also no competition from the NBA or NHL this week, so there’s really no built in excuse for such a falloff in viewers. The show drew the second lowest viewership since the brand split. The only show to do worse, November 8, was the night of the U.S. presidential election.

In the 18-49 age group demographic, SmackDown was number two for the night on cable behind ESPN. The show drew a 0.63 rating in that demographic. In terms of pure viewership, SmackDown ranked 14th for the night on cable.

We will update this post with the final cable broadcast rating for SmackDown this week when it becomes available.

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