SmackDown Live LIVe SmackDown Discussion thread, August 5th 2022: New regime but still no early previews

[Dale]

Dale…

Just…why?

Because I don't fuck with him. I wouldn't be able to take him remotely serious standing with the world title.

 

[Y2Jayne]

Cole is lucky they didn't just put him on 205 Live .

 

[Dale]

I love to think that Vince was watching SmackDown at home and was like "WHO THE HELL ARE THESE GUYS? WHY DIDN'T I HAVE THEM AVAILABLE?' when Kross & Scarlett showed up

 

[Sabretooth]

Look I love Adam Cole but he should not be world champion. Mid card champ... sure

 

[Sabretooth]

Wrong post

 

[Sabretooth]

I think this picture alone shows why WWE needed Triple H (and Stephanie) to take over and why I’ve been riding that train for over 5 years.

Triple H gets it. Vince did once, but he’s an older man that was doing this for five decades. Eventually you lose touch.

Although, to be fair, to me, I was never that high on his style even when it worked. I was always a bigger WCW, TNA, AEW guy.

Some of the decisions he'd make I swear was just to fuck with people though

 

[Jobber Doink]

Apparently, I should be a wwe fan again based on the last 2 shows, still some clunkers but dammmn was smackdown so fun, that ending was just beautiful

 

[Deezy]

He should walk out over this....set an example and take your fucking wife with you

 

[Swerve]

That was a cool ending!

 

[Cwalker]

I love to think that Vince was watching SmackDown at home and was like "WHO THE HELL ARE THESE GUYS? WHY DIDN'T I HAVE THEM AVAILABLE?' when Kross & Scarlett showed up

Vince is somewhere wondering why Shelton Benjamin jumped the Viking Raiders this week

 

[Chris]

WWE SmackDown ratings down for SummerSlam fallout episode​

The show still topped all of television in the 18-49 demo.

Friday's WWE SmackDown averaged 2,093,000 viewers on Fox, down 4.6 percent from the previous week. It's the lowest audience total for the show since July 15.

SmackDown drew a 0.49 rating in the 18-49 demo, down 5.8 percent from the prior week. That's also the show's lowest number since July 15.

SmackDown did top all of television in the 18-49 demo, however, finishing 17 percent higher than the closest competition. The show also led all English-language television with a 0.25 rating in the 18-34 demo, although it did trail a few programs on the Spanish-language networks.

In total viewership, SmackDown finished sixth of the eight English-language network shows on Friday night.

As compared with the same week in 2021, SmackDown was down 3.5 percent in viewers and down 19.7 percent in the key demo. It's just the second time in the last eight weeks that the show has had a year-over-year decline in total viewers.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo numbers for SmackDown, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week's show was down one percent in overall viewers and down 3.9 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

 

[Cwalker]

2.1 million being “down” is a good problem to have

 

[Swerve]

I know why the number was what it was.