SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, September 29th 2023: Rey Mysterio defends his U.S. Title

[Chris]

The Pretty Deadly vignettes are the best

 

[Y2Jayne]

The Bloodline has been so stale for a month now, I knew we couldn't keep the heights of the Sami storyline but damn, Jimmy and Solo aren't just enough.

 

[Butters]

I gotta give credit to Jimmy tho for carrying it right now. Even tho it’s lame as shit it’s better than just heyman and solo and I’m interested to see the results when Roman returns.

 

[Cwalker]

They’re trying but the Jimmy turn at Summerslam was just so unnecessary…

That was kind of the “jumped the shark moment”

 

[Lethal]

needs to end in philly

 

[Lethal]

Solo v Roman at the rumble, rock v roman night 1 wm, cody v roman night 2

 

[Chris]

That ending segment was amazing but lmao at Cena acting like he can get out of a contract by ripping it on live TV

 

[Vegeta]

That ending segment was amazing but lmao at Cena acting like he can get out of a contract by ripping it on live TV

“Contract? What contract, I can’t a contract.”

 

[Butters]

That ending segment was amazing but lmao at Cena acting like he can get out of a contract by ripping it on live TV

 

[Cwalker]

That ending segment was amazing but lmao at Cena acting like he can get out of a contract by ripping it on live TV

Ain’t he steal Finn’s contract last year? Lol

 

[Y2Jayne]

 

[Sabretooth]

Tbh Mia slapping Jimmy to the ground and him just killing people backstage was enough for me

 

[Jimmy King]

Rey and Santos was a great match. It's amazing to me how Rey can still go the way he does at his age, and Santos was terrific as well. The two definitely gel well together. I thought Santos was about to betray Rey at the end there before The Street Profits jumped them, but I can see Santos betraying him at Fastlane in their tag team match vs The Street Profits. I don't think I'd like that and I'd much rather they remain as allies, so I hope I'm wrong and they don't go down that route.

I can finally admit that I'm over The Bloodline story, it was fun while it lasted but I feel like it has run its course and overstayed its welcome. Jimmy acting like he's The Tribal Chief has been good though, I'll give them that. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out whenever Roman comes back.

Pretty Deadly vignette was so good too, those guys are the best.

 

[Y2Jayne]

This was Mia's greatest (and possibly the only good) moment in WWE

 

[Chris]

Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown averaged 2.303 million viewers on Fox, up 3.4 percent from the previous week. It's the second-best audience total for the show since September 1.

SmackDown drew a 0.60 rating in the 18-49 demo. That's down 4.8 percent from last week and is the second-lowest rating the show has done since August 18.

As compared to the same week in 2022, SmackDown was up 4.4 percent in overall viewers and up 11.1 percent in the 18-49 demo.

For the month of September, SmackDown averaged 2,333,250 viewers and a 0.6275 rating in the 18-49 demo. That's up slightly from the 2,279,600 viewers and 0.546 demo rating the show averaged in September 2022.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for SmackDown, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week's show was virtually identical in total viewers but down 3.2 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/wwe-smackdown-viewership-rises-18-49-demo-rating-down