SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, February 10th 2023: The Usos defend the SmackDown Tag Team Championships

[Butters]

We shall see

 

[Y2Jayne]

I love Lacey's new attires.

 

[Chris]

 

[ETE]

Not going to lie. I tested up slightly when Jey and Sami bumped fists.

 

[Dale]

Spoiler: Possible EC spoiler

Dave Meltzer on WOR - I was told that both Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso are cleared for Canada

 

[Dale]

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[Chris]

Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown averaged 2.468 million viewers on Fox, up 3.5 percent from the previous week. It's SmackDown's third-highest audience total since September 23 of last year.

This is the eighth straight week SmackDown has been over two million viewers, which has not happened since early 2020.

SmackDown drew a 0.64 rating in the 18-49 demo, up 4.9 percent from the previous week. That topped all of television and was 33 percent better than the closest English-language competition (on a night where the major networks aired mostly original programming).

SmackDown also topped English-language TV with a 0.37 rating in the 18-34 demo, although one show on Telemundo beat it.

As compared to the same week in 2022, SmackDown was up 10.6 percent overall and up 16.4 percent in 18-49. It's the fifth straight week the overall audience has been up year-over-year.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo numbers for SmackDown, as well as the 10-week averages in both categories. This week's show was up 5.5 percent overall and up 12.3 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/wwe-smackdown-ratings-up-on-road-to-elimination-chamber

 

[Dale]

Uso's vs. KO & Sami really should be main eventing night one

 

[Y2Jayne]

I realized I had fast forwarded through this one but not actually watched it. It was a great show, loved everything with Jey and Sami obviously, but man that main event... Moss got zero reaction for his win, it was embarrassing. They thought he would get over just because he broke away from Corbin but they've made zero effort to make him look interesting after that, so figures.