SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, May 21st, 2021: Apollo Crews defends the Intercontinental Title in a colossal Fatal 4-Way

[Marty McFourth]

Feel like I was pretty out of it majority of that show until the end, sorry guys. Good night all.

 

[Chris]

Yeah tbh I'm all aboard the "3 hours is bad for wrestling" train bc historically Raw got worse at that point and Nitro also did but like I think the problem is it's just hard to book consistently

 

[Chris]

Bc 3 hours of GOOD wrestling I'd be fine with watching

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

I love this

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

Pat McAfee

 

[Chris]

It was a big highlight of SmackDown for sure

 

[Butters]

hey chris

 

[Chris]

what

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

Aleister Black vs. Big E def gonna build two new stars here

 

[Jimmy King]

Rick Bugez playing Shinsuke to the ring ruled

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Big E v.s Black for the IC Title. Transition to Kevin Owens fightin' off Sami Zayn and Apollo Crews to get his stock back up. The match could have also had less nonsense to end it as well. Just have Black attack E after he got the IC title back. Still a solid main event but it just made me want to see that afterwards.

 

[TOP GUY TIME]

Inject Aleister Black vs Big E into my fucking veins

 

[Chris]

Last night's SmackDown on Fox averaged 1.83 million viewers in the fast nationals.

That's up 1.7 percent from last week's overnight viewership number. Last week's final viewership ended up being 1.917 million viewers.

Last night's SmackDown was headlined by Apollo Crews defending his Intercontinental title against Big E, Sami Zayn, and Kevin Owens in a fatal four-way match.

The overnight rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.5, which is up 25 percent from last week's overnight rating. The number is rounded to the nearest tenth, so the actual increase in that category may not be as much as it appears. The final numbers for last week saw the show do a 0.44 rating. This week could be as low as a 0.45, which would still round to 0.5 so more will be known early next week.

Year-over-year, SmackDown was down 10.3 percent in overnight viewership and down 16.7 percent in the 18-49 demo.
This is the first time since last August that SmackDown's overnight viewership fell below 1.9 million viewers for two weeks in row.

Source: f4wonline.com