WWE SmackDown December 30, 2022 - John Cena and Kevin Owens vs Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn of the Bloodline

[Barry Poppins]

It was a 2 minute match…

you can’t really make a rating on it so I don’t know who told you it was trash

Yeah no that's a trash match, 2 minutes for that?

 

[O-Blaze]

Yeah no that's a trash match, 2 minutes for that?

Ronda had just had a match before that. Context is key.

 

[Cwalker]

Ronda had just had a match before that. Context is key.

Intelligence

 

[Cwalker]

Damn I’m out here agreeing with Bully Ray

 

[Dale]

Figures.

 

[Dale]

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[Shane]

He was really reaching with some of those rhymes lmao but I’ll give it to him

 

[Cwalker]

Rap was meh…like a line or 2 was decent.

But Mace with the “man that gravity remembered” popped me

 

[Chris]

Friday's WWE SmackDown, which featured the in-ring return of John Cena, averaged 2.629 million viewers on Fox, up 10.6 percent from the previous week. Aside from the Christmas Day episode in 2020 (which had an NFL lead-in), it's the largest audience total for SmackDown since October 11, 2019, which was the second-ever episode on Fox.

SmackDown topped all of network television with a 0.64 rating in the 18-49 demo, up 16.4 percent from last week. That's tied for SmackDown's best rating in that category for 2022.

SmackDown was the seventh-highest rated show on TV in the 18-49 demo, behind college football games and related programming on ESPN. SmackDown was fifth on network TV in terms of total viewers, which is higher than the show usually ranks. It also led network TV with a 0.44 rating in the 18-34 demo.

Year-over-year comparisons are not relevant since last year's SmackDown at this time aired on New Year's Eve on FS1 and was a "Best Of" episode that did the lowest numbers in show history.

John Cena's return boosts WWE SmackDown to best viewership in two years

SmackDown also tied its highest 18-49 demo rating of 2022.

www.f4wonline.com

 

[Cwalker]

Cena still a draw.

But I’m giving credit to The Queen