“Smackdown Live” Ratings and Audience Hit Eleven Month Highs

Well that worked. With “Fastlane 2018” finally done, it’s time to get ready for “Wrestlemania XXXIV”. That’s true on both sides of the WWE but “Smackdown Live” even more so than “Monday Night Raw”. The show hasn’t been great as of late but the question now is how did things go with the March pay per view done?

Miss last night’s show? Here are some quick highlights.

Top 10 SmackDown LIVE moments: WWE Top 10, March 13, 2018

According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of “Smackdown Live” drew a .91 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.771 million viewers. These numbers are up 21% and 7% respectively from last week’s .75 rating and 2.59 million viewers. Both are the highest since last year’s April 11 episode, which featured the second half of the Superstar Shakeup.

You can read last night’s results here.

Opinion: Well that worked. I don’t know if it was fans just waiting for the pay per view to be done or the Shane McMahon announcement but something REALLY got people interested in this show. Either way, that’s a good sign or WWE with less than a month to go before “Wrestlemania”. If they can keep even most of this up, everything is going to be fine going into New Orleans.

This was quite a way to wrap things up.

Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn brutally attack Shane McMahon: SmackDown LIVE, March 13, 2018

What did you think of this week’s show? What caused the numbers to spike? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the History of the WWE Championship.

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