SmackDown Live Ratings And Audience – May 16, 2018

Just like Monday Night Raw. To say that WWE hasn’t been doing so well in the television ratings since Backlash would be an understatement. Last week’s Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live saw both shows take big hits and hitting some of the lowest numbers of the year. This week’s Monday Night Raw picked up a little bit but the numbers were still far from what they should have been at this time of year. So how did last night’s SmackDown Live do?

Miss this week’s show? Here are some quick highlights.

Top 10 SmackDown LIVE moments: WWE Top 10, May 15, 2018

According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of SmackDown Live drew a .7 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.298 million viewers. These numbers are up 1% and down less than 1% respectively from last week’s .71 demographic rating and 2.293 million viewers. This week’s show was centered around Money in the Bank qualifying matches and featured a main event of Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles with the winner getting to pick their stipulation for the WWE Championship match at Money in the Bank.

Check out our full SmackDown Live results right here.

Opinion: So to recap: the show was centered around matches designed to set up a show a month away, one of which is for a prize that might not be used for a year. Throw in that the big main event is the fourth match in a series and designed to do nothing more than make you want to see the fifth match in the series. Maybe I’m missing something, but that really doesn’t sound like the most thrilling show in the world. Let me know what happened, but don’t waste my time telling me that this stuff is oh so important.

What did you think of this week’s show? When will the numbers bounce back? 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 WWE Grab Bag.

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