“Smackdown Live” Ratings and Viewership – April 3, 2018

A bunch of people watching them go home. This week’s episode of “Smackdown Live” was the big grand finale episode before Sunday’s “Wrestlemania XXXIV”. The show was again centered around Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon vs. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens, the latter of whom are still fired until this coming Sunday, when they have a chance to win their jobs back. So how many people tuned in?

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

Top 10 SmackDown LIVE moments: WWE Top 10, April 3, 2018

According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of “Smackdown Live” drew a .79 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.467 million viewers. These numbers are up 1% and down 4% respectively from last week’s .78 demo rating and 2.576 million viewers. The viewership is the lowest in nearly two months. This week’s show was headlined by AJ Styles/Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Chad Gable/Shelton Benjamin.

The build to “Wrestlemania” is almost over so you should keep up. Check out this week’s results!

Opinion: I can’t say I’m shocked by this as a lot of fans are going to expect a talking filled show. The wrestling wasn’t great this week and a lot of the time was indeed filled by promos to hype up the show. You can’t blame WWE for running a show like that as you don’t want to risk an injury so close to “Wrestlemania” on Sunday. The show was fine and did its job of setting up the pay per view, but it wasn’t the most thrilling in the world.

What did you think of this week’s show? Are you surprised that the numbers are down slight? 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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