WWE News: SmackDown Live Viewership Continues To Drop

On a week that saw the widely criticized WWE Backlash pay-per-view, plus declines in viewership for RAW on both television and YouTube, that trend has now continued. The numbers are in for last night’s episode of SmackDown Live and there’s a decrease, as the show pulled in 2.293 million viewers. Last week’s final edition of the blue brand prior to Backlash drew 2.436 million viewers, which is 14.3% more than last night’s show.

This also marks the worst number SmackDown Live has drawn since October 31st last year, when they only garnered 2.119 million viewers. Below are the numbers since WrestleMania:

• April 10th – 2.952 million viewers
• April 17th – 2.796 million viewers
• April 24th – 2.549 million viewers
• May 1st – 2.436 million viewers
• May 8th – 2.293 million viewers

EA’s Take: It doesn’t come as much of a shock after what we saw with RAW’s TV and YouTube digits being poor. Annually, this is the time of the year when things seem to slow down for WWE, right after WrestleMania and now the Superstar Shake-Up. It’s like clockwork. Money In The Bank and the interest in that might help some, but if it does I’d expect another drop until everything begins to ramp up again for SummerSlam in August. Unless Brock comes back before then because as much as people are sick of him (mostly because he’s been Universal Champion for over a year now), he will still give viewership a bump.

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