How Was Viewership for This Week’s WWE Smackdown Live Featuring Final WWE Battleground Hype?

July 19, 2017

According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week’s edition of WWE Smackdown Live, which featured the final hype for WWE Battleground, and AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura teaming up in the main event, averaged 2.548 million viewers. This is up 3.4% from last week’s 2.465 million viewership average.

Comparatively, this week’s edition of Raw, which saw a viewership increase with Kurt Angle’s big reveal, averaged 3.153 million viewers, up from last week’s 3.009 million viewership average.

This week’s edition of WWE Smackdown Live, which also featured Mike Kanellis’ WWE in-ring debut and Jinder Mahal unveiling the Punjabi Prison, ranked #2 in viewership, behind Rachel Maddow, and ranked #1 in the 18-49 demographic.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.