How Was Viewership for This Week’s WWE Smackdown Live Featuring the Cena vs Nakamura ‘Dream Match?’

August 2, 2017

According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week’s edition of WWE Smackdown Live, featuring AJ Styles vs Kevin Owens, plus the hyped John Cena vs Shinsuke Nakamura “dream match”, averaged 2.569 million viewers. This is up from last week’s 2.535 million viewership average.

Comparatively, this week’s edition of WWE Raw averaged 3.163 million viewers, up from last week’s 3.067 million viewership average. Both WWE shows saw viewership increases this week, and had several big bouts/segments advertised ahead of time.

This week’s WWE Smackdown Live ranked #3 in viewership, behind Rachel Maddow and Tucker Carlson, and #1 in the 18-49 demographic on cable this week.

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.