WWE Smackdown Live Continues This Week’s Trend of Increased Viewership Numbers for WWE

August 23, 2017

As noted, this week’s edition of WWE Raw, which featured fallout from WWE SummerSlam, along with the Raw return of John Cena, averaged 3.404 million viewers, which is up from last week’s 3.233 million viewership average. This week’s Raw was the most watched of 2017 behind the post-Royal Rumble and post-WrestleMania editions of the show.

According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week’s WWE Smackdown Live, which was the final WWE show of the week from Brooklyn and featured SummerSlam fallout, averaged 2.685 million viewers. This is up from last week’s 2.530 million viewership average. This week’s show also featured surprises in the form of a Bobby Roode main roster call up, and the return of Shelton Benjamin. It was also headlined by AJ Styles vs Kevin Owens for the U.S. Title.

This week’s WWE Smackdown Live ranked #6 for the night in viewership.

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.