This Week’s WWE Smackdown Viewership Nearly Beats WWE Raw

As noted, this week’s WWE Raw, which took place on Christmas Day and featured the crowning of new WWE Raw Tag Team Champions, Roman Reigns vs Samoa Joe and the return of John Cena, averaged 2.704 million viewers. Despite this week’s Raw number being down from last week’s number, it was still solid given the major holiday.
According to ShowBuzz Daily, this week’s WWE Smackdown, which also aired live from Chicago, the night after Christmas, averaged 2.656 million viewers, w