Thursday’s episode of WWE SmackDown scored a 1.54 rating, which is up from the previous week’s 1.42 rating.
SmackDown drew 2,040,000 viewers, which is up from last week’s 1,981,000 viewers.
SmackDown went up against NFL’s regular season kickoff game between the Patriots and Steelers, which grew averaged 27.4 million viewers making it the second most-watched NFL Kickoff game trailing 2010’s Minnesota Vikings-New Orleans Saints game that averaged 27.5 million.
WWE taped last night’s episode of SmackDown from Wilkes-Barre, PA at the Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday night.
Superstars who appeared on the show: Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Big Show, Bray Wyatt and many more.
The main event was Ryback vs. Seth Rollins in a lumberjack match.