Smackdown 6/26 Viewership Down 180,000

Smackdown viewership have dipped again. 

For a month, Smackdown viewer had leveled out and slightly raised after the initial fall following WrestleMania 34 and Superstar Shakeup. Last week, the average was over 2.3 million viewers and according to Showbuzz Daily the average fell 180,000 this week and Smackdown pulled an average just over 2.1 million viewers. 

Smackdown did remain at the top of the rankings for original cable content on Tuesday which can not be said about Monday's Raw. Smackdown had A 0.64 rating in the 18 to 49 year old demographic. In comparison, the show that followed Smackdown on USA Chrisley Knows Best only had a 0.39 rating in the same demographic. 

On YouTube, the best performing video was the reuniting of Team Hell No which had more than 900,000 viewers. Two other videos garnered more than 500,000 views which were James Ellsworth going topless to trash talk Asuka which resulted in him being booked in a match against her and the video of Jeff Hardy taking on Eric Young  had more than 500,000 videos. The six man tag team match which developed out of the Hardy and Young match is close to 500,000. 

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