Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Ices WWE Smackdown Viewership Following PPV

As noted, this week’s edition of WWE Raw saw a massive viewership decrease from the previous week’s Raw 25 special. The show averaged 3.395 million viewers, which is a massive drop from the 4.530 million viewers who tuned in for the 25th anniversary special.

While this week’s WWE Smackdown viewership did not drop nearly as much as Raw, the show did dip slightly from last week, averaging 2.590 million viewers, according to ShowBuzz Daily. This is compared to last week’s 2.580 million viewership average.

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This week’s WWE Smackdown featured an appearance by the 2018 Royal Rumble match winner, Shinsuke Nakamura, and was headlined by Nakamura teaming up with AJ Styles to face Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.

It’s worth noting that Smackdown this week was up against Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, which topped cable TV for the night in viewership and forced Smackdown to slide all the way down to #21. Ahead of Smackdown was various news coverage of Trump’s address, which totaled nearly 60 million viewers across various networks.

WWE Top 10 takes you back to this week’s SmackDown LIVE to revisit the show’s most thrilling, physical and controversial moments.