This week WWE broadcast Smackdown live on the USA Network in a special, commercial free episode. The show drew a 2.29 cable rating, which is a huge increase from last Friday's show, and for Smackdown in general. They averaged 3.33 million viewers over both hours, which is almost 700,000 more viewers than the 12/14 Smackdown in its normal Friday night slot.
MJF has been absent from All Elite Wrestling programming during the highly touted bidding war of 2024. There’s been much…