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This Week’s WWE Smackdown Live Draws Best Audience Since the Brand Split, Which Show Won This Week’s Brand Split Ratings War?

By Nick Paglino

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According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week’s edition of WWE Smackdown, featuring the finale of the WWE Superstar Shakeup, averaged 3.105 million viewers. This week’s number is up from last week’s 2.885 million viewership average and is the highest number for the show since the WWE Brand Split Draft last July. That show averaged 3.17 million viewers. This week’s show even topped last week’s post-WrestleMania 33 show.

Comparatively, this week’s edition of WWE Raw, which featured night one of the Superstar Shakeup, averaged 3.429 million viewers, down from last week’s 3.767 million viewers. So while Raw once again this week’s WWE brand split ratings war, this week’s Smackdown is the closest the show has come to closing the gap.

Nick Paglino
Nick Paglino

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.

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