According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week’s edition of WWE Smackdown Live, featuring fallout from WWE Backlash and a returning John Cena, averaged 2.658 million viewers. This week’s number is up from last week’s 2.454 million viewership average, and is only slightly lower thank this week’s WWE Raw, which took in 2.69 million viewers.
This week’s show ranked #5 for the night in viewership, behind If Loving You Is Wrong, The Kelly File, The O’Reilly Factor and Special Report with Bret Baier. Smackdown was the #1 ranked show on cable TV for the night.