WWE Smackdown Rating Drops Ahead of Fastlane

The rating for this week’s episode of Smackdown dropped heading into this weekend’s WWE Fastlane. Tuesday’s episode brought in a 0.75 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 2.59 million viewers. Those numbers are down 13% and 4% from last week’s 0.86 demo rating and 2.692 million viewers. The rating was the worst for the show since the February 6th episode also had a 0.75, while the audience was the lowest since February 13th brought in an audience of 2.449 million.

Smackdown ranked #2 among cable originals for the night, per Showbuzz Daily. It lost the #1 spot to the Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder NBA game on TNT (0.77 demo rating, 1.887 million viewers).