The overnight viewership for last week’s episode of SmackDown with Roman Reigns vs. Rey Mysterio universal championship Hell In A Cell match main eventing the show had seen an increase in numbers.
This trend continued with the final viewership. According to Nielsen, the Hell In A Cell go-home episode of the show drew an average of 2.045 million viewers.
This is a big 5.2% increase compared to the final viewership of the preceding episode of SmackDown. It had a Roman Reigns and Rey Mysterio segment for the main event and had drawn 1.944 million viewers.
This is also a 6.07% jump from the overnight viewership for the final show before the PPV. The number reported on Saturday morning was 1.928 million viewers.
The show drew a 0.54 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This is a significant 12.5% increase from last week’s episode of the show which drew 0.48 ratings in the same demo.
This was the first time SmackDown managed to draw 2 million+ ratings this month. The last SmackDown episode to have an audience above this number was the May 7 episode of the show.
With no Hell In A Cell main event at this Friday’s episode, it will be interesting to see if the Blue Brand is able to hold these numbers or sees a decline again.