Viewership Continues To Decline For WWE Mixed Match Challenge, Matches Booked

The third episode of WWE’s Mixed Match Challenge Season 2 is in the books as it took place on Tuesday night in Portland, OR at the Moda Center on Facebook after SmackDown Live went off the air. As seen on the episode, Finn Balor & Bayley, Jimmy Uso & Naomi advanced. Balor and Bayley defeated Alicia Fox & Jinder Mahal while Naomi & Jimmy defeated Rusev & Lana.

The episode peaked with a live audience of 42,800 viewers. This is a continuation of a decline in viewership as the premiere of season 2 peaked at 52,400 live viewers, which was down 61% from the season one premiere in January that peaked at 135,600 viewers.

As of this writing, the first episode has a total of 1.1 million views while episode 2 has 555,000 and episode 3 has 430,000.

Matches for next week’s episode is slated to have Bayley & Balor vs. Braun Strowman & Ember Moon plus R-Truth & Carmella vs. Charlotte Flair & WWE Champion AJ Styles.

Ten co-ed teams will participate in a round-robin style tournament to determine the winners. The finals of the tournament will take place at the upcoming WWE TLC pay-per-view on Sunday, December 16th, 2018 in San Jose, California at the SAP Center and will air on the WWE Network and some traditional pay-per-view outlets.

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