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The following is El Rey’s official preview for tonight’s episode of Lucha Underground:

“LUCHA UNDERGROUND” INTRODUCES THE FIRST EVER ‘SIX TO SURVIVE’ MATCH ON THE NEWEST EPISODE AIRING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th AT 8:00 PM ET/PT ON EL REY NETWORK

In the newest episode of “Lucha Underground,” six luchadors compete in the FIRST EVER “Six to Survive Match”! With just a few episodes left of the eye-popping second season, the luchadors are just getting fired up! Tune in Wednesday, June 15th at 8:00pm ET/PT on El Rey Network for another week of the adrenaline-fueled series. Don’t miss new one-hour episodes of the lucha libre wrestling series from Emmy Award®-winning producer Mark Burnett Wednesdays at 8:00PM ET/PT.

Last night’s Lucha Underground episode on The El Rey Network drew 85,000 viewers for the first showing and 61,000 viewers for the replay. Last week’s first airing drew 111,000 viewers and the replay drew 40,000 viewers.

The total for this week’s episode was 146,000 viewers, down from last week’s 151,000 viewers.

Lucha Underground did not rank on the Cable Top 150 this week.

El Rey sent this preview for tonight’s Lucha Underground:

IT’S JUDGMENT DAY ON THE NEWEST EPISODE OF MARK BURNETT’S ‘LUCHA UNDERGROUND’ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1st AT 8:00 PM ET/PT ON EL REY NETWORK

Check out sneak peeks of “Judgment Day” below.

It’s battle after battle on this week’s all new episode of “Lucha Underground.” First up, the Monster Matanza Cueto enters the ring to defend his title against the Gift of the Gods Champion. Next will be another mind-blowing match where the Trios Champions need to defend their name for yet another week, while Dragon Azteca Jr. is on the hunt for his mentor’s killer. Tune in Wednesday, June 1st at 8:00pm ET/PT on El Rey Network for another week of the adrenaline-fueled series. Don’t miss new one-hour episodes of the lucha libre wrestling series from Emmy Award®-winning producer Mark Burnett Wednesdays at 8:00PM ET/PT.

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Last night’s Lucha Underground episode on The El Rey Network drew 114,000 viewers for the first showing and 68,000 viewers for the replay. Last week’s first airing drew 127,000 viewers and the replay drew 37,000 viewers.

The total for this week’s episode was 182,000 viewers, up from last week’s 164,000 viewers.

LU ranked #142 on the Cable Top 150 this week.

Lucha Undergroud’s viewership increased by approximately 13% this week.

The first airing of Wednesday night’s Lucha Underground episode averaged 138,000 viewers on the El Ray Network. This is up from last week’s 107,000 viewers. The replay averaged 42,000 viewers, giving the show a total of 180,000 viewers. Last week’s replay averaged 52,000 viewers, giving last week’s show a total of 159,000 viewers.

Luncha Underground scored their highest viewership to date back on April 4th when they drew 234,000 viewers on the El Ray Network.

• David Arquette Wanted To Portray A Masked Drunk Character In Lucha Underground

The April 27th episode of Lucha Underground averaged 107,000 viewers on the El Ray Network in the first run, and 52,000 viewers for the replay for a total of 159,000. This is down from last week’s total of 198,000 viewers, with 149,000 people watching the first run and 49,000 watching the replay.

The show didn’t place on the Top 150 cable shows for the night. This is the fifth week in a row they haven’t placed on the chart.

The show’s highest viewership ever came earlier this month on April 4th with a total of 234,000 viewers.

• David Arquette Wanted To Portray A Masked Drunk Character In Lucha Underground

The first airing of Lucha Underground this week on the El Rey Network averaged 139,000 viewers, down from last week’s 156,000 viewers. The replay averaged 66,000 viewers, giving this week’s show a total of about 205,000 viewers. This is down from last week’s 78,000 viewers for the replay, giving last week’s show a total of 234,000 viewers.

Lucha Underground didn’t make the Cable Top 150 list for the third week in a row.

• Major Spoiler For Lucha Underground’s Aztec Warfare 3

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Between the first and second airings of Lucha Underground on Wednesday night, the company drew a total of 234,000 viewers on the El Ray Network. That’s the highest viewership number in show history.

The first airing averaged 156,000 viewers, and the second airing right after averaged 78,000

Last week’s show drew 159,000 for the first airing and 63,000 for the second.

• Photos: WWE’s hot new TV host Cathy Kelley

– Lucha Underground star King Cuerno was reportedly offered a spot in WWE’s Global Cruiserweight Series tournament. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Cuerno was all about it, but AAA and Lucha Underground blocked him from accepting. Cuerno is signed to a seven-season deal, but wasn’t at the first round of Season 3 tapings and hasn’t wrestled for AAA since March 4th.

– The next WWE NXT Takeover event after “Takeover: Dallas” this Friday is scheduled for Wednesday, June 8th.

– WWE has moved the Andre Memorial Battle Royal match from the WrestleMaia 32 Kickout Pre-show to the main card for the show. The Kickoff Pre-show still remains at two hours long, with two hours on social media, Youtube and the WWE Network, and one hour programming on the USA Network.

• Rumored Surprise Entrant For The Andre Memorial Battle Royal

Lucha Underground on the El Ray Network averaged 100,000 viewers for the first run of this week’s show on Wednesday night. This is up from last week’s 95,000 viewer average.

The replay of the show did 57,000 viewers, giving the show a total of 157,000 for the week. This is up from last week’s replay, which drew 41,000 viewers for a total of 136,000 for the week.

• Lucha Underground Close To A Deal With Netflix

Lucha Underground averaged 99,000 viewers on Wednesday night for the first run episode on the El Rey Network. This is down from the previous week’s 152,000 viewers for the first run.

The replay averaged 62,000 viewers, which is up 10,000 from last week’s replay.

This week’s first run episode and the replay combined drew a total of 161,000 viewers. Lucha Underground set a viewership record earlier this month with a combined 217,000 viewers for the 2/10 episode.

• Lucha Underground Viewership Reaches All-Time High

Lucha Underground viewership continues to rise in season 2. The February 10, 2016 episode drew a combined 217,000 viewers. That is up from last week’s 201,000 viewers, and is the most viewers the show has ever received.

The first airing on El Ray drew 136,000 viewers, and the replay that aired immediately after drew 81,000.

Lucha Underground was recently renewed for a third season on El Ray. In January, the show got an endorsement on Twitter from The Rock, who has almost 10 million followers.

Gonna watch. Show looks cool & gritty. Robert Rodriguez is a good bud and his content is dope. #LuchaUnderground ?? https://t.co/XZGcPjGUlu

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) January 21, 2016

Lucha Underground will be returning for Season 3. The news was announced to the Lucha Underground performers and crew at Sunday’s Season 2 Ultimo Lucha tapings, according to Ryan Satin of ProWrestlingSheet.com.

No word yet on when the third season will be filming, but El Rey showing their support of the show in a big way, despite the high cost of production and the brand not yet producing much in the way of revenue.

Lucha Underground is also coming to the iTunes store soon, which will allow fans currently without the El Ray Network to experience Lucha Underground for the first time.

Related: Strong Viewership For Lucha Underground Season 2 Premiere

Last night’s episode of Lucha Underground continued to build towards the Ultima Lucha show that will take place on August the 5th.

Matt Striker confirmed that Prince Puma and Mil Muertes will come face to face during next week’s show to build up the match.

An interview with Vampiro and Pentagon Jr was aired with things continuing to get out of control between the pair after Pentagon continued his quest to get Vampiro back in the ring.

At the end of the show, after the main event, Pentagon Jr attacked Vampiro, poured gasoline over him and threatened to set him on fire if he didn’t accept his challenge for a match at Ultima Lucha. He gave him one week to respond.

The following matches also took place during the show:

• The Mack defeated Cage
• Mil Muertes defeated Son of Havoc
• Team Mundo defeated Team El Patron in the main event