Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live saw an increase in the program’s audience with the USA Network airing the first hour of the program commercial-free.
A six-woman tag was called off in the middle of the match on Wednesday after an injury to Paige at the WWE’s live event on Long Island, New York. The match involved Paige teaming with Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose against Sasha Banks, Mickie James and Bayley.
The unique experiment of running a live episode of Raw on Christmas Night with a commercial-free first hour at least proved the WWE and USA Network could maintain the core audience.
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John Pollock looks at all of the television viewership from the past week among professional wrestling shows. Shows were down across the board, including Impact doing its lowest number ever on POP TV as they faced competition from the WWE.