SmackDown Rating Improves Ahead of This Weekends Battleground PPV

Tuesday night's WWE SmackDown program, ahead of this weekends Battleground PPV featured a cast of plenty, which kept the interest level a float. Last night's main event had Kevin Owens & Baron Corbin defeating Shinsuke Nakamura & the U.S champion AJ Styles, the in-ring debut of Mike Bennet and an appearance from the 16-time World Champion, John Cena. The go home show was able to retain a viewership of 2.548 million, which is up 3.4% from last week's 2.465 million viewers. 

In a spectrum, SmackDown was #2 in viewership behind Rachel Maddow and #1 in the 18-49 demographic on cable this week.

Catch is the SmackDown viewership tracker for 2017 below:

January 3rd Episode: 2.596 million viewers
January 10th Episode: 2.533 million viewers
January 17th Episode: 2.652 million viewers
January 24th Episode: 2.556 million viewers
January 31st Episode: 2.817 million viewers
February 7th Episode: 2.627 million viewers
February 14th Episode: 2.626 million viewers
February 21st Episode: 2.792 million viewers
February 28th Episode: 2.566 million viewers
March 7th Episode: 2.738 million viewers
March 14th Episode: 2.628 million viewers
March 21st Episode: 2.647 million viewers
March 28th Episode: 2.698 million viewers
April 4th Episode: 2.885 million viewers
April 11th Episode: 3.105 million viewers
April 18th Episode: 2.544 million viewers
April 25th Episode: 2.493 million viewers
May 2nd Episode: 2.300 million viewers
May 9th Episode: 2.348 million viewers
May 16th Episode: 2.175 million viewers
May 23rd Episode: 2.328 million viewers
May 30th Episode: 2.350 million viewers
June 6th Episode: 2.349 million viewers
June 13th Episode: 2.072 million viewers
June 20th Episode: 2.597 million viewers
June 27th Episode: 2.603 million viewers
July 4th Episode: 2.329 million viewers
July 11th Episode: 2.465 million viewers
July 18th Episode: 2.548 million viewers