{"id":142488,"date":"2022-07-05T19:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T00:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=142488"},"modified":"2022-07-05T19:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T00:54:21","slug":"smackdown-ratings-stay-strong-ahead-of-money-in-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/05\/smackdown-ratings-stay-strong-ahead-of-money-in-the-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown ratings stay strong ahead of Money in the Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2842479416\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/01\/7-1-wwe-smackdown-tv-results-mcdonalds-alt-perspective-report-on-battle-of-the-brands-womens-tag-new-day-vs-viking-raiders-mitb-cavalcade-final-mens-mitb-participant-announced\/\">Friday night&#8217;s<\/a> Smackdown drew an average of 2.1 million viewers. This is a 4% drop compared to the prior week. In the key adult 18-49 demographic, the show drew a 0.49 rating, a drop from 0.53 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown on Friday was the final show before WWE&#8217;s Money in the Bank PLE. The main event of the show featured a fatal four-way &#8220;Last Chance&#8221; match with a spot in the men&#8217;s Money in the Bank tournament on the line. The Miz, Happy Corbin, Madcap Moss, and Ezekiel collided in the match with Moss coming out on top and securing the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Other matches and segments on the show included a six-woman tag team match that involved the competitors in the women&#8217;s Money in the Bank ladder match and a men&#8217;s battle royal. The show also featured The Viking Raiders destroying The New Day ahead of their scheduled match.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Smackdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/05\/roman-reigns-announced-for-fridays-smackdown\/\">Roman Reigns is slated to return<\/a>. He hasn&#8217;t been on Smackdown since defeating Riddle to retain his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWE<\/a> Undisputed World Championship. Also, Liv Morgan and Ronda Rousey will go face to face after Morgan beat her for the Smackdown Women&#8217;s Championship at Money in the Bank. Morgan won the women&#8217;s Money in the Bank ladder match and cashed in the opportunity after Rousey beat Natalya to retain her title.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/05\/big-e-reveals-he-wont-need-surgery-on-injured-neck\/\">Big E reveals he won\u2019t need surgery on injured neck<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1707007890\"><div id=\"pwtor-1484860887\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Friday night&#8217;s Smackdown drew an average of 2.1 million viewers. This is a 4% drop compared to the prior week. In the key adult 18-49 demographic, the show drew a 0.49 rating, a drop from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/05\/smackdown-ratings-stay-strong-ahead-of-money-in-the-bank\/\" title=\"Smackdown ratings stay strong ahead of Money in the Bank\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[72,71,117],"class_list":["post-142488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-smackdown","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mizmic_3x2Lunn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142492,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142488\/revisions\/142492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}