WWE Smackdown rating: Did the rating bounce back from the awful live special number?

Friday's WWE Smackdown television show drew a 1.80 rating. The show averaged 2.73 million viewers.

Powell's POV: WWE went with a live special (1.5 rating) and a replay of the live special the week before, so the ratings for those shows aren't fair to compare. In general, though, the slide from the 2.0 range that WWE had been consistently drawing earlier this year has to be disappointing.

This original source for the above news was James Caldwell of PWTorch.com.