WWE SmackDown Ratings For January 22nd Show
This week s WWE SmackDown ratings and viewership figures are in, and the show saw one of its steadiest figures across the broadcast s two hours in recent memory. According to the overnights published to Showbuzz Daily, SmackDown averaged 2.284 million viewers for hour number one and 2.280 million viewers for hour number two. Therefore, the average viewership for the show came in at 2.282 million viewers. If this number holds (final figures will be released on Monday), it would be up slightly compared to last week s SmackDown which averaged 2.262 million viewers.
In terms of pure viewership, SmackDown s 2.282 million ranked eighth place across network television on Friday night. The show was defeated by all other prime time programming on ABC, NBC, and CBS, including Shark Tank, 20/20, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Blood Bloods, The Blacklist, and Dateline NBC.
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WWE NXT Viewing Party. Tonight’s show comes from the Capitol Wrestling Center in Orlando, FL.
– Tonight’s WWE NXT episode opens up on the USA Network with a look back at the 2021 Men’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic kicking off last week. We also get hype for the Women’s Dusty Classic, which kicks off tonight, and the Fight Pit main event between Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher.
– We’re live from the Capitol Wrestling Center at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida as Vic Joseph welcomes us. He’s joined at ringside by Wade Barrett and WWE Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix, who is making her return to ringside tonight after calling the action remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fans chant “NXT!” as we see the Fight Pit structure set up in part of the arena.
Jungle Boy Debuts Hit Song Tarzan Boy As His New Entrance Music Posted By: Joe West on Jan 05, 2021
On tonight s AEW Dark, Jungle Boy came out to a very familiar song - Tarzan Boy by Baltimora.
It was revealed on Twitter by Tony Khan that he has purchased the rights to this song, and will now let Jungle Boy use it as his regular entrance music in All Elite Wrestling.
Yes, I bought the rights to Tarzan Boy for @boy myth legend’s entrance. Merry Christmas, Jack. #AEWDynamite#AEWDark Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) January 6, 2021
Very first @AEW match of 2021 in the books. Thanks @TonyKhan for the song. You really are the best. Looking forward to what this year has to bring!