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WWE Smackdown Loses Over a Million Viewers, Still Wins Friday Night

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Greetings, comrades! It is I, your El Presidente, reporting to you live from a vote-counting facility in Georgia where I am programming Dominion vote-counting machines to switch votes to the Democrats with news of WWE Smackdown's latest ratings. Normally, that funny little man The Chadster is the one to report on the ratings, but when he saw that WWE lost over a million viewers from the episode, he locked himself in his garage and refused to come out. I tried calling him up to find out what was wrong. Did he fail in a coup attempt? It's happened to El Presidente many times and let me tell you, I wish I could have hidden in the garage as well instead of being jailed for several months. Haw haw haw haw!

The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown.
The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown.

But no, as it turns out, my friends, he was just sulking in there, and since he still hasn't come out, I've decided to just report the ratings myself. If you want something done right, do it yourself, has always been my motto, especially when it comes to pro wrestling reporting and running a South American dictatorship. In any case, Smackdown's ratings followed up a 2020 high that saw over 3 million viewers on average tune into Smackdown for a Christmas Day episode with an NFL lead-in by sinking below 2 million viewers for the New Years Day episode. What a bummer!

It wasn't all bad news, however. Smackdown did win the night in 18-49 with a .5 for both hours and also adults 18-34, adults 25-54, and men 18-49. Overall viewership was 1.996 million for hour one and 1.843 million for hour two, for an average of 1.92 million viewers across both hours. That's down from normal, which one might expect from a holiday episode if not for the previous week's "Christmas Miracle." Thing should return to roughly normal starting next week, provided election and presidential transition news doesn't dominate the ratings as it did during election time last year.

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El PresidenteAbout El Presidente

After a successful fourteen-year career as a South American dictator, El Presidente faked his own death in 2013 in order to pursue his two true passions: rigging American elections for Joe Biden, and wrestling dirt sheet reporting. Since opportunities to rig the election for Joe Biden were few and far between until recently, El Presidente mostly focused on the wrestling dirt sheet reporting, where he became one of the best in the business. Unfortunately, the American CIA sabotaged his 1-900 hotline, the pinnacle of his country's wrestling news technology, and imperialist hacks like Meltzer, Johnson, Sapp, and Satin took all the credit on their stupid websites. Finally, El Presidente has found a way to break into the American market by becoming a Bleeding Cool contributor, so get ready for the spread of great wrestling news and socialism, comrades!
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