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Kemo
12-13-2019, 03:42 AM
CM Punk made his awaited return to WWE Backstage this week. However, it appears that Punk is not the ratings draw that WWE or FS1 might have hoped.

WWE Backstage this past Tuesday night averaged 127,000 viewers, according to ShowbuzzDaily. This an 8% decline from last week’s episode, which did 138,000 viewers with Seth Rollins as the special guest.

CM Punk had a prominent role on this week’s show. He discussed Rollins’ recent heel turn, saying that . He also commented on the “dog food” segment from Friday’s SmackDown with Baron Corbin and Roman Reigns. Surprisingly, Punk did not hate the angle.

For comparison, the episode’s viewership is down 29% from the 180,000 viewers of the November 19th episode of the show which was Punk’s last appearance on the program.

This week’s episode was ranked at #128 on the Cable Top 150 and it pulled a 0.06 rating in the 18-49 demographic, compared to the #103 rank and a 0.08 rating last week.

It’s worth mentioning here that WWE Backstage is not the only show to have lost audience this week and the episode of Raw which aired on Monday also saw a decline in numbers.

The episode, which was the red brand’s go-home show for Sunday’s TLC PPV drew 2.150 million viewers, which was a 2.6% decline compared to the 2.208 million viewers of the previous week.


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