Below are a couple of top WWE news stories of the day, featuring The Undertaker and SmackDown.
• During an interview on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest talked about his relationship with The Undertaker. Below are the highlights:
Meeting The Undertaker for the first time in 1999:
“He was so nice, too. Which blew me away, right? He’s The Undertaker, right? You expect him to, like, set me on fire. That was the first time I met him, I won’t forget that, I remember choking.”
Developing a relationship with The Undertaker after joining WWE:
“There’s nothing fake about him. He’s like a legitimate badass. I’m glad I looked up to him. He’s everything I thought he should be, and he was.”
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• Last week’s episode of SmackDown (which went head-to-head against AEW Collision) was the final edition of the show on FOX, and it drew the lowest viewership that the blue brand has ever drawn on FOX (if you don’t count the December 29, 2023 episode, which was a recap show).
Friday’s episode drew 1.77 million viewers with a 0.45 rating in the 18-49 demo, which is down from previous week’s 2.05 million viewers with a 0.53 rating.
If you want to compare this number to the debut episode of SmackDown on FOX on October 4, 2019 (which featured The Rock returning to WWE after 3 years, Brock Lesnar winning the WWE Championship in the main event and Cain Velasquez’s WWE debut), that episode drew 3.87 million viewers with a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demo.
