According to ShowBuzz Daily, this week’s edition of Tuesday Night SmackDown LIVE drew 2.885 million viewers, which was up on last week’s 2.637 million viewers. In comparison WWE’s flagship Monday Night Raw this week averaged 2.855 million viewers, which was down on last week’s 2.955 million viewers.

For the first time since the draft happened, Smackdown Live beat Monday Night RAW in the ratings.

This week’s episode of SmackDown LIVE featured Chad Gable and Jason Jordan (aka American Alpha) winning the WWE SmackDown LIVE Tag Team Championships, John Cena making his WWE return and the WWE World Championship match where AJ Styles defended and retained against Dolph Ziggler and Baron Corbin.

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