Coming off the biggest Raw audience in years didn’t seem to have a spillover to SmackDown as Tuesday night’s show averaged 2.58 million viewers on the USA Network. That’s just 57 percent of the audience for Raw’s 25th anniversary episode.

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The show finished ninth on cable in terms of total viewers and second in the 18-49 demo with a 0.80 rating. The episode did have sports competition in the form of an NBA game on TNT that did just under two million viewers and featured the Cleveland Cavaliers against the San Antonio Spurs.

SmackDown was up very slightly in the year-over-year comparison as the Royal Rumble go-home show in 2017 did 2.556 million viewers.

Heading into the handicap match for AJ Styles’ WWE Championship on Sunday, SmackDown featured Styles in non-title singles matches against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in the main event slot.

Here’s a look at SmackDown numbers so far in 2018 and how they compare to Raw’s from the same week: