Confirmed Matches For Friday Night's WWE SmackDown Broadcast + Undertaker/WrestleMania 31

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Source: The Wrestling Observer

-- As noted earlier here on the website, WWE wants to induct The Undertaker into the 2015 Hall of Fame if he decides not to wrestle at WrestleMania 31. Either way, they are planning on Undertaker making an appearance in some capacity. That’s why he was included in advertisements even though it’s unknown if he’ll wrestle.

WWE is still hoping he will compete and are preparing Bray Wyatt to be his opponent.

-- Here are Friday night's confirmed WWE SmackDown matches:

* The Ascension in Action
* Bray Wyatt vs. Erick Rowan
* Ryback vs. Big Show
* Cesaro and Tyson Kidd vs. Los Matadores
* Dean Ambrose vs. Curtis Axel
* Goldust, Stardust, and Adam Rose vs. The Usos and R-Truth
* US Title Match: Rusev © vs. Roman Reigns

Last Friday Night's WWE SmackDown Rating Is In, Survivor Series Dominates Google, & More News

-- According to Google statistics, WWE did over 200,000 Google searches for their Survivor Series pay-per-view on Sunday. That came in at #3 behind Iggy Azalea and Odell Beckham Jr. as they were featured at the MTV Movie Awards and the New York Giants NFL game.

-- WWE's reasoning for the Survivor Series post-show not airing is simply because the pay-per-view ran long as they already had content scheduled to air and didn't want to mess up their schedule.

Also read: News On The WrestleMania 31 Tickets, Early Rating Numbers For Last Friday Night's SmackDown, More

-- WWE added a new feature to the WWE Network that allows subscribers to access content from WWE's official YouTube channel. You can check out a list of content that is available at WWE.com.

-- UPDATE: The Friday, November 21st WWE Survivor Series "go-home" edition of SmackDown scored a final 2.11 (2.1) cable rating, which was up from the 1.93 rating that the show drew the previous week. Friday's SmackDown averaged 2.878 million viewers, which was also up from the average of 2.715 million viewers who tuned in the previous week.

-- ORIGINAL: It was good news for the WWE SmackDown rating today. Last Friday’s episode drew 2.88 million viewers and a 0.9 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic. Those numbers are up 6% and a tenth from last week’s 2.72 million and 0.8 demo rating. The episode had the highest SmackDown viewership since the July 18th episode drew 2.89 million and the highest demo rating since the June 27th episode also drew a 0.9.

The household rating will be available later

M​onday's WWE RAW & Last Friday Night's WWE SmackDown Ratings Are In - Details Inside

-- Monday night’s episode of WWE RAW was down in viewership but up in the demo rating. The show drew 3.88 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic. Those numbers are down 9% from last week’s 4.25 million but up 7% from a 1.5 demo rating. The final cable rating was 2.79 (2.8), down 9% from last week’s 3.07.

The show did hours of 4.23 million, 3.95 million and 3.47 million viewers.

Also read: ?This Week's WWE RAW Rating Is In - OUCH!

The Miami Dolphins vs. New York Jets game on Monday night football did 11.75 million viewers, which is well below the season average.

-- Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown scored a big viewership and a solid (even if down) demo rating. The episode brought in 3.05 million viewers and a 0.8 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic. Those numbers are up 6% and down a tenth from last week’s 2.88 million and 0.9.

The viewership was the highest since all the way back in March, when the March 28th episode drew 3.06 million viewers. The show scored a final 2.09 (2.1) cable/household rating, down 1% from last week’s 2.11 (2.1).

Santino Marella Promotes Being The "General Manager" For Friday Night's SmackDown Broadcast

Santino Marella posted the following to Twitter today, promoting his appearance as the General Manager of SmackDown this week:

This week I run Smackdown! I want to impress the boss so I've made an #ICTitle match w @HEELZiggler & @LukeHarperWWE to kick off the show!

— Santino Marella (@milanmiracle) December 3, 2014

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This Week's WWE RAW Rating Is In + Last Friday Night's WWE SmackDown Rating & More

Last Friday night's WWE SmackDown broadcast drew a final 1.93 (1.9) cable rating, up from the previous week's 1.86 (1.9) cable rating.

UPDATE: Monday's WWE RAW broadcast scored a 2.75 (2.8) cable rating, even with last week’s number.

Also read: The Early Rating Numbers For Last Night's WWE RAW & The Bellator 131 Broadcasts - Details

ORIGINAL: Last night’s episode of WWE RAW drew 3.77 million viewers and a 1.23 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic. Thus numbers are down 4% and 12% respectively from last week’s 3.93 million and 1.4 demo rating.

The show did hours of 3.90 million, 3.78 million and 3.64 million viewers. The household rating will be available later.

For you MMA fans out there, Bellator announced today via press release that Saturday’s Bellator 131 event peaked at 2 million viewers. The show averaged 1.24 million viewers, which makes it the second highest rated cable MMA event of 2014. The UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi event did 1.4 million viewers, but that also had a NASCAR lead in. The show had steady ratings growth through out and peaked with the Ortiz vs. Bonnar main event.

The last non-UFC event that pulled in 2 million viewers at any time during it’s broadcast was the April 17th, 2012 Strikeforce: Nashville event.

Highlight Videos From This Week's WWE Main Event + Friday Confirmed WWE SmackDown Matches

-- Here are Friday night's confirmed WWE SmackDown matches:

Also read: WWE Main Event Highlight Videos + Friday Confirmed WWE SmackDown Matches, & More

* Divas Halloween Costume Battle Royal
* Non-Title Match: Dolph Ziggler © vs. Kane
* Ryback vs. Heath Slater
* Non-Title Match: Goldust and Stardust © vs. Los Matadores
* Rusev vs. Great Khali
* Trick or Treat Street Fight: Cesaro vs. Dean Ambrose

-- Here are some highlight videos from this week's WWE Main Event broadcast:

The Usos vs. The Miz & Damien Mizdow: WWE Main Event, October 28, 2014