The WWE SmackDown television rating and viewership numbers are in for this week's broadcast on the USA Network, and they showed some improvement for the second to last SmackDown before WrestleMania 32. Despite this week's WWE RAW ratings being down for the fourth straight week, the ratings for SmackDown went up on Thursday in a significant way. The show, which featured Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar in the main event segment (the actual final match was AJ Styles vs. Tyler Breeze), drew in an audience of 2.5 million viewers. By comparison, last week's edition of SmackDown drew 2.26 million viewers, so 240,000 more people tuned into SmackDown this week versus last week. The final cable broadcast rating for the show was a 1.75 (translation: 1.75% of television viewers with access to the USA Network that were watching TV during the hours the show was on Thursday evening were tuned into SmackDown). Last week's edition of SmackDown drew a cable broadcast rating of 1.71. While the viewership for SmackDown continues to remain well below what WWE RAW is drawing on the same channel on Monday nights, WWE has to take this week's SmackDown rating as good news. RAW has been steadily declining in ratings for the last month heading into the biggest show of the year, something that seems almost unfathomable, so a bump in the SmackDown viewership is a minor victory for a company that's struggling with viewership on their primary show of late.