– This week’s WWE SmackDown ranked #2 among series & specials for the night in Nielsen’s social media TV ratings, behind This Is Us. SmackDown had 89,000 interactions on Twitter with 19,000 unique authors, up from last week’s episode, which had 65,000 interactions and 16,000 authors. SmackDown also had 107,000 Facebook interactions with 65,000 unique authors last night, down from last week’s episode, which had 108,000 interactions and 70,000 authors.
– Finn Balor continues to rehab and train for his return from shoulder surgery. He was at Champion Sports Medicine in Alabama last week but is back in Orlando this week. As noted, Balor is being advertised for RAW live events in March. The first-ever WWE Universal Champion tweeted the following today from the WWE Performance Center:
‘Hey Finn, are you ready?’ pic.twitter.com/0rX6LYbCxO— Finn Bálor (@FinnBalor) February 22, 2017
– Xavier Woods unboxes The New Day’s brand new Funko Pops! figures in this “UpUpDownDown” video.