Pat McAfee, Cody Rhodes and WWE SmackDown
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Welcome to Bleacher Report's live coverage of WWE SmackDown on April 10. We're just over a week away from WrestleMania 42, so WWE needs to do as much as possible to make the show feel like a must-see PLE.
There's no other way to put this, especially considering the feud — and wrestlers — that are coming at the expense of it: The Pat McAfee shoehorn has made Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton's WrestleMania 42 feud one of the worst of all time.
Referee Dan Engler, the referee who was cursed last week, officiated Danhausen’s in-ring debut. Danhausen hit an early Northern Lights suplex for a two count. He celebrated like he just won the main event of WrestleMania.
The April 10 episode of WWE SmackDown averaged 1.412 million viewers on USA Network, down 6.4 percent from the previous week.
Wrestlenomics reports that WWE SmackDown on April 10 drew 1.412 million viewers on USA Network. This number is down from the 1.508 million viewers the show drew on April 3. Friday’s episode scored a 0.36 rating in the 18 to 49 demographic, down from the 0.43 rating last Friday.
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