1/7 WWE Smackdown Posts Highest Rating Since ‘Mania, New “Legends with JBL” Coming Soon, Mr. Anderson Reveals New Project

January 8, 2016

1/7 WWE Smackdown Posts Highest Rating Since ‘Mania

This week’s edition of WWE Smackdown, which was the show’s premiere on the USA Network, finished with a 1.93 cable rating. This is up from recent episodes of the show, namely the 1.15 drawn for the New Year’s Eve Syfy episode, the 1.53 drawn for the Super Smackdown live special, and the 1.68 drawn for the last Syfy Thursday episode in the 8pm time slot.

This week’s rating is also the highest number WWE Smackdown has drawn dating back to the post-WrestleMania 31 episode, which drew a 1.94. As noted, this week’s Smackdown had an average audience of 2.757 million viewers.

New “Legends with JBL” Coming Soon

JBL Tweeted the following:

New Legends show coming soon I am told, already done and edit is finished!!! Thrilled about this one! #LegendsWithJBL

— John Layfield (@JCLayfield) January 9, 2016

Mr. Anderson Reveals New Project

TNA star Mr. Anderson posted the following on Instagram:

Voiceover work for a top super secret squirrel video game project. Much fun! Thanks to my friend Steven Jaros for hooking it up!

A photo posted by Ken Anderson (@misterkenanderson) on Jan 6, 2016 at 9:21pm PST

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.