SmackDown fast national rating, Lashley's return & effect on Fit Finlay

Reported by Ryan Droste of WrestleView.com
On Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 4:09 PM EST

-Last night's edition of WWE SmackDown! on UPN did a fast national rating of 2.3. WrestleView will have the final rating for you when it becomes available. Because of pre-emptions, some weeks the fast national rating is considerably off. However, this week the only pre-emption was in New York, so the final number should be close to 2.3.

-With Bobby Lashley being cleared to wrestle again, it has caused more confusion with the SmackDown brand. The question now is what the plans will be for Fit Finlay. WWE was under the impression that Lashley would be out for a considerable amount of time, so they had begun to plan for a Fit Finlay face turn. Time will only tell if plans on SmackDown will again have to be re-arranged.

Source: Dave Meltzer @ Wrestling Observer