Last Week’s WWE Smackdown Rating Holds Steady, Viewership Slightly Down

Last week’s episode of WWE Smackdown saw its rating whole at the previous week’s high, while the total viewership was down just a little. Friday’s episode garnered a 0.32 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.327 million viewers per Wrestlenomics. Those numbers are dead even with and down 1.9% respectively from the previous week’s 0.32 demo rating and audience of 1.352 million.

The demo rating remains the highest for the show since the August 7th episode had a 0.35, while the audience was (outside of last week) the highest since the same episode had 1.47 million viewers. Details on other ratings aren’t yet available, so no word on what topped the night.

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings makes ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, WWE Smackdown is currently averaging a 0.285 demo rating and 1.243 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.410 and 1.441 million for the same time period in 2025.