WWE Smackdown Rating, Audience Bounce Back From Previous Week’s Drop

Last week’s episode of WWE Smackdown saw its ratings and viewership rise a bit after they fell the week before. Friday’s episode scored a 0.26 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.162 million viewers per Wrestlenomics. Those numbers were up 8.3% and 5.6% respectively from the previous week’s 0.24 demo rating and audience of 1.10 million.

The demo rating and audience were both still down from the 0.32 and 1.327 million that the October 16th episode had two weeks prior. 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 0.283 demo rating and 1.238 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.403 and 1.423 million for the same time period in 2025.