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WWE Smackdown Rating, Audience Rebound For Final 2025 Episode

January 2, 2026 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
WWE Smackdown Drew McIntyre Cody Rhodes 12-26-25, Road to Royal Rumble Tour Image Credit: WWE

Last week’s WWE Smackdown saw its rating and total audience bounce back to four week highs. Last Friday’s episode brought in a 0.27 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.138 million viewers per Wrestlenomics. Those numbers are up 28.6% and 14.4% respectively from the previous week’s 0.21 demo rating and audience of 995,000.

The demo rating and audience were both the highest for the show since the November 28th episode. That show drew a 0.28 demo rating and 1.142 million total viewers. The night was won by ABC, which drew a 0.35 demo rating and 3.125 million viewers for Celebrity Family Feud.

As a reminder, Nielsen has changed its ratings system as of early September, which makes ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, WWE Smackdown averaged a 0.381 demo rating and 1.379 million viewers in 2025 compared to a 0.577 and 20.34 million for the 2024 between FOX and USA Network.

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