WWE Smackdown Rating & Audience Rise From Last Week’s Numbers

WWE Smackdown was on Syfy for a second week due to the Olympics, and its audience and demo rating were was up from the previous week. Friday’s episode brought in a 0.29 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.113 million viewers per Wrestlenomics. Those numbers are up 11.5% and 6.8% respectively from the previous week’s 0.26 demo rating and audience of 1.042 million.

While Smackdown has been down on Syfy compared to the week just before, it is doing better numbers than many of the ratings in January. The demo rating and audience was down from the February 6th episode’s 0.35 but tied with the 0.29 from the week before. Outside of last week, the viewership was the lowest since the January 23rd episode did 943,000 viewers. The Olympics on NBC did a 1.45 demo rating and 9.475 million viewers.

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 0.270 demo rating and 1.119 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.455 and 1.508 million for the same time period in 2025.