WWE Smackdown Rating Slips To Four-Month Low, Audience Down From Last Week

WWE Smackdown saw its rating dip to a four-month low for the show, while the audience was also down from last week. Friday’s episode garnered in a 0.23 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.184 million viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were down 20.7% and 7.4% respectively from the previous week’s 0.29 demo rating and audience of 1.279 million.

The demo rating was the lowest for the show since the January 23rd episode had a 0.22 demo rating, while the total audience was still up from the 1.153 million from two weeks ago. The top spot for the night went to the Celebrity Jeopardy, which brought in a 0.39 and 3.504 million viewers on on ABC, followed by Sheriff Country on CBS with a 0.30/4.813 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 0.302 demo rating and 1.253 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.456 and 1.525 million for the same time period in 2025.