WWE Smackdown Rating & Audience Bounce Back From Last Week

The ratings and viewership for last week’s WWE Smackdown rebounded from the previous week’s drop. Friday’s episode scored a 0.29 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.258 million viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were up 26.1% and 6.3% respectively from the previous week’s 0.23 demo rating and audience of 1.184 million.

The demo rating was the equel to the 0.29 from two weeks ago, while the total audience was still slightly down from that same episode’s 1.279 million. The top spot for the night went to the NBA Playoff game, which brought in a 1.77 and 7.029 million viewers on on NBC, followed by the NHL Conference Finals on ESPN with a 0.60/2.148 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 0.301 demo rating and 1.254 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.450 and 1.518 million for the same time period in 2025.