WWE Smackdown Rating & Audience Back Down From Previous Week

The ratings and viewership for last week’s WWE Smackdown were back down from the previous week’s rebound. Friday’s episode scored a 0.23 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.096 million viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were down 20.7% and 12.9% respectively from the previous week’s 0.29 demo rating and audience of 1.258 million.

The demo rating was equal to the 0.23 from two weeks ago, while the total audience was the lowest since the February 13th episode on SYFY due the Olympics did 1.042 million. No word as of yet on the top spot for the night went to the NHL Playoff game, which brought in a 0.38 demo rating and 1.432 million viewers on on NBC, followed by the College Softball World Series on ESPN with a 0.27/1.246 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 0.298 demo rating and 1.247 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.444 and 1.512 million for the same time period in 2025.