WWE Smackdown Rating Ticks Up, Audience At Nine-Week High

Last week’s episode of WWE Smackdown bounced back in the ratings, while the total viewership hit the best point in nine weeks. Friday’s show scored a 0.23 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.253 million viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were up 9.5% and up 0.8% respectively from the previous week’s 0.21 demo rating and audience of 1.243 million.

The demo rating still slightly down from the 0.24 from two weeks ago. However, the total audience was the best since the May 22nd episode had 1.256 million viewers. The top spot for the night went to Celebrity Jeopardy! on ABC with a 0.29 demo rating and 2.890 million viewers, followed by the WNBA All-Star festivities on ESPN with a 0.27/1.174 million.

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 0.280 demo rating and 1.224 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.433 and 1.496 million for the same time period in 2025.