WWE Smackdown Rating Even, Audience Ticks Up From Previous Week

Last week’s WWE Smackdown was saw its ratings stay steady, while the total audience was slightly up. Friday’s episode brought in a 0.37 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.342 million viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are even with and up 2.0% respectively from the previous week’s jump to a 0.37 demo rating and audience of 1.316 million.

Much like last week, this week’s numbers were still down from the 0.51 and 1.85 from two weeks ago. The show ranked #2 for the night among cable and broadcast shows in the demo rating behind the Iowa at Rutgers college football game on ESPN (a 0.58 demo rating and 2.657 million viewers).

Smackdown is averaging a 0.425 demo rating and 1.475 million viewers in 2025 to date, compared to a 0.630 and 2.242 million for 2024 on FOX and then USA Network to the same point.