WWE Smackdown Rating & Viewership Take Expected Dip For Best Of 2023 Show

Last week’s episode of WWE Smackdown was a Best of 2023 show, and as you would expect the rating and audience were down. Friday’s show brought in a 0.28 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.355 million viewers according to Wrestlenomics. That’s down 49.1% and 35.7% respectively from the previous week’s 0.55 demo rating and audience of 2.108 million.

The drop was lower than the similar drop for the Raw Best of 2023 episode last week, which fell 61.7% and 55.3% from its previous week. The numbers were still higher than the most recent episode of Smackdown on FOX Sports 1, which was on November 24th and had a 0.24 demo rating & 789,000 viewers.

Smackdown averaged a 0.585 demo rating and 2.218 million viewers in 2023, compared to a 0.515 demo rating and 2.123 million viewers in 2022.