WWE SmackDown draws over 1.5 million viewers
Friday night’s episode of WWE SmackDown averaged 1.508 million viewers on the USA Network, up 15.3% from the previous week. It’s the largest audience for the show since September 5th of last year.
The show averaged a 0.43 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 30.3% from the prior week and was also the largest rating the show has done in that category since the September 5.
SmackDown went head to head with coverage of the Women’s NCAA Final Four, which topped all television in the key demo, but beat everything else on cable or network on the primetime ratings chart. As compared to the same week in 2025 the overall viewership was down 4.4% while the 18-49 rating was down 8.5%.
Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for WWE SmackDown as well as the 10 week average in both categories. This week’s show was up 20.1% in overall viewers and 43.3% in 18-49 as compared to recent averages.
| Date | 18-49 | Total viewers |
| 1/23/2026 | 0.22 | 943,000 |
| 1/30/2026 | 0.29 | 1,260,000 |
| 2/6/2026 | 0.35 | 1,459,000 |
| 2/13/2026 | 0.26 | 1,042,000 |
| 2/20/2026 | 0.29 | 1,113,000 |
| 2/27/2026 | 0.34 | 1,379,000 |
| 3/6/2026 | 0.27 | 1,190,000 |
| 3/13/2026 | 0.32 | 1,419,000 |
| 3/20/2026 | 0.32 | 1,439,000 |
| 3/27/2026 | 0.33 | 1,308,000 |
| 4/3/2026 | 0.43 | 1,508,000 |
| 10 week average | 0.30 | 1,255,200 |
