WWE SmackDown ratings up with return to USA Network
Friday night’s episode of WWE Smackdown averaged 1.379 million viewers on the USA Network, up 23.9% from the previous week’s airing on SyFy. It’s the second highest audience for the show since September 5th of last year.
Smackdown averaged a 0.34 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 17.2% from the prior week and ties the second highest rating the show has done in that category since September 19th. Despite airing head to head with an NBA game on ESPN that topped the cable charts, the show finished second on the cable charts in the key demo and fifth overall on television for the night.
As compared to the same week in 2025 the overall viewership was down 20.3% while the 18-49 rating was down 36.4%.
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 24.4% in overall viewers and 30.8% in 18-49 as compared to recent averages.
| Date | 18-49 | Total viewers |
| 12/19/2025 | 0.21 | 995,000 |
| 12/26/2025 | 0.27 | 1,138,000 |
| 1/2/2026 | 0.28 | 1,175,000 |
| 1/9/2026 | 0.26 | 990,000 |
| 1/16/2026 | 0.21 | 968,000 |
| 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 |
| 10 week average | 0.26 | 1,108,300 |
