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Friday night’s WWE SmackDown episode averaged 1.234 million viewers on USA Network, down 19.7 percent from the previous week.
It’s the lowest audience total the show has drawn since moving back to USA Network and the lowest SmackDown has done since November 24 of last year for an episode that aired on FS1. SmackDown drew a 0.32 rating in the 18-49 demo.
That’s down 31.9 percent from last week and is also the lowest since moving to USA. It’s SmackDown’s smallest 18-49 rating since a best-of 2023 episode last December.
The show aired head-to-head with the early portion of the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing special. Netflix claimed a peak audience of 60 million households worldwide for that show, although most of those viewers would likely have tuned in after SmackDown ended.
Hourly data is not currently available. As compared to the same week in 2023 (when the show was on Fox), SmackDown’s overall audience was down 44.1 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 48.
4 percent. Listed below are the last 11 weeks of viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for SmackDown, as well as the 10-week average in both categories. The first week is from a Fox episode with the rest of the chart being USA Network airings.
This week’s show was down 20.3 percent in overall viewers and down 30.4 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.
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