Friday's Royal Rumble fallout edition of WWE SmackDown
averaged 2.384 million viewers on Fox, down 6.3 percent from last week. It's still the third-highest audience total for the show since September 23 of last year.
SmackDown topped all of television with a 0.61 rating in the 18-49 demo, almost 20 percent ahead of the closest competition. That's down nine percent from the previous week's rating, which was SmackDown's highest in over two years.
This is SmackDown's third-highest rating in 18-49 since that same September 23 episode.
SmackDown also topped all English-language television with a 0.39 rating in the 18-34 demo.
As compared to the same week in 2022 (also the first SmackDown after the Royal Rumble), SmackDown was up 10.8 percent in overall viewers and up 19.6 percent in 18-49.
Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for SmackDown, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week's show was up 2.6 percent in overall viewers and seven percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.
