Friday night's WWE SmackDown
averaged 2.309 million viewers on Fox, down 9.8 percent from the previous week's Trial of Roman Reigns episode. It's the lowest audience total for the show since June 9.
In terms of total viewers, SmackDown finished in second place on network television, trailing only a repeat of Blue Bloods on CBS.
SmackDown topped all of network TV with a 0.62 rating in the 18-49 demo, more than doubling the nearest competition. That's down 18.4 percent from last week's episode and is SmackDown's lowest rating in the demo since June 23.
Reigns wasn't on this SmackDown episode but returns this coming Friday for a show that will be moved to FS 1 due to Fox's coverage of the women's World Cup.
As compared to the same week in 2022, SmackDown was up 11.2 percent in overall audience and up 31.9 percent in the 18-49 demo, so the viewership is skewing much younger this year.
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 episode was almost identical to the recent averages in both overall viewers and 18-49 rating.
