WWE SmackDown averages 1.25 million viewers as adult rating holds

WWE SmackDown averaged 1.25 million viewers on USA Network on Oct. 2, a slight decline from the previous Friday, according to Wrestlenomics figures reported by Fightful.

The Sept. 25 episode drew 1.263 million viewers. The latest broadcast therefore lost 13,000 viewers, or about 1%, while its adults 18–49 rating remained at 0.27.

The unchanged adult rating and lower overall audience describe separate measures. Total viewership includes viewers outside the 18–49 group, while the demographic rating tracks the share of that specific population watching the program.

SmackDown had the largest reported U.S. television audience among the wrestling programs in the Sept. 28–Oct. 4 window. AEW Dynamite averaged 899,000 viewers on TBS, and WWE NXT averaged 671,000 on The CW.

Those programs aired on different nights and networks, so the audience order is not a direct measure of how they performed against one another. It also excludes WWE Raw on Netflix, whose reported global views use a different geography and metric.