Viewership for This Week’s Episode of SmackDown Live Goes Down

Viewership for this week’s episode of SmackDown Live goes down slightly by generating an average of 2.580 million viewers. This is down 0.8% from last week’s 2.602 million viewers. This week’s episode of SmackDown Live was the Go-Home Edition of Royal Rumble and it featured WWE Champion AJ Styles wrestling back to back matches against Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens as the main event.
SmackDown was #10 in viewership for this week on cable, behind Curse of Oak Island, Fixer Upper, Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Tucker Carlson, The Story, The Ingraham Angle, The Five and Special Report. SmackDown was #2 in the 18-49 demographic, behind Curse of Oak Island.
In comparison, Monday’s RAW 25th Anniversary Show generated an average of 4.530 million viewers, up from last week’s 3.250 million viewers. The special was the highest rated RAW in years and topped SmackDown viewership by a whopping 76%.

Below is SmackDown Live’s viewership numbers for the rest of 2018:
January 2nd Episode: 2.720 million viewers
January 9th Episode: 2.603 million viewers
January 16th Episode: 2.602 million viewers

January 23rd Episode: 2.580 million viewers