Friday’s WWE SmackDown drew an average of 1.032 million viewers on FS1. This final number is down 54.11% from last week’s final viewership of 2.249 viewers, but that was for the normal timeslot on network TV. For the last FS1 episode, this is up 19.17% from the 866,000 viewers that the Supersized episode drew on October 15.
Friday’s SmackDown drew a 0.29 rating in the key 18-49 demographic, down 50% from last week’s 0.58 rating, up 20.83% from the 0.24 that the Supersized episode drew on FS1.
This is the best SmackDown on FS1 viewership out of five episodes since 2019. This is also the second-best key demo rating for a FS1 airing, behind the 0.30 rating the show did on December 18, 2020.
Friday’s live SmackDown from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA had just one match advertised ahead of time – Rick Boogs and WWE Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Happy Baron Corbin and Madcap Moss in a Trick or Street Fight. The main event ended up being The New Day defeating SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos in a non-title match.
— The 10/29 episode of AEW Rampage got a Halloween “treat” instead of a “trick” when it came to viewership numbers. According to Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics, Rampage achieved a 623,000 audience in total viewership, significantly up from the previous week’s number of 533,000. With that 90,ooo added audience also saw a spike in the 18-49 demographic as it registered a 0.25 (320,000), up from the 10/22 number of 0.22.
This specific episode of Rampage was headlined by a classic bout between Eddie Kingston and Bryan Danielson in which saw Danielson advancing in the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament against The Mad King. The show also had a CM Punk promo in which Kingston’s loss poured into and had Britt Baker in the main event facing the very appropriate Abadon in a “Trick Or Treat” fight.