WWE Smackdown Ratings Report (7/26): Viewership and key demos for pre-taped episode including Tag Team Turmoil match, ten-week rolling average, year-ago comparisons

Friday’s (7/26) episode of WWE Smackdown averaged 2.058 million viewers, down from 2.313 million the prior week and the 2.355 million the week before that. The ten-week rolling average is 2.220 million.

One year ago this week, Smackdown aired on FS1 instead of Fox and drew 2.323 million. The ten-week rolling average, excluding the preemption to FS1, was 2.362 million.

So this year’s ten-week rolling average for Smackdown is down 142,000 viewers.

In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.52 rating, down from 0.70 last week, down from 0.65 and 0.70 the prior two weeks. The rolling ten-week average is 0.63.

One year ago, excluding the episode on FS1, the same time period averaged 0.63.

The following were the advertised matches and segments for last Friday’s show:

• Tag Team Gauntlet match
• Santos Escobar vs. L.A. Knight
• Nia Jax & Tiffany Stratton vs. Bayley & Michin

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