WWE Smackdown Ratings Report (8/2): Rating and viewership for final episode on eve of Summerslam in Cleveland with ten-week averages and year-ago comparisons

By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor


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Friday’s (8/2) episode of WWE Smackdown averaged 2.179 million viewers, up from 2.058 million the prior week but below the 2.313 million the week before that. The ten-week rolling average is 2.222 million.

One year ago this week, Smackdown on Fox drew 2.248 million. The ten-week rolling average, excluding the preemption to FS1 on one of the weeks, was 2.373 million.

So this year’s ten-week rolling average for Smackdown is down 151,000 viewers.

In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.60 rating, up from 0.52 last week, which was 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 0.64.

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

  • Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn vs. Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill – WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match
  • DIY (Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano) vs. The Bloodline (Tama Tonga & Jacob Fatu) – WWE Tag Team Championship match
  • Logan Paul will return to Smackdown
  • Solo Sikoa and Cody Rhodes go face to face

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