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SmackDown Nov. 6 Draws 1.1M Viewers, Down 62,000 on Prior Week

Summary: WWE SmackDown on Friday, Nov. 6, averaged 1.1 million viewers on USA Network with a 0.25 rating in adults 18 to 49, per Dave Meltzer as reported by F4W Online. The Crown Jewel go-home show was down 62,000 viewers.

WrestlingNews.com Staff · 3 min read

The quick version

  • The Nov. 6 SmackDown averaged 1.1 million viewers on USA Network, with a 0.25 rating in adults 18 to 49, per Dave Meltzer as reported by F4W Online.
  • That is down 62,000 from the Oct. 30 show (1,162,000) and ties the Oct. 23 show for the lowest total in F4W's 11-week table.
  • Both numbers are below F4W's 10-week averages: 1,236,200 viewers and a 0.28 rating, through Oct. 30.

WWE SmackDown averaged 1.1 million viewers on USA Network for its Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, episode, with a 0.25 rating in adults 18 to 49, per Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer. F4W Online published the figures on Wednesday, Nov. 11, and said Meltzer reported them first. Fightful and Wrestling Headlines carried the same numbers.

The numbers

  • Total viewers: 1,100,000, down 62,000, or about 5.3%, from 1,162,000 on Oct. 30. That Oct. 30 figure matches what we reported on Nov. 7.
  • Adults 18 to 49: 0.25, down from 0.26.
  • F4W's table has 11 weeks. The 1,100,000 ties Oct. 23 as the lowest total. Aug. 28 was 1,124,000.
  • F4W's 10-week averages through Oct. 30 are 1,236,200 viewers and a 0.28 rating. By F4W's own figures, the Nov. 6 show was about 11% under the viewer average.
  • The two weeks before Oct. 23 were the highest in the table: 1,352,000 on Oct. 9 and 1,327,000 on Oct. 16.

The show

CM Punk vs. Kevin Owens, a No Holds Barred match, headlined the Crown Jewel go-home episode. Owens won with a chain-wrapped punch. See our results story. Fightful and Wrestling Headlines say the episode was taped on Monday. All three say it ran against college football. F4W says the Oct. 23 episode went against the first game of the World Series.

Where the sources differ

F4W calls the dip "a three-week trend of lower numbers." Its own table shows Oct. 30 up 62,000 from Oct. 23, so the last three shows read 1,100,000, 1,162,000 and 1,100,000. Fightful's text says the 0.25 rating is "up from" 0.26. It is a drop, as F4W and Wrestling Headlines say. We use F4W's table. We did not see Nielsen's data.

What to watch

SmackDown is Friday, Nov. 13, in Fort Lauderdale, with John Cena, per WWE. Netflix's number for the Nov. 9 Raw is due in its weekly rankings, which our earlier story put at next Tuesday.

How we know

Source: F4W Online's story (Josh Nason) and its table, read in full. Fightful (Jeremy Lambert) and Wrestling Headlines (Matt Boone) were read in full. Meltzer's original report is for subscribers and we did not read it. We did not see Nielsen or Wrestlenomics data. We did not contact WWE or USA Network. Nothing in this story is a rumor. The percentages are our arithmetic from F4W's figures.

WWE SmackDownViewershipUSA NetworkCM PunkKevin OwensDave Meltzer

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