WWE Smackdown Dips, AEW Rampage Rises

Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Night Wrestling ratings presented by Full Press Wrestling. This week we will break down the ratings for the December 3rd editions of WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage.

WWE Smackdown is coming off its post Survivor Series edition. The show was viewed by 2,030,000 million people and did a .51 in the 18-49 demo, which is about 666,000 viewers. Smackdown was 4th on the night in the demo through all of the TV. The number is down from a week ago when the show was viewed by 2,149,000 million people. The demo was also down last week’s show which did .57 in the demo, which was about 741,000 people.

WWE Smackdown last Friday on Fox, 8-10pm:
2,030,000 total viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.51 (666,000 viewers)

AEW Rampage on TNT, 10-11pm:
499,000 total viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.18 (241,000 viewers)

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— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) December 6, 2021

This week Smackdown saw the return of Brock Lesnar as we are getting Roman Reigns and Lesnar at the Day 1 PPV on January 1st. Other than that it was a normal Smackdown show.

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AEW Rampage was viewed by 499,000 people and did a .18 in the 18-49 demo, which is about 241,000 people. This number is up from a week ago as Rampage hit its lowest viewership number ever. Granted it was the holiday weekend. However, last week’s show was viewed by 431,000 people doing a .18 in the 18-49 demo, which is about 238,000 people. This week the show ranked 16th on cable for a Friday night. This was about the same as a week ago according to Showbuzzdaily.com.

This week on Rampage we had a TNT Title match between Sammy Guevara and Tony Neese. In addition, FTR battled Death Triangle members PAC and Penta El Zero Miedo. Plus Jade Cargill was in action setting up her match in the TBS tournament with Thunder Rosa.