WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage Viewership Up

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 10th editions of WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage.

WWE Smackdown was viewed by 2,142,000 million people and did a .50 in the 18-49 demo, which is about 649,000 viewers. Smackdown was 4th on the night in the demo through all of the TV. The number is up from a week ago when the show was viewed by 2,030,00  million people. The demo was also down last week’s show which did .51 in the demo, which was about 666,000 people.

WWE Smackdown on Fox, Friday 8-10pm:
2,142,000 total viewers
P18-49: 0.50 rating (649,000)

AEW Rampage on TNT, 10-11pm, was watched by
P18-49:
503,000 total viewers
P18-49: 0.18 rating (237,000)

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— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) December 13, 2021

Smackdown is building towards WWE Day 1 on New Year’s Day as Brock Lesnar will be fighting Roman Reigns for the Universal Title. With Paul Heyman as the special counsel to the tribal chief, this week we saw the seeds being planted for a potential turn by Heyman reuniting with Lesnar as his advocate. This is a great storyline between Reigns, Lesnar and Heyman. One of the more entertaining things on the show. Lesnar also confronted Adam Pearce later in the night. It was a typical Smackdown show with Raw superstars Randy Orton and Riddle appearing.

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AEW Rampage was up from the previous week as well. The show was viewed by 503,000 people and did a .18 in the 18-49 demo, which is about 237,000 people. Rampage continues to increase viewership. Rampage has remained steady in the demo over the last three weeks.

This was a loaded card with the AEW Tag Team Titles on the line with the Lucha Bros vs. FTR. In addition, Adam Cole was in action. Not only that there was the debut of Hook and women’s trios action featuring Ruby Soho and Nyla Rose.