Tony Khan takes shot at WWE NXT ratings

Despite WWE NXT coming out ahead in Tuesday night’s ratings war, Tony Khan is taking a shot at the show’s performance.

Khan posted a message on X noting that, with all due respect to “two great legends,” Tuesday night was the first time John Cena or The Undertaker had ever appeared on a WWE show that averaged fewer than one million viewers.

“This week, 2 active decades-long ratings streaks from 2 great legends were ended,” Khan wrote. “With all due respect, until this week’s head-to-head AEW on TBS vs WWE on USA, neither John Cena nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under 1 million total viewers + under 400k in the demo.”

Tuesday night’s NXT episode averaged 921,000 viewers and drew a 0.30 rating in the 18-49 demo. AEW Dynamite averaged 609,000 viewers and drew a 0.26 demo rating. Dynamite was moved to Tuesday this week due to MLB playoff coverage on TBS.

On NXT, Cena was in Carmelo Hayes’ corner for a match where Hayes defeated Bron Breakker. Paul Heyman was in Breakker’s corner for the match.

An appearance by Undertaker was heavily teased for NXT but never officially announced. He showed up near the end of the episode for a confrontation with Breakker. Undertaker laid out Breakker with a chokeslam.

Cody Rhodes and Asuka made appearances on Tuesday’s NXT as well. Dynamite was a Title Tuesday edition of the show that also included Adam Copeland’s AEW in-ring debut.

Khan sent out another post on Wednesday night referencing the sexual misconduct allegations that have been made against Vince McMahon.