WWE NXT ratings up, ranks 17th on cable

Tuesday night’s episode of WWE NXT averaged 640,000 viewers on the USA Network, up 13.9 percent from last week. It’s the largest audience total for NXT since the New Year’s Evil episode on January 10.

In the 18-49 demo, NXT finished 17th on the cable charts with a 0.15 rating, up 36.4 percent from last week. It matches New Year’s Evil for NXT’s second-highest rating of the year. It’s also tied for NXT’s highest chart placement in 2023. 

As compared to the same week in 2022, NXT was up 21.9 percent in overall viewers and up 36.4 percent in 18-49 from a show that was moved to Syfy due to the Winter Olympics.

NXT went head-to-head with an NBA game between the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks that averaged 1.67 million viewers on TNT and topped the cable charts with a 0.50 rating in 18-49.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for NXT, as well as the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was up 3.2 percent in overall viewers and up 7.1 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.