WWE NXT Draws Best Viewership and Key Demo Rating In Years for Becky Lynch’s Return, Year-Over-Year Way Up

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Tuesday’s live WWE NXT drew 850,000 viewers on the USA Network, according to Nielsen via Wrestlenomics. This is up 26.3% from last week’s 673,000 viewers.

Tuesday’s NXT drew a 0.26 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This is up 44.44% from last week’s 0.18 rating in the key demo. The 0.26 rating represents 335,000 18-49 viewers, which is up 46.29% from the 229,000 18-49 viewers that last week’s 0.18 key demo rating represented.

NXT ranked #2 for the night on cable this week with the 0.26 rating in the 18-49 key demographic. This is up from last week’s #5 ranking on cable with the 0.18 key demo rating.

NXT ranked #31 in viewership on cable this week with the 850,000 viewers. This is up from last week’s #46 viewership ranking on cable with the 673,000 viewers.

Tuesday’s NXT drew the highest total audience since Halloween Havoc’s 876,000 on October 28, 2020, and the highest key demo rating since the 0.26 from the September 1, 2020 episode, which was a Tuesday episode at a time when NXT was airing on Wednesdays, and with no competition from AEW. Tuesday’s NXT viewership and key demo rating were both well above the 2022 averages. This week’s NXT viewership was up 26.3% from last week, while the key demo rating was up 44.44% from last week.

This week’s NXT viewership was up 16.76% from the episode that aired one year ago in 2022, while the 18-49 key demo rating was up 73.33% from the show that aired one year ago. The 2022 episode was the NXT 2.0 One Year Anniversary show.

Tuesday’s NXT aired live from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando with the following line-up advertised ahead of time – Wes Lee vs. Ilja Dragunov in the opener to determine the No Mercy opponent for NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes, a promo from Mustafa Ali, a promo from Joe Gacy, Axiom vs. Tyler Bate and Akira Tozawa vs. Nathan Frazer in Global Heritage Invitational matches, Dana Brooke vs. Lyra Valkyria, The Creed Brothers vs. Malik Blade and Edris Enofe, Drew Gulak, Charlie Dempsey and Damon Kemp vs. Josh Briggs, Brooks Jensen and Myles Borne, plus Tiffany Stratton defending the NXT Women’s Title against Becky Lynch in the main event.

Below is our 2023 NXT Viewership Tracker, along with the Top 10 moments from this week’s show:

January 3 Episode: 653,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 10 Episode: 700,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic (New Year’s Evil episode)
January 17 Episode: 600,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 24 Episode: 607,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 31 Episode: 587,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 7 Episode: 562,000 viewers with a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Vengeance Day episode)
February 14 Episode: 640,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 21 Episode: 589,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 28 Episode: 555,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 7 Episode: 624,000 viewers with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Roadblock episode)
March 14 Episode: 590,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Roadblock episode)
March 21 Episode: 550,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 28 Episode: 620,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Taped episode)
April 4 Episode: 555,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Stand & Deliver episode)
April 11 Episode: 528,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 18 Episode: 565,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 25 Episode: 647,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Spring Breakin’ episode)
May 2 Episode: 568,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 9 Episode: 601,000 viewers with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 16 Episode: 564,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 23 Episode: 578,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 30 Episode: 607,000 viewers with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Battleground episode)
June 6 Episode: 615,000 viewers with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 13 Episode: 581,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 20 Episode: 773,000 viewers with a 0.23 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Gold Rush Week 1 episode)
June 27 Episode: 622,000 viewers with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Gold Rush Week 2 episode)
July 4 Episode: 508,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Taped Independence Day episode)
July 11 Episode: 671,000 viewers with a 0.20 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 18 Episode: 746,000 viewers with a 0.21 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 25 Episode: 703,000 viewers with a 0.23 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 1 Episode: 717,000 viewers with a 0.23 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Great American Bash episode)
August 8 Episode: 776,000 viewers with a 0.23 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 15 Episode: 680,000 viewers with a 0.19 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 22 Episode: 720,000 viewers with a 0.19 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Heatwave episode)
August 29 Episode: 614,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic
September 5 Episode: 673,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic
September 12 Episode: 850,000 viewers with a 0.26 rating in the 18-49 demographic
September 19 Episode:
 
2022 Viewership Average: 623,461 viewers per episode over 52 episodes
2022 18-49 Key Demographic Rating Average: 0.14 per episode

2021 Viewership Average: 665,807 viewers per episode over 52 episodes
2021 18-49 Key Demographic Rating Average: 0.16 per episode

2020 Viewership Average: 698,623 viewers per episode

2019 Viewership Average: 785,307 viewers per episode

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