WWE NXT ratings down against World Baseball Classic final

Tuesday night’s edition of WWE NXT averaged 550,000 viewers on the USA Network, down 6.8 percent from last week. It’s NXT’s lowest audience total since December 6 of last year.

In the 18-49 demo, NXT finished 29th on the cable charts with a 0.12 rating. That’s down 20 percent from last week and is tied for NXT’s second-lowest rating in 2023. 

The show aired head-to-head with the World Baseball Classic final on FS1, which topped the cable charts with a 1.46 rating in 18-49 and averaged more than 4.4 million viewers.

NXT’s ratings were down from last week in all categories with the exception of males 12-34, which were even. The biggest decline was with people aged 18-34, which were down 30 percent.

As compared to the same week in 2022, NXT’s total viewership was down 12.4 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 14.3 percent.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and individual demo ratings for NXT, as well as the 10-week averages in all categories. This week’s show was down 9.2 percent in overall viewers and down 14.3 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

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Paul Fontaine
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