Various News: Smackdown Gets Largest Audience Of The Year, Former NXT Star Going To DDT Pro, Lineups For Next Week’s NXT And NXT UK

– This week’s episode of Smackdown Live, featuring NXT stars Ricochet, Aleister Black, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa, brought in 2.269 million viewers. This was up 11.6% from last week’s 2.034 million viewers and was the highest rated episode of 2019. It was also the highest-rated episode since November 13, which had 2.312 million viewers.

It was #9 behind Rachel Maddow Show, Hannity, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, The Five, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, The Curse of Oak Island, The Ingraham Angle and Special Report With Bret Bair. SmackDown was #1 in the 18-49 demographic this week. The Rachel Maddow Show topped the night in viewership with 3.066 million viewers. RAW had 2.771 million viewers, its highest ratings since September and up from last week’s 2.462 million viewers.

– Bull James will make his DDT Pro in Japan on March 2 in Osaka.

– Here’s the lineup for next week’s NXT UK:

*NXT UK Tag Team Champions The Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan

*Tyler Bate vs. Jack Gallagher.

*WALTER vs. Kassius Ohno.

NXT UK will tape TV tomorrow and Saturday in Coventry. There is also talk of taping NXT UK in April at the Wrestlemania AXXESS sessions.

– Next week’s NXT includes:

*WWE NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler vs. Mia Yim.

*Vanessa Borne and Aliyah vs. Xia Li and Taynara Conti

*Dominik Dijakovic vs. Keith Lee

*WWE NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano will appear.