WWE NXT Rating, Viewership Up Against NHL Finals

This week’s episode of WWE NXT saw its rating and audience rise from last week against the Stanley Cup Finals. Tuesday night’s show brought in a 0.07 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 556,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are up 40.0% and .2% respectively from the previous week’s 0.05 demo rating and audience of 544,000.

The demo rating was still down slightly from the 0.08 from two weeks ago, though the total viewership was the best since the May 5th episode had 641,000. The NHL Finals led the way on ABC with a 1.31 demo rating and 4.782 million viewers. Last week’s show was up against the NBA Playoffs on NBC (2.07 demo rating/7.960 million viewers) and the NHL Conference Finals on ESPN (0.62/2.066 million viewers).

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings makes ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, WWE NXT is averaging a 0.083 demo rating and 595,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.165 and 719,000 for the same time period in 2025.