WWE NXT Rating, Audience Down Opposite FIFA World Cup

This week’s episode of WWE NXT saw its ratings and audience dip in competition against the FIFA World Cup. Tuesday night’s episode brought in a 0.07 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 592,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are down 36.4% and 11.4% respectively from the previous week’s 0.11 demo rating and audience of 668,000.

The demo rating was the lowest for the show since the June 2nd episode also had a 0.07. Meanwhile, the total viewership was the smallest since the June 9th show had an audience of 548,000. The FIFA World Cup led the way on FOX with a hefty 3.47 demo rating and 10.43 million viewers, followed by the pre-game show (2.12 demo rating, 6.865 million)

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 0.084 demo rating and 596,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.164 and 717,000 for the same time period in 2025.