WWE NXT Rating Hits Five-Week High, Viewership Down Opposite NHL Finals

This week’s episode of WWE NXT saw its rating tick up to a five-week high, while the audience was down a bit. Tuesday night’s show brought in a 0.09 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 548,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were up 28.6% and down 1.4% respectively from the previous week’s 0.07 demo rating and audience of 556,000.

The demo rating was the best for the show since the May 5th episode had a 0.11. The total viewership, while down from last week, was still slightly better than the 544,000 from two weeks ago. The NHL Finals led the way on ABC with a 1.44 demo rating and 5.345 million viewers. Last week’s show was up against another NHL Finals game (1.31 demo rating/4.782 million viewers) and America’s Got Talent on NBC (0.45/4.824 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 593,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.164 and 719,000 for the same time period in 2025.