WWE NXT ratings down against NBA play-in tournament

Tuesday night’s WWE NXT episode — the go-home show for Stand & Deliver — averaged 663,000 viewers on The CW, down 2.9 percent from last week. It’s the second-lowest audience total the show has done since December 31, 2024.

NXT drew a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 17.7 percent from last week and ties the lowest rating for the show since December 3 of last year. NXT was tied for eighth among English broadcast networks on Tuesday and did help The CW beat Fox programming.

The episode went head-to-head with an NBA playoff play-in tournament game on TNT that topped the cable charts with a 0.53 rating in 18-49 and average 1.621 million viewers overall.

As compared to the same week in 2024, when the show was still on USA Network, NXT’s overall viewership was up 6.1 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 17.7 percent, so the audience continues to skew much older on broadcast television.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for NXT, as well as the 10-week average in both categories. This week’s show was down 8.4 percent in viewers and 17.7 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.