The NXT “New Yr’s Evil” occasion on Jan. 7 drew the WWE developmental model’s largest TV viewership in over 5 years.

In keeping with Nielsen information, “New Yr’s Evil” averaged roughly 957,000 complete viewers from 8-10 p.m. on The CW, with 341,000 viewers within the coveted adults 18-49 demographic. That’s the finest viewership for NXT since September 2019, when it was airing on USA Community. It’s also the most effective viewership for the present because it moved to The CW in October 2024, with the premiere on the printed community netting 895,000 viewers on Oct. 1.

“New Yr’s Evil” originated from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Among the many matches on the cardboard, Giulia defeated Roxanne Perez for the NXT girls’s championship, Stephanie Vaquer defeated Cora Jade, Kelani Jordan, and Lola Vice for the NXT girls’s North American championship, and Oba Femi defeated Trick Williams and Eddy Thorpe to win the NXT championship for the primary time. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson additionally made a particular look on the present, together with closing out the evening by delivering a promo within the ring.

NXT is the brainchild of Paul “Triple H” Levesque, who now serves as WWE’s chief content material officer. The present is presently overseen by Shawn Michaels, himself a WWE Corridor of Famer with a legendary in-ring profession.

The excessive scores for NXT got here simply after WWE formally moved their flagship “Monday Evening Uncooked” collection to Netflix, with the primary episode streaming stay from the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA, on Jan. 6. Johnson was additionally current at that present, showing in a number of segments.