WWE NXT New Year’s Evil’s live airing on Tuesday, January 7th on the CW drew an average of 957,000 viewers with a rating of 0.25 in the key 18-—to 49-year-old demographic, while the replay of WWE NXT New Year’s Evil this past Saturday at 8PM local time drew an average of 297,000 viewers with a rating of 0.04 in the key 18-—to 49-year-old demographic. This means that a total of 1.254 M viewers watched the show over the course of the two airings.
The show featured an appearance by WWE legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Oba Femi capturing the WWE NXT Championship in a triple threat match, and Giulia becoming the new WWE NXT Women’s Champion by defeating Roxanne Perez.