WWE: WWE Debuting New WWE Speed Women’s Championship, More on NXT Aug. 6, 2024 Viewership, Two New Matches Set for 8/12 RAW Show

Aug 10, 2024

New WWE Speed Women’s Championship to Debut Soon

WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque recently announced on Twitter that WWE will be debuting a new WWE Speed Women’s Championship.

Levesque announced that a new WWE Speed Women’s Championship tournament to crown an inaugural champion will be starting on September 4th on Twitter.

Time to turn #WWESpeed up another notch… excited to announce that the WWE Speed Women’s Championship Tournament will premiere Sept. 4 at 12pm ET / 9am PT, exclusively on @X. pic.twitter.com/lpY1XPndTU
— Triple H (@TripleH) August 9, 2024

More on NXT Viewership for August 6, 2024

The August 6th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT gain a large increase in overall viewership and a slight increase in key demographic ratings. This week’s show was notable for being the NXT Great American Bash 2024 Week 2 special and also being preempted to SYFY due to USA Network’s commitments with the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

NXT drew 534,000 viewers and a 0.16 key demographic rating on SYFY. NXT’s key demographic ranking for the night is currently not known.

Detailed key demographic viewership breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason for NXT’s increases this week was due to the large gains from their Over 50 demographic viewership group, which its percentage was not given, and overall key demographic viewership group, which was up 6.6% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of notable head-to-head competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics Games drew 12,809,000 viewers on NBC and 1,066,000 viewers on USA Network, the 2024 Little League World Series Regional game of Texas West vs. Louisiana drew 461,000 viewers on ESPN, the MLB game of Milwaukee Brewers vs. Atlanta Braves drew 238,000 viewers on TBS, Deadliest Catch drew 766,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta drew 318,000 viewers on MTV, and Neighborhood Wars drew 454,000 viewers on A&E.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 211,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s male/female viewership skew was 66.7% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was down 31.2% in overall viewership and down 30% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that the reason for the large declines was due to last year’s show aired on USA Network and the lack of Olympics Games competition.

Two New Matches Announced for August 12th WWE RAW Show

WWE announced two new matches for the card of next week’s WWE RAW show on August 12th in Austin, Texas.

The first new match announced was a singles match of Damian Priest vs. Carlito.

The second new match announced was a tag team match of The Creeds (Brutus & Julius Creed) vs. Akira Tozawa & Otis.

Current card for August 12th WWE RAW show:

WWE Intercontinental Championship Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match – Sami Zayn vs. Bron Breakker (c)
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship #1 Contender match – Damage CTRL (Kairi Sane & IYO SKY) vs. Zoey Stark & Shayna Baszler
The Creeds (Brutus & Julius Creed) vs. Akira Tozawa & Otis
Damian Priest vs. Carlito
Rhea Ripley to appear
Randy Orton to appear