WWE: Layla on Michelle McCool’s WWE Hall of Fame Induction, Jade Cargill Mystery Attacker Storyline Update, More on NXT Feb. 11, 2025 Viewership

Layla Comments on Michelle McCool’s WWE Hall of Fame Induction

As noted before, former WWE wrestler Michelle McCool was announced on Friday to be the second member for this year’s class of inductees for WWE’s Hall of Fame.

Former WWE wrestler Layla recently reflected on Instagram over her former LayCool tag team partner McCool’s induction into WWE’s Hall of Fame.

“What wonderful news today! No one is more deserving of this recognition and accomplishment. I’m truly so happy for you, Chelle! Everyone, please show your love to Michelle—she’s incredible and so dear to me. #WellDeserved #Proud”

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Jade Cargill Injury Situation Update – Nick Aldis Reveals New Footage in Cargill’s Mystery Attacker Incident on Feb. 14th WWE SmackDown Show

As noted before, Jade Cargill has been out of action for WWE following an injury angle on the November 22nd WWE SmackDown show in Salt Lake City, Utah. The situation with Cargill’s injury status has led to conflicting reports over it being genuine or just a storyline injury.

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Washington, D.C. featured SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis providing an update on Cargill’s mystery attacker situation.

During the show, Aldis had current WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Naomi and Bianca Belair meet him in his office to discusses the matters regarding his investigation into who had attacked Cargill. Aldis stated that there was security footage of the incident that he recently managed to get hold of and played the tape on a television screen in his office. While the footage did not show the actual incident of Cargill’s attack, it did show Judgement Day’s Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez being at the scene of the incident walking away. This led to a suspiciously acting Naomi being relived over Judgement Day being claimed by her and Belair to be the culprits and Belair stating that they would be paying a visit to Morgan and Rodriguez for revenge on this Monday’s RAW show. Aldis tried to tell both of them that the tape didn’t confirm Morgan and Rodriguez were the actual attackers but Naomi and Belair ignored his concerns.

Watch out, @YaOnlyLivvOnce & @RaquelWWE! @BiancaBelairWWE & Naomi are ready to take matters into their own hands. 😤#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/TOx5aK7fx3

— WWE (@WWE) February 15, 2025

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More on NXT Feb. 11, 2025 Viewership

The February 11th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT gain a large increase in overall viewership but suffered a slight decline in key demographic ratings.

NXT drew 801,000 viewers and a 0.18 key demographic rating on The CW.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reasons for NXT’s mixed results this week was due to the large increase from their Over 50 demographic viewership group, which its percentage was not given. This reportedly mostly offset the large decline in NXT’s overall key demographic viewership group, which was down 10.1% compared to last week’s show. Of the key demographic viewership decline, NXT’s younger key demographic viewership group was down 18.2% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the NBA game of New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers drew 1,148,000 viewers on TNT, the College basketball game of Tennessee vs. Kentucky drew 1,476,000 viewers on ESPN, the College basketball game of Alabama vs. Texas drew 818,000 viewers on ESPN, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta drew 301,000 viewers on MTV, 7 Little Johnstons drew 486,000 viewers on TLC, Curse of Oak Island drew 1,755,000 viewers on History Channel, Moonshiners drew 749,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills drew 744,000 viewers on BRAVO.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 241,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s male/female viewership skew was 72.1% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was up 23.2% in overall viewership and up 10% in key demographic viewership.