NXT vs AEW Ratings Thread

[TBdaGhost]

Was there something going on last night for the numbers to be down?

With AEW being over 900 for a few weeks, I thought they had a chance at a milli for next week cause they've been hyping that cage match for a while plus the tag team battle royal.

 

[Reality Check]

Tranny vs. 10 year old girl. That's ratings

If AEW wins the ratings tonight and someone post this in that ratings thread

 

[RammerJammer]

Last Night:

A Treh, a petite Girl that makes Ariana Grande look like Ashley Graham, Two Patchy The Pirate Cosplayers, and a wrestler that should be in AA beat NXT

 

[MenacingMonk]

Let’s see how the ratings go with a treh as champ tho.

 

[R=G]

has the latest overnight ratings for this week’s edition of the Wednesday Night Wars. AEW Dynamite was the ratings and overall viewership winner again for this week over NXT. However, NXT did manage to close the viewership gap much closer than it’s been for a while.

Last night’s episode of Dynamite drew 817,000 viewers. That’s a 12 percent decrease from last week’s 928,000 average viewership. It also accounts for a loss of about 111,000 viewers. What could also be more alarming is the drop in the key persons 18-49 demographic for the ratings. This week’s Dynamite fell from 0.36 for February 6 to a 0.30 rating in the key demo for February 12. That’s the lowest rating for Dynamite since the December 18 episode drew a 0.25 rating in the same key demo.

NXT had a lighter drop in viewership this week of 1.6 percent. This week’s show on USA Network averaged 757,000 viewers, down slightly from last week’s 770,000. The good news for NXT is that the key demo rating saw a slight increase this week back up to a 0.24.

Basically, this is the closest gap in viewership and the overnight ratings between Dynamite and NXT since the start of 2020. Going by the reported numbers, Dynamite only surpassed NXT by about 60,000 viewers this week.

This week’s Dynamite saw Nyla Rose beating Riho to capture the AEW women’s title. Kenny Omega and Adam Page defended the tag titles successfully against SCU. MJF beat Jungle Boy, and Jeff Cobb made his AEW and attacked Jon Moxley, setting up their match for next week’s Dynamite.

Meanwhile on NXT, Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley furthered their feud ahead of their title match at NXT TakeOver: Portland. Lio Rush beat Angel Garza to secure a Cruiserweight title shot. And NXT champ Adam Cole beat KUSHIDA in a non-title match in the main event.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Was there something going on last night for the numbers to be down?

With AEW being over 900 for a few weeks, I thought they had a chance at a milli for next week cause they've been hyping that cage match for a while plus the tag team battle royal.

The Lakers / Nuggets game could've affected people watching on the West Coast feed but other than that it was business as usual.

 

[The Great One]

Was there something going on last night for the numbers to be down?

With AEW being over 900 for a few weeks, I thought they had a chance at a milli for next week cause they've been hyping that cage match for a while plus the tag team battle royal.

Last week was the cody whipping which drew in people.

This week was just same old 200 flips, 100 near falls AEW wrestling. So the number is back where they usually are.

No one will learn.

Great segment>>>>>great match when ratings come in.

 

[Rell84shots]

I think we can now assume where each brand is set at when it comes to ratings. AEW at its best is a 900k show and NXT at its best is a 800k show. The 1mil plus ratings that both shows got for a couple of weeks was based on curiosity, and I doubt either show reaches that level again. If TNT is fine with the ratings then that's all that matters, TNT won't start to worry unless the ratings dip into the low 600-700k.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

The thing WWE should be worried about is that AEW is doing this without a hot angle and with nobody really knowing who they are

 

[DoubleJ13]

The thing WWE should be worried about is that AEW is doing this without a hot angle and with nobody really knowing who they are

The thing AEW should be worried about is that if Jericho & Moxley in a hot angle with their 2 biggest stars by far is only doing this, then their probably not going to have a hot angle beause everybody else ain't going to get the casuals that Jericho & Moxley are

 

[Rell84shots]

The thing WWE should be worried about is that AEW is doing this without a hot angle and with nobody really knowing who they are

Why should they be worried? You can't keep trying to make NXT RAW & Smackdown because it's their 3rd brand on a Wednesday night, and the only person petty enough to take this seriously is Vince. Everyone else knows that NXT will always have the network to fall back on if things don't work out, but AEW needs to eventually get back in the million viewer range if they want to be looked at as legit competition.

 

[CM_Burns]

Last week was the cody whipping which drew in people.

This week was just same old 200 flips, 100 near falls AEW wrestling. So the number is back where they usually are.

No one will learn.

Great segment>>>>>great match when ratings come in.

Wardlow vs Cody in the cage next week is a big angle that is a match too. That should get the ratings up.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

If TNT and AEW really wants to increase viewership, they need to capitalize during All Star Weekend. There will be more people than usual watching TNT.

They need Cody, Mox, Jericho and some legends in Chicago chilling with the Inside The NBA team.

 

[The Great One]

Wardlow vs Cody in the cage next week is a big angle that is a match too. That should get the ratings up.

Agree.

But anything Cody has been pretty great AEW TV.

If TNT and AEW really wants to increase viewership, they need to capitalize during All Star Weekend. There will be more people than usual watching TNT.

They need Cody, Mox, Jericho and some legends in Chicago chilling with the Inside The NBA team.

Jericho has already done that, he was on Inside the NBA a couple of months ago.

 

[The Great One]

The thing WWE should be worried about is that AEW is doing this without a hot angle and with nobody really knowing who they are

I don't think either company is capable of a hot angle. There will never be a NWO again. Never a Austin/McMahon again.