Rell84shots
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And that's where your argument is DOA, fukk demo numbers because look at how that's "helped" AEW. And you talking about ratings when they're clearly using 2.0 as a developmental brand now for the future is hilarious. If they really wanted ratings they would have the big names show up on 2.0, instead they just send Ziggler and Crews.And they still get their ass kicked by Dynamite every week and not even going head to head against them anymore.
Their best demo rating since the 2.0 rebrand was .21, which was their first official night of the rebrand, and 0.20 the following week. They have only topped 0.15 twice in the 2022 calendar year, and one of those was the first week of January. They topped 0.15 eight times in 2021 despite 2.0 not airing until September 14. Many weeks they are barely topping 0.10.
The most recent episode of NXT drew 588,000 viewers. NXT 1.0 was regularly drawing anywhere from 650,000+ to 800,000+. It rarely ever drew less than 600,000 viewers, dating back to 9/18/2019, which is a typical week for NXT 2.0 now. A mediocre viewership number from 1.0 would be one of the high water marks for 2.0. And for many of these weeks they were going head to head against Dynamite, now NXT is the only wrestling show on TV Tuesday nights and their numbers are still shyt.
Dynamite's worse demo rating since the NXT 2.0 rebrand was 0.22 followed by 0.28 back in October, two shows that were bumped to Saturday night because of TNT's hockey coverage. So even on a busy Saturday night during college football season, Dynamite's two lowest watched episodes by demo were routinely trouncing NXT 2.0's typical rating. They have been at 0.31+ for all but two weeks post-NXT rebrand, so anywhere from doubling to nearly quadrupling the NXT 2.0 rebrand every week.
Say what you want about 1.0, but the viewership and ratings numbers speak for themselves here, 1.0 was a consistent, week-over-week, vastly superior ratings draw than 2.0 has been.
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