Wednesday Night Wars: AEW VS NXT Week 3 Ratings
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Bryan Danielson
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While GOATsso was pulling 2 mill in his sleep with TNA with zero promotion on Spike
False.... TNA was heavily promoted on Spike and back then they even did some promotion on USA during Raw
The main issue here isn’t AEWs numbers; it’s NXT dropping so much consistently over 4 weeks. Not even with a dog in the fight, that’s not good for any tv show. Your first week is normally your best then you drop a bit from second to third and then you stabilize. That’s expected. They haven’t stabilized yet and they’re trending the wrong way.
And I really do think it’s just how they sold NXT to people who weren’t aware of it. It’s WWE’s third brand? But it’s not WWE? For us that makes sense but for someone who hasn’t been paying attention, that shyt is like German. And that was always the problem with taking it off the network.
And I really do think it’s just how they sold NXT to people who weren’t aware of it. It’s WWE’s third brand? But it’s not WWE? For us that makes sense but for someone who hasn’t been paying attention, that shyt is like German. And that was always the problem with taking it off the network.
Aew getting a mil consistently seems good to me. They're obviously not an actual threat to be bigger thanWWE, but they're getting the modern equivalent of prime TNA numbers with a less star studded roster.
Y'all keep bringing up TNA doing some ratings back the day but they weren't drawing close to the same arenas or ppv numbers as AEW. It's completely different.
NXT needs to get out of Full Sail. It's obviously looking minor league no matter how good the show is.
NXT needs to get out of Full Sail. It's obviously looking minor league no matter how good the show is.
Toe Jay Simpson
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Cartier Murphy
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DoubleJ13
Smooth sailing from here on out...
AEW is most likely going to drop under a million too in the next couple weeks with NBA back. Interested to see what happens on the show before & after the PPV numbers wise.
JerseyBoy23
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I was thinking that too but I think regular-season NBA does close to what that Warriors vs Lakers did last night. Playoff NBA though is a monster.
The difference is AEW is less than a year old company and NXT has been going for years.
Here Comes the Pain
Superstar
Nxt has a loyal fan base that's been built for over 7 years now.
Nxt was gift wrapped from gawd himself for the marks to combat evil wwe raw & smack
down.
The #s are in
Well I guess tv ratings are irrelevant anyways
Nxt was gift wrapped from gawd himself for the marks to combat evil wwe raw & smack
down.The #s are in
Well I guess tv ratings are irrelevant anyways
Other difference: NXT has been internet exclusive all those years and its max built in audience is about the size of AEW's audience. AEW is also an unknown so there is obviously more excitement because it's unclear how their shows are going to turn out while NXT is a reliable product that most of the viewers watch on WWE Network anyway.
NXT had over a million its first USA show as well. Both have a set audience of about 700k-1.3m and neither are going to vary much in either direction of those numbers. Based on trends both shows will be and stay under a million viewers by the end of the year and probably both be in the 700-800k viewers range.
Rell84shots
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NXT is in the catbird seat because if they fail they just go back to the network, AEW losing viewers every week is a much bigger deal because they were supposed to be the alternative that started another wrestling war.
That’s true too.
