AEW Rampage Numbers Drop for New Year’s Smash Show

– Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston has the cable TV ratings for last week’s New Year’s Smash edition of AEW Rampage. The new episode aired on New Year’s Eve on Saturday, December 31. Ratings and numbers were down from the previous week’s Holiday Bash episode.

The New Year’s Eve episode drew an average audience of 453,000 viewers. That’s down from the Holiday Bash show’s audience of 589,000 viewers, which was the highest viewership for Rampage since November. AEW Rampage finished in the P18-49 key demo with a 0.19 rating. The number fell from the 0.26 rating for last week.

Per Showbuzz Daily, Rampage ranked No. 21 for cable originals on Friday night. The Georgia vs. Michigan college football game on ESPN topped the ratings and viewership for Friday night with a 4.55 rating and 16.506 million viewers.

The WWE SmackDown Best of 2021 show on FS1 had an audience of 378,000 viewers. SmackDown was preempted on the FOX Network this week due to New Year’s Eve programming. The Best of 2021 special drew a 0.08 rating in the key demo and ranked No. 58 in the Cable Top 150 rankings.

On New Years Eve, AEW Rampage (TNT) was watched by 453,000 viewers and did a 0.19 P18-49 rating. Ranked #21 on Showbuzz's list.

Smackdown's "best of" episode preempted to FS1 due to New Years Eve programming on Fox, was watched by 378,000 and did a 0.08 P18-49 rating, #58.

— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) January 4, 2022