AEW Collision Rating & Viewership Drop Against NBA Playoffs

AEW Collision was back on its usual Saturday night timeslot again, and slipped against the NBA Playoffs. Saturday night’s episode garnered a 0.05 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 397,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were down 37.5% and 16.1% respectively from the previous week’s 0.08 and 473,000 viewers on Thursday night. The numbers were also down from the last Saturday night episode on April 11th, where it drew a 0.08 and 423,000.

The demo rating for the show was the lowest since the March 5th episode also had a 0.05. Meanwhile, the viewership was the lowest since the April 2nd episode on a Thursday had 373,000. The NBA Playoffs led the way with a 1.08 and 3.771 million viewers on ABC, as well as a 0.52 and 1.667 million on ESPN.

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings make ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, AEW Collision is currently averaging a 0.066 demo rating and 409,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.116 and 398,000 for the same time period in 2025.