Ratings Breakdown For This Past Week’s AEW Dynamite & Collision

As previously reported, last Saturday’s AEW Collision was up in both measures with no competition from WWE, although not as high as it had been Saturdays. The show had 451,000 viewers and an 0.14 (190,000 viewers) in the key 18-49 demo, respectively. It also had an 0.09 in 18-34. Meanwhile, AEW Dynamite was down in both measures. It drew 823,000 viewers and an 0.25 in 18-49 (328,000 viewers). It also had an 0.17 in 18-34, finishing behind this week’s WWE NXT. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has more details on the numbers for both shows, including a look at each individual quarter hour.

Collision was #19 for the night, #11 for original programming and #4 in its timeslot. It was behind UFC on ESPN (693,000/0.26), a Christmas movie on Hallmark (2,015,000/0.26), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (485,000/0.16) and Home Alone on FX (675,000/0.16). Other competition included Michigan vs. Iowa on FOX (10,022,000/2.35), Louisville vs. Florida State for the ACC title on ABC (7,030,000/1.75) & America vs. Leon soccer on Univision and Univision Deportes (1,525,000/0.52).

Compared to last week, it was up 42.3% in viewers, up 57% in 18-49 and up 116.7% in 18-34. It had 36,000 in men 18-34 (up 111.8%), 29,000 in women 18-34 (up 123.1%), 100,000 in men 35-49 (up 61.3%) and 24,000 in women 35-49 (down 17.2%). The audience was 72% male in 18-49.

Q1: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brody King – 444,000 viewers, 180,000 in 18-49
Q2: End of Castagnoli vs. King/Jon Moxley promo/Abadon vs. Kiera Hogan – 492,000 viewers (up 48,000), 203,000 in 18-49 (up 23,000)
Q3: Samoa Joe, Roderick Strong & The Kingdom segment/Andrade el Idolo vs. Daniel Garcia – 444,000 viewers (down 48,000), 178,000 in 18-49 (down 25,000)
Q4: End of Andrade vs. Garcia/Willie Mack promo/Strong & The Kingdom vs. Iron Savages – 485,000 viewers (up 41,000), 195,000 in 18-49 (up 17,000)
Q5: End of Kingdom vs. Savages/Ethan Page promo/Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews vs. Matt Sydal & Christopher Daniels – 456,000 viewers (down 29,000), 195,000 in 18-49 (even)
Q6: House of Black & FTR segment/Toni Storm promo/Skye Blue promo/Christian Cage promo/El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Kip Sabian – 423,000 viewers (down 33,000), 193,000 in 18-49 (down 2,000)
Q7: End of Vikingo vs. Sabian/Keith Lee & Shane Taylor segment/CJ Perry & Miro segment/Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Kingston – 402,000 viewers (down 21,000), 173,000 in 18-49 (down 20,000)
Q8: End of Kingston vs. Danielson – 459,000 viewers (up 57,000), 200,000 in 18-49 (up 27,000)

Dynamite was #4 for the night and #2 in its time slot, behind San Antonio vs. Minnesota NBA on ESPN (1,051,00/0.35) head-to-head, Denver vs. Los Angeles Clippers (1,308,000/0.47) and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo (1,005,000/0.26). AEW did manage to beat Real Housewives in its first hour by 6,000 viewers in 18-49, 0.262 to 0.255. It also had competition from the Republican debate, which aired on various channels. Adding them all up, it brought in 4.2 million viewers and an 0.50 in 18-49.

Compared to last week, it was down 4.1% in viewers, down 15% in 18-49 and down 26.4% in 18-34. Compared to last year, it was down 2% in viewers, down 13.9% in 18-49 and down 23% in 18-34. It had 84,000 in men 18-34 (down 17.6%), 33,000 in women 18-34 (down 42.1%), 146,000 in men 35-49 (down 12%) and 65,000 in women 35-49 (up 6.6%). The audience was 70.1% male in 18-49.

Q1: Jon Moxley vs. Rush – 983,000 viewers, 375,000 in 18-49
Q2: End of Moxley vs. Rush/Roderick Strong & The Kingdom segment – 878,000 viewers (down 105,000), 362,000 in 18-49 (down 13,000)
Q3: Hangman Page & MJF segment/Mark Briscoe vs. Swerve Strickland – 835,000 viewers (down 43,000), 328,000 in 18-49 (down 34,000)
Q4: End of Briscoe vs. Strickland/Mariah May promo/Samoa Joe, MJF & The Devil segment – 794,000 viewers (down 41,000), 308,000 in 18-49 (down 20,000)
Q5: Toni Storm vs. Skye Blue – 791,000 viewers (down 3,000), 306,000 in 18-49 (down 2,000)
Q6: Adam Copeland & Christian Cage video/Jay White vs. Jay Lethal – 729,000 viewers (down 62,000), 300,000 in 18-49 (down 6,000)
Q7: End of Lethal vs. White/Adam Copeland vs. Christian Cage – 765,000 viewers (up 36,000), 313,000 in 18-49 (up 13,000)
Q8: Copeland vs. Cage – 807,000 viewers (up 42,000), 328,000 in 18-49 (up 15,000)
Overrun: End of Copeland vs. Cage – 860,000 (up 53,000), 326,000 in 18-49 (down 2,000)