By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
The following matches and events are advertised for tonight’s edition of AEW Dynamite television show.
-“The Inner Circle” Chris Jericho, Santana, Ortiz, Sammy Guevara, and Jake Hager vs. “The Pinnacle” MJF, Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler, Shawn Spears, and Wardlow in a Blood and Guts match.
-Cody Rhodes vs. QT Marshall.
-“SCU” Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian vs. “Jurassic Express” Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy vs. “Varsity Blonds” Brian Pillman Jr. and Griff Garrison vs. “The Acclaimed” Max Caster and Anthony Bowens in a four-way eliminator match.
-Kenny Omega and MT Nakazawa vs. Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston.
-Britt Baker in action.
-Miro speaks.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite will be live from Jacksonville, Florida at Daily’s Place. The Blood and Guts match is the AEW version of WarGames. AEW also announced Jon Moxley vs. Yuji Nagata for the IWGP U.S. Championship for next week’s show, and the winner of tonight’s four-way tag match will challenge for the AEW Tag Titles next week. Join Jake Barnett for his live review of Dynamite every Wednesday at 7CT/8ET. Dot Net Members hear my same night audio reviews after each episode.
This will be an interesting rating. They’re loading up with a gimmick match, Cody, Omega an Moxley in a tag match, an elimination match, and probably their most over female.
I’ll guess right at the 1.1 they did two weeks ago or maybe about 50k less than that. If this show does less than 1 million they really are in trouble.
I think you’re too caught up in the week to week numbers. AEW has a contract through 2023, so the odds are slim that TNT executives are even discussing the next deal at this point. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say the show takes a massive hit tonight and falls to 500,000 viewers. If the show bounces back and consistently produces numbers around or above what they are doing now, no network would care about this week’s number.