By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show produced 954,000 viewers for TBS, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was down from the 1.100 million viewership total from last week.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished third in the 18-49 demo in Wednesday’s cable ratings with a 0.35 rating, down from last week’s 0.41 in the same demo. Monday’s WWE Raw finished with a 0.47 rating in the same demo. Wednesday’s ratings were topped by South Park and and NBA regular season game. These numbers have to be disappointing for AEW given the long build they gave to the CM Punk vs. MJF match.
Any news on the quarter hours? The Soho vs Rose match was an absolute dumpster fire of botches and clumsiness and Brandi/Lambert on the mic was close to that part of the show as well. The Page and Archer talking segment plus obligatory table spot probably didn’t help much.
That stretch of mediocre to bad segments may have caused viewers to tune out for a while and possibly even miss the start of Punk vs MJF.
There was also a US Men’s WC qualifying match and the start of the Olympics on USA during the show that may have taken a small bite out of things.
Will be really interesting to see how the numbers moved during the show.
I thought the mjf punk match was actually pretty good. Better than the page/Bryan matches. Just thought maybe punk could sell his injuries better. I just think Aew has way too much talent and not enough producers/writers that a lot of the stuff they put out just seems all over the place with no direction.
That’s just bad.