More on AEW vs. NXT Week 35 & 36 Viewership

AEW vs. NXT Week 35 Viewership Update

As noted before, the May 27th episodes of AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT resulted in Dynamite generating around 827,000 viewers on TNT and a #4 ranking in the 18-49 demographic while NXT generated around 731,000 viewers on USA Network and a #24 ranking in 18-49 demographic.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that in terms of the key demographic breakdowns, AEW Dynamite’s high point for Males 18-34 was the Hikaru Shida vs. Christi Jayne match and the low point was the debut of FTR, Brian Cage vs. Lee Johnson match, and the Jon Moxley and Taz promo segment. For Females 18-34, the high point was the Cody interview segment and the SCU vs. Kip Sabian & Jimmy Havoc match and the low point was the Chris Jericho and Mike Tyson segment. For Males 35-49, the high point was the Jericho and Tyson segment and the low point was the debut of FTR and Cage vs. Johnson match. For Female 35-49, the high point was the debut of FTR and Cage vs. Johnson match and the low point was the ending of the SCU vs. Sabian & Havoc match and start of the Battle Royal match.

WWE NXT’s high point for Males 18-34 and Females 18-34 was the Matt Riddle vs. Timothy Thatcher match and the low point was the Shotzi Blackheart vs. Raquel Gonzalez match. For Males 35-49, the high point was the Charlotte Flair & Chelsea Green vs. Io Shirai & Rhea Ripley match and the low point was the Tommaso Ciampa vs. Leon Ruff match and the start of the Riddle vs. Thatcher match. For Femals 35-49, the high point was the Jake Atlas vs. KUSHIDA vs. Drake Maverick match and the low point was the Ciampa vs. Ruff match and Riddle vs. Thatcher match.

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More on AEW vs. NXT Week 36 Viewership

The June 3rd episodes of AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT saw both shows decline in viewership and rankings with Dynamite suffering the most of the two. AEW also managed to top NXT in terms of overall viewership and key demographic rankings.

AEW Dynamite drew 730,000 viewers on TNT and a #24 ranking in 18-49 demographic while NXT drew 715,000 viewers on USA Network and a #45 ranking in 18-49 demographic.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reason for the decline in viewership and rankings was due to very stiff competition from news shows, which dominated the rankings for the night. A weaker than usual lead-in programming from TNT also reportedly contributed to AEW’s decline for the night. In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 374,000 viewers while NXT had 257,000 viewers. AEW reportedly won four out of the eight quarter-hours in terms of overall viewership and all of the quarters in terms of key demographic viewership. NXT reportedly won three quarters and tied one other quarter in terms of overall viewership.

AEW Dynamite started off with around 740,000 viewers and their biggest gain of the night was the latter half of the Chris Jericho vs. Colt Cabana match which gained 60,000 viewers. AEW’s biggest decline of the night was the Nyla Rose vs. Big Swole match, post-match angle with Britt Baker, and Darby Allin interview segment which lost 66,000 viewers.

WWE NXT started off with around 790,000 viewers and their biggest gain of the night was the ending to the Breezango vs. Undisputed ERA vs. Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch match, the post-match angle, and the Santana Garrett vs. Aliyah match which gained 67,000 viewers. NXT’s biggest decline was the ending of the Keith Lee & Mia Yim vs. Johnny Gargano & Candice LeRae match, Drake Maverick vignette, and Adam Cole vs. Velveteen Dream video package which lost 69,000 viewers.

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Canadian Viewership for AEW’s June 3rd Show and NXT’s May 29th Show

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that AEW drew 74,300 viewers for their June 3rd episode of Dynamite on TSN in Canada.

NXT reportedly drew 52,800 viewers for their May 29th episode on Sportsnet 360 in Canada.