AEW: Dax Harwood Suffered Concussion Injury, Warner Bros Discovery “Really Happy” with April 24th Dynamite Ratings, AEW Dynasty PPV Buys Early Estimates

Apr 27, 2024

Dax Harwood Reportedly Suffered Concussion Injury at AEW Dynasty

This past Sunday’s AEW Dynasty event featured the Young Bucks defeating FTR in a Ladder match for the Finals of the Vacant AEW World Tag Team Championship tournament.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that FTR’s Dax Harwood suffered a concussion injury during his Ladder match at AEW’s event.

No other details were given regarding when Harwood had suffered the injury nor the severity of it beyond Harwood getting busted open during the match.

Harwood recently responded on Twitter confirming Meltzer’s report and stated that he is feeling much better as of Friday.

I appreciate all the texts & tweets. I’m feeling much better today. See y’all soon!
— Uncle Dax FTR (@DaxFTR) April 26, 2024

Warner Bros Discovery Reportedly “Really Happy” Over AEW’s Ratings for This Week’s Dynamite Show

As noted before, the April 24th AEW Dynamite show drew 683,000 viewers and a 0.23 key demographic rating on TBS.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that one source spoken to at Warner Bros Discovery stated that WBD officials were “really happy” with the ratings for this week’s Dynamite show. This same source reportedly stated that WBD officials were aware of Dynamite going up against a lot of sports competition and still managed to beat everything else that was not sports-related that night for key demographic rankings. This same source reportedly also stated that WBD officials consider NBA and AEW to be “in the same family” when it comes to how they view key demo rankings for those shows and when removing NBA, they viewed Dynamite as only being behind ESPN’s coverage of the NHL Playoffs.

This same source reportedly also stated that AEW had to deal with several other issues that were out of their control in regards to the West Coast feed airing live at 5PM EST and audio issues on TBS’s end.

WBD officials reportedly currently expect AEW’s ratings for this week’s show to be even better once they factor in the Live+3 and +7 DVR viewers.

Early PPV Buys Estimates for AEW Dynasty

AEW reportedly is currently estimated to have generated around 122,000 pay-per-view buys for this past Sunday’s AEW Dynasty event in St. Louis, Missouri, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that Dynasty’s cable television PPV buys were down 41.1% compared to this past March’s Revolution 2024 event and down 28.8% compared to this past December’s Worlds End event based on the same number of days following the event. Meltzer reported that this would give an initial estimate range of 100,000 to 108,000 PPV buys.

In regards to streaming, Meltzer reported that Dynasty’s streaming buys were down 30% compared to Revolution 2024 after the same number of days. Meltzer reported that when factoring in streaming buys, this would give a current estimate of around 122,000 for Dynasty’s total PPV buys.