WWE NXT Scores First 2020 Ratings Victory Over AEW In Narrowest Battle This Year
Just 1,000 viewers separate the April 8th shows, with small rise in overall viewership.
WWE NXT defeated AEW in the March 8th Wednesday Night ratings war with 693,000 viewers to Dynamite's 692,000, but the wafer-thin win and cumulative total of 1,385,000 reflected a broader dip in interest for both shows over the past several weeks.
It reflected an increase of 17% on last week's number for NXT, headlined by the heavily promoted (and extremely divisive) "One Final Beat" cinematic battle between Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. A stacked Women's Title Number One Contender's Ladder Match fleshing out an undercard as the show worked through yet more matches from the cancelled TakeOver: Tampa Bay even that would have taken place before WrestleMania. In response, Dynamite was headlined by TNT Championship tournament match between Cody and Shawn Spears. Both shows were taped but unspoiled in advance of last night's airing.
The all-important 18-49 demographic was won by All Elite Wrestling with 0.26 compared to to NXT's 0.19, ranking AEW 32nd amongst cable shows and NXT 51st - both marginally up from last week. The collected viewing figure for both shows also went up a healthy 110,000 from April 1st, but remains massively down from some of the totals tiptoeing towards 2,000,000 at various stages in the war.