AEW President Tony Khan takes shot at WWE for John Cena and The Undertaker drawing under a million television viewers
As previously noted, the “Title Tuesday” edition of AEW Dynamite drew 609,000 viewers with a 0.26 rating in the 18-49 demo while WWE NXT drew 921,000 viewers with a 0.30 rating in the 18-49 demo. On Thursday AEW President Tony Khan wrote the following on Twitter/X regarding the viewership numbers…
“This week, 2 active decades-long ratings streaks from 2 great legends were ended. With all due respect, until this week’s head-to-head AEW on TBS vs WWE on USA, neither John Cena nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under 1 million total viewers + under 400k in the demo.”
At no point on Tuesday night did either show hit one million viewers in the quarter hours. Here are the full quarter hour numbers via Wrestlenomics.com…
NXT/AEW
8p – 991k/731k
8:15p – 956k/655k
8:30p – 861k/673k
8:45p – 909k/589k
9:00p – 958k/549k
9:15p – 914k/557k
9:30p – 887k/558k
9:45p – 866k/559k
10:00p – 960k/606k
This week, 2 active decades-long ratings streaks from 2 great legends were ended
With all due respect, until this week's head-to-head AEW on TBS vs WWE on USA, neither John Cena nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under 1 million total viewers + under 400k in the demo— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) October 12, 2023