Right now, wrestling is in an odd place. We’re two decades past the end of the attitude era and the Monday Night Wars, and TV ratings have never hit the same level. However, shows like AEW Dynamite and WWE Monday Night RAW are able to top the charts in an era of cord-cutting. You might think Monday Night RAW would be the top show due to its longevity, but the truth is a bit more shocking and shows that despite being the newer brand, AEW is looking better already.
AEW Dynamite Has Been Hitting One Million Viewers More And More
From the start of 2021 until April 7th, things were fairly standard for AEW Dynamite on the ratings front. They’d pull in between 600~900k viewers every week, while maintaining a steady slice of the key demographic for pro wrestling, the coveted 18-49 group. However, once they stopped going up against WWE NXT in the same time slot, things started to rise. Since then, they’ve cracked over a million viewers three times, even as recent as the May 5th episode.
This also comes as AEW fails to put a focus on arguably their biggest star in Kenny Omega. Right now, the main feuds in the company include The Inner Circle vs. The Pinnacle, and The Young Bucks vs. Eddie Kingston & Jon Moxley. If they can consistently hit above the one million mark without a strong World Heavyweight Champion leading the ship, you can only imagine how high they’ll get when that’s the focus again.
Meanwhile Monday Night RAW Is Floundering
Right now, Monday Night RAW is able to hit over one million viewers every single week. While that sounds good on paper, like there is no issues, that simply isn’t the case. While one million is high for AEW, as they’ve only been on TV for just over one year, and are still a new brand, WWE is supposed to be the premiere brand in professional wrestling. Despite this, since 2019 they’ve seemingly lost many viewers. A side by side comparrison of the May 13th, 2019 episode of RAW (which had 2,349,000 viewers) and the May 10th, 2021 episode (which had 1,817,000 viewers) paints a bad picture for WWE.
So while both shows are drawing in a lot of wrestling fans, AEW has a rising number, and WWE is burning through viewers like never before. We might never see ratings or wrestling like when RAW had 8.1 million viewers on May 10th, 1999, but can WWE get their numbers rising again like AEW?
Will AEW Dynamite soon overtake Monday Night RAW in terms of viewers like they have match quality? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.
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