AEW Collision viewership up slightly, 18-49 demo rating steady

Saturday’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 482,000 viewers on TNT, up 1.3 percent from the previous week. It’s the best audience total for the show since July 29 and is the seventh-highest viewership of the 10 episodes that have aired to date.

In the 18-49 demo, Collision ranked 13th on the cable charts with a 0.17 rating. That is the same rating Collision drew last week and ties the third-lowest in the show’s short history. 

Collision faced strong sports competition on the day, as it will for the rest of the year. The UFC 292 prelims aired head-to-head and topped the cable charts with a 0.51 rating in 18-49. The prelims averaged 1.235 million viewers. There were also several NFL preseason games and shoulder programming on the NFL Network that finished ahead of Collision.

Over its first 10 weeks, Collision has averaged slightly above 575,000 viewers and a 0.20 rating in the 18-49 demo.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 ratings for every episode of Collision to date:

AEW Collision ratings up, stays below 500k viewers

Saturday night’s AEW Collision averaged 476,000 viewers on TNT, up 14.2 percent from the previous week’s episode that went against WWE SummerSlam.

It’s the third-lowest audience of the nine Collision episodes that have aired to date and is the lowest of any episode that did not take place on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view. 

Collision finished 11th on the cable charts with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demo, up 30.8 percent from last week. Several NFL preseason games airing on the NFL Network finished ahead of the show, as well as Top Rank Boxing and the UFC, both on ESPN.

This was also the lowest 18-49 rating for any Collision episode that didn’t have WWE competition on the same day.

Rampage the night before finished seventh on the cable charts, despite drawing a lower 0.15 rating in 18-49, which shows how tough the Saturday competition was.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision to date:

AEW Collision ratings drop against WWE SummerSlam

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision, which went head-to-head with WWE SummerSlam, averaged 417,000 viewers on TNT. That’s down 43.6 percent from the previous week and is the lowest audience total in the show’s eight-week history. 

Collision finished 16th on the cable charts with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 51.9 percent from last week and ties the July 1 episode, which also aired on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view (although not head-to-head), for the lowest rating the show has done to date.

In addition to SummerSlam, Collision also went against the UFC on ESPN which took the top two spots on the cable charts for the prelims and main card, both of which had portions go head-to-head with AEW.

Collision’s ratings were actually slightly down from Rampage the night before. The Rampage episode averaged 434,000 viewers and drew a 0.14 rating in 18-49. Collision’s numbers were less than half of what Dynamite did last Wednesday.

The biggest week-over-week drop was with males 18-34, which were down 72.3 percent. Females in that same age group were actually up 4.2 percent. That’s the only demo where the show had an increase from last week.

Listed below are the total viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date:

AEW Collision draws best ratings since premiere episode

Saturday night’s AEW Collision averaged 739,000 viewers on TNT, up 19.6 percent from the previous week. It’s the highest audience total for the show since the premiere episode on June 17.

Collision drew a 0.27 rating in the 18-49 demo, which was up 50 percent from last week. That’s also the best number the show has done since the 0.31 rating it drew for the premiere.

Collision went head-to-head with the UFC 291 prelims which averaged more than a million viewers and drew a 0.30 rating on ABC. The prelims also aired on ESPN and ESPN+. Collision had the MLB on Fox as direct competition as well. The baseball game averaged more than two million viewers and drew a 0.35 rating in 18-49, so the competition was tougher than it’s been of late.

The biggest increase for Collision came with men 18-34, which were up 180.6 percent from last week. It’s Collision’s best viewership in that demo since the premiere. Collision was actually down 61.3 percent with females in that same age group, which is the only demo the show had a decrease in.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date:

AEW Collision viewership up, 18-49 demo rating down

Saturday night’s AEW Collision averaged 618,000 viewers on TNT, up 6.7 percent from the previous week. It’s the second-highest audience total of the six episodes that have aired to date. 

Collision drew a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 10 percent from last week and is the second-lowest rating the show has achieved so far, ahead of only the July 1 episode that aired on a holiday weekend.

Collision finished first on cable in its time slot in 18-49.

There was a 21 percent increase with people 18-34 which was offset by a 20.9 percent decrease with people 35-49.

The show went head-to-head with the MLB on Fox, which averaged 1.934 million viewers and drew a 0.31 rating in 18-49. For the first time since Collision started, it did not have head-to-head UFC competition as Saturday’s Fight Night was from England and aired earlier in the day.

Listed below are the viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date:

AEW Collision ratings stay consistent, Battle of the Belts up

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 579,000 viewers on TNT, down 0.2 percent from the previous week. It’s the second-lowest audience total of the five episodes that have aired to date. 

Collision drew a 0.20 rating in the 18-49 demo, down 4.8 percent from last week. That’s the third-lowest rating for Collision so far. 

Battle of the Belts VII, which aired on TNT immediately following Collision, averaged 524,000 viewers. That’s up 26.3 percent from the last Battle of the Belts special in April. It’s the third-highest viewership total for Battle of the Belts, which has aired in various time slots on Friday and Saturday since debuting in January 2022.

Battle of the Belts drew a 0.15 rating in 18-49. That’s up 7.1 percent from the last special and is also the third-highest rating in the history of the quarterly special.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for each episode of Collision and Battle of the Belts that have aired to date:

AEW Collision ratings up for CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 580,000 viewers on TNT, up 28.3 percent from the previous week’s Fourth of July weekend episode. This is the second-lowest audience total that Collision has drawn since premiering last month.

In the 18-49 demo, Collision finished fifth on cable with a 0.21 rating. That’s up 61.5 percent from last week and ties the second-highest rating the show has done of the four episodes that have aired so far.

Collision’s ratings were up from last week in all categories. The biggest increase was with males 18-34, where the audience was nearly six times higher than last week.

The episode was headlined by CM Punk defeating Samoa Joe in the semifinals of the men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. Punk didn’t wrestle on the previous week’s Collision but appeared on commentary for Joe’s match against Roderick Strong.

The show had stronger-than-usual competition this week, going head-to-head with the UFC 290 prelims on both ABC and ESPN. The ABC broadcast alone averaged 1.155 million viewers and drew a 0.33 rating in 18-49. MLB on Fox also aired head-to-head and averaged 2.2 million viewers and drew a 0.44 rating.

Listed below are the overall viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for all episodes of Collision that have aired to date.

AEW Collision ratings drop for week three

Saturday’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 452,000 viewers on TNT, down 24 percent from the previous week. It’s the lowest audience total of the three Collision episodes that have taken place to date.

Collision drew a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demo, which was down 38.1 percent from last week. That’s also the lowest rating for the show so far. The Collision numbers were almost identical to the 450,000 viewers and 0.13 demo rating that AEW Rampage did the night before.

This was the first Collision episode that CM Punk did not wrestle on, although he did join the commentary team for the main event. The show was taped earlier in the week and aired on the Saturday of a holiday weekend. It also took place after WWE’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view had already happened earlier in the day.

Collision’s ratings were down from the previous week in every demo. The biggest decline came with males 18-34, which were down 82 percent. Females in that same age group were only down 12.5 percent.

Listed below are the overall audience and 18-49 demo ratings for the first three weeks of AEW Collision:

AEW Collision ratings drop from premiere episode

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 595,000 viewers on TNT, down 27.1 percent from the premiere show the previous week.

The second episode of AEW Dynamite in October 2019 dropped a similar percentage, at 27.8 percent, in the second week.

Collision drew a 0.21 rating in the 18-49 demo, down 36.4 percent from the debut. That also compares similarly to the 32.4 percent that Dynamite fell on its second week on TNT. The AEW Rampage comparisons are not really fair since the second episode featured the debut of CM Punk and saw that show do a record number it has never come close to since.

In the demo, Collision ranked fifth on the cable charts on Saturday. It finished behind the College World Series, Gold Cup Soccer, and ESPN’s SportsCenter.

The Collision episode was headlined by Jay White, Juice Robinson & The Gunns defeating Punk, FTR & Ricky Starks in an eight-man tag team match.

AEW Collision premiere tops 800k viewers, beats Dynamite in demo

Saturday night’s debut episode of AEW Collision averaged 816,000 viewers on TNT. The show was headlined by CM Punk’s return to AEW.

This compares to the 740,000 viewers that the debut episode of Rampage averaged on August 13, 2021 and the 1,409,000 viewers the first episode of Dynamite averaged on October 2, 2019.

In the 18-49 demo, Collision finished third on the cable charts with a 0.33 rating. That tops the 0.30 rating that last week’s episode of Dynamite drew. The total viewership number was slightly higher for Dynamite at 832,000.

The premiere episodes of Rampage and Dynamite drew 0.31 and 0.68 ratings in 18-49 respectively.

College World Series baseball (0.39 rating in 18-49) and a UFC Fight Night card (0.37 in 18-49) were the two shows that finished ahead of Collision in the demo on Saturday night. The baseball game and UFC card both aired on ESPN. The game averaged 1.608 million viewers, while UFC averaged 943,000.

Collision will air head-to-head with the UFC most weeks, although this coming Saturday’s UFC event is an afternoon show on ABC.