AEW Dynamite drew 526,000 viewers for the May 28th episode as reported by F4W Online. The show was the go-home show for Double or Nothing and was aired on a Friday night. Dynamite normally runs on Wednesday nights as the only wrestling show on that night. However, TNT moved AEW to Fridays due to the NBA playoffs taking place on Wednesday nights. Because of this, AEW Dynamite will take place on Friday night again on June 4th, which will see the fallout from Double or Nothing take place.
There are multiple reasons why the rating is so low. Firstly, as AEW Dynamite is usually on Wednesdays, fans may have not realised the change in day and missed the broadcast. Also, Friday night is best known to wrestling fans as the night that WWE SmackDown airs. By contrast, the May 28th SmackDown drew 1.928 million viewers. In terms of demographics, 0.20 of the 18-49 sector watched Dynamite, down from the previous week by 28%. By contrast, 0.50 was the rating for SmackDown in the 18-49 demographic. The blue brand was main evented by The Mysterios defending their tag team championships against Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler.
Some may feel that the May 28th Dynamite rating is not that significant, because the show is airing on a different day to what is usual. However, it should be noted that on Friday August 13th AEW’s newest show, Rampage will air. With Rampage not being All Elite Wrestling’s flagship show, it will be interesting to see how the show performs against SmackDown in August.
The past seven days have not been good for both companies. WWE RAW recently posted their lowest rating ever.
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