Wednesday Night War Ratings Week 12, NXT Wins Everything

For the first time in twelve weeks, NXT won both the ratings and every demographic.

According to Showbuzz Daily, NXT on USA averaged 795,000 viewers. This was up 3% from last week’s 778,000 viewers. As far as AEW Dynamite, they averaged 683,000 viewers. This was down 13% from last week’s 778,000 views. This week for Dynamite was the second-lowest rated they have put on thus far.

In the 18-49 demographic NXT won with a 0.27, whereas Dynamite did a 0.25. That is still really really close The 18-49 age range demographic is considered the most important as that is what networks look at when talking with advertisers. NXT also won in the over 50 demographic doing a 0.36 and Dynamite doing a .27. Again this is the first week that NXT was able to win the 18-49 demographic. Overall for the night NXT was ranked 27th and Dynamite ranked 30th.

Top 3 Most Viewed WWE NXT YouTube Highlights

• NXT Women’s Championship: Shayna Baszler vs Rhea Ripley (over 524,000 views)
• NXT Championship: Adam Cole vs Finn Balor (over 510,000 views)
• Io Shirai vs Santana Garrett (over 88,000 views)

Top 3 Most Viewed AEW Dynamite YouTube Highlights

• Chris Jericho vs Jungle Boy (over 7,200 views)
• Chris Jericho is confident Jon Moxley will join the Inner Circle (over 5,200 views)
• Dark Oder causes a chaotic ending to Dynamite (over 4,800 views)

For more on this week’s NXT check out our NXT on USA Review & Recap. Will will have our AEW Dynamite review up Thursday night.

*The reason AEW youtube numbers are so much lower than NXT is because NXT posts their clips the same night. AEW posts their clips the next day around noon pt.