AEW Dynamite Defeats Monday Night Raw In Important Category

That’s a big one. The wrestling world has been changed in a huge way thanks to the arrival of AEW on the big stage. For the first time in over twenty years, WWE has some top level competition with money, star power and a platform. AEW Dynamite has become one of the most important wrestling shows every single week and now they have done something that is rather impressive.

According to Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston, this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite defeated Monday Night Raw in the 18-49 demographic with a .526 rating and 681,000 viewers to a .523 rating and 679,000 viewers. Dynamite as a whole drew 1.319 million viewers for the second largest audience in the show’s history. This week’s show featured the fall out from All Out, including the Dynamite debuts of Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole, plus Minoru Suzuki vs. Jon Moxley.

AEW Dynamite last night on TNT was watched by 1,319,000 viewers on average, the second-highest in the history of the show.

681,000 were aged 18 to 49, a 0.53 rating, edging out Raw this week with 678,000 in the demo.

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— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) September 9, 2021

This was a huge show. Check out some of the bigger parts:

Bryan Danielson & the AEW World Champion Come Face to Face - What Happened? | AEW Dynamite, 9/8/ 21

Who Does CM Punk have his Sites Set On Now? | AEW Dynamite, 9/8/ 21

Was Moxley able to Shut the Forbidden Door on Minoru Suzuki in his Hometown? | AEW Dynamite, 98/21

Opinion: Both shows were unique this week with Dynamite being a huge show with all kinds of fallout and special attractions while Monday Night Raw was a holiday show up against college football. That being said, the fact that Dynamite, less than two years into its run, is even coming close to Monday Night Raw in this area says a lot about where both shows are.

What did you think of the shows? Will Dynamite do this again soon? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 60,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 6,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his- Amazon author page with 30 wrestling books.

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