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Following a week in which they did their best ratings of the year, AEW Dynamite averaged 806,000 viewers last night, down 19 percent from the previous week.

NXT had an overall audience of 766,000 viewers, a 16.2 percent increase over last Wednesday.

In the 18-49 demo, Dynamite finished third on the cable charts with a 0.32 rating. That’s down 28.9 percent from the 2020 high that the show recorded last Wednesday. NXT finished 34th on the charts with a 0.19 rating, up 11.8 percent from last week. 

NXT actually won a demo this week apart from the usual people over 50. That demo was males 12-34, where NXT drew a 0.13 rating to Dynamite’s 0.11. NXT drew a 0.37 rating to Dynamite’s 0.30 in people over 50.

Dynamite finished first on all of cable in men 18-49 with a 0.49 rating. In people 18-34, where Dynamite was second on cable with a 0.29 rating last week, the show dropped almost 50 percent to a 0.15 rating this week. 

The combined Wednesday wrestling audience of 1.571 million viewers and the combined 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demo were the lowest since November 25. Those combined totals both beat Raw this week, but Raw’s 0.41 rating in 18-49 topped Dynamite’s 0.32 rating. Last week’s Dynamite drew a 0.45 rating in the 18-49 demo. 

Year-over-year, Dynamite was up in overall viewers for the fourth straight week. For last night’s show, the increase was 18 percent from the same week in 2019. In 18-49, Dynamite increased 28 percent over last year, the third straight week of an increase in that category. 

NXT was down 3.7 percent in overall viewers year-over-year and down 29.6 percent in the demo.

Here’s a look at the last 10 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Dynamite and NXT: