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Despite airing outside of its normal day due to the NBA playoffs, ratings for AEW Dynamite held up well on Saturday night.

Saturday’s Dynamite averaged 755,000 viewers on TNT, down 4.7 percent from the previous week in the regular Wednesday night time slot. It was the lowest rating for the show since July 8, which was night two of Fyter Fest and aired opposite the Keith Lee vs Adam Cole winner-take-all title vs. title match on NXT.

In the 18-49 demo, Dynamite finished fifth on cable with a 0.31 rating, down 3.1 percent from the previous week. It trailed three NBA playoff games and the UFC main card on ESPN in that demo. 

Dynamite’s lead-in was an NBA game that averaged 1.607 million viewers on TNT, but it should be noted that a subsequent game on ESPN aired against most of Dynamite and averaged 1.757 million viewers. It’s reasonable to assume most basketball fans would’ve switched over to ESPN rather than stay on TNT for Dynamite. 

It’s not really fair to compare the show with NXT this week since they ran on different nights and NXT had no wrestling competition while Dynamite aired opposite NXT TakeOver XXX, but the individual demo ratings were very similar to what they usually are when both shows air on Wednesday. 

AEW won every demo except people over 50, where NXT had a huge advantage of 0.42 to Dynamite’s 0.25. AEW’s strongest demo was men 18-49, where the show did a 0.44 rating to NXT’s 0.32. In people 18-34, where Dynamite has beaten Raw in some weeks, the show did a 0.21, which was up 16.7 percent from the previous episode on August 12 but well below the 0.28 that Raw averaged last week.

Dynamite will air on Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern time this week due to the NBA playoffs.

Here’s a look at the last 10 weeks of viewership and 18-34 demo ratings for Dynamite and NXT: