AEW Collision premiere tops 800k viewers, beats Dynamite in demo

Saturday night’s debut episode of AEW Collision averaged 816,000 viewers on TNT. The show was headlined by CM Punk’s return to AEW.

This compares to the 740,000 viewers that the debut episode of Rampage averaged on August 13, 2021 and the 1,409,000 viewers the first episode of Dynamite averaged on October 2, 2019.

In the 18-49 demo, Collision finished third on the cable charts with a 0.33 rating. That tops the 0.30 rating that last week’s episode of Dynamite drew. The total viewership number was slightly higher for Dynamite at 832,000.

The premiere episodes of Rampage and Dynamite drew 0.31 and 0.68 ratings in 18-49 respectively.

College World Series baseball (0.39 rating in 18-49) and a UFC Fight Night card (0.37 in 18-49) were the two shows that finished ahead of Collision in the demo on Saturday night. The baseball game and UFC card both aired on ESPN. The game averaged 1.608 million viewers, while UFC averaged 943,000.

Collision will air head-to-head with the UFC most weeks, although this coming Saturday’s UFC event is an afternoon show on ABC.