Grand Slam Australia boosts AEW Collision ratings with NBA All-Star weekend lead-in

Saturday night’s Grand Slam Australia episode of AEW Collision averaged 502,000 viewers on TNT, up 29.7 percent from the previous week. It’s the best audience total for Collision since December 21 of last year, when the show had a college football playoff game as its lead-in. Prior to that, the last time the audience hit this level was May 18, 2024.

Collision drew a 0.21 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 110 percent from last week and ties the third-highest rating in the show’s history. It’s Collision’s best number since July 29, 2023.

The show aired outside its normal 8 p.m. Eastern time slot but had the benefit of the NBA All-Star Skills Competition as a lead-in and no major sports airing head-to-head. The opening tag match of Kenny Omega & Will Ospreay vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher averaged over one million viewers, then the show aired until well past midnight and declined significantly from that point.

Collision did 502K/0.21, don't have the chart. NBA lead-in of course helped a lot really the key given it was out of its regular time slot. That doesn't include MAX, so likely the biggest numbers since the early weeks of the show if you factor that in. First quarter (Omega &…

— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) February 19, 2025

Collision did not air this week in 2024 due to the Skills Competition, so there is no year-over-year comparison.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, as well as the 10-week average in both categories. This week’s show was up 58.9 percent in viewers and 133.3 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.