Dave Meltzer’s analysis on last week’s WWE & AEW cable ratings

For the week of 3/31 to 4/6, WWE SmackDown was the top rated entertainment show of the week on cable television, while AEW Dynamite was sixth place. If you would have included MAX numbers it would likely have been third behind SmackDown and White Lotus, and if you had included MAX number White Lotus would have been easily first and SmackDown would have been second.

Among all shows on cable during the week, SmackDown finished sixth, behind five NCAA women’s basketball game tournaments. The men’s tournament games were on network television this year.

AEW Dynamite ended up in 39th place, trailing UFC, Formula 1, an episode of SportsCenter, seven NBA related shows, one major league baseball game, one NHL game, 15 news shows and entertainment shows including a Food Network tournament of champions, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Curse of Oak Island.

Last year during the same week, Raw was the top rated entertainment show of the week on cable and Dynamite was fourth, while overall Raw was 11th, behind both men and women’s NCAA tournament games. Dynamite was 39th.

Last year this week SmackDown rated No. 3 among all shows on network television, beating everything but the women’s championship game and Survivor.