The upstart promotion's 'Dynamite' premiere pulled in solid numbers Wednesday, beating USA's 'NXT' head to head.
TV's pro wrestling wars may or may not be starting anew, but upstart promotion All Elite Wrestling scored a win over the more established World Wrestling Entertainment in Wednesday night's ratings.brought in solid numbers on TNT, averaging 1.41 million viewers and a 0.68 rating among adults 18-49 for its two-hour run time. The demographic rating — equivalent to 878,000 people ages 18-49 — was second on all of cable for the night, behind only ESPN's American League wild-card game.
The stakes are not as high, but the AEW-WWE face-off on Wednesdays calls to mind the so-called Monday night wars of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when World Championship Wrestling and the WWE had a running battle for viewers. The ratings fight often spilled over into storylines on their respective flagship shows, TNT'sThat brawl ended with the WWE absorbing WCW in March 2001.
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