AEW Fyter Fest Night 1
July 14th, 2021 | H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, Texas
We’re right into the action tonight!
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley [c] (34-2-1) vs. Karl Anderson (7-1)
Huge pop for Moxley. Anderson was billed from Tokyo. This started hot with the action coming right at the bell and I loved that Eddie Kingston fought Doc Gallows to the back. It allowed this to be a straight-up match and it was done in a smart way. This was contested under New Japan rules, so it had a 60-minute time limit and a 20 count outside. They had a slugfest like it was a NEVER Title match and not a US one. They had some quality back and forth but what made this work was the hard hitting aspects. At times, it felt like the entire thing was the final 10 or so minutes of a NEVER Title match and I dug that. Moxley survived some Gun Stuns and won with the Paradigm Shift in 9:40. Look, that’s all I need from an opener. A hard hitting match that didn’t overd
Wrestling TV Ratings: AEW Main Event Does Show Low, RAW Down Big From 2020
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The ratings for all the wrestling shows were down last week and were likely impacted by the impeachment trial coverage of Donald Trump, which started last Tuesday. The numbers this week should give a better idea to how much the trial hurt the ratings.
Below is a look at the ratings for all the wrestling shows tracked by Nielsen for the week ending February 12, 2021, along with the most watched news show that aired that night to see how much it might have affected the audience:
As we previously reported, AEW Dynamite and NXT both experienced drops thanks to news coverage of the second impeachment of Donald Trump. Dynamite defeated NXT with 741,000 viewers and a 0.29 rating (376,000 viewers) compared to NXT’s 558,000 viewers and 0.12 rating (159,000 viewers).
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has a detailed look at the numbers including a quarter by quarter breakdown. News coverage had 19 of the top 20 highest-rated shows of the day. As a result, Dynamite was down to #21 among non-news shows, Dynamite was #2 behind MTV’s
Challenge Double Agent, managing to beat NBA games and the NHL. NXT dropped all the way to #62.
Dynamite was down 12.2% in viewers, 7.8% in 18-49 and up 7.1% in 18-34. So the numbers were down but the audience skewed younger. NXT was down 8.7% in viewers and 19.3% in 18-49, so the audience skewed older. Dynamite had four times what NXT did in men 18-34, almost double in women 18-34, over double in men 35-49 and double in women 35-4