Coming off last week s Thursday debut, Impact Wrestling viewership was down 21 percent last night.
Last night s Impact averaged 132,000 viewers on AXS TV, down from the 168,000 viewers that the show s Thursday debut averaged the previous week. Last week s Impact featured Kenny Omega wrestling on the show, with him teaming with The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) against Rich Swann, Willie Mack & Eddie Edwards in a six-man tag team main event. Last week s Impact went against NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver night two, which aired live on Peacock.
This Thursday s Impact was headlined by a press conference with AEW World Champion Omega and Impact World Champion Swann ahead of their title vs. title match at Impact Wrestling s Rebellion pay-per-view on Sunday, April 25.
Impact Wrestling got a ratings increase for its first episode since moving to Thursday nights.
Thursday s Impact averaged 168,000 viewers on AXS TV, up from the 149,000 viewers that the final Tuesday episode of the show averaged last week. This was Impact s best viewership number since February 23.
The rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.06. That tied the February 16 episode for the best rating Impact has done in the demo in 2021.
This week s Impact featured AEW World Champion Kenny Omega s first non-PPV match for the promotion. The episode went against night two of NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver, which aired exclusively on Peacock in the United States. Josh Barnett s Bloodsport 6, which aired as an iPPV on Fite TV, also took place at the same time as Impact.