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AEW VS. NXT HEAD TO HEAD LAST NIGHT: WHO WON AND WHO RETAINED THE MOST VIEWERS FROM THE WEEK BEFORE

By Mike Johnson on 2022-10-19 16:08:00

Who won the AEW vs. WWE NXT head to head last night?

If you go by the straight numbers, it was AEW.   

Dynamite brought in 752,000 overnight viewers, while NXT garnered 676,000 over night viewers.  

In the 18-49 demo, AEW also won, bringing in a 0.26 vs. NXT's 0.18.

However, each promotion was down in viewers from their previous week's broadcasts as well as the last time they went head to head in April 2021.Last week's numbers vs. last night's numbers:

Last week's WWE NXT audience, on Tuesday 10/11 was 737,000 overnight viewers with a 0.15 in the 18-49 demo.  So, with AEW against them, NXT only lost 61,000 viewers.

Last Wednesday's AEW audience on 10/12 was 983,000 overnight viewers with a 0.32 in the 18-49 demo.  So, displaced to Tuesday and against NXT, AEW lost 231,000 viewers.

In terms of holding onto viewers from the week before, it was NXT.

The last time the two companies went head to head was April 7, 2021 on a Wednesday Night:

On that evening, NXT's audience was 768,000 with 0.22 in the 18-49 demo.  This was for NXT Stand and Deliver Night One, headlined by Raquel González with Dakota Kai vs. Io Shirai for the WWE NXT Women's Championship.

AEW's audience, then on TNT, was 1,104,000 with a 0.37.  That episode was headlined by then-AEW Champion Kenny Omega & The Good Brothers with Don Callis vs. Jon Moxley & then-AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks.

NXT's number this week wasn't that far off from where they were in April 2021.  AEW's number obviously, much lower.

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