Television viewership figures from Friday & Saturday saw SmackDown win its night while Collision presented a taped show from Wales.
The August 24 edition of Collision was a taped episode from Cardiff airing the night before All In. The show averaged 440,000 viewers and 169,000 viewers (0.13) in the 18-49 demographic, which ranked behind the NFL pre-season game between the New York Jets and New York Giants and an NCAA football game. (Programming Insider & Wrestlenomics)
The show saw a 9% increase in viewership (its largest since July 20) and a 3% decline in the 18-49 audience from the prior week. In the key demo, male viewership dropped 14% to 106,000 viewers while female viewership increased by 21% to 63,000.
Adults 18-34 experienced a 20% drop this week due to male viewership in the demo dropping from 32,000 to 17,000 this week.
Adults 35-49 grew by 5% posting an average of 121,000 viewers in the category, and boosted by a 33% uptick among women in the demo.
Immediately following Collision, TNT aired the Countdown to All In special, which averaged 206,000 viewers and 0.06 in the 18-49 demographic for the thirty-minute episode.
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Friday Night SmackDown won the night this past week with 2,050,000 viewers and approximately 739,000 (0.50) in the 18-49 demographic. (Programming Insider & Wrestlenomics)
The show was down by 9% in viewership and was SmackDown’s lowest audience since June 14, while the 18-49 audience fell by 8%, yet won the night by a solid margin.
SmackDown posted strong figures in Canada with 246,100 viewers and 107,700 in the 25-54 demographic on Sportsnet 360. Those numbers represent increases of 28% and 41% respectively and was the show’s second-largest audience in Canada since WrestleMania 40 weekend.
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AEW Rampage aired at 10 p.m. ET on TNT with a taped show from Arlington, Texas, and averaged 290,000 viewers and approximately 132,000 (0.10) in the 18-49 demographic.
The show featured Cody Rhodes & Kevin Owens beating A-Town Down Under in the main event from Washington, D.C.
The numbers were nearly identical to the previous week’s performance of 295,000 viewers and 133,000 (0.10) in the demo.
Rampage was headlined by Ross & Marshall Von Erich beating The Outrunners and opened with The Conglomeration beating Brian Cage, Beast Mortos & Johnny TV.
