AEW Dynamite had a big night on Wednesday as the show topped one million viewers against the NBA Finals.
The first of two Fyter Fest-themed editions of the show averaged 1,025,000 viewers with 518,000 in the 18-49 demographic, which translates to a 0.40, per Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics.
The show was headlined by AEW’s first-ever Coffin Match featuring Darby Allin defeating Ethan Page, and Jon Moxley’s return where he defended the IWGP United States Championship against Karl Anderson.
It’s a very impressive number under regular circumstances and especially given Wednesday night’s episode going against Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The game between Phoenix and Milwaukee averaged 10.254 million, per John Ourand of Sports Business Journal.
The NBA game began at 9 p.m. ET, going against AEW’s second hour.
It was AEW’s highest viewership since the May 5th edition that featured the Blood & Guts match.
Since returning to Wednesday nights on June 30th, the three episodes have averaged 926,000 and 464,000 in 18-49.
In Canada, Dynamite was the second most-watched sports program for the evening with 127,700 viewers and 64,700 in the 25-54 demographic on TSN 2 trailing the NBA game. This week’s audience in Canada was significantly up from the last two episodes where they averaged 94,900 on June 30th and 60,000 on July 7th since returning to Wednesday nights.
