The winner, and NEW champion: “All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite” on TNT!
Professional wrestling’s “Wednesday Night Wars” officially started on cable television last night, when the new weekly AEW wrestling show debuted to 1.409 million total viewers, besting USA Network’s “NXT,” which posted 891,000 total viewers (down 11% from last week’s show).
“Dynamite” more than doubled its competition in the key adults 18-49 demographic, scoring 878,000 viewers compared to “NXT’s” 414,000 (putting the USA wrestling series up 1% from its week-ago broadcast in that metric).
There’s an asterisk here, however. While “Dynamite” was a brand new series debut, WWE’s “NXT” has had an existing Wednesday night show for years.