AEW Rampage Viewership Draws New Record Low For Friday’s Show

Last week’s AEW Rampage episode was able to draw a total of 622,000 viewers, while this past Friday’s episode of Rampage was able to draw a total of 502,000 viewers, Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics and Showbuzz Daily reports.

This total is down 19.29% from last week’s episode of AEW Rampage, which drew a rating of 0.17 in the 18-49 key demo. Last Friday’s rating of 0.17 is down 32% from last week’s rating of 0.25 in the 18-49 key demo.

Last Friday night’s episode of AEW Rampage, which was taped prior to this past Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite from the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, featured CM Punk vs. Daniel Garcia, AEW World Tag Team Champions Lucha Bros (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix) defending their AEW World Tag Team Titles against The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster), Jade Cargill vs. Skye Blue and FTW Champion Ricky Starks defending his FTW Title against Brian Cage in a Street Fight, which was the main event.

This past Friday night’s episode of Rampage, which drew the lowest viewership and the lowest key demo rating for the show since its debut, ranked #15 for the night on the Cable Top 150 with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 key demo. This is down from last week’s #3 ranking, which is a new record low ranking of Rampage. This past Friday night’s episode of Rampage ranked #74 in viewership for the night on cable, which is down from last week’s #55 ranking.

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Final rating WWE Smackdown on Friday on Fox was watched by 2,147,000 viewers and did a 0.52 rating in 18 to 49.

AEW Rampage was watched by 502,000 and did a 0.17 demo rating, ranking #15 among cable originals for the day, according to Showbuzz Daily.https://t.co/b3PmNVg67q pic.twitter.com/YbWRbX9e4G

— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 11, 2021

As expected based on reported fast nationals, this was the least-viewed Rampage in the 9 episodes of the show’s history, in both total viewership and the demo.

This was only the least-viewed Smackdown in total viewers since Sep 24, but in the demo, it's the lowest since May 14.

— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 11, 2021

A disproportionate amount of the viewer loss for both shows was with younger viewers.

Outside the demo, Smackdown had no difference in viewership versus the last 4 weeks; Rampage was down 2%.

? Full report now up: https://t.co/b3PmNVg67q pic.twitter.com/aHJmwuuzc2

— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 11, 2021