After an emotional week for All Elite Wrestling as the roster paid tribute to Pak following the Englishman’s death, October 3 episode of “AEW Collision”. saw the company return on the road to the AEW WrestleDream pay-per-view on October 17th. Kofi wrestled Lee Moriarty in his first AEW singles match, John Moxley defeated Jake Doyle in an AEW Continental Championship Eliminator match, and The Clockwork Carnage match has been made official for WrestleDream.
As far as TV ratings go, Collision has performed very well compared to recent weeks because Wrestlenomics confirmed that the October 3 episode averaged 415,000 viewers. Although this may be a 16% drop from 493,000 viewers the previous episode turned out, that episode was previewed and aired immediately after the September 23 episode of AEW Dynamite on Wednesday night. With that in mind, 415,000 viewers is a big boost for 339,000 viewers. September 19 episode got the last “Collision” to air in its regular schedule and also topped its four-week average by 21% with 343,000 viewers. As usual with AEW shows, none of these numbers include those streaming the show live on HBO MAX.
The biggest good news for “Clash” came in the 18-49 demographic, as the show posted a 0.08 number, the same as the presumptive Sept. 23 episode and double the number the Sept. 19 show posted. The 0.08 was also 60% higher than its four-week average of 0.05, and more than double what “Collision” was doing this time last year. All of this led to “Collision” landing in eighth place in the primetime cable ratings overnight, one of the few times that “Collision” actually made the top ten on a Saturday night.
