It September 30 episode of AEW Dynamite will forever be remembered as the night the wrestling world came together to remember Benjamin Satterly, who fans knew as Pac in AEW and Adrian Neville in WWE. Despite fighting back floods of tears, everyone at AEW went the extra mile to honor Pac with a show worthy of his legacy. Brian Danielson is retiring bury the horseman with the riders of death, The Elite reunite for the first time since 2023and Will Osprey does the one thing no one thought was physically possible, hitting Black Arrow in a match with Ricochet.
Fans across the United States turned out in force to see how AEW would honor Pac’s legacy Wrestlenomics confirming that the September 30 episode of “Dynamite” had a total of 899,000 viewers. Not only is this a 24% increase from last week’s 723,000 viewers, but it’s also the highest average viewership “Dynamite” has earned in nearly three years, with the last episode reaching this mark being the October 18, 2023 episode, which averaged 901,000 viewers. This week’s show was also up 29% from its four-week average of 697,000 viewers, and like every AEW show since the start of 2025, these numbers don’t include those streaming the show live on HBO MAX.
With such a big increase in views, there was also a big increase in the 18-49 demographic, as “Dynamite” posted a 0.22 number. That’s a 38% increase from last week’s 0.16 number, a 57% increase over the last four weeks’ 0.14 average, and the highest number “Dynamite” has posted in the demographic since the November 13, 2024 episode, which also posted a 0.22 number. All of this resulted in “Dynamite” taking second place in the cable primetime ratings for the night.