AEW Rampage October 15th, 2021 episode ran head-to-head with WWE SmackDown for the first 30 minutes of the show.
According to Nielsen via Wrestlenomics, WWE SmackDown drew 878,000 viewers on FS1 and drew a 0.32 which means 285,000 rating in the 18-49 demographic. AEW Rampage drew 602,000 viewers on TNT and drew a 0.54 which means 328,000 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
During 10:00 pm to 10:15 pm SmackDown had 882,000 viewers while AEW Rampage had 663,000 viewers.
During 10:15 pm to 10:30 pm SmackDown had 874,000 viewers while AEW Rampage had 541,000 viewers.
In the 18-49 demographic at 10:00 pm to 10:15 pm SmackDown had 277,000 viewers while AEW Rampage had 363,000 viewers. In the 18-49 demo at 10:15 pm to 10:30 pm SmackDown had 293,000 viewers while AEW Rampage also had 293,000 viewers.
Quarter-hours for WWE Smackdown (FS1) and AEW Rampage (TNT) from Friday.
— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 18, 2021
For the 30 minutes they went head-to-head, Smackdown was ahead in total viewership and P35-49 but Rampage ahead in P18-49 and P18-34.
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Here’s the final result of Friday Night War.
WWE SmackDown defeated AEW Rampage in total viewers. AEW Rampage defeated WWE SmackDown in 18-49 key demographic.
SmackDown ranked #3 among the top 150 shows on cable while Rampage was #4.
Here is the full demographic breakdown.
- Viewers 18-49 – Rampage: 0.24 / SmackDown: 0.24
- Female viewers 18-49 – Rampage: 0.14 / SmackDown: 0.16
- Male viewers 18-49 – Rampage: 0.34 / SmackDown: 0.32
- Viewers 18-34 – Rampage: 0.17 / SmackDown: 0.15
- Female viewers 12-34 – Rampage: 0.10 / SmackDown: 0.10
- Male viewers 12-34 – Rampage: 0.16 / SmackDown: 0.20
- Viewers 25-54 – Rampage: 0.28 / SmackDown: 0.28
- Viewers 50+ – Rampage: 0.21 / SmackDown: 0.43
For 30 minutes, from 10:00 to 10:30pm, WWE Smackdown (preempted to FS1) and AEW Rampage (TNT) went head-to-head last Friday. Here's the breakdown across demos.
— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 19, 2021
P2+ = total viewership
P = people
M = men
F = women
Numbers indicate ages
Vast majority of "Non-P18-49" is age 50+ pic.twitter.com/8hNo7HK3bM
As usual, Tony Khan tweeted out his reaction for this week’s Rampage ratings. Khan tweeted,
Let’s go @AEW fans! I’m excited to see head-to-head half hour numbers from last Friday, soon we’ll know. Most of all, I’m looking forward to another great weekend of wrestling this weekend! See you for #AEWRampage Friday + #AEWDynamite one more Saturday before back to Wednesdays!
Let’s go @AEW fans! I’m excited to see head-to-head half hour numbers from last Friday, soon we’ll know. Most of all, I’m looking forward to another great weekend of wrestling this weekend! See you for #AEWRampage Friday + #AEWDynamite one more Saturday before back to Wednesdays!
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) October 18, 2021
WrestleVotes reported that, the numbers from Friday night are hot topic backstage at Monday Night RAW.
All I’ll say is that the numbers news is a HOT topic right now backstage.
— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) October 18, 2021
WWE hasn’t lost to another wrestling company since WCW in 1998 so this is a huge deal.
However, during 83 weeks show Eric Bischoff give his take on Tony Khan’s recent
remarks about AEW competing with WWE.
If Tony were to call me and ask for any advice, here’s what it would be — shut up
and wrestle dude. Just put out the best product you can and you’ve proven you
can, focus on that. This is weird coming from me right? The guy that challenged
Vince McMahon, the guy that gave away all of the finishes…but here’s the
difference, I was actually competing with them. I was going head-to-head, real
head-to-head, my show started the same time his show started every week.
Shut up and wrestle.
— Eric Bischoff (@EBischoff) October 18, 2021
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