Below are some top AEW news stories of the day.
• To avoid going head-to-head with WWE Survivor Series 2024 this past Saturday, AEW Collision had a special start time of 4 PM EST. It still went head-to-head with the Survivor Series countdown pre-show.
This taped episode drew 144,000 viewers with a 0.03 rating in the 18-49 demo, which is the lowest viewership in the history of Collision. This was down from previous week’s 356,000 viewers with a 0.11 rating.
AEW Rampage aired at 6 PM EST on the same day, and went head-to-head with the Survivor Series main show.
This taped episode of Rampage drew 126,000 viewers with a 0.03 rating in the 18-49 demo, which is the lowest viewership in the history of Rampage. This was down from previous week’s 249,000 viewers with a 0.09 rating.
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• AEW President Tony Khan highlighted the success of AEW All In 2023 at Wembley Stadium during a recent appearance on The Battleground Podcast.
All Elite Wrestling announced that 81,035 tickets were sold for All In 2023, although the turnstile attendance was 72,265 (the same metric used by journalists to claim that WWE had 80,709 fans in attendance at WrestleMania 32, not 101,763).
Khan dismissed critics who claimed the tickets sales for All In 2023 were closer to 73,000, arguing that even that figure would surpass the attendance for major events like the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight.
Here’s what Khan said:
“We sold 81,035 tickets to AEW at Wembley Stadium last year and we set the world record for wrestling ticket sales of 81,035 sold and people are so determined to try and take AEW down.
People thought that and said, ‘Hey I think you only sold 73,000+ tickets.’ First of all, it was 81,000 but even if it had been 73,000, that’s a great #2.
That’s more tickets than Mike Tyson and Jake Paul sold on one of the biggest events of all time. That would be a massive success too, so how is that supposed to be some kind of an own? I don’t get it.”
