The short-lived Wednesday Night War is back for only one night, and it will drop on a new day of the week. This fall, All Elite Wrestling will be showing off AEW Dynamite on Tuesday, October 18th due to TBS needing the company’s regular Wednesday night time to cover the MLB playoff games. Almost a few channels on Tuesday nights WWE NXT 2.0.0 Update, which has been occupying 8PM EST on USA Network for about a year and a half now. This will be the first time that AEW Dynamite And the NXT They’ve competed head-to-head on television since April 2021, and this is the first time that AEW has broadcast concurrently with version 2.0 of a WWE development program.
However, it wouldn’t be the first time that AEW and WWE have aired at the same time this year. Next month, NXT 2.0 will clash with NXT UK in worlds collide, an excellent live event broadcasting on Peacock on September 4th. On the same day, AEW will be producing Aew all out, pay-per-view annual in Chicago at 8 p.m. ET. While the NXT show does not have a scheduled start time, the record indicates that it will start around the same hour.
Coincidentally, the next Tuesday night war will take place nearly a year until the day AEW and WWE last faced each other. On October 15, 2021, a special edition of FS1 was released from WWE SmackDown It ran for an additional 30 minutes, finishing its broadcast at 10:30 p.m. ET. This means the last half hour of Smackdown He’ll hit the first half of AEW Frenzy, which occupies the time period from 10 to 11 pm EST on TNT. While Smackdown topped up frenzy In total viewers, an AEW product attracted a higher viewership in the 18-49 age group.
AEW President Tony Khan was so excited about AEW’s WWE defeat last October that he praised current Lineal AEW World Champion CM Punk for helping him boost the rankings with his match against Matt Sydal.
matches, [CM Punk] I carried the Friday Night War, which, incidentally, is an order registered in the California King’s Court that we won the Friday Night War.” AEW double or nothing Press conference after the show last May. “This guy (CM Punk) won it, versus Matt Sydal, a great wrestler, he had another great match Friday night. First dance, he did the record double or nothing.”
As for AEW’s head-to-head history with NXT, the numbers are less controversial. During the period in which the two shows aired simultaneously from October 2019 through April 2021, AEW defeated NXT in viewership every week except for one.
“The only time in the demo, in the Wednesday Night War, which, as someone said to me, and that’s good advice, maybe we should make our own documentary on the Wednesday Night War,” Khan said in January. “Like a one-sided documentary. I think it’s a really good idea. We could call it like 76 to 1 or 75 to 1.”
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