AEW President Tony Khan has boasted about Grand Slam: Australia doing “one of the biggest #AEWCollision ratings ever on TNT,” but quarter hour numbers paint a whole different picture.
The show had the benefit of a big lead-in in the form of the NBA All-Star Weekend programming on TNT, and the first quarter hour of Grand Slam with Omega and Ospreay vs Takeshita and Fletcher drew 1,003,000 viewers.
But it was a very slippery slope from there. The second quarter, which had the continuation of the opening match, dropped to 669,000 viewers according to data published by Wrestlenomics, representing a drop of 334,000 viewers after just 15 minutes.
It got even worse from there as subsequent quarter hours had 567,000, 525,000, 453,000, 421,000, 401,000, and 351,000 viewers for the final quarter hour which was between 12:30AM and 12:45AM.
The 11-minute overrun with the ending of Mariah May vs Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s title registered just 294,000 viewers, meaning that the show lost a whopping 709,000 viewers in two hours.
