AEW Collision Sets New Record-Low Ratings

AEW Collision's struggles over the past several weeks continued on Friday, September 6 as the show aired outside of its regular time slot of Saturday night from 8 pm ET to 10 pm ET. 

Instead, AEW Collision aired in the same two-hour time slot but one day earlier and this spelt disaster for the ratings. Collision only averaged 157,000 viewers and a 0.04 rating in the 18-49 demographic. The show set new record lows in total viewership and the 18-49 demo for Collision. 

Collision struggled as the show went head-to-head with WWE Friday Night SmackDown on Fox. SmackDown suffered its own viewership struggles, though, averaging 1.77 million viewers and a 0.45 rating to draw the lowest viewership for the show since October 2019 outside of a Best-Of episode in December 2023. 

Both Collision and SmackDown went head-to-head with the Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles NFL game that averaged over 14 million viewers on Peacock. 

The past several weeks have been a period of record lows for AEW Collision. The previous record low was set on Saturday, August 3 when the show airing from 5 pm to 7 pm ET averaged 189,000 viewers and a 0.08 rating ahead of WWE SummerSlam. The record-low in Collision's regular time slot was set on August 31 when the show averaged 289,000 total viewers and finished with a 0.10 rating in the key 18-49 demographic.