AEW Collision dropped to its lowest 18-49 audience in over a month, airing against the UFC 326 prelims and the NBA.
The March 7 episode from Tucson averaged 370,000 viewers and 68,000 viewers (0.05) in the 18-49 demographic on TNT (excluding viewership on HBO Max).
The audience stayed even with the previous week, which aired head-to-head with WWE’s Elimination Chamber premium live event. However, the 18-49 demographic dropped by 17% this week, its lowest mark since January 24 (against Saturday Night’s Main Event on Peacock).
Both Collision and SmackDown dropped to their lowest 18-49 audiences since Nielsen added the results of the DASH survey conducted by the Advertising Research Foundation.
The drop in 18-49 was due to females declining from 40,000 viewers last week to 27,000. Male viewership was unchanged from last week.
Adults 18-34 dropped from 0.04 to 0.03, and 25-54 fell from 0.10 to 0.08.
The UFC 326 prelims and first hour of the main card aired from 8 – 10:12 p.m. ET on CBS. The first hour averaged 2,137,000 viewers, and the second hour averaged 2,809,000 viewers. During the second hour, males 18-49 did a huge 1.08 and 0.74 among adults 25-54 (nearly double what the first hour averaged).
Collision also aired against the NBA on ABC, college basketball on ESPN, and the World Baseball Classic on Fox & FS1.
The live edition of Collision was headlined by Claudio Castagnoli taking on Konosuke Takeshita and FTR defending the tag titles against The Rascalz.
Data: Programming Insider & Wrestlenomics
