As we reported yesterday, AEW Dynamite defeated NXT once again, getting an increase of viewers from the week before while NXT dropped. Dynamite had 762,000 viewers and a 0.30 in the key 18-49 demographic (338,000 viewers) compared to NXT’s 551,000 viewers (its lowest viewership ever) and 0.14 rating in 18-49 (182,000 viewers). Against the news, AEW was also down considerably among female viewers. Dynamite was up overall 15.1% in viewers, 17.9% in 18-49 and 43.2% in 18-34. NXT was down 14% in viewers and 10.8% in 18-49, but up 36.1% in 18-34. So both shows had a younger audience than last week.
Overall, Dynamite ranked #31 against a night that included CNN dominating the top 12 spots. It was #7 in non-news, behind two NBA games, two NHL games, Bravo’s
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Johnny Gargano revealed that LeRae and Hartwell will be entering the tournament, while Blackheart announced that she and Moon will be teaming up. The remaining two teams were revealed later in the show.
We do not yet know when the tournament will kick off.
First teams, match announced for women’s Dusty Cup
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NXT looks to be following the same model they used with this year’s men’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic when it come to doling out information about the first ever women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
After last week’s announcement there would be a women’s tourney this year, on Jan. 13 we learned of four teams in the field, and found out about the first first-round match. That still leaves us with lots of questions like, how many entrants there will be, and what the bracket looks like. Other than a Dusty Cup, we also don’t know what the winner of this tournament gets. The men earn a NXT Tag title shot. Will the ladies get to challenge for the WWE Women’s Tag belts?