AEW Dynamite Ratings Disappoint Despite Expensive Additions of Mercedes Mone, Kazuchika Okada, and Will Ospreay to AEW Roster

On Thursday night, popular wrestling data outlet Wrestlenomics reported that this week’s episode of the company’s flagship show netted just 801,000 average viewers and a 0.27 rating with the all-important 18-49-year-old demographic.

That is a pretty disappointing number since the worst-kept secret in the industry was that Mercedes Mone would make her promotional debut at this week’s “Big Business” episode of the series. Furthermore, Okada officially joined the AEW roster last week and Ospreay has been getting a lot of attention on recent episodes of AEW television shows.

This week’s ratings were up from the 779,000 the show averaged last week, but the overall number was slightly lower than the last ratings over the last four weeks. And they are 6% below the over 900,000 AEW Dynamite averaged this time last year.

While things could certainly change as the trio of free agents sink their teeth into entertaining storylines, peak interest not being strong at the start of their runs is not a promising sign of the investment AEW has made into all three wrestling stars.