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Collision and Battle of the Belts did surprisingly well against UFC 300

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Ricky Havlik for All Elite Wrestling

The numbers are in for the April 15 episode of AEW Collision — and Battle of the Belts X — on TNT.

According to Wrestlenomics, from 8-10pm ET Collision drew 467,000 viewers and scored a .13 rating among 18-49 year olds. The demo rating is down from the previous Saturday’s Final Four pre-empted episode, but the overall audience was slightly bigger than on April 6. It’s the second best viewership number Collision’s had in 2024, and is even more impressive considering it was going against ESPN’s coverage of the UFC 300 prelims, which were watched by 1.87 million and got a .86 with the 18-49 crowd. Wrestling Observer points out that UFC’s rating “was higher than any Raw or SmackDown this year has done”.

Collision was followed by AEW’s tenth Battle of the Belts, and held much of Collision’s audience as the UFC show from Vegas went to the knockout-tastic PPV portion of its card. BotB X was watched by 422,000 viewers and did a .11 in 18-49. That’s the biggest audience for that brand since BotB 7 last July.

AEW will be back with another three hour block this Saturday as they make the final push to their Dynasty PPV on Sunday with Collision followed by Rampage, which will be bumped off Friday by the NBA Playoffs this week. We’ll see how those shows do.

In the meantime, here’s a look at the viewership and demo rating for every episode of it and BotB in their histories:

* Aired on a Friday

Battle of the Belts

For complete results from the latest Collision & BotB, check out our live blog here. To read a recap & review of Collision click here and for BotB click here.

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