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NEWS - The Real Reason AEW Is In FREEFALL Right Now

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WhatCulture Wrestling

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


The Real Reason AEW Is In FREEFALL Right Now!

Kenny Omega “Time Off” Response

Matt Riddle Returns Money

NXT Star Call-Up?!


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0:00.0

Coming up on today's wrestling news, the real reason AW is in freefall right now.

0:05.0

Kenny Omega responds to rumours about taking time off.

0:08.0

Matt Reddle returns his charity event deposits.

0:11.0

And a major NXT name is ready for the W.WE main roster.

0:16.0

I'm Adam World War.

0:17.0

I'm Michael.

0:18.0

See if you can guess who it is.

0:19.0

This is the news.

0:21.8

So big news break in last night on a terrible rating for AEW Dynamite.

0:26.9

Often we don't like to talk about ratings unless they're really, really good or really bad.

0:31.3

And this is certainly the latter with Wednesday night's AW Dynamite averaging 472,000 viewers on TBS.

0:39.3

That's nearly a 20% drop compared to last week.

0:42.3

The lowest audience total for the show since October 8th of last year

0:45.3

when they got their ass handed to the bite NXT, of course,

0:48.3

after moving to a Tuesday night.

0:50.3

Dynamite drew a 0.11 rating the 18 to 49 demo.

0:54.3

That's over 15% decline as well,

0:56.2

the lowest number since October 8th, 2024 as well.

0:59.5

It's the second lowest rating Dynamite has done in its history,

1:03.2

regardless of day or time slot.

1:05.3

Now, there is worth caveat in this, obviously, sports are happening,

1:10.5

as they always are, and we've seen, well, across the

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