The winner, and NEW champion: “All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite” on TNT!

Professional wrestling’s “Wednesday Night Wars” officially started on cable television last night, when the new weekly AEW wrestling show debuted to 1.409 million total viewers, besting USA Network’s “NXT,” which posted 891,000 total viewers (down 11% from last week’s show).

“Congratulations to AEW on a successful premiere. The real winners of last night’s head-to-head telecasts of NXT on USA Network and AEW on TNT are the fans, who can expect Wednesday nights to be a competitive and wild ride as this is a marathon, not a one-night sprint.”

Read the full article here: https://www.thewrap.com/all-elite-wrestling-dynamite-ratings-aew-nxt-wwe/

AEW’s ‘Dynamite’ Tops WWE’s NXT in First Head-to-Head Ratings Matchup https://t.co/7uIqQJJ5Gb via @Variety

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) October 4, 2019