While All Elite Wrestling prepares for Forbidden Door, its main program, “AEW Dynamite,” continues to perform well with viewers in the 18-49 demographic, despite a general decrease in total audience size. However, its counterpart show is facing challenges. The August 16 showing of “AEW Collision“ reportedly had very low numbers in terms of both audience size and ratings among key demographics.

WrestleNomics reports that the Saturday “Collision” broadcast only attracted 286,000 viewers. This represents a 32% drop from the 423,000 viewers on August 9, and a 22% drop from the average of 366,000 viewers over the previous month. This is the lowest audience “Collision” has had in its normal time slot.Reportedly,”Collision” was not among the top 5 cable programs on Saturday night,being outperformed by NFL preseason games and UFC Fight Night. The declining viewership of “Collision” appears to be part of a downward trend, with the average viewership in August 2025 (354,000) being 6% lower than in August 2024 (377,000).

The overall decline in “Collision’s” viewership is compounded by poor performance in the 18-49 demographic. The key demo rating for August 16 was 0.06, which is 25% lower than the 0.08 rating for August 9, and 14% lower than the average key demo rating of 0.07 over the past four weeks. These figures indicate a worrying trend for AEW’s Saturday program: the average key demo rating for “Collision” in August 2025 is 0.07, which is 42% lower than the 0.12 average in August 2024.

Show Quality vs. Viewership

“Collision’s” dropping viewership numbers, however, seems to be a negative trend…

Despite the decline in viewership, the show’s quality seems to be improving. As of tuesday evening, the August 16 episode of “Collision” had a rating of 7.27/10 on Cagematch, based on 63 votes. This is a 2% increase from the 7.15/10 rating on August 9,and a 2% increase from the average show rating of 7.16/10 over the past four weeks.