The recent May 16 "AEW Collision," which featured a few title matches, saw viewership and ratings grow after a fall for last week's show, after a few weeks of growth.The Saturday night show, held at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Maryland, averaged 384,000 viewers, according to "Programming Insider." This is over a 10% gain from the previous week's viewership of 342,000, while it's also marginally higher than the four-week average for the show. The previous two editions of "Collision," the May 9 and May 2 shows, drew 342,000 and 347,000, respectively, which was a notable drop in viewership compared to the earlier two editions, which drew397,000 and473,000viewers.The 18-49 key demographic rating also increased for the May 16 "Collision," albeit marginally, rising from 0.05 to 0.06, which matches the four-week average for the rating."Collision" was main evented by Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara, where the former successfully defended his AEW World Championship in a no count-out match. Willow Nightingale also retained her AEW TBS Championship againstRed Velvet, while the rest of the show featured a host of tag team matches.Last week's "Collision" aired live, and this week's show will also air live, albeit on Wednesday the same day as "AEW Dynamite" as AEW gears up for the upcoming Double or Nothing pay-per-view this weekend.
