The head-to-head numbers for 10 pm to 10:30 pm saw AEW Rampage beat WWE SmackDown on FS1 in the coveted 18-49 demo in the 30 minutes that they were directly competing with each other.
The first 30 minutes of Rampage that went up against SmackDown had CM Punk vs. Matt Sydal and Ruby Soho vs. The Bunny while SmackDown had Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch and the contract signing between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar.
The entire last half hour of SmackDown was commercial free and the Punk vs. Sydal match had no commercials but there was a commercial break immediately after the match was over.
Tony Khan reacted to the numbers on Twitter. He tweeted, “I’m only estimating but this suggests to me that we probably did pretty well in the yet-to-be-released head-to-head ratings from 10 pm-10:30 pm, a fight that I didn’t ask for or start, but one for which I was more than willing to show up and in which I was thrilled to participate.”
