The celebrities of All Elite Wrestling are firmly on the road to the fifth annual Forbidden Door pay-per-view on June 28, and the June 3 episode of “AEW Dynamite” saw two hours of motion that fans are still buzzing about days after. Mercedes Mone made her long awaited return to the corporate in the ladies’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. Will Ospreay advanced to the ultimate of the boys’s tournament by defeating Mark Davis, and each MJF and Kevin Knight successfully defended their AEW Men’s World and TNT Championships against Rush and “Speedball” Mike Bailey respectively.
Despite all of that motion, the show did take a knock within the TV rankings. In response to Wrestlenomics, with data provided by The Programming Insider, the June 3 episode of “Dynamite” averaged a complete of 638,000 viewers, a 9% drop from the previous week which broke the 700,000 mark. Nonetheless, this week’s average is 2% above the trailing 4 week average of 623,000, 3% below the common of last 12 months’s second quarter, and doesn’t include those that streamed the show on HBO MAX.
The most important hit got here within the 18-49 demographic as “Dynamite” posted a 0.11 number, marking a 27% drop from the 0.15 posted last week. This week’s number can also be 8% below the trailing 4 week average of 0.12, 29% below the identical quarter in 2025, and 39% the month of June from last 12 months.
Considered one of the massive reasons for this was game certainly one of the NBA Finals between the Latest York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, which dominated the rankings on ABC. Nonetheless, with the NBA now not on cable, “Dynamite” actually performed well within the prime time cable rankings despite the lower numbers, placing third for the night behind “Gutfeld!” on FOX News and the faculty softball world series on ESPN.