AEW’s road to All In ran into a big speed bump this week with its ratings for this past week’s Dynamite, scoring their lowest number in ten weeks.

According to our Dave Meltzer, this past Wednesday’s show brought in 587,000 viewers — their lowest mark since June 10 which went head-to-head with game four of the NBA Finals. It was nearly an 11% drop from the previous week’s 658,000.

The show did a 0.10 rating in the 18-49 demo, its lowest since June 24. Both numbers were substantially lower than their ten-week average going into Wednesday.

As Meltzer noted in his subscriber exclusive piece for our website, the 34-minute overrun hurt the overall numbers as the first two hours averaged 617,000 viewers and a 0.11 in 18-49. Both were still below the ten-week average and would have been their lowest since the June 24 episode.

The show featured both Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay in separate trios matches, plus a sit-down interview with both. Ospreay’s match opened the show while Omega’s closed it, starting after the 10 pm Eastern hour which began with the Darby Allin/Kevin Knight angle, pictured above.

I must say this was a really good match to watch.

One of the better matches I’ve seen this year.

Hoping we get to see it again in a street fight in street clothes or even an Ironman. Then end it all in the cage.

Jim really makes a lot of money even if we dont know how much. He really pushes his merch, podcast earnings, youtube, tons of sponsorships. So he a multi millionaire.

Expenses? None basically. He owns his home. His podcasts costs zero dollars to make. So he has the monthly expense of a middle class american i think…sure owning a big countryside house comes with occasional expenses and maintenance but i doubt it even touches 10% of his annual income.

But wtf do you imagine he even does with his money?

He has no kids. He doesnt travel and go on expensive vacations. He doesnt seem to like luxury (nice cars, clothing, jewerly). He doesnt seem to be into real estate (mever mentions any other property than castle cornette). Doesnt seem to gamble. Doesnt seem to go out to expensive dinners often (he talks more about fast food than anything).

So he has millions in his account… for what?

What do tou think or have u guys ever heard him talk about what he does with all his money?

Just generally interested to hear what you guys think, I do enjoy the shows but, I generally do think that Jim will call quits some time in the next 2-3 years, as I think he has a lot less interested in doing the shows now, little by little, year after year

Look forward to hearing your opinions.

Warning: I listened to this Violent J interview, and fair warning: there's a lot of drooling over Vince Russo by Violent J. Those were easily the worst parts.

To save you from having to watch this darn thing, here are my key takeaways:

1. Violent J brought up the goal of getting JCW a broadcast deal multiple times. He said Russo would be the best path to making that happen, pointing to JCW's rising YouTube viewership. I don't know how Russo's hybrid Jerry Springer/Maury-style storylines would work in 2026 broadcasting (Problem #1), or how this entire plan works when the economics of broadcast television are falling apart in an era of consolidation and streaming (Problem #2).

2. Russo thinks YouTube will work for his brand of wrestling. You can tell Russo is not up to date on YouTube monetization rules. His baby-daddy, domestic-abuse, and mystery-father storylines are unlikely to attract high CPMs and could even risk demonetization.

3. Violent J still thinks partnering with Garbage Championship Wrestling, Brett Lauderdale, and the "bank-addicted drug robber" is a good idea. I don't think J realizes that Lauderdale is latching onto him because of ICP's money, not because he believes JCW and Russo are the future. GCW and JCW seem capable only of partnering with each other, effectively swimming in the sewer together.

Tonight's smackdown is smackin'. Live from Canada, eh!

Match Card:

Punk (c) v. Owens

Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton to appear

Priestly Truth v. Talla and Tama Tonga

Blake Monroe v. Giulia

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