Tony Khan’s AEW Does the Unbelievable Against WWE 27 Months Later After Repeated Setbacks

Tony Khan has had enough of people throwing shades at him for the recent declining momentum of AEW. And, it seems, now it’s Khan’s chance to backfire and pipe those brickbats down with a roaring success in the AEW Dynamite episode of November 22nd. It went head to head the WWE Friday Night SmackDown that day and smashed the WWE programming both in terms of viewership and ratings.

It was a much-needed bounce back by the entire AEW team as they have been facing repeated setbacks for a while now.

Last week’s AEW Dynamite brought back Tony Khan’s supremacy over WWE after a long time

Currently, excitement is running high in the WWE Universe since they just witnessed a staggering Survivor Series with two highly anticipated returns. The SmackDown episodes before Randy Orton and CM Punk turned up in the ring at the big PLE last week, caught many eyeballs too. But it wasn’t enough to dodge Khan’s Dynamite mojo this time.

As per the Wrestlenomics reports, last week’s “Dynamite,” held during the backdrop of Thanksgiving, earned 845K total viewers, with a 0.26 in the coveted 18-49 demo.

While SmackDown scored around 789,000(0.24) and let Khan have his moment.

Khan has been in deep water in terms of the ever-expanding competitors with WWE. Let’s look at a few recent instances of his fallbacks.

AEW received back-to-back blows from WWE in recent times

Khan might have given plaudits for being a good booker for the past few months but he has been brutally criticized for his major existing loopholes from a number of perspectives including booking, backstage standpoint, management decisions, etc.

The most recent beatdown of the Jacksonville-based promotion came when Survivor Series 2023 outstripped the Rampage and Collision with a record-breaking viewership number. It was supposed to happen as WWE brought the jackpot back in the form of a returning Randy Orton and CM Punk.

Also, WWE found themselves on the right side of a head-to-head war against AEW, as last week’s blue brand show literally destroyed AEW Collision with the latter scoring its worst-ever viewership record.

A month ago, NXT handed AEW Dynamite a hard reality check, winning the Tuesday Night War. It infuriated Khan so much that he jumped on throwing shades at WWE higher-ups afterward. It dragged his image down even more.

Now, it seems like finally there’s some hope looming for Tony Khan to stabilize AEW’s spot in respect of the rival promotion after almost two years of continuous dropping.

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