How AEW Dynamite Is Beating Monday Night Raw On An Even Playing Field

Now with hard numbers. Since AEW’s debut around two and a half years ago, the promotion has gone into something of a cold war with WWE. While the two companies have gone head to head on Wednesday nights with NXT, it wasn’t quite the same thing as AEW Dynamite vs. WWE Monday Night Raw. That still is not the case now, but something similar has caught some eyes.

On Monday November 29 and Wednesday December 8 respectively, Monday Night Raw and Dynamite will be held in the UBS Arena in Long Island, New York. The WrestleTix Twitter account is reporting that, as of Saturday evening, Dynamite is outdrawing Monday Night Raw in ticket sales, at 70% sold for Dynamite and 32% sold for Monday Night Raw. Dynamite’s setup allows for about 1,500 more fans and Monday Night Raw has nearly twice as many tickets still available (5,033 to Dynamite’s 2,684).

WWE Monday Night RAW
Mon • Nov 29 • 7:30 PM
UBS Arena, Belmont Park – Long Island, NY

Available Tickets => 5,033
Estimated Capacity => 7,398
Tickets Distributed => 2,365 (32%)https://t.co/yRCOtL75Yu pic.twitter.com/0CjFdwYXAw

— WrestleTix (@WrestleTix) September 18, 2021

AEW Presents Dynamite & Rampage
Wed • Dec 08 • 7:00 PM
UBS Arena, Belmont Park – Long Island, NY

Available Tickets => 2,684
Estimated Capacity => 8,851
Tickets Distributed => 6,167 (70%)https://t.co/yRCOtL75Yu pic.twitter.com/fAe9MVQG0j

— WrestleTix (@WrestleTix) September 19, 2021

They really are different shows now. Check out how recent editions have gone:

Top 10 Raw moments: WWE Top 10, Sept. 13, 2021

Top 10 Raw moments: WWE Top 10, Sept. 6, 2021

Was the Great Tag Team of FTR Able to Prevail Against Upstart Dante Martin? | AEW Dynamite, 9/15/21

MJF Puts Brian Pillman Jr. on Blast. What Did He Have to Say? | AEW Dynamite, 9/15/21

Opinion: WWE is running out of ways to spin the fact that AEW Dynamite is on fire at the moment and Monday Night Raw is a mixture of ice cold and uninspiring. Fans are just not into what WWE is producing on Mondays and that has been the case for a very long time now. I’m not sure what they can do to fix things up but it is not something that a quick fix is going to solve. Now there are the closest things to direct numbers as you are going to get.

What does this mean for WWE? What does it mean for AEW? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 60,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 6,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his- Amazon author page with 30 wrestling books.

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