AEW Battle of the Belts January 8, 2022 - Live on TNT

[Brandon Blaze]

I wanna turn on hard to kill But I don’t wanna see results I missed in a recap so I might wait til it’s over

 

[Smart Marx]

Britt's a more evolved heel that understands accidents happen.

 

[Chris]

I wanna turn on hard to kill But I don’t wanna see results I missed in a recap so I might wait til it’s over

I already know what happened so idc lol

 

[Moon Bird]

GG

 

[Smart Marx]

Not a bad show, but it felt no different than a regular Rampage. Not even a special Rampage.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Yeah. Was a good way to spend a Saturday night. But rather it not have been tonight tho lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

Id have like a world title match or smth

 

[Comrade Khan]

But was fun !

 

[Smart Marx]

They just need to build the next better, give us bigger matches, preferably world title.

 

[Smart Marx]

Not too bad for the first one. Learn from this.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Or a ladder match.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I get ppl r sick n hurt but ya make the next Saturday one bigger. U needed a Danielson or Hangman or at least punk here imo

 

[Smart Marx]

Yeah, none of the top male stars were on here.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Sammy was here

 

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

Saturday night's AEW Battle of the Belts special averaged 704,000 viewers on TNT.

As a comparison point, two recent editions of Dynamite aired in the same time slot during the month of October and averaged 651,000 viewers.

Battle of the Belts finished 11th on cable in the 18-49 demo with a 0.27 rating. That's slightly up from the 0.25 rating that Dynamite had averaged on Saturday nights in October.

Battle of the Belts had much stronger competition as, for the first time, AEW programming aired head-to-head with the NFL. The football game was broadcast on both ABC and ESPN and averaged more than 20 million viewers between the two networks.

In comparing the individual demos to the recent 10-week averages of Rampage, which airs on Friday nights and is also an hour long, Battle of the Belts did better across all categories but particularly with women. Battle of the Belts was up 61.5 percent in women 18-49 and up 55.6 percent in females 12-34. Males in those categories were only up 17.2 percent and 25 percent respectively.

Battle of the Belts was the first of AEW's quarterly specials on TNT. It featured matches for the AEW Women's Championship, the interim TNT title, and the FTW title.