AEW Dynamite August 30, 2023 - Orange Cassidy defends International title against Penta El Zero Miedo

[Comrade Khan]

Eddie has priority to.tag or fight any strong style talent

 

[Hoss]

All Out is very ROH heavy and I don't mind it

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Ricky Starks vs. Ricky Steamboat.

 

[Roy Mustang]

Decent episode of Dynamite so far as I get to the main event. All Out card looks like a TV special one imo but a bit mid for a PPV compared to the All In card.

 

[Roy Mustang]

Banger of a main event. Holy shit

 

[Chris]

Wednesday's AEW Dynamite had to be rewritten at the last minute due to several wrestlers missing the show.

Hurricane Idalie prevented Kenny Omega and some others from Florida from flying to Chicago. Swerve Strickland and the new AEW Women's World Champion Saraya missed the show due to illness as well. While the nature of their illness is unknown, Saraya was announced for a match on Saturday's Collision.

Our own Dave Meltzer addressed the situation on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio.

"Because of the hurricane, Kenny Omega didn't make it," he said. "Tonight's show was totally redone at the last minute because Saraya and Swerve were pulled from the show for illness reasons and I know a bunch of the Florida guys, including Omega, because of the hurricane couldn't get out of Florida to come to Chicago. Jericho was obviously there, I know there was concern about Jericho not being there but he was there. That was one of the reasons the show... it seemed thrown together because it was thrown together."

AEW president Tony Khan also gave any talent on his roster the night off if they wanted to attend memorial services for Bray Wyatt.

Omega is scheduled to face Konosuke Takeshita on Sunday's All Out pay-per-view. Takeshita and Don Callis cut a promo directed to Omega on last night's show. Saraya doesn't have a match for All Out but will team with the rest of the Outcasts on Collision against Britt Baker, Hikaru Shida, and Kris Statlander. Strickland was locked in a coffin at All In and does not have any upcoming matches scheduled.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/updates-on-kenny-omega-saraya-swerve-strickland-missing-aew-dynamite

 

[Jimmy King]

I don’t know if it probably just me but I wasn’t feeling this show. I liked Mox/Kommander and Kingston/Yuta, and a couple of segments but overall I wasn’t into it.

Again, maybe it was just me. I dunno.

 

[Hoss]

Sometimes it just be you

 

[Chris]

Wednesday night's AEW Dynamite averaged 871,000 viewers on TBS, almost exactly the same as the 870,000 the show did last week. It's the third week in a row Dynamite has done between 870,000 and 874,000 viewers and the third-lowest audience since July 12.

Dynamite averaged a 0.30 rating in the 18-49 demo, down 6.3 percent from the previous week. That's also the third-lowest rating since the July 12 episode.

As compared to the same week in 2022, Dynamite's overall audience was down 14.6 percent while the 18-49 rating was down 14.3 percent.

For the month of August, AEW Dynamite averaged 871,000 viewers and an 18-49 rating of 0.308. That's down from the 2022 average of 987,200 viewers and 0.328 in 18-49.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for AEW Dynamite on TBS, as well as the 10-week average in both categories. This week's show was almost identical to its recent averages in both total audience and 18-49 rating.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/aew-dynamite-ratings-steady-for-all-in-fallout

 

[Y2Jayne]

Love Toni's new character work, she's hilarious

 

[Y2Jayne]

I never really liked Pentagon, he made me cringe on Lucha underground and I loved pretty much everyone on that show. But having Orange fucking Cassidy kick out of his package piledriver only to pin him two seconds after that...