The great Twitter war of 2021 continues to heat up, especially with the Friday night ratings coming out.
On Friday, WWE SmackDown and AEW Rampage went head-to-head for 30 minutes with SmackDown going half an hour long on Fox Sports 1. Though SmackDown won the overall viewership 866,000 viewers to 578,000 viewers, the two shows tied in the demo with a 0.24 rating.Head-to-head, WWE SmackDown scored 878,000 viewers compared to Rampage's 602,000 viewers. In the 18 to 49 demographic head-to-head, AEW Rampage drew 328,000 viewers in the demo while SmackDown drew 285,000 viewers.
The contract signing between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns on SmackDown tied in the demo with the start of the Ruby Soho vs. The Bunny bout.
The numbers gave AEW wrestlers plenty to tweet about.
Someone could photo shop Roman onto theory and recreate him throwing this "little brother" out of the club. https://t.co/ID7mHKIydO
— Brian Cage (@MrGMSI_BCage) October 19, 2021
Ruby should meet Roman at the club…
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) October 18, 2021
The comments by Cage and Jericho are a repsonse to Roman saying to Complex about CM Punk and AEW, "So, I mean, when it comes down to it, I’ll throw him and pretty much the rest of that roster out the club no problem. They’re just little brothers, you know?"
Junior dos Santos, who headlined AEW Rampage, issued a challenge to Roman as well.
Ruby Soho and the Bunny had GIFs speak louder than words.
— Ruby Soho (@realrubysoho) October 18, 2021
— The Bunny -- (@AllieWrestling) October 18, 2021
And of course, the Young Bucks updated their bio.
— Young Bucks Bio (@bio_bucks) October 19, 2021
AEW Owner Tony Khan was also fired up about the ratings and calling out WWE leaking the fast national numbers. You can find his tweets by clicking here.
