Dana White’s Energy Slap League noticed its viewership and rankings enhance pretty dramatically in its second week on TBS. Partially due to a good greater lead in from AEW, from which the present nonetheless misplaced a majority of the pro-wrestling promotion’s viewers for his or her broadcast on Wednesday, January 25.
In line with ShowBuzzDaily, AEW Wrestling had 1.003 million viewers within the 8 p.m. slot. AEW had a .31 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and a .27 ranking with 18-34-year-old viewers. With these numbers, AEW trailed solely the 2 ESPN NBA video games for the night time’s general cable rankings on Wednesday.
Energy Slap completed within the No. 30 place this week with 413,000 viewers. The ten p.m. broadcast had a .13 ranking amongst 18-49-year-old viewers and .008 within the 18-34 demographic. Energy Slap’s numbers have been 590,000 viewers lower than AEW’s.
Final week’s debut episode of Energy Slap—which TBS delayed a week after White was caught on video slapping his wife, whereas on a household trip in Mexico—was No. 45 within the high 50 cable telecasts for Wednesday, January 18, 2023. The debut episode pulled a reported 295,000 viewers and a 0.10 ranking within the 18-49 demographic. The present completed at No. 50 for the night time.
The January 18 AEW broadcast, which like this week, was No. 3 for the night time behind ESPN’s NBA video games, had 969,000 viewers and a .31 share within the 18-49 demographic. As for 18-34- year-old viewers, AEW had an 0.22 ranking in that age bracket.
Energy Slap completed second to BET’s Kingdom Enterprise when contemplating cable exhibits with a ten p.m. begin time. Kingdom Enterprise drew 639,000 viewers and a 0.14 ranking within the 18-49 age vary. The third highest rated 10 p.m. cable present on Wednesday was ID’s Murder Hunter: American with 737,000 viewers and a ranking of 0.11 for viewers between 18 and 49.
TBS initially scheduled Energy Slap to debut on Wednesday, December 11. White addressed the delay of the present’s first episode on the UFC Vegas 67 post-fight press conference saying, “We pushed it again every week as a result of I used to be supposed to come back again (from trip) and do that entire media tour, which clearly wasn’t going to occur after I acquired again.”
Forward of Energy Slap’s debut, White advised potential viewers who have been vital of the aggressive slapping showcase that, “No one’s asking you to look at this! Oh, you’re disgusted by it? Watch The Voice.”
