WWE touts viewership success of Worlds Collide
WWE issued a media statement Friday touting the success of last Friday’s WWE x AAA Worlds Collide event that aired on YouTube.
The company claimed the show “set a record for the largest concurrent live audience in the event’s history,” peaking at 773,000 live concurrent viewers over their own YouTube channel and that of WWE Espanol, AAA and AAA’s Facebook channel.
That number breaks the previous reported record of 764,389 concurrent views for June’s Worlds Collide event from Inglewood, California. That show aired in the afternoon prior to that night’s Money in the Bank PLE while this past Friday’s show from Las Vegas aired after WWE SmackDown in the evening.
From the release:
“More than 4.1 million viewers watched the broadcast in the first 24 hours, with an additional 127 million digital views generated across social platforms.”
Last Friday was headlined by Dominik Mysterio winning the AAA Mega title from El Hijo del Vikingo on a show that also included main roster and NXT talent like Finn Balor, The New Day, Lola Vice, Grayson Waller, and Penta who did a show-opening promo. Rey Mysterio also made an appearance.
The next such event has yet to be announced with a report out Thursday stating that a show during Survivor Series weekend in San Diego is heavily under consideration.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.