{"id":44753,"date":"2019-04-24T00:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T04:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=44753"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:29:55","slug":"young-bucks-vs-lucha-bros-in-aaa-scores-5-4m-viewers-on-azteca-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/24\/young-bucks-vs-lucha-bros-in-aaa-scores-5-4m-viewers-on-azteca-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Bucks vs Lucha Bros in AAA Scores 5.4m Viewers on Azteca TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SquaredCircle\/comments\/bgq6ov\/aaas_weekly_television_show_on_azteca7_featuring\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Lucha Central,<\/a> this past Friday&#8217;s edition of <strong>AAA<\/strong> television on Azteca&#8217;s Azteca 7 channel drew a 3.2 rating, equalling 5.4 million viewers, giving AAA their largest TV audience on Azteca, and breaking their previous high by one million viewers. The main event of the program was the AAA World Tag Team Championship match, that saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/03\/17\/andnew-aew-invasion-sees-young-bucks-win-aaa-tag-team-titles\/\" target=\"_self\">invading <strong>Young Bucks<\/strong><\/a> from <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> defeating <strong>The Lucha Brothers<\/strong> (Pentagon Jr. &amp; Fenix) for the belts.<\/p>\n<h2>AAA Scores High Viewership for Bucks vs Bros<\/h2>\n<p>When Twitter user and lucha writer <strong>Luchablog<\/strong> asked when the WWE last scored close to 5.4 million viewers in the US for a program, he was met with multiple responses before finding out the answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This appears to be the answer, The 2015-03-30 RAW averaged 5.36 viewers: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cWbLxfCC0I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/cWbLxfCC0I<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tLQDWS7JeL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/tLQDWS7JeL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; luchablog (@luchablog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luchablog\/status\/1120899483817127936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That show was the Raw After Mania for <em><strong>WrestleMania 31<\/strong><\/em>, and was a mostly uneventful edition, but featured <strong>Daniel Bryan<\/strong> defending his Intercontinental Championship against <strong>Dolph Ziggler<\/strong>, <strong>Damien Mizdow<\/strong> vs. <strong>Stardust<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/05\/25\/aj-lees-pipe-bombshell-divas\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">AJ Lee<\/a>, Naomi<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Paige<\/strong> vs. <strong>Natalya &amp; The Bella Twins<\/strong>, <strong>Rusev<\/strong> vs. <strong>Goldust<\/strong>, <strong>John Cena<\/strong> vs. <strong>Dean Ambrose<\/strong> in a United States Championship match, and <strong>The Authority<\/strong> (Seth Rollins, Kane &amp; Big Show) vs. <strong>Roman Reigns, Ryback &amp; Randy Orton<\/strong>. That episode averaged 5.36 million viewers on the USA Network.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lucha brothers vs Young bucks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajr2fA2AO4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While The Young Bucks appeared on WWE television in the late 2000s as extras on programs that had a larger audience in the US, as also noted by Luchablog on his Twitter after the news broke, it was most likely the largest viewing audience to ever watch a Young Bucks match.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cAEW Comes To AAA\u201d - Being The Elite Ep. 143\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2u1xqp5YFrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The two tag teams are next slated to meet in a rematch for the AAA World Tag Team Championships at AEW&#8217;s <em><strong>Double or Nothing<\/strong><\/em> on May 25 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44757\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44757\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/D4tVd5tWwAYVDgw-e1556080857324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: AEW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Lucha Central, this past Friday&#8217;s edition of AAA television on Azteca&#8217;s Azteca 7 channel drew a 3.2 rating, equalling 5.4 million viewers, giving AAA their largest TV audience on Azteca, and breaking their previous high by one million viewers. 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