>>15830732They can be but they can also not be. Try and keep up. Fast nationals are exactly what they sound like, a quick early rating before other factors and numbers are averaged in. If the number looks bad at face value and the coming numbers are going to help it look better then it can be advantageous to release the early number to make a show's rating look worse than it actually ends up being. In other words what WWE has done when they've sent out AEW's numbers. If the initial number looks great and the added metrics only might bring it down then it makes sense to release that number yourself. Which WWE has done before and is what's being questioned here. Because the alternative is the initial number not being great and anything additional doing nothing to help it which is what's being suspected
I personally have no idea what the number is gonna be. They got a 1.7 for their last Fox show. Raw has pulled 2s before. So who knows. They tried to stack the card so maybe it did well. Those are just the different scenarios on how fast nationals can be used to try and shift a narrative though
