[12/30/23] AEW Worlds End: Samoa Joe vs. MJF for the AEW World Title; Continental Classic Finals

[CM_Burns]

Just watched the main event and end. Joe and MJF have good chemistry with MJF as the face, that was a good match. The devil reveal was good and made sense at least.

 

[Tres Leches]

So MJF lost the title eh? I thought he was gonna have the title for at least another year or so.

He’s injured plus his contract is up soon

 

[Him]

He’s injured plus his contract is up soon

bruh if khan loses MJF smh

 

[thaKEAF]

He’s injured plus his contract is up soon

When is his contract up?

 

[Finn Baller]

When is his contract up?

he almost certainly re-signed already

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Tired of yall given this dude TK and his Extreme Warfare ass booking handicaps. He can hold his own and if he can do it before it can be done at their max potential.

Boxing still doing 1 mil+ and 500k for big shows with some people that aren't exactly mainstream. 200k is not unrealistic for a hotter version of this company.

Wrestling isn’t boxing. We’re living in a world where the top wrestling company in the world has conditioned the wrestling audience at large to only pay $10 a month for a Peacock subscription to get PLEs.

WWE has set the market standard for what people expect for PPVs. Only the most hardcore fans are dropping $50 for nothing more than just one PPV. I don’t even want to spend $50 on a PPV.

At the height of WWF’s mainstream popularity, it was normally doing under 400-500K for the non-big three or four PPVs. WrestleMania was the only one regularly doing 600-800K and only four times did it ever crack a million.

WCW at the height of its mainstream popularity only surpassed 500K+ PPVs twice and most of the time was easily under 400K.

Comparing wrestling to boxing for PPV buy rates is thus ridiculous when peak mass market popularity for wrestling wasn’t even competing with current day wrestling.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

He’s injured plus his contract is up soon

He re-signed earlier this month.

 

[StatUS]

Wrestling isn’t boxing. We’re living in a world where the top wrestling company in the world has conditioned the wrestling audience at large to only pay $10 a month for a Peacock subscription to get PLEs.

WWE has set the market standard for what people expect for PPVs. Only the most hardcore fans are dropping $50 for nothing more than just one PPV. I don’t even want to spend $50 on a PPV.

At the height of WWF’s mainstream popularity, it was normally doing under 400-500K for the non-big three or four PPVs. WrestleMania was the only one regularly doing 600-800K and only four times did it ever crack a million.

WCW at the height of its mainstream popularity only surpassed 500K+ PPVs twice and most of the time was easily under 400K.

Comparing wrestling to boxing for PPV buy rates is thus ridiculous when peak mass market popularity for wrestling wasn’t even competing with current day wrestling.

Captain Save-A-Booker. They've done 200k before, they can do it again. Just like they would be doing 1 mil plus for Dynamite if they were hotter.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

 

[Finn Baller]

that place did not sound sold out, weird crowd

 

[King P]

Yeah I was there, and there weren't many empty seats that were clearly visible. AEW needs to run venues like that more often,

Well not Nassau though, because that place is horribly run, and disorganized as fukk

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Yeah I was there, and there weren't many empty seats that were clearly visible. AEW needs to run venues like that more often,

Are you SURE about that? There are some people very invested in this detail....

 

[MenacingMonk]

At this point AEW shouldn’t even bother with the Lee/Swerve stuff. Just save it for when Swerve wins the belt and have Lee be one of the challengers when he returns.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Well not Nassau though, because that place is horribly run, and disorganized as fukk

What happened?