Cattle Mutilation
Superstar
When he beat who?
“AEW locker room is SAD & EMBARRASSED over CM Punk situation.” | UPDATE: “CM PUNK PUT MY SAFETY, SECURITY & LIFE IN DANGER! HE’S FIRED!” - TONY KHAN
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KFBF
Superstar
Tony was forced to keep RoH off of TV/AEW. He acting like he came to that on his own. Execs told him get that off my station . We would still be getting Jericho and RoH stories on Dynamite if it were up to him
That's some fascinating spin in that quote, could it not just be that it doesn't make sense for Warner's platform to be used to promote a product they don't profit off nor want?
It's the same question I've always had when people cry about WWE not wanting to cross-promote. If I'm NBCU/FOX and I'm paying through the nose for WWE programming why the fukk would I want the time I'm paying for to go towards building another product that I don't want and that could end up on someone else's network and now my TV time and reach were used to create an audience for it. It makes no sense, business wise.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Only equivalent is if you say its a sub brand under AEW like WWE would with NXT or ECW.
Cattle Mutilation
Superstar
Technically Warner does profit off of it as the ROH POVs are done in conjunction with Warner Discovery. At least that’s what I gathered based on TK saying the PPVs will still be on Bleacher Report like Warner Discovery wants them to be.
The problem with that is that Tony came out from jump and said he'd maintain ROH as its own promotion. If Vince came to NBCU and said that he was thinking of relaunching ECW as its own thing outside of their existing IP obligations/rights and he'd take time on Raw to promote it they'd dub him too.
It was haphazard truly the best thing would have been to just fold ROH and keep the IP, tape library. The reality is the only people who ever cared about ROH already watch AEW, dumped ROH for AEW when it was announced and are more than happy with AEW.
If that's the case that's fine but it also means Warner have seen enough data to decide that it's not worth the trouble of giving the brand TV time at the expense of their primary investment AEW which is what has been happening. What he's done has been effectively to cannibalize both ROH and AEW and it just comes off as an excuse to put belts on guys who aren't doing anything meaningful.
Idk man
Looks like a main eventer in the middle of a poster of a show that outdrew the same opponent vs jericho
either ROH is continuing to fail and is shrinking or Gresham did better than Jericho…or bothIdk man
Looks like a main eventer in the middle of a poster of a show that outdrew the same opponent vs jericho
The Gresham match literally was opening match lol FTR Briscoes were the main event. Tony may be a little crazy but he’s not stupid.
That was the first ROH show since it was acquired so 12,000 more people tuned in to see what was going on off that
Of course the next one is going to draw less since they still haven't established why it exists alongside AEW
And if they still can't explain it before the next one then it will do even less than 25k
Of course the next one is going to draw less since they still haven't established why it exists alongside AEW
And if they still can't explain it before the next one then it will do even less than 25k
Cattle Mutilation
Superstar
There was significantly more build and hype behind Death Before Dishonor. I mean we only knew something like two matches on the card with less than a week before Final Battle aired.Idk man
Looks like a main eventer in the middle of a poster of a show that outdrew the same opponent vs jericho
Thats so much worse….
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Chris Jericho might be a problem for this company lol