ROH's last PPV did less than 800 buys

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The biggest news regarding the Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor show on 9/27 is the lack of interest in the show.

The company is clearly cold, and the show came at a time when WWE was pushing harder than ever and AEW was about to debut on television. ROH doesn’t have anything particularly interesting going on and was very much lost in the shuffle.

The volume of poll responses on the front page speaks volumes. As does the fact that in a 900-seat arena in Las Vegas, Sam’s Town, not only did they have a weak advance, but even with giving away tickets at the end to basically anyone who wanted them, they started the show with maybe 600 in the building and ended up with about 800.

Worse are the PPV numbers. The last ROH show, Best in the World on 6/28 in Baltimore did an estimated 3,500 PPV buys. Death Before Dishonor at press time is estimated at just under 800. The actual decline from the last show was 77.7 percent, and this is not a year-to-year drop but a drop from June to September.

Even more scary is that of those 3,500 buyers of the Best in the World how, only an estimated 115 purchased Death Before Dishonor. Roughly the same number of Death Before Dishonor buyers purchased All Out and roughly 75 purchased Clash of Champions. Now 115 out of 800 is 14.4 percent and 75 of 800 is 9.4 percent, so that is significant to a degree. But the crossover between this show and the last show is notable because even with that big drop, 675 out of 800 purchasers were not fans who bought the previous PPV.

It's over :francis:

These idiots propped up the event that basically birthed AEW when the Bucks and Cody had a handful of months left on their ROH contracts. You couldn't make it up :laff:

See you on TNT in December, Marty.
 

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I’m actually surprised they have floor seats available for the show in New Orleans next week. There only $40 too. Debated on going but Not hyped to drive three hours to watch Glory By Honor
 

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Damn that's fukked up :francis:. Crazy thing is things could have turned out so differently if Sinclair didn't out-white themselves (I don't know how else to describe what they did :manny:) . They had the FCC bending over backwards to help them complete their merger with Tribune (which would have given them control over WGN) and all they had to do was divest a few stations so it didn't look like the obvious nudge nudge wink wink deal it was. Instead Sinclair dikked the FCC around and the deal collapsed.

That goes through, ROH get a slot on WGN and everything changes, they've got a much bigger platform and they probably keep the Elite. People would still be overlooking how crap most of the booking is because shyt they'd have the best non-WWE deal since TNA/SPIKE and they'd be getting the dikkriding AEW is getting now.

Does Impact still do PPVs? I wonder what they average if they do them still.

They do about 3/4 a year at this point. I'm not sure what they average but the major difference between Impact and ROH is that Impact's PPVs (like WWE's) are included as part of their international deals. So those carriers pay for the rights to air the weekly shows and the PPVs so even if people in the US aren't buying the PPVs then they're still making money off them. ROH on the other hand don't have that so if nobody's buying then :francis:.
 
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Scurl will be in NXT when his deal is up. Apparently Scarlett Bordeaux just signed with WWE. Anyone whose contract is coming up, will use AEW as a bargaining chip. Like I said in another thread, WWE will have a bloated payroll like the Yankees.
 
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Scurl will be in NXT when his deal is up. Apparently Scarlett Bordeaux just signed with WWE. Anyone whose contract is coming up, will use AEW as a bargaining chip. Like I said in another thread, WWE will have a bloated payroll like the Yankees.

They already do. AEW is gonna be fine with talent because sooner or later WWE is going to get tired of paying guys $500,000 to sit around and do nothing. 205 Live is already on its deathbed.
 
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