The "let's not take this shyt so seriously" AEW news & fukkery thread

[Flex Luger]

 

[Jmare007]

This would be a bigger deal if they were dependent on advances like they used to be but for more than a year the first day sales aren't the end all be all for AEW so I kinda get taking this "risk".

We'll see if having only a couple of months in advance to sell and promote a PPV will works or not though.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

This would be a bigger deal if they were dependent on advances like they used to be but for more than a year the first day sales aren't the end all be all for AEW so I kinda get taking this "risk".

We'll see if having only a couple of months in advance to sell and promote a PPV will works or not though.

Aside from All In, gate money is barely a drop in the bucket compared to media money now. They are making nearly $4 million a week on that media deal. Their 4th largest grossing event ever "only" drew $1.3 million. Obviously you want to maximize revenue though regardless, but even on the old media contract, live gate at their peak was nowhere close to what the media money was.

 

[Jmare007]

Aside from All In, gate money is barely a drop in the bucket compared to media money now. They are making nearly $4 million a week on that media deal. Their 4th largest grossing event ever "only" drew $1.3 million. Obviously you want to maximize revenue though regardless, but even on the old media contract, live gate at their peak was nowhere close to what the media money was.

I guess I phrased that wrong. I wasn't trying to say that AEW was dependent on live gate, I was trying to say that they ticket sales were mostly coming from first day/first week sales, so booking venues and shows in advance worked for them. Nowadays they sell a lot of tickets in the last 2 weeks before a show so saving the dates and venues to avoid getting countered by the bigger and much hotter promotion makes more sense now than if they did it 12 months ago.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

I guess I phrased that wrong. I wasn't trying to say that AEW was dependent on live gate, I was trying to say that they ticket sales were mostly coming from first day/first week sales, so booking venues and shows in advance worked for them. Nowadays they sell a lot of tickets in the last 2 weeks before a show so saving the dates and venues to avoid getting countered by the bigger and much hotter promotion makes more sense now than if they did it 12 months ago.

And for all but PPVs they run smaller venues so it’s not like they necessarily need several months of lead time to get a crowd that looks or sounds good on TV. And ones that are more midsize are being scaled to fit the size of crowds AEW is drawing.

 

[br82186]

Aside from All In, gate money is barely a drop in the bucket compared to media money now. They are making nearly $4 million a week on that media deal. Their 4th largest grossing event ever "only" drew $1.3 million. Obviously you want to maximize revenue though regardless, but even on the old media contract, live gate at their peak was nowhere close to what the media money was.

Speaking of All In, where are they with ticket sales? And is it announced where SNME will be that night?

The pettiness if that shyt is in American Airlines Arena

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Speaking of All In, where are they with ticket sales? And is it announced where SNME will be that night?

The pettiness if that shyt is in American Airlines Arena

I haven’t seen an update in forever and I got rid of Twitter sometime in 2024 so can’t look it up anymore.

 

[br82186]

I haven’t seen an update in forever and I got rid of Twitter sometime in 2024 so can’t look it up anymore.

Same here

 

[Jmare007]

Speaking of All In, where are they with ticket sales? And is it announced where SNME will be that night?

The pettiness if that shyt is in American Airlines Arena

I haven’t seen an update in forever and I got rid of Twitter sometime in 2024 so can’t look it up anymore.

They are at 11k sold tickets and are running a small set up of 18k, which is basically half the venue. You can see the seats that are not on sale in gray.


It's basically what everyone would've guessed to be honest. AEW shocking everyone by booking a venue no one thought they should've and getting amazing sales is not something that happens anymore.

I just hope they get enough people in the building and smart people in production to not make it look sad or 2nd rate on TV.

 

[br82186]

They are at 11k sold tickets and are running a small set up of 18k, which is basically half the venue. You can see the seats that are not on sale in gray.


It's basically what everyone would've guessed to be honest. AEW shocking everyone by booking a venue no one thought they should've and getting amazing sales is not something that happens anymore.

I just hope they get enough people in the building and smart people in production to not make it look sad or 2nd rate on TV.

Still alot of time, so I expect sections opening

 

[MenacingMonk]

They need to get at least 25k there to look decent.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They are at 11k sold tickets and are running a small set up of 18k

The setup will change if they sell close to the 18k.. I'd say selling 11k is fine considering the show is months away and not a single match has been announced. This is certainly something that TK needs to work on. We can see that most likely a match on there will be Okada vs. Omega so wouldn't now be the time to start teasing that more and more and then announce it?

 

[Jmare007]

They need to get at least 25k there to look decent.

Yeah, I think a more realistic goal for a best case scenario is 20-22k paid and 3-5k comps to make it look presentable on TV.

Still alot of time, so I expect sections opening

The setup will change if they sell close to the 18k.. I'd say selling 11k is fine considering the show is months away and not a single match has been announced. This is certainly something that TK needs to work on. We can see that most likely a match on there will be Okada vs. Omega so wouldn't now be the time to start teasing that more and more and then announce it?

Yeah, they've shown to sell more tickets in the last 6 weeks of big shows since last year. Will they get 9k more? I hope so.

 

[br82186]

Yeah, I think a more realistic goal for a best case scenario is 20-22k paid and 3-5k comps to make it look presentable on TV.



Yeah, they've shown to sell more tickets in the last 6 weeks of big shows since last year. Will they get 9k more? I hope so.

This also hinges on what WWE does because we all know that that SNME's gonna be a Wrestlemania like show

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Decided to check out ROH this week since it’s a decent card on paper for ROH and it was taped at the Jericho Cruise.

This crowd is so nasty looking they are going to have to decommission the ship.