TONY KHAN STINKS! ("WBD OWNS A PERCENTAGE OF AEW." - MELTZER; WEMBLEY TURNSTILE COUNT = 46K 😢; DYNAMITE NO MILLION WATCH: 589 DAYS/84 WEEKS)

[OneDeep]

Random thought

If a banger match happens but nobody sticks around to see it

Is it still a banger match

 

[Sypress]

Oh how the tables have turned

Trips said it best

Congratulations you beat our developmental brand

Trips is just a different kind of pedigree

 

[The Wall Brother]

Random thought

If a banger match happens but nobody sticks around to see it

Is it still a banger match

Tough question. Ultimately, the answer is yes.

The marks wrestling the banger match would be in the ring and so they also double as sickos(spectators).

 

[Norrin Radd]

Random thought

If a banger match happens but nobody sticks around to see it

Is it still a banger match

Yeah, it’s just a banger match that no one saw

 

[Brad Piff]

As long as meltzer sees it that’s all that matters

How else would we have known the Ospreay/O’shea dynamite match was a 4.5 star banger

 

[OneDeep]

Bryan vs Nigel-Nobody cared

Osprey vs Ricochet-Nobody Cared

Bryan vs Okada-Nobody cared

There’s a pattern forming

 

[Organic Trees]

Bryan vs Nigel-Nobody cared

Osprey vs Ricochet-Nobody Cared

Bryan vs Okada-Nobody cared

There’s a pattern forming

This is why their fans are happy about the current deal. No ratings no case

 

[OneDeep]

This is why their fans are happy about the current deal. No ratings no case

Failing Ratings

Failing Attendance

Failing Interest

Doesn’t matter to them AEW got their deal & they have banger matches

 

[KateFabersBoyfriend]

Doesn’t matter to them AEW got their deal & they have banger matches

Why would/should the other shyt matter to them? The deal ensures their preferred style will be platformed for the foreseeable future. That's not dependent on attendance, ratings, or interest.

Ratings don't seem have played a significant impact on negotiations and WBD and Tony are interested that's enough.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Why would the other shyt matter to them?

It matters to people who want to engage in stan war discourse.

WWE nearly died in 1995 they were doing RAW out of high school gyms some weeks with maybe 1500 in attendance and they were able to slowly turn that around.

Whether AEW turns their attendance around or not, the media rights deal does confirm their profitability now and that's something that many claimed would not happen.

Fans want to see stories or matches, whatever, of course all they care about is seeing the promotion secure a deal. There's nothing they can do about weekly attendance, that's up to Khan.

 

[Finn Baller]

Failing Ratings

Failing Attendance

Failing Interest

Doesn’t matter to them AEW got their deal & they have banger matches

The same people preaching that mentality now weren’t doing the same in the late 2010s when Raw and Smackdown were signing record deals at the time despite struggling attendance and declining ratings.

Yet now we aren’t supposed to point out AEW’s declining popularity because they signed a new deal

 

[OneDeep]

At least someone can give a straight answer without being condescending

 

[OneDeep]

Why would/should the other shyt matter to them? The deal ensures their preferred style will be platformed for the foreseeable future. That's not dependent on attendance, ratings, or interest.

Ratings don't seem have played a significant impact on negotiations and WBD and Tony are interested that's enough.

I just don’t want Tony to see them getting the deal even though everything is on the decline to go light on the creative

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

There were many people on this board saying "look at the revenue WWE is pulling in though" in the 2010s when ratings and attendance were in question.

Ratings tells a part of a story, however, that's become less and less as cable has declined.

Attendance tells a part of a story as well.

Revenue and profitability tell a part of the story.

If revenue is up and a company is profitable, does that mean a business is fine and no changes should be made? Not necessarily, but it does show the overall health of the company.

Creative is another topic, people can and always will pick apart creative in wrestling and it's mostly subjective

 

[Finn Baller]

we don’t know exactly what their revenue is or what their profits are because they are a private company that doesn’t have to open their books to stockholders. So at that point it’s a matter of having to trust what people like Meltzer or SRS say about it and I’ll pass on that. We can speculate pretty reasonably what their revenue is now once the new TV deal starts and also profitablity is certain once that deal kicks in. But if those are the new metrics people want to use to compare companies, that’s not an area AEW stans are gonna have an upper hand in or something worth talking shyt about for them