Wrestling

[Dave]

10 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

You're both also missing the (literal) elephant in the room. 

Look at UFC PPV numbers and look at their main and co main events. For some reason, probably involving homoeroticism, people specifically want to watch BIG men wrestle and fight. This is true across all combat sports. AEW has never embraced this and will continue to struggle as long as it goes ignored. There is a reason there are many talented wrestlers who weren't welcome in the big time. They're tiny and the general public audience doesn't care to see them.  

I agree size is important but charisma and showmanship to get people invested is the main thing. CM Punk and Conor McGregor are the first examples I can think of.

The very minimum I expect is somebody looks like they go to a gym. Then you're looking at ring psychology and the ability to get people invested in a good story. Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio were great at this.

Khan doesnt get that and only seems to want to push people he can relate too. Adam Cole, The Young Bucks, Orange Cassidy, Wheeler Useless, Jungle Boy. Its as if lifting weights is a deterrent in AEW.

6 hours ago, Gunnersaurus said:

Loosing money was the wrong wording. I mean he's not making the money he could be making. And as I said if he wants to do that to keep that core fan base happy that's up to him. And before you say aew is not making money we don't have that information. And before you come up with some reason as to why aew isn't making money there have been articles written online about it that disagree with eachother. The fact is no one knows if it making money or not for sure 

They're definitely not profitable. Khan and Meltzer wouldn't be able to hide there delight if they were.

Brandon Thurston seems like the best person to follow for this stuff and he's estimated previously between $30-$40 a year. To put that in to context, Jarrett's gone on record and estimated the entire money The  Carter Family put in to TNA was around $30m.

It's just sad that for the first time ever there's somebody that's able to run a Wrestling company on a big TV network that doesn't need to care about making a profit, and that person is Tony Khan. People say AEW is good for the Wrestling business, it isn't, it's good for the people who can get jobs out of this. However anybody outside the wrestling bubble who watches any of the nonsense you see on AEW will be immediately turn off. And that makes life a lot harder for TNA or any other company that are putting on a solid show every week to reach more viewers and sponsors in the short and long term.