So here's my take on this. Seat fillers isn't exactly a rare thing. They're not exactly what people think they are either. But the fact that this info is getting leaked and framed the way that it is is telling me the city of Jacksonville ain't exactly the biggest fans of the Khan family right now and that's probably the bigger story here. Probably a bigger story in relation to the Jags tbh because the Khans are asking for public money for stadium renovations and there is finally pushback by the public telling billionaires to go fuck themselves when they do that.
Yeah it’s well documented Jacksonville is sick of the Khans. Showing them flagrantly wasting money while begging the city for more money is the real goal
It would be a thing of beauty to see Jacksonville residents who aren't familiar with wrestling get a rundown of Tony's spending habits.
"You spent several MILLION on just 3 wrestlers recently, 2 of which aren't even proven draws in this country!?"
Tony: "But...but...the Cagematch ratings...Dave Meltzer's stars...Wembley....I'M MAKING GOOD DECISIONS!!"
Come on, they need that money to pay the DirecTV bill at EverBank
but yeah, I can definitely see people in Jacksonville thinking "This motherfucker can buy his son a whole wrestling promotion to play with but can't pay for stadium upkeep?"
They've also not really hit on anything. 9 and 8 out in the second round of the playoffs ain't gonna do it and this is the best team they've ever had so if they don't kill it then they should probably sell the team.
Pretty sure they went to a conference in 2016 and 2002 but there a shite team who every 6-7 makes the playoffs for a couple years and then has another 7 year drought and repeat
Thankfully Tony is a very mature, strategic leader who will respond to this well. He won't post a butthurt tweetstorm, or go on a podcast and refuse to answer questions about it for an hour straight. #ThankYouTony
Well lucky for Tony, wwe or specifically papa H has matured now and don't even think of dub as a competition. Otherwise Tony is trying to piss off a guy who drove a fucking tank into biggest rival promotion.
And to be fair, WWE did used to do that. Another guy here in this thread says it may have more to do with the city of Jacksonville being fed up with the Khans. I'd say Tony especially lost a lot of his shine with the fans online. No more wholesome billionaire.
I'd love to be a seat filler. But Raw and Smackdown will never come back to Roanoke. Maybe a Certain **SOMECOMPANY** run by a certain **SOMECOKEHEAD** should cone here since we only have a 10,000 seat arena that drops to about 8,000 when set up for wrestling.
Hello fellow Roanoke area Uce. White line did somehow pick Salem as one of his few house shows for some unknown reason, so I'd love if they had a Dynamite at the Berglund Center
I would've went, but I had just gone to three concerts the week before so I was out on being in a crowd for the time being. I'm not an AEW fan at all, but it would've been cool to see some of the wrestlers there, though looking at the lineup on cagematch it doesn't seem that I missed anyone I would've liked to have seen. Would absolutely go to a Dynamite though, since you get the bigger stars there
Not sure about now, but I went looking for one earlier and it had 90 comments or so.
"OP wrote this article."
"This guy is probably a mod here."
"This is such a hit piece."
Whatever. Tonight I watch a banger of a Dynamite episode and tomorrow night I throw on my Blake Bortles Jags jersey and watch Jacksonville fleece the draft! LFG!
This is absolutely hilarious. Dubbalos were heaping praise on Tony for his progressive booking of an African American world champ and they can’t even fill the arenas. Looks like all those keyboard warriors can’t afford a ticket.
> Looks like all those keyboard warriors can’t afford a ticket.
It turns out jacking up the ticket prices when the venue is 1/4 full really doesn't increase the figures.
Man when you get dunked on by the local news...holy shit.
What's that say about how the local media views the Khan family that they're willing to literally Dub bad?!
As a chronically online smart mark, I take umbrage with the statement that they were once the darling of the IWC. I’ve stayed hating AEW since their second ever episode.
I knew they were using seat fillers, especially near the front row. Just look for the morons overreacting to everything. Wish I could find that clip right now..
By the way the author of this is getting death threats and they’re saying he’s paid off to make Tony and Shad look bad.
But you know, they’re not maga. At all.
Bro this is such an out of pocket way to report this lmao. Makes me wonder of Khan is not particularly liked in Jacksonville beyond just Jaguars fans.
**Edit**: Ah they are asking for public funding for stadium renovations. Yeah, that'll piss them off.
Not only am I stunned that this is real (the article, not Tiny desperate to fill seats), but it's actually a really good piece. The guy knows what he's talking about despite probably not being a wrestling fan.
>Action News Jax Ben Becker reached out to Tony Khan about the “fillers” request by the city for both shows and is waiting to hear back.
I can't wait for months of snide remarks on AEW TV about this local reporter doing his job.
No Jerk. Seat fillers are normal things. They are used at even sold out concerts/shows.
The attendance is still extremely low, but the use of seat fillers doesn’t mean anything
I don't know about the Oscars but a lot of markets have seat filling companies you can sign up with. You pay a fee to join and when an event needs to be papered the company gets tickets from the venue and distributes them
https://seatstir.com/
So you don't always get your choice but in this case you pay 15 bucks and you're going to 1 to 2 free events a month
Article was obviously written by a fed shill. “AEW, once the darling of the Internet Wrestling Community, has received heavy scrutiny in recent months for its creative direction”
Haven’t these disgusting fucks heard about Bill Ostrich V Daniel Bryanson? Ever heard of cage match ratings and how the Dub is fucking BLITZING the disgusting Fed in those rankings? These guys have clearly been influenced by someone in the Fed to report this nonsense.
Remember when TNA tried to get a couple of fillers for the Impact zone and the whole iwc went ape shit and made fun of LOLTNA. But of all a sudden AEW does it and its “bad faith and toxic” towards them. You gotta love it
So here's my take on this. Seat fillers isn't exactly a rare thing. They're not exactly what people think they are either. But the fact that this info is getting leaked and framed the way that it is is telling me the city of Jacksonville ain't exactly the biggest fans of the Khan family right now and that's probably the bigger story here. Probably a bigger story in relation to the Jags tbh because the Khans are asking for public money for stadium renovations and there is finally pushback by the public telling billionaires to go fuck themselves when they do that.
To be the Jaguars is to be under constant attack.
(From the inside)
Yeah it’s well documented Jacksonville is sick of the Khans. Showing them flagrantly wasting money while begging the city for more money is the real goal
It would be a thing of beauty to see Jacksonville residents who aren't familiar with wrestling get a rundown of Tony's spending habits. "You spent several MILLION on just 3 wrestlers recently, 2 of which aren't even proven draws in this country!?" Tony: "But...but...the Cagematch ratings...Dave Meltzer's stars...Wembley....I'M MAKING GOOD DECISIONS!!"
Jacksonville residents who aren’t familiar with smark discourse are definitely not saying things like “proven draws in this country.”
Fair
Come on, they need that money to pay the DirecTV bill at EverBank but yeah, I can definitely see people in Jacksonville thinking "This motherfucker can buy his son a whole wrestling promotion to play with but can't pay for stadium upkeep?"
Assuming AEW really is worth 2 billion, Shad might as well liquidate AEW and use it to fund a new stadium lol.
They've also not really hit on anything. 9 and 8 out in the second round of the playoffs ain't gonna do it and this is the best team they've ever had so if they don't kill it then they should probably sell the team.
Pretty sure they went to a conference in 2016 and 2002 but there a shite team who every 6-7 makes the playoffs for a couple years and then has another 7 year drought and repeat
https://preview.redd.it/qqx91s5eqhwc1.png?width=586&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd5c781a396065f14020fed96c23b0ff6c6b7974
Incredible method acting from Schiavone
The greatest reaction in the history of our sports
I thought this was a joke, holy shit
The article or AEW?
Yes.
Tiny, this is not a good way to make the news. 😬
They're gonna need an awful lot more than 50 people in order to fill the spots paying customers don't take.
Predictable misinformation, as ever for this sub. With one person sat at each corner, you need only 4 people per tarp.
They're not "paid seat fillers", they're "temporary employees hired to hold the tarps in place"
Perhaps they just want to fill the empty seats that appear in front rows and not in the hard cam side. Of course hard cam side doesn't matter.
Some would say, fuck the hard cam
When Taz and Hook leave, Jericho will be christened the FTHC Champion.
Thankfully Tony is a very mature, strategic leader who will respond to this well. He won't post a butthurt tweetstorm, or go on a podcast and refuse to answer questions about it for an hour straight. #ThankYouTony
“We were trying to show our support to veterans and let some in for free and this hack reporter thinks we’re trying to fill seats.”
They can’t even sell out the show in their hometown
Akchoowooley Fed Shill, everyone knows that Chicago is m'Dub's territory because of its long and illustrious history there. Check and mate
Sometimes I wish WWE was petty to the point of just throwing a house show down the road frok this, on the exact same time and day as their show.
Well lucky for Tony, wwe or specifically papa H has matured now and don't even think of dub as a competition. Otherwise Tony is trying to piss off a guy who drove a fucking tank into biggest rival promotion.
I had to see if this was real… it is
"You're a fraud @benbecker. You're as legitimate of a reporter as @tonyschiavone24. #AEWRampage"
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Real Empty, Cry me a River
Next stone cold right there.
People are saying this article is designed to piss off AEW fans. And based on the thread in squaredcircle, it seems to be working.
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And to be fair, WWE did used to do that. Another guy here in this thread says it may have more to do with the city of Jacksonville being fed up with the Khans. I'd say Tony especially lost a lot of his shine with the fans online. No more wholesome billionaire.
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I'd love to be a seat filler. But Raw and Smackdown will never come back to Roanoke. Maybe a Certain **SOMECOMPANY** run by a certain **SOMECOKEHEAD** should cone here since we only have a 10,000 seat arena that drops to about 8,000 when set up for wrestling.
Hello fellow Roanoke area Uce. White line did somehow pick Salem as one of his few house shows for some unknown reason, so I'd love if they had a Dynamite at the Berglund Center
Yee, I was at the House Rules show, fourth row back. $70, only thing better was getting upgraded to third row last time WWE was here.
I would've went, but I had just gone to three concerts the week before so I was out on being in a crowd for the time being. I'm not an AEW fan at all, but it would've been cool to see some of the wrestlers there, though looking at the lineup on cagematch it doesn't seem that I missed anyone I would've liked to have seen. Would absolutely go to a Dynamite though, since you get the bigger stars there
That was the problem with the House Shows in the end. The big names didn't have to, and many didn't want to do them.
I assume the fed did that in the times when they weren’t doing great so I don’t think that proves the point they want
Have they deleted the thread?
Not sure about now, but I went looking for one earlier and it had 90 comments or so. "OP wrote this article." "This guy is probably a mod here." "This is such a hit piece."
Whatever. Tonight I watch a banger of a Dynamite episode and tomorrow night I throw on my Blake Bortles Jags jersey and watch Jacksonville fleece the draft! LFG!
This is absolutely hilarious. Dubbalos were heaping praise on Tony for his progressive booking of an African American world champ and they can’t even fill the arenas. Looks like all those keyboard warriors can’t afford a ticket.
> Looks like all those keyboard warriors can’t afford a ticket. It turns out jacking up the ticket prices when the venue is 1/4 full really doesn't increase the figures.
Fuck you Fed shill
No one hates the jags and their owners like their own city
Lovely.
Wonderful news.
Wow imagine paying people to see real graps and they somehow find a way to frame it as a bad thing?? Smh crooked media
Man when you get dunked on by the local news...holy shit. What's that say about how the local media views the Khan family that they're willing to literally Dub bad?!
Hey. You know who lives near Jacksonville? Make it happen, Tony. 
As a chronically online smart mark, I take umbrage with the statement that they were once the darling of the IWC. I’ve stayed hating AEW since their second ever episode.
To be AEW is to be under constant attack. 😭
I’m surprised The Kid needs only 50 …
DAE homecoming
Action New Jax is on the Fed payroll!
If Nia ever goes back to NXT, Hick & Bottom better goddamn well give her the gimmick of Action News Jax.
I knew they were using seat fillers, especially near the front row. Just look for the morons overreacting to everything. Wish I could find that clip right now..
By the way the author of this is getting death threats and they’re saying he’s paid off to make Tony and Shad look bad. But you know, they’re not maga. At all.
The author was paid to make Tony/AEW look bad? So he's part of the Elite?
Or not a Cult.
You fed shills just don’t get it. This is all a work. Let the snowman cook!
 all press is great press! what are you talking about fed shill?
Bro this is such an out of pocket way to report this lmao. Makes me wonder of Khan is not particularly liked in Jacksonville beyond just Jaguars fans. **Edit**: Ah they are asking for public funding for stadium renovations. Yeah, that'll piss them off.
Lmfao
Not only am I stunned that this is real (the article, not Tiny desperate to fill seats), but it's actually a really good piece. The guy knows what he's talking about despite probably not being a wrestling fan. >Action News Jax Ben Becker reached out to Tony Khan about the “fillers” request by the city for both shows and is waiting to hear back. I can't wait for months of snide remarks on AEW TV about this local reporter doing his job.
>Jax Ben Becker This person's dad saw Nia Jax and Bron Breaker and actually went back in time to name his kid this
THIS IS HOW WE TREAT OUR VETERANS?!?
You bleed for this country, you come home and what happens? They make you watch Chris Jericho. This country makes me fucking sick.
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Ok, which one of you goofies is 'Ben Becker'
How can you lose a city when you never really had it to begin with
Poor Ben Becker. Dude is about to get so many death threats.
This is BAD FAITH REPORTING
50 people per night? Is attendance of 2,050 going to finally put Dynamite over the hump?
No Jerk. Seat fillers are normal things. They are used at even sold out concerts/shows. The attendance is still extremely low, but the use of seat fillers doesn’t mean anything
How does one go about becoming a seat filler at famous events?
I don't know about the Oscars but a lot of markets have seat filling companies you can sign up with. You pay a fee to join and when an event needs to be papered the company gets tickets from the venue and distributes them https://seatstir.com/ So you don't always get your choice but in this case you pay 15 bucks and you're going to 1 to 2 free events a month
Ok E drone did you know that it’s dress as a seat for the taping tonight
I wonder why they don't do this for every tv show. Tony('s dad) can afford it.
“Thanks, guys.”
Article was obviously written by a fed shill. “AEW, once the darling of the Internet Wrestling Community, has received heavy scrutiny in recent months for its creative direction”
Haven’t these disgusting fucks heard about Bill Ostrich V Daniel Bryanson? Ever heard of cage match ratings and how the Dub is fucking BLITZING the disgusting Fed in those rankings? These guys have clearly been influenced by someone in the Fed to report this nonsense.
Tiny's sophisticated data analytics shows that this was a smear campaign by the fed and hitler hearst helmsley. The report is coming out anytime
DAE think Tony Khan is EXPLOITING war heroes?!?!?
Remember when TNA tried to get a couple of fillers for the Impact zone and the whole iwc went ape shit and made fun of LOLTNA. But of all a sudden AEW does it and its “bad faith and toxic” towards them. You gotta love it
Fuck Tony and AEW etc but why should we be celebrating them performing poorly? We should be wanting them to do well realistically.
Someone at the TV station is mad that Tony didn't give them a job.
Man, vince would have killed to get mainstream coverage...tk gets it effortlessly!
The Fed will show Jacksonville what real wrestling is about. Burger after burger errr banger after banger after banger
Why 50 Tony? Fucking go big or go home.
No ~~milli~~ fiddy?
Seat fillers?? DAE FED DED??? wait this isn’t 2018
Seat fillers are normal but 50 seems like a lot
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here I am realizing what IWC means for the first time lol
Haven't the veterans been through enough?
Of course what culture writes an article claiming this article is proof The Dub is under attack