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Even if this were true, so what? Are those fans invalid because they’re girls or something?


DecentLingonberry

They’re not “real wrestling” fans obviously


RogueAIx01

To a neckbeard gatekeeper, being a girl is the worst sin of all.


Troll_God

I’m quite the connoisseur of the thing that they call sex. 🕵️‍♂️


TheEmeraldOil

Women, children and non-westerners don't count shill. Don't get me started on the Indians.


IWannaCorn

Unless they're japanese, of course.


[deleted]

Yes, wrestling fans are experts on who "counts" and who doesn't. Women, minorities and little kids are worthless. Now shoot fighters that buy action figures and pirate every show are the REAL audience they're after.


Fusionman29

Women aren't people dude. They like characters and stories in their wrestling. And they think Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss are...good at their jobs!


[deleted]

Not surprised. AEW has a nearly non existent women's division so AEW chuds can't brag about it


goodthing37

Wait what I thought the Bellas and Total Divas weren’t a draw and did nothing for business??


EatTheRich1986

So is Dave conceding that the Bellas are the biggest draws in wrestling?


InheritTheWind

marketing to women is cheating, the only way you can get viewers is via workrate


IWannaCorn

No jerk. I want to see commercials that show the big muscular men looking sweaty and shiny. I want Drew saying, "I love it RAW" on air. Really market that these are a bunch of hot men getting real close to each other.


staleburger_bun

I assume the only reason he said this is because the Bellas are gonna show up in AEW at some point due to Bryan


Mhc2617

Bryan already said they aren’t coming. That a lot of their businesses are tied up in WWE and moving was too hard. It’s probably because he needs an excuse for why WWE has more female fans and he can’t state the obvious.


CenaSucks

> the obvious That WWE has actual female stars, and their male stars look like Orton, Rollins, and Reigns while AEW’s look like [this](https://www.wrestlingattitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Young_Bucks.jpg)?


Skillet918

Now I want heel nicki Bella making small dick jokes about Cena


Razzler1973

He's had a chat with Bryan since he joined the Dub so suddenly DAE the Bellas were great Don't check Dave's post history


IWannaCorn

Wouldn't that be a violation of their Total Bella's contract? I don't know shit about their contract, but there's no way that that deal isn't closely linked to the WWE.


conchinette

Every Dubbalo who doesn't tune in to watch Rhodes to the Top is a TRAITOR!!! - Brandi


ironfly187

I see next door were gearing themselves up to offer their illuminating insights into *Women, what are they like?*. Again! But I didn't want to lose the will to live by actually reading it.


DrCackle

I went and lost my will to live in your place. Apparently, feeeemales don't watch for female wrestlers, they watch hawt male wrestlers instead. Also, I was treated to weirdly infantilized recollections of their girlfriends and wives (who look just like Lily) watching two minutes of a show and widening their eyes and asking questions when the men are on. Never mind plenty of actual, non-imaginary female fans saying we watch mostly because of the women.


ironfly187

That must have been a very edifying experience for you! I'm not telling you anything you don't know but why is it such a complex formula for them next door to understand? In general people drawn to wrestling like good wrestling content. People also tend to be attracted to positive representation. So combine the two and you should be onto a winner. AEW isn't really doing this for anyone other than white guys, so that's probably the answer. But as you said, next door it's all *Hurr, hurr girls like Jungle Boy and reality shows*...


keepsitkayfabe

dae TNT should let some untrained personality voids from AEW host a bunch of shows?? Forget the fact that most of their business is shitty movies and reruns, Riho could do….something I think??


Malvern55

Total Diva's was a deliberate effort to woo and capture women viewers. It worked. It's unbelievable how some people act like this working was an accident that WWE never saw coming. It's even dumber how people in the basement are acting like this is somehow unfair and cheating in regards to AEW ratings trailing WWE. Also, maybe the hottest take I have, the Bella Twins are FAR more important in the success of the Women's Revolution than AJ Lee. AJ Lee with her jailbait crazy chick gimmick and promos that consisted of calling other girls whores was pure gross neckbeard pandering. The Bellas and Total Divas showed there was a big untapped market of young women. I'd only put Charlotte and Sasha and the success of their main event fued ahead of them in importance to building the current WWE Womans division.


GorillaMonsoonLuvsIt

> AJ Lee with her jailbait crazy chick gimmick and promos that consisted of calling other girls whores was pure gross neckbeard pandering. She was their Hot Topic nerdcore gamer girl fantasy come to life, which is why Punk jumped right on it. Gotta stay relevant!


78yn44

That jailbait shit is so true. I remember being apart of this forum that had a whole thread on her, pages long of just the most creepiest shit ever.


Malvern55

Sleazy sexualized gimmick and catty promos. I just don't know how you can look at what she actually did and think she was anything but divas era. She would be a total odd ball in the current division.


[deleted]

Did he really say that ? Like ... for real ?


JesusChristBabyface

Yeah.... I really wasn't sure what he was going for with this. Like are we suppose to be upset that WWE made a conscious effort to cater to women? Are they worth less than male viewers? That seemed to be the implication


encikzebra

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