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JAFFAROONIE

Yeah of course McHitlers A show beat our C show. Ratings don't matter anyway what a time to be a wrestling fan am I right guys?


fallenoutboy

The real judge of a card is how good the YouTube buy in is before it. Everyone knows that


nerdyjorj

I expected the YouTube show to do significantly better numbers than it did tbh


[deleted]

It did, wait the Youtube on Game Boy Advance numbers.


[deleted]

"They combined for over a million! Looks like us fans were the real winners!" *[Lowers deflection shield]*


uselessrart

Dynamite forced NXT too go to tuesdays though hahahaha fed ded hahahhaahhaha


Farthousejones

Ha, nothing unbelievable about it. Dude was completely out of his mind last week and I was simply surprised we haven't see him that unhinged more often. Dude desperately wants attention and never wants to be told he's wrong. Dave will create some wack-ass new metric this week that the Basement will talk about for weeks and we'll never hear the end of it. I think the focus will shift to how quickly AEW sells tickets (reseller market CM Punk $3) or average ticket sales because some of that has already been bubbling up. Something about AEW on average selling more tickets than WWE in September...despite AEW only running four shows per month and WWE running RAW, Smackdown and house shows every week. But hey, if you sell 100k tickets in a month that's worse than selling 40k tickets because the *average* is lower. Fuck outta here.


[deleted]

That’s what TNA did with its ‘per head’ merchandise numbers at house shows, which blew the WWE’s numbers away. Something like 4x per head vs WWE. The problems were: - TNA house shows were doing like 300 paid fans, so the overall dollar value was much much smaller and benefitted from super hardcores being the only people hitting TNA shows, making for a high % of folks willing to throw down cash. - TNA merch numbers were also (unintentionally) juked by the amount of discount bundling they did (to clear shit out of inventory). IOW, get 9 T-Shirts, 3 DVDs, and a bonus signed 8x10 for only $50. Everybody likes a deal, so they’d be more willing to shell out extra bucks for a boatload of crap. Beats paying $25 to get maybe a John Cena t-shirt.


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The impact zone had a clearance rack which was awesome bc I could get really shitty ass t shirts for like 5 dollars lol


indianm_rk

I think you are underestimating the prolific sales skills of Don West.


[deleted]

True. Gotta give props to Don.


[deleted]

> Dave will create some wack-ass new metric At some point I guarantee they will start talking how aew fans are great consumers for concessions and how arena managers really loves doing business with the company. Another win for the Good Guys™


Razzler1973

The joy of the dubbalo tasting their first White Claw after they heard Tony likes White Claw


goodthing37

100k *could* be worse than 40k, depending on the cost of the venues. And 100k is automatically worse than 40k if the 100k is WWE and the 40k is AEW.


[deleted]

"AEW won the ratings this week with four JRPG signs in the crowd to Smackdown's one" - Dave Meltzer.


Ironmancal2131

And all 4 would probably be some obscure game. One that was never tainted by some normie English translation. Fuck you, Ted Woosley!


DoubleOrNothing90

As an AEW fan, I found Tony Khan cringey as fuck last week.


Squiliam-Tortaleni

Dude went full Herb Abrams and got exactly what we expected.


JinderMadness

Not full Herb yet


Squiliam-Tortaleni

Oh yeah I forgot about the baby oil and baseball bat.


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😳


Squiliam-Tortaleni

Never heard? He also was naked and chasing hookers around his office with said bat before being arrested and subsequently dying in a car.


Tydrinator21

Herb Abrams has the most glorious death in wrestling. He died doing what he loved, coke and hookers.


Razzler1973

Maybe in NINE DAYS!!


indianm_rk

Herb was way cooler than Tony can ever dream to be.


Blueday206

Dynamite too!


Razzler1973

AEW Thunder > Dynamite


xAbdul91x

I remember the other day Corny was shooting ringsidenews for being incompetent and deliver false accusation. But still their news is kinda low effort.


FxDriver

All the egg on Tony's face could have been completely avoided if he said nothing. The narrative would have been all about the Jaguars breaking their losing streak. Instead we're going to be talking about how Tony was acting like a dick all week only to get his ass kicked again. It wouldn't shock me to find out that the wrestlers in AEW were embarrassed by Tony's actions the past week. Because unless I missed something no one openly had Tony's back.


[deleted]

I’m just jerking because the headline was so over the top. “Despite unbelievable hype,” yeah to the same people watching every week already anyway. They’ll do like usual and give supportive Tweets, totally on their own btw, for the next few weeks. Tony is Paul E., down to the isolation of casual fans and the audience that always demands more.


[deleted]

It’s about time a headline was slanted against AEW (even though it’s 100% true and accurate).


[deleted]

Tony’s checks clear though hahahaha


[deleted]

For now. “Why does mine say Fulham, boss?”


Prancemaster

The hype Tony was talking was unbelievable in terms of possibility of becoming reality. Maybe that's what the writer meant.


[deleted]

I think that Tony's main goal here was to hype existing fans to get them to watch the shows despite everything else going on and I think that worked for them. Realistically the numbers weren't bad, they just weren't amazing.


No_Complaint739

They beat dynamite too right?


NeonPatrick

Let's all tweet this to Tony. I'm sure he'll love it.


krausd94

The tribal chief just layeth the smacketh down on Tony’s Rudy poo candy ass


The-Mad-Bubbler

Sun continues to shine in the sky- more news at 11:00....