Thread 18167762

>According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, AEW reportedly spends an extreme amount of money on its talent roster.
>With a number creeping more than $104 million per year, it's a lot of money going to the talent and some fans are wondering about context and whether AEW is going to be profitable with bloated salaries on the books.
>$104 million

How the fuck did they lose to HGTV? Make it make sense for me

>>18167762 (OP)
because AEW fucking sucks I’m afraid

>>18167762 (OP)
Good job they signed a tv deal for 185 million a year then.

Dunno why you spun this off from the other thread though. Attention seeking is female behavior

>>18167762 (OP)
Why did AEW fail?

>>18167763
No reason to be afraid. aew fucking sucks

>>18167773
You lost to HGTV

Based buddy

>>18167762 (OP)
I doubt it's still that much with half the roster leaving for WWE since then with more to come. They barely have the pull to sign any yummy free agents anymore and I doubt Sneedball is getting paid more than Rusev was

>January 2024
This really is the dumbest place

>>18167812
Yeah it’s probably like 150M now and they still lost to HGTV

>>18167812
it's June 2024, actually

>>18167812
It's not even from the Observer either. It's from some self-mark who writes blogs FOR FREE that are all fluff pieces for WWE

>>18167860
COPE AND SEEETHE

> “Mike Mansury filed forms for tax credits in Nevada listing the expresses for the TV taping and Double or Nothing PPV show on 5/24 and 5/25.”
>”The key number was $2 million in salaries, which would include all talent and other workers.”
>“Since talent is paid based on annual contracts, this would indicate the total talent number to be in the range of $104 million per year, which is very high.”
>”Someone familiar with the budgeting said that the way pay is done for some includes per match figures and all the highest paid available top guys were working that weekend and the usual weekly pay is below that figure.”
>”Still I’d safely put it at below the $104 million, but not a lot below it.” - BIG DADDY DAVE

KWAB HAHAHAHAHA.

https://www.f4wonline.com/wrestling-observer-newsletter/july-1-2024-observer-newsletter-the-life-times-of-sika-full-preview-of-aew-forbidden-door/

>>18167773
Wheelchair squeaks

>>18167773
Its not $185m a year.
It's a total value of up to $185m a year based on various milestones. Peoppe decided to ignore half the words in the article that broken the value. So its baseline is significantly lower.

>>18167762 (OP)
And that's the fluffed number, the real number must be around 200-300 million

AEW was founded on doing right by the boys

>>18167762 (OP)
Last year AEW operated at a 70 million loss
Talent eats 100 million a year.
Means that not a single dime was created, infact the entire roster is negative dimes.

A old Jewish nerd with about a thousand paying subscribers gave them 30000 stars though that makes up for it right?

Tony Khan runs a televised charity for wrestlers who'd starve without him

>>18169214
>infact the entire roster is negative dimes.

Why is WWE so obsessed with signing everyone from it then?

>A old

Saraya – Former AEW Women’s World Champion

Ricky Starks – Former Tag Team Champion; now in WWE (as “Ricky Saints”)

Rey Fénix – Former International Champion; left for WWE

Miro – Former TNT Champion; contract terminated

Malakai Black – House of Black leader; deal expired

Abadon – Women’s division; contract expired

Nick Comoroto – Contract not renewed

Bear Bronson – Released following Bear Boulder’s legal issues

Leyla Hirsch – Contract expired

Zak Knight – Member of The Outcasts; released

Dutch – The Righteous; quietly removed

Vincent – The Righteous; also removed

Sarah Stock – Coach/producer; left AEW in May

EJ Nduka – Short stint; released in Q2

Mariah May – Former Women’s Champion; quietly removed post-Revolution

Rumored/Unconfirmed but Credible Departures
Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) – No recent appearances; heavily rumored to be done with AEW

Chris Jericho – Major rumors suggest backstage tension and possible departure (no official confirmation yet)

Danhausen

>>18167762 (OP)
104 million for this dimeless roster? Wtf is Tony doing?

>>18169221
Because Performance center is so good it can maybe rehab some of them good ones into something.

Give it fucking rest, nobody is paying for proofreading on a Korean origami board, it only shows what an obnoxious dot fucker you are when you got no real arguments

Whomst

>>18168144
They've signed more people so the roster costs are higher now

The numbers don’t add up. As bloated as the roster is it atill doesn’t add up. CM Punk had the biggest contract Tony ever gave out and it was only 3 million.
If the guys getting 2.5-3 are
>Edge
>Ospreay
>Omega
>Mox
>Danielson
Then another tier that’s close 2-2.5
>Jericho
>Bucks
>Okada
>Ceasaro
>maybe Christian. Hangman. MJF.
Then a lower tier of 1-2
>Mercedes
>Paige
>FTR
>Adam Cole
>Darby
>Rick O’Shea
>Jay Blade
>Samoa Joe
Even if you round up for the max that’s only 30 million dollars a year. Where the fuck is the other 70 million dollars coming from? Is he paying every single guy on the roster a million dollars? Is Nick Wayne getting a million a year?

>>18169424
>The numbers don’t add up. As bloated as the roster is it atill doesn’t add up. CM Punk had the biggest contract Tony ever gave out and it was only 3 million.
Are you shoot retarded? Ospreay is on like 10m p/a and so are the nips

>>18167762 (OP)
just like snk spent millions to advertise in places like the ring of wrestlemania
only for the game being advertised to flop really badly

>>18169424
Jericho gets like 6-10M a year as do the rest of the big dogs. Macaroni Monke is getting more than them

>>18169481
>>18169904
e-drones are legitimately fucked in the head.

>>18169913
You lost to HGTV

>>18167860
Wait.
Are you bragging about paying to read shitty blogs?

>>18169223
I'll be surprised if Comoroto isn't picked up by WWE. Great look, looks to be coachable but needs that coaching too. I can see him playing a part in the Spaghetti wars of NXT and having decent micard run as a Miro type jobber

>>18169913
Why do you think the annual wage bill is so high then, retard?
It's been said before that WWE refuses to compete with AEW when it comes to money, hence why the "Allure of wrestlemania/WWE/etc" turned into a meme

Wait Dave said this? Pendulum bros?

>>18167763
>>18167780
>>18167782
Tony working Pigs into a seethe. You love to see it

>>18172574 see
>>18168144

KWAB

>>18169225
why do some girls just have pornface

>>18171155
Ummm… it’s not. Most wrestling fans, obsessive console warriors and people who try to make internet bux by aggregating dirtsheets (and the dirtsheets themselves) are kinda retarded and believe anything. They can’t do math and draw wild inferences. All you have to do is look at the Ospreay contract to see how it works. A report comes out that says
>Ospreay is reported to have signed a 3+
Year deal for a for a reported 7 figure sum
100 percent believable and still stupidly overpaid. Assume 3+ means no more than 5 or it would have just been reported as 5. And assume that the 7 figures is correct and even factor in for Tony being a mark that was competing against himself and no one else and that shakes out to (a still unreasonable) 4 years at 2.5 million. That’s 7 figures guaranteed not including merch and any other kickers. That is 100 percent a number that WWE is not going to give him hence “refuses to compete with AEW”. It takes exactly 1 day for a bunch of goobers on Twitter and Reddit to say
>Ospreay getting 10 million a year his contract 7 figures Tony is a tardo lol
Then that gets reblogged, retweeted and disseminated until one of the Indian or low test aggregators cites a tweet as a source a month later. We know CM Punk was the highest paid guy in AEW history. There’s real confirmation of his contract details. WWE slashed Punk down to 2.2 they are not giving out the same money as Tony or trying to compete that way. Even if that doesn’t seem like much it’s a 30% difference. People leave their jobs for 5 % bumps. No one is all the sudden getting 3-4 times the previous largest salary. Especially when they cannot get even 1/2 of that anywhere else in the world.

Shadid really need to step up.

>>18171155
>WWE is cheap and exploits its workers

>>18174587
wow the tranny is actually self aware

>>18174587
Yes, that's completely correct. I don't blame people for taking the bigger wage with less dates even if it means wrestling in bingo halls vs lower wage, (reduced amount but still) house shows/events but bigger audiences
>>18174572
You're stupid and have to resort to making up excuses that Tony really ISN'T overpaying, guys, really!
Even though it's an open "secret" that a fuckton of people have alluded to since it's inception

>>18167762 (OP)
>milions
>Jim parsons

>>18169837
> it’s wwes fault that the city of Who’s failed
Jesus Christ smark tranny cope is insane at this point

>>18167762 (OP)
kek what a money mark bitch

>>18175972
i never said that but thanks for being a retarded speedreader

>>18169837
>Higher player count than AEW Flop Forever
Maybe Flop Forever should have also adverted on Mania instead of Dynamite that way people would have actually seen it.

>>18169837
People actually play fighters on PC? I’d think SNK’s target audience (Mexicans) would be playing on xbox. Looks like fighters are dead again

They have several multimillion dollar contracts. The evps, all the wwe guys, all the guys Tony is scared of leaving like swerve and MJF, I wouldn’t surprised if Garcia gets a million a year. Riho makes like 5 figures a match.

>>18176178
>I’d think SNK’s target audience (Mexicans) would be playing on xbox.
they play bootleg shit on pcs like on fightcade because it's free and runs on their toasters

>>18176573
So AEW still hasn't made a profit?

>>18176573
Dave Meltzer has reported that AEW Dynamite has lost to HGTV and I believe him

>>18176573
The one where multiple wrestlers have confirmed feeding him dogshit stories hoping that hed post it? That one?

Riho posted one time in Japanese that she's on 400k USD a year and she isn't even working
Where the fuck is riho