Thread 18209098 - /pw/ [Archived: 398 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/11/2025, 3:00:20 PM No.18209098
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Killshot.
NXT and Raw have been conquered. Next, we're coming for SlopDown.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 3:31:40 PM No.18209277
>>18209098 (OP)
Nobody watches on Netflix, but AEW has doubled its viewership by being on Max.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:18:40 PM No.18209552
>>18209277
>>18209277
Correct
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:23:41 PM No.18209588
>>18209098 (OP)
>Dave conveniently doesn't mention the dire AEW attendance problem
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:29:07 PM No.18209620
>>18209098 (OP)
>more dave headcanon
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:29:29 PM No.18209621
>>18209098 (OP)
I like how Dave will look far & wide and dig as deep as he can to get the "real" WWE numbers, but when the numbers reported for AEW are good he just accepts whatever they are as the truth and moves on. One report came out months ago saying that AEW was doing ~500K on Max and that's the truth despite no official word from AEW or WBD. And even if those numbers are true then how stupid are AEW and WBD for not promoting that their show is actually doing twice as many viewers as people thought?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:52:02 PM No.18209723
>>18209277
That part
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:05:22 PM No.18209789
>>18209277
That's what the worlds foremost semi-literate wrestling journalist/historian says so it must be true.
(You'd think if you chose writing as a career you'd take more pride in your ability to spell words correctly, but I guess not)
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:08:21 PM No.18209794
>>18209621
Funnily enough he was doubting the 500k number for the longest time but as soon as that guy started agreeing with him on some obscure 80s wrestling stuff, Dave switched his tune and started saying he's heard similar numbers from his contacts.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:08:21 PM No.18209795
anyone that's paying attention understands why WWE is so obsessed with AEW right now and is counter programming everything. I imagine their internal data is even more grim than what we can piece together publicly. slopdown is beating dynamite currently & that's it. not good for them given the gulf between what WBD and Netflix are paying.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:10:39 PM No.18209805
>>18209789
Dave’s been phoning it in since the early 90s
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:11:37 PM No.18209816
>>18209805
>phoning it in
No, he's just a terrible writer. That's him at his best.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:12:04 PM No.18209819
Very based
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:12:24 PM No.18209821
>>18209098 (OP)
>Killshot
he goes by Swerve now
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:15:52 PM No.18209831
>>18209277
That part
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:39:55 PM No.18210837
No lies from Daddy Dave
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:41:40 PM No.18210851
>>18209098 (OP)
This is actually illogically retarded to think more people watch a 3 hr Smackdown on cable than a two hr Raw on Netflix. Dave needs to be hospitalized before he hurts himself or someone he knows
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:45:15 PM No.18210876
>>18209795
Dynamite averages less than 3k in attendance in 2025. WWE could do a weekly all women's show and it would sell more tickets than they do
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:45:45 PM No.18210878
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Dave has to be trolling right now
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:49:06 PM No.18210898
>>18210878
Also, Andrew Zherian outright said they aren't doing 500k and Dave spent all of 2023 citing him about AEW's tv deal and now Dave just ignores his comment
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:49:17 PM No.18210899
>>18209098 (OP)
Someone needs to ask Dave why Raw is in the Netflix top 10 shows every single week yet Dynamite has never been Max's top 10 despite less people watching Max overall. Love to see how he deflects and copes over this
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:50:13 PM No.18210906
>>18209098 (OP)
No one watches on MAX.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:52:20 PM No.18210919
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>>18209098 (OP)
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:55:07 PM No.18210934
>>18210878
He admits he can only just guess at what the max numbers are since "nobody has any idea what they are" as he often says, yet here he is insisting with certainty that the unknowable Max number is deep in the hundreds of thousands.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:55:15 PM No.18210935
>>18210899
Fuck that, someone ask Dave how Max has more live concurrent viewers than Netflix when Max is literally the 2nd lowest active streamer right now
Dave has literally no idea how to do statistics and is just pulling numbers out of his ass.

ONE person reported that 500k number, it was BJ Bethal who is horribly biased if you look at his reporting. Bethal also reported that Sony will make a play for WBD, a claim literally no creditable media journalist has ever backed up and a claim that doesn't make any sense because WBD hasn't even completed their split yet.
Dave is a fucking retard and I hate when he tries to dive into real business and numbers, he also makes an ass out of himself.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:56:41 PM No.18210943
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Why did Tony stop bragging
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:02:05 PM No.18210975
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>>18210934
Max is likely doing anywhere from 75-150k, likely 100k. Which is a decent addition to the over AEW rating, but Dave can't help himself and keeps claiming they're doing way more than they are.
And it doesn't matter who tells Dave that it doesn't make any sense, he gets passive aggressive and dismissive.
His OWN website's resident "media insider" Andrew Zarian said they aren't doing anywhere close to 500k. Adam Silver has said he doesn't even know what he's doing on Max. WBD themselves said that that the live stream isn't a big component of Max. We know Max isn't that active, so how the fuck are they doing 500k live?
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:55:59 PM No.18211666
>>18209098 (OP)
BT mad
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:27:24 PM No.18211830
>>18211666
Must be a day ending in Y
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:30:29 PM No.18211846
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>>18210943
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:33:30 PM No.18211862
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>>18210878
Why have "MAX numbers" always been 500k a week, every single week, for months now? No decline on viewership? No gains in viewership? Just this retarded magical "500k" number every single week with zero source or substance?

Dave is a fucking hack. Biggest grifter in wrestling. IWC are marks for not turning on this boomer jew.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:36:23 PM No.18211879
>poor pigs hogging out in the shadow of the most important wrestling show of the year
love to see it
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:38:22 AM No.18212618
>>18210935
Prove him wrong instead of oinking and squealing in here, faggot.
Oh that's right, you can't PROVE anything. Sit your ass down and hold the L. WE WON.