Maybe they need another reset

>>18467316 (OP)
BOOMING BUSINESS

>>18467316 (OP)
Tony needs to start advertising Darby in some matches. It won't help a lot but still, better than doing this retarded mark sting homage bullshit that no one but him cares about

>>18467316 (OP)
Yeesh. The show is definitely been better in 2025, but 2023-2024 was just so bad. They may never recover from that.

>>18467330
>The show is definitely been better in 2025
That isn't even remotely true.

>>18467347
It is better than 2023 and 2024.

Rovert must be getting ass raped by his father because he hasn't joined the thread to cry yet.

>>18467316 (OP)
5000 seat venue indoors btw. 9000 outdoors.

>>18467316 (OP)
DELET THIS

>>18467366
It's even worse than in 2023 and 2024. That's why the ratings are worse.

>>18467366
How's it different than 2024? Death riders still shitting up the main event scene. Botcha still shitting up the women's division other than Toni who jumped the shark long ago. Ospreay was doing the same shit and now he is gone. Hurt syndicate is fine but they only look as good as they do because the rest of the tag division is dogshit. Bucks still get tv time. The only improvement is no Jericho. Everything else is the same.

>>18467386
>he wasn't just memeing to upset the singular aew fan
>it's real

>>18467316 (OP)
Sadly a pendulum swings back and forth

>>18467316 (OP)
prepare the reset....

>>18467412
The ratings are worse because 2023-2024 was company killer bad. It takes years to recover from that, if ever. They've lost consumer trust and goodwill.
>>18467434
Disagree. MJF shitting up the entire show with bad 2009 RAW creative is no longer happening for one. The horrific Elite takeover angle and awful early portion of the Death Riders late in the year were both worse. 2025 has mostly been fine to mediocre.

>>18467329
You're not wrong on this. Having him pop up here and there might jerk him off and let him feel cool but it's doing nothing for ratings or attendance. No one can plan to watch or buy tickets to see him if they never know when he'll be around. Not that it'll change much like you're saying. They just did that WHOLE year long thing with the Death Riders and the big payoff of putting the belt back on Hangman and it did nothing to help their business so yeah. But with Darby it'd at least be something

>>18467434
>How's it different than 2024?
Between Hangman/Swerve and Toni/Mariah they actually had good stories and rivalries that the fans were invested in to help carry the product week to week. The latter of which did a lot of heavy lifting. Fast forward to today and what big stories even are there for people to get invested into? The Edge and Christian reunion is the biggest and the creative around that has been terrible so far. They've watered down the Hangman and Mox stuff by doing it so much already. No one cares about MJF being champion again. There's nothing going on in the women's division and after a full year of feeding everyone to Mercedes there was zero payoff to her finally getting beaten. 2023 and 2024 there was hope. There was promise in some of the bigger angles. Now it's all shit. In the words of Will Ospreay

>>18467412
>judging the quality of a show by its ratings
I'm a day 1 watcher and 2025 has been their best year by far

>>18467316 (OP)
KEK if you can hear me we need help save us

I just want Meltzer to be exposed as 3% owner of AEW. Think we don't have the power to will it into existence? We made Kylie Rae's rape happen. We turned CM Punk on AEW. We brought Brock Lesnar back.

Don't ever doubt how powerful E-Gods are.

>>18467316 (OP)
>Books nothing but small venues cause he admits people dont give a shit about AEW anymore
>out of nowhere books a fucking arena
What is this fucking retards problem?

>>18467697
He has it's so over we're so back syndrome like all the Aewtists that post here.

>>18467697
Not quite an arena. It's a large theater and his only other smaller option in Cincinnati is Bogarts which would get him made fun of worse than the mexican restaurant did.

AEW has ran this building before. They had the Mox and Hobbs title match here.

>>18467330
>>18467366
Bro this is your heavyweight world champion. Some 5'4 embarrassing sòyboy

>>18467811
He is already tanking the ratings and attendance again while Phil just main evented in front of 50k+ screaming Philamaniacs
#levels

>>18467316 (OP)
Whoa, that's BIG BUSINESS!

>>18467729
should’ve booked it so it would sellout full of sickos

>>18467658
AEW's ratings are an expression of its quality. So as you can see, its quality is objectively shit.

https://x.com/AEWTicketMap/status/1952664090687553719

they comped hundreds of tickets to give away because dynamite only had 2.2k in a 13k venue. They have a day to get over 3k

>>18467861
This is the inside. It's tiny. Fun spot though, i saw ICP there back in the day.

13 days to go last year they had similar numbers edrones must be bored at this point

>>18467883
So when wwe randomly moves 1k in a day is it also a comp ?

>>18468112
>randomly
B-tier ppvs like Money in the Bank sell out general tickets in one minute with over 30,000 fans in the queue.

>>18468112
wwe is not comping a third of their tickets in the last week before an event

>>18467329
That gets in the way of the Sting tribute act because all AEW has is recreating moments but worse

>>18467902
JCW also booked this venue back in 2007 as well for their Tempest release party tour. However, Slam TV (which was taped on the tour) did not begin taping until the next stop at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland.

>>18468157
obviously true

>>18467316 (OP)
>DinoShit can’t sell 1000 tickets anymore
Big Zas, pack it up. This shit is done.

>>18469050
Many people are saying this

>>18468783
SummerSlam sold over 110,000 tickets.

>>18468112
no the ticket update account agreed with someone else noticing they sold five hundred one day and thirty the next. not normal ticket behavior so obviously aew comped tickets

>>18467881
Highest non wwe gate for a wrestling company ever just a month ago btw.

>>18469759
wwe tv tapings do million dollar gates lil tranny bro

>>18469759
AEW made literally no money from that gate and their ratings and attendance are sucking shit like your dad at a gay bar.

>>18469899
>Source: my gaped prolapsed ass

>>18469949
But enough about the state of your anus after your dad comes home from the gay bar and rapes you

>>18469899
>>18469876
See how mad they get at the truth. It’s like exposing a demon to holy water, piggies are very VERY easy to provoke

>>18467598
Same thing happened with TNA. Some of their best booking were in some of their lowest viewed years because the LOLTNA damage was already done long before and it was hard to convince people to give it a second chance.
And then when momentum started to come back, they fucking fired their booker for budget cuts

>>18470013
>piggies are very VERY easy to provoke
wwe tv tapings make more money than aew ppvs lil tranny bro

>>18469759
not remotely true

this is the hangman page effect

rope status?

>>18468783
those seats are tarped off, they weren't comped to anyone

are you alright?

>>18470013
that wasn't even the truth. Several Nitro's did better. Hell, even an AEW grand slam or two did better. Dave framed it as the best north american non-WWE PPV event. It's meaningless for the most part, especially when AEW can't do it consistently, Reminder that DoN 2025 was outdrawn by Evolution 2025

>>18470123
house shows make more money than aew ppvs. Hell, if you sell oranges by the freeway in los angeles you make more money than aew. They have never made a penny of profit!

>>18467316 (OP)
They need to reset the rest LMAO

>>18467316 (OP)
No thousandy?

>>18470442
>Its meaningless to set a record for the highest gate of a PPV not from the #1 wrestling company in the world
Broke, dumb, and gay, like Lachlan said

>>18471441
But they didn't make a single penny of profit doing it so it accomplished nothing. Tony is such a shitty owner he can't make any money!

>>18467330
2023 was the year of too many Exfed guys

>>18470013
Kek look at how bad this AEWpiggy's seething. Smells like bacon.

>>18467316 (OP)
Have they tried turning it off and on again

>>18471713
Lol

>>18467316 (OP)
Anon they just had one......

Hey didn't really think we were going to let this slide just because WWE secured another billion dollar deal, did he?

Smarks say shit like "Hangmaam is The Guy" and wonder why nobody watches their shows

>>18467316 (OP)
Same size as that casa tonita show