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Geez. Finishing up with 719k. Fortunately has a "huge announcement" next week.

Does LA Knight really get nothing here?

LA Knight breaking through at age 40 is absolute quality. Really, really fun character work. Hope he gets a rocket of a run at some point; not entirely dissimilar to how Acclaimed were slept on for far too long despite audience reactions.

c. 1 in 4 viewers tuning out within 90 mins & the demo down 25% on a YOY comparison. More & more quarter hour segments falling into the 700kish viewer abyss. Hey, just extend the Moxley/Hangman feud ad infinitum: that'll work. Get a proper scheduler and character-planner in,

The same crowd that made goo-goo eyes at AEW's children's playbook booking, utterly oblivious to the very predictable descent into ham-fisted carnyness that shedded hundreds of thousands of viewers by the month in darkened venues (and sometimes even by the hour during the show of late), somehow finding fault with the best, most mature story told in years and years that has racked millions of viewers week after week to pop after pop from arenas full of people. Figures. Fetishists will be fetishists. As one who thought the last 6-9 months of Cody's run in AEW was utter self-serving nonsense, he/they have done incredibly well with the reinvention here. They head into a main event / pre-main event scene on the tail of this storyline with 7 (+) convincing characters all with their own attributes, all extremely over in their own way, all of whom will have countless avenues to explore after WM is done. Now that's how you structure a high end product and tailor your top of the card offering in a way that evolves character and commercials while offering a sustainable way forward. The numbers do not lie.

To adopt a more serious tone for a moment - it is my fault the trust-fund baby, who has presided over an absolute dumpster fire of a Promotion that had a semblance of promise 18 months ago, put his head unnecessarily and unprovoked above the parapet to have It lopped off by the nerdy guy who was the butt of all of Dana's jokes at UFC while social media looks on laughing? Hey, I just observe how epically -- for all the funds at their disposal -- the narcissist at the helm has & continues to be hell bent on fucking this all up. Not just how they fucked it up -- but how eminently foreseeable it was just how they would fuck it up. They've burnt their main event scene to cinders. Wardlow and Kingston's momentum both blown to smithereens as was always going to be the case (the latter was set up perfectly to pitch with MJF - what a waste). Once this papier-mâché Danielson storyline runs its course, there's absolutely nothing there to go to next. They've killed any remote chance decent talent from WWE jumps over for the foreseeable following the 2021 acquisitions. Top of the card is in total stasis. Of the truly over homegrown acts (Acclaimed + MJF), the former they actually suspended and took off TV for doing their own schtick before Acclaimed broke out despite it and now they've killed one of the decent things they had going by moving the titles to a couple of faceless jobbers no one at home can even tell apart. Amusingly they continue to endorse & give TV time to acts like Jericho who clearly rot the product from within (structurally + aesthetically) while Keith Lee lumbering return, barely able to get up off the mat as though he's spent the past 8 weeks off-screen camped out at Arby's and allergic to the gym, crystallises how much exorbinantly-paid incoming talent have taken them for fools. They could not have mismanaged this ROH stuff more if they'd tried - what a completely irrelevant disaster that's all been. Kenny Omega's out there bouncing basket balls on a Friday night for less views than the "Ariel Helwani Out of Context" Twitter page. They've touched the 820s on the landmark show; the late 700s will come next because they have proven they cannot draw new eyes and even the long-term fetishists are catching on to how plain-bad a lot of this stuff is getting. You can blame someone like me for telling you it was all going to happen, or you can hope the 'leader' of the organisation actually starts to take some responsibility for the utterly unprofessional mess he is presiding over and my comments become obsolete. Let's see. In the meantime, lives on. Imagine Vince back in the day getting served by the likes of Helwani. Jesus.

You're right, you're right - enough is enough. Booker of The Year will surely get eyes away from this bread & circuses and back to the product that counts, by scaling 1 mil views for the 2nd time in 5 months with Moxley/Evil Uno and Big Bill gracing screens headed into the quarterly PPV. While this is all very amusing, it's just more symptomatic of just how much the wheels have fallen off over there for what, going on 12 months now. What a farce. Called the Bitcoin bottom to the exact day in November; calling the 700ks for Dynamite on deck in short order. Arenas may be so darkened by then it'll be hard to see them but when you know, you know

"No Context Ariel Helwani" living its best life: racking up more views than Rampage. Geez.

Jesus. Bad look for the Performance Artists world when the ultimate Beta of the UFC Community descends and starts swiping heads from all & sundry left right and centre. Then again I guess when you've been on the end of a Nick Diaz threat, the combined brawn/brains of The Snowman & Bixenspan look like something of a different proposition. These guys need to know their lanes. Ariel loving it out there.

Wasn’t a joke. Ariel’s ️ riposte was excellent. Deservedly being posted on all of Khan’s subsequent tweets now. What a chump. Getting wound up then served by the geeky UFC guy who Dana would walk all over. He’d be best served reflecting on why he’s racking 800k viewerships with dying live gates without a single compelling storyline top to bottom in the company (as the fetishists even recognise) while WWE go from strength to strength in every respect.

Took a week or so longer than expected, but didn't forget about this. BTC Nov. 22nd -- 15,550 (Actual bottom) BTC Today -- 19,807 27.5% rise (called 30). Perhaps we see 30 next week before next plunge down? Who knows? To keep this relevant, in a wrestling / sporting context there is a reason McMahon's are scrabbling to get out of WWE while the likes of Fenway Sports + Glazer family look to sell Liverpool FC & Man United FC respectively. Coming year will be a whirl. Enjoy the wrestling all. See ya!

I'm a multi-millionaire net-short in the market since January 2022, but you do you my friend. We will re-visit that post before the end of this year. I won't call you vulgar for that insult, as your naivety is cute. Anyway, back to the wrestling!

No - he was just being rude and offensive. Given how the 'collective' are quick to call out gross behaviour in the outside world, it is enormous hypocrisy to let it fly or even 'like' / embrace it within the community. Call a spade a spade. No excuses: no "having said that..". Have manners; be civil. Easy. Jade would seem destined to out-grow PW, full star-power. Still only 30, too. p.s. -- likely a 30% pure upside in BTC at the moment, but deep down (as with all assets) next year. As with all things, time will tell ..

Account is dated 2016. "I don't agree with calling people cunts and clowns .. that said ..". I have posted plenty of positive AEW comments over the years when the direction and emphasis of characters has been good -- if you think they are on a good trajectory here with the decisions taken, all power to you. Time will tell. Carry on y'all. Just remember to be civil; the social-hypocrisy is at its flimsiest when you are calling people cunts and clowns with no provocation other than "bad faith" (??) statements.

Woah. "Let's forcibly shut down discourse because I don't like the sentiment!". Not sure that's the way to go to be honest. "Cunts", "clowns" .. anything else to throw out there? Pass over a comment or debate to the other-side; AEW gets credit (e.g. - Kingston / MJF would be a compelling storyline from two people who have built out unique & over characters), the question of why the tv audiences have abandoned in droves deserves conversation too (just as it did frequently & deservedly when the shoe was on the other foot with WWE). The world need not be candy floss or ash. Civility wins the day.

"Common sense is lost on anti-AEW clowns"; "i honestly never knew so many wrestling fans were financial analysts". Chill out buddy - no need for the vitriol. Do not partake in the conversation if you do not want to partake.

Ironically I think the less that is spoken about on air, the more likely it is that he quietly leaves at some point over the next 18 or so months. RE: AEW -- the biggest concern for them at this point is not finding a new deal for ROH, its keeping the existing Dynamite deal they already have. Big ratings week for them. Did not appreciate they went as low as 750k during the last show w/ the 800kish average. Given for a long time they were talking up getting more money on the next run, difficult to see how that tallies given the YOY comparisons at this point plus change in economic climate.

Yep. Both hugely over. Kingston the Foley to MJFs Triple H. Huge upside for both (irrespective of outcome).

MJF / Kingston may be the best program they can run actually. Taps into Regal's disdain of "sadist" vs thoroughbred. Promos would be great & authentic.

Wait, wait - you forgot one! "He could walk on water and people would say "he can't even swim!" Ok, phew, now the agenda is all ironed out and the discourse is well-reasoned. That's better.

Thread is perfectly alive. If somebody posits the idea that the crowd cheering MJF is down to 2022 being this remarkably "immoral and nihilistic" world we live in compared to a decade ago, which was demonstrably far sleazier in many ways than today, they should be able to deal with a riposte without becoming .. scratchy? I can see it is a sensitive subject though, clearly, so happy to let that pessimistic view be embraced. As for why MJF was actually cheered .. well, as other posters have already highlighted, its because he has the best character work in the company and has done a beast of a job at keeping things fresh even when dealt some very poor material / circumstances and most of the rest of the show has become terribly stale around him. Or .. it could be because they're all immoral nihilists. Who knows. Carry on.

Far less than he would if his career was alive today in this cess pit of immoral nihilism we all live in.

I'm sorry - shall I try and make this simple for you?

Oh no, you're right. The Jersey Shore era of 2011 with Snooki and Pauly D was a bastion of social morality and good-taste compared to today. Whatever was I thinking?! Kids today just don't have manners.

Mate - the Jersey Shore was at its absolute peak in 2011. This is not some new age of amorality: if anything it has heightened in the other direction (see: Caster's previous suspension).