>>14913369primarily it was market burnout. rather than opening new markets consistently they'd run the northeast and midwest in the same central cities for months on end. add to that a weaker product thanks to backstage shenanigans (not even just Punk, also referring to people like Miro, Lee, and Black refusing to do jobs) and you've got a low attendance touring show.
Personally I think AEW should've stayed in Daily's Place for the first few years of life and only taken the PPVs on the road. Establish a hunger for their product before touring weekly. And really, only the WWE and WCW managed to draw 8-15k weekly on a consistent basis across the country. And the world was very, very different then.
