>>17170635Imagine a former classmate who retires with $10M in the bank, moves back to your hometown and purposely runs a restaurant at a loss, to keep prices low, keep people employed, run funny commercials, etc. No big deal, right? But what if he also started hiring all the best cooks and servers and everything else in town, while disparaging other restaurants in the area, but still made no attempt to turn a profit. It would seem a little weird after some amount of time, that much effort just to have accelerated losses year after year. And that's basically what AEW is but on a much larger scale due to the Khans being worth billions
AEW is more philanthropy than it is business. It can survive from interest/capital gains from the Khans non-AEW holdings, it never needs to make a cent in profit. To that end, it operates almost like the public-private dynamic we see with accountants, IT, mail/package delivery and so on. If 'private' sector WWE wants to make you work too hard to make too little, you switch to 'public' AEW (akin to taxpayer largesse) to work much less for substantially higher pay
The point of AEW doesn't seem to be to compete, it seems to be running the way it is out of spite. There are no clear fixes because it's not clear Tony wants it to be fixed, which would imply it's not running as planned. Is wrestling dying? Is AEW dying? Is WWE not growing fast enough? Is all TV-focused entertainment dying? Is short form content preferred, more profitable, more desirable to advertisers? There's 1001 questions, and how your morning commute went, whether or not people let you over or cut you off, how many lights you had to wait at, how slowly dickhead pedestrians crossed the street, could determine your answers to any one of those questions.
AEW isn't going anywhere but it also isn't going anywhere
