>>19897139Because WWE lives in a bubble of normies who don't even like wrestling and only watch that crap for the spectacle and out of sheer habit. The real wrestling audience is very small and very niche.
In Mexico, for example, although lucha libre is supposed to be the second most popular sport after soccer, and is even considered cultural heritage (yes, EVEN CONSIDERED CULTURAL HERITAGE), what do you think? The vast majority of mexicans neither like nor are interested in lucha libre.
In Mexico there are around 10 to 15 lucha libre shows daily, Arena Mexico sells 45,000 tickets every week, Mexico is the country with the most lucha shows and tradition since a century ago, and guess what, almost no mexican likes or is really interested in lucha libre.
WWE's numbers are impressive because they attract a mindless mass of people who aren't even interested in wrestling itself, but are interested in Logan Paul, Bad Bunny, Travis Scott, or even Donald Trump. The majority of WWE's audience is merely casual and doesn't know or care to know anything about wrestling.
AEW's audience is a more niche audience that really likes the core of wrestling. That's why NXT also has such low numbers despite belonging to WWE. Wrestling isn't really popular, WWE is because it's not wrestling but a idiotic spectacle for idiotic people, which is most people.
