>>10021620Dissemination of info and accessibility toward it make big shows more observable than ever, in 1998 the internet wasn't a widespread thing.
Also, WCW ran 50+ shows with 10,000 attendance and relatively higher ticket prices in their peak year. AEW Dynamite tapings regularly do less than half that, and the last PPV only got 9k attendance, itself.
WCW's consistency was far above and beyond AEW. Big shows in foreign countries with decades of built-in desire to see something they very, very rarely get to see isn't that impressive as anything more than a trivia figure. What's impressive is drawing 10k at apace of more than once a week over a year.