>>11488438He thinks everyone is like Cornette.
Cornette was the only one making wild claims like that. Anyone with a brain could see that they had a shit ton of money behind them from a guy that has more money than Vince. It wasn't like Dixie either, where her parents didn't want her to spend that much. Shad has so much, already has two sports teams, so he can use his leverage to promote in arenas. They got Wembley off of him more than Tony.
The issue people have was that WWE was really fucking weak from 2019- half of 2022. Like, low attendance, merch kind of sucked, and general interest was down, but AEW never pulled the trigger.
AEW's peak is that period where they got Cole, Bryan and Phil, and they never put them in the right position. Punk wrestled Darby as a return match, but he didn't really do anything after that until he fought Eddie-- who isn't a top guy anyway. Bryan had one match with Kenny, but then they had to wrap up the Hangman stuff. Cole got himself concussed all of 2022.
In 1998, WCW did it's best business and yet Meltzer was one of the first to see that they have peaked and are drastically going to go down. He wrote an article in 1998 about how they're going to fall. It was crazy for the time, but within six months they had 16000(20000+ with comps) in the Georgia Dome, when six months prior, they had 40,000.
AEW is the same way. Wembley was big, but it didn't mean anything for the rest of the shows. They haven't sold anything out and they probably lost Chicago at this point. I've said this many times, but something happened to Meltzer in like 2017, where he tripped or something. He always had some bias, but I would never call him stupid. Now, I can say he's pretty stupid because AEW is following the similar failures as WCW with less-than-half its success, and yet we're supposed to believe that they're a Financial, critical and commercial success. That's lunacy.
