>>11855674Because AEW despite its name and despite the efforts of a small handful of individual wrestlers does not have the reputation of being a pro wrestling show.
That reputation has soured due to the efforts of the Young Bucks to be an overt alternative to wrestling, and those of their friends to work that style.
It had gotten to the point where Tony hired CM Punk and promoted him as a wrestler above anything else, and where Collision was gonna be his show where you see pro wrestling and not this stupid antidimes alternative people have gotten bored and annoyed with.
Every single Dynamite, the Young Bucks segment drops 100k viewers or more. The wrestling fan is not really a Young Bucks fan.
Then, Tony fired Punk over a conflict between antidimes indie alternatives and himself.
Forget how toxic Punk may have been. Forget who did who and what fucked what.
The audience expects pro wrestling from Punk, and Tony fired him essentially for wanting to do pro wrestling instead of indie shit.
The audience is reacting to that now, by choosing to stay away from this miserable failure of a company.
