>>12676607I'm not going to fact-check every single sentence I've typed so far just because you want to be a smartass.
Either you care or you don't care, my man. Very few people are here to discuss pro wrestling, most people are here to shitpost, insult others, derail threads, cheer for the demise of certain wrestlers/promotions, etc. If you disagree or aren't certain about something specific, then say that.
>>12676599Depends on how you account for talent. If it's true that bottom roster talent (Griff Garrison, etc) are on pay-per-appearance deals, then you lose nothing by not booking them. But for guys like Swerve, Darby, Hardys, etc, on guarantees, it's stupid to not advertise more matches weeks in advance and use those to get butts in the seats...especially if not involved in major fueds
I've said it before: who is going to ask their boss for Wednesday off a week or two in advance (bare minimum at most jobs) when you don't know a single wrestler on the show that week? You take the day off hoping to see your favorites, Samoa Joe, Darby and Kenny Omega, just to find out all 3 aren't on Dynamite - they're on Collision a 4 hour drive away. Or worse, you hear Joe's music, he hits the ring in street clothes...to challenge someone to a match next Wednesday
But the thing that really kills me......if you aren't renting an arena with the goal of selling it out (or at least coming close), then WHAT THE COMPLETE FUCK are you even doing? I understand not selling out all 17000 seats for a random Dynamite, but you rent a 17k arena, set up for 4k and barely push 3k tickets. Fucking WHY? WHY are you so willing to take a bath on wrestler salaries, but you draw the line at selling tickets for $50 from day one, ensuring 5k, 6k, 7k people show up instead of 3k? Why continue to abuse fans by selling them $100 tickets once they go on sale, only to mark down identical tickets to $20?
AEW can and should be worth an actual billion, instead of a pretend billion, by now.
