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Dave compares AEW to the dying days of WCW
>“You’re getting now to WCW 2000. And people hate when I use that term, but they’re getting there. And that’s a scary place to be. There’s a lot of things that they could do, but they haven’t. I know that Kosha Irby’s in, and this is actually his job, his job is going to be to get this stuff up. And it’s way too early to put any blame on him, he just got there.”
Admits attendance is bad.
>“(AEW attendance) is not good. One of the things is like, there were a lot of weak advances in the last quarter, but they had a lot of the shows where they got late buys, whether it was bringing in Okada or Mistico, or having an MJF or Kenny Omega match, or just good local promotion, or lowering ticket prices, things like that. “And so, I kind of got lulled into this sense of, ‘okay the advances suck, but it’s not that bad’. And it really wasn’t that bad the last quarter, Well, now, it’s that bad. And it looks worse.”
Admits attendance is not "fine" or "bad" but "really bad"
>”Wednesday’s show, they’re under 2,000. To me, under 4,000 for Dynamite is where it gets to be below so-so. 4,000 to me is fine for AEW. Under 4,000 not so great. Under 3,000, pretty bad. Under 2,000 is really bad. Especially when you’re coming to a city once a year. They’ve got Tulsa coming up, they’ve never been to Tulsa, they’re under 2,000 there as well. And then the last week, St Louis on Saturday, when I saw that number… St Louis is a historically great wrestling city, it’s not like they come there often, and to do under 3,000 on a Saturday night, it’s really not good at all.”
>“You’re getting now to WCW 2000. And people hate when I use that term, but they’re getting there. And that’s a scary place to be. There’s a lot of things that they could do, but they haven’t. I know that Kosha Irby’s in, and this is actually his job, his job is going to be to get this stuff up. And it’s way too early to put any blame on him, he just got there.”
Admits attendance is bad.
>“(AEW attendance) is not good. One of the things is like, there were a lot of weak advances in the last quarter, but they had a lot of the shows where they got late buys, whether it was bringing in Okada or Mistico, or having an MJF or Kenny Omega match, or just good local promotion, or lowering ticket prices, things like that. “And so, I kind of got lulled into this sense of, ‘okay the advances suck, but it’s not that bad’. And it really wasn’t that bad the last quarter, Well, now, it’s that bad. And it looks worse.”
Admits attendance is not "fine" or "bad" but "really bad"
>”Wednesday’s show, they’re under 2,000. To me, under 4,000 for Dynamite is where it gets to be below so-so. 4,000 to me is fine for AEW. Under 4,000 not so great. Under 3,000, pretty bad. Under 2,000 is really bad. Especially when you’re coming to a city once a year. They’ve got Tulsa coming up, they’ve never been to Tulsa, they’re under 2,000 there as well. And then the last week, St Louis on Saturday, when I saw that number… St Louis is a historically great wrestling city, it’s not like they come there often, and to do under 3,000 on a Saturday night, it’s really not good at all.”
