>publicly kissing your partner's ass during contract negotiations.
I get why he has to do it but it's still cringe and Tiny deserves to be laughed at.
AEW isn't getting cancelled but it has no leverage. With WBD or other potential channels. If it had a must-have product, it would have secured a deal With someone already.
Tiny doesn't wanna accept but AEW has already settled. It's not going to get any bigger, it's biggest chance for rapid growth was 2019 or beginning of 2022 at the latest (excusing how covid fucked up the timeline)
Not bad enough to cancel, but not good enough to open uo the wallet for, it's midcard filler slop for the WBD channels and Zaslov has bigger fish to fry. Either take their deal or walk. I'm sure Zaslav appreciates all the praise and crossover synergy but AEW is not a billion dollar investment that will make stockholders happy. And Tony Khan does not have the cache of a Mark Cuban. Stockholders don't give a fuck about him, he's done nothing that wasn't already set up by his dad's money