>>16032129We can see WWE financials, we know they have a dozen non-wrestling revenue streams, and though they have some people sitting at home, they cut a large amount of talent they're not using. AEW does the opposite, they keep fully-healthy wrestlers under contract while not using them for months at a time (Starks, Penta, Aaron Solo, etc).
It's not hard to believe a baseball or basketball team can be profitable even if the arenas/stadiums are only 1/3 full, because the team usually owns/co-owns the stadium and has revenue sharing from the entire league. AEW doesn't own any arenas and doesn't have revenue sharing, so when we see 3000 fans in an arena that WWE draws 15000 in, it will make people wonder. Couple all that with reporting/statements that Tony pays for all flights/hotels/rental cars, including for dozens of people who only sit in catering, and it becomes increasingly difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Money talks and bullshit walks. If the prevailing belief among billionaires, financiers, venture capitalists in this country was that it REALLY WAS just that easy for AEW to become a multi-billion dollar profitable company (in just 5 years), that you can just sign whoever and pay whatever you want and some TV network will give you a highly lucrative deal on a silver platter - then TNA would have been sold long ago.
Nobody believes it. Not even you believe it.
