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>WWE Raw is packing in more fans, but AEW Dynamite is struggling to keep up, with both promotions experiencing very different attendance trends in the first quarter of 2025. >Raw averaged 13,600 fans per show, a significant jump from 11,400 during the same period last year. SmackDown also saw a slight increase, moving from 11,200 to 11,400. >Meanwhile, AEW’s numbers tell a different story. Dynamite’s average attendance dropped from 4,100 to 2,700, while Collision saw a slight bump, going from 3,000 to 3,500. >According to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE’s surge in Raw attendance can be linked to the Netflix deal. “This was due partially to all the excitement of the shows airing on Netflix at first,” Meltzer said. >For AEW, the decline isn’t just about fan interest but also venue choices. “Some of the AEW declines were because they are booking a lot of smaller arenas,” Meltzer noted. “But they are also booking smaller arenas not just for atmosphere but because they were not drawing enough at major arenas for the best atmosphere.” >Meltzer added that while running smaller venues saves AEW money on production and setup, it also cuts into their gate and merchandise revenue.
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>>17637030 Why is AEW so ice cold?
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>WWE attendance up due to Netflix
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>>17637030 Must have pained dave to admit attendance was down. He'll figure out a not including max style cope soon I'm sure
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>>17637036 Turns out catering to an audience with a 41% self elimination rate isn't good long term.
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>>17637030 If you come at the champ you best not miss. Damn it feels good to be an egod.
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>>17637030 >while Collision saw a slight bump, going from 3,000 to 3,500 Does this include Grand Slam or no?
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>>17637046 MAX viewership (estimated 800k-1.2M) counts as virtual attendance you filthy edrone
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>>17637036 I think the answer is that AEW fucking sucks unfortunately
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>>17637030 reminder that as bad as these numbers look for AEW this is attendance not actual tickets sold. It's actually lower in reality.
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>>17637046 >Some of the AEW declines were because they are booking a lot of smaller arenas it's right there in the re-cap.
Dave will always defend anything even remotely negative about his favorite company.
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>>17637036 Mox and his Death Riders storyline killed the momentum
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But...the pendulum?
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>>17637171 LOL! To Dave it’s not that their attendance already sucked and they had to book smaller arenas. It’s that they booked smaller arenas and their attendance sucked. What a fucking COPE. He will say anything to soften the blow.
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>>17637241 And it’s hilarious that the One guy all the Gayew Pigs are hoping to save them from that shit, would rather fuck off for months and climb a mountain. I LOVE laughing at this failure of a company called Gayew aka Poop Dick Wrestling.
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Classic Dave spin making it sound like AEW is turning fans away at the door because they’d prefer to run smaller arenas just for the atmosphere. Meanwhile WWE is only up because the live audience is excited about the show being on Netflix.
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>>17637040 It’s amazing that Dave still won’t connect the dots on this. Obviously he’s in the tank for AEW but he’s still a numbers autist first and foremost. How can you think AEW has picked up hundreds of thousands of new viewers since the move to Max while their average live show attendance has dropped 2700 in that same exact time frame?
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>>17637274 They can’t even fill out the smaller arenas, so he has no point.
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>>17637036 Too many of their wrestlers have go away heat
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>>17637073 >3,000 to 3,500 500 people is negligible, an accounting error, runoff - calling that a "bump" when AEW has been caught lying about attendance numbers is asinine. Who reported this shit, Meltzer?
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>>17637030 >>For AEW, the decline isn’t just about fan interest but also venue choices. Holy cope-aroni
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>>17637030 >UMM.. actually AEW COULD have gotten a better attendance but uhh they just liked the small high school gyms better okay, buddy lmao
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>>17637394 I'm just curious if it's actually done anything at all.
If you include a (reported) 13,500 show with a dozen other regular Collisions (for the sake of argument let's just say were all 3000 so I don't have to dig through the weekly data), that's enough to push it up to slightly more than 3500 for the quarter. Is there actual growth or is this being caried by one well attended foreign show that's a complete outlier?
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>>17637394 Partly because their Grand Ham in Australia was a Collision.
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>>17637030 Dave just steals from wrestletix.
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>>17637030 we still laffin at AEW ITT? haha
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>>17637030 >WWE Attendance SKYROCKETS kek what a white hot fed
>Dynamite Attendance PLUMMETS kek what a pissant company with no organic demand
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>>17638590 I miss Vince. Triple H sucks
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>>17639424 Yeah that was revealed after he made that snafu with the Perth EC ticket sales and thurston said it looked like Dave just copied and pasted from the wrong column on the Wrestletix patreon reports
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>>17637030 in other news: Water is Wet !
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>>17637030 Kek this reminded me how Hampage got fucking CANCELLED! Soon the last 2 remaining clownshows of the pissant dying company will be too. Can’t wait. That’s gonna be such a good day.
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WWE is filling every show with dumb celeb cameos so people go to the arena hoping to see a celeb live. TV viewership is garbage.
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>>17641083 Holy COPEAMOLI!
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>>17637030 Yet a Crippled AEWTIST will talk about pendulums LMFAO
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>>17641118 >Holy COPEAMOLI! Are you saying TV ratings are doing well?
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>>17637351 There was an actual tarp laid down for their last Dynamite on Wednesday. Once the live audience leaves, it's very very rare in the history of pro wrestling that they actually end up coming back. WWE has done it a few times in it's history, and WCW in the mid 90s.
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>>17641436 >Raw always Top 10 on Netflix, the biggest Streaming Service. >NXT btfo DynaSlop every week >Smackdown doing consistently well over a MILLY Yes they are fine. Funny of you to say that though, when you defend the pitiful numbers that Poop Dick Wrestling does on TV.
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>>17641888 >Raw averages about 3 million viewers on Netflix >Netflix has over 300 millions subs kek keep seething retard
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>>17641951 TOP10 on Netflix every week, CripplePig. You’re the one seething while I’m laughing at the death of Poop Dick Wrestling KEK! You’re just a retard that thinks 300 Million subs means that those 300 Million are always watching Netflix, and that those 300 Million all subscribed for Wrestling, when Netflix has loads and loads of other content people subscribed for. TOP10 means that RAW is beating about all of those other shows though. With your logic, you must think a YouTuber that has a Million Subscribers always gets a Million views on their videos.
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>>17637030 AEW fans are all unemployed.
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>>17637036 Tony is fundamentally incapable of running a wrestling company
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>>17641720 They are putting on better shows. i was gone for like a year and a half but online buzz brought me back in. they really just need to get rid of a few problem wrestlers (jericho, cole, "cope") but they have been on an okay run the last month or two.
