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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 13:00:20 No.18209098 View View Reply Original Report

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Killshot.
NXT and Raw have been conquered. Next, we're coming for SlopDown.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 13:31:40 No.18209277 Report

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>>18209098
Nobody watches on Netflix, but AEW has doubled its viewership by being on Max.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 14:18:40 No.18209552 Report

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>>18209277
>>18209277
Correct

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 14:23:41 No.18209588 Report

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>>18209098
>Dave conveniently doesn't mention the dire AEW attendance problem

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 14:29:07 No.18209620 Report

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>>18209098
>more dave headcanon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 14:29:29 No.18209621 Report

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>>18209098
I like how Dave will look far & wide and dig as deep as he can to get the "real" WWE numbers, but when the numbers reported for AEW are good he just accepts whatever they are as the truth and moves on. One report came out months ago saying that AEW was doing ~500K on Max and that's the truth despite no official word from AEW or WBD. And even if those numbers are true then how stupid are AEW and WBD for not promoting that their show is actually doing twice as many viewers as people thought?

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 14:52:02 No.18209723 Report

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>>18209277
That part

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:05:22 No.18209789 Report

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>>18209277
That's what the worlds foremost semi-literate wrestling journalist/historian says so it must be true.
(You'd think if you chose writing as a career you'd take more pride in your ability to spell words correctly, but I guess not)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:08:21 No.18209794 Report

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>>18209621
Funnily enough he was doubting the 500k number for the longest time but as soon as that guy started agreeing with him on some obscure 80s wrestling stuff, Dave switched his tune and started saying he's heard similar numbers from his contacts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:08:21 No.18209795 Report

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anyone that's paying attention understands why WWE is so obsessed with AEW right now and is counter programming everything. I imagine their internal data is even more grim than what we can piece together publicly. slopdown is beating dynamite currently & that's it. not good for them given the gulf between what WBD and Netflix are paying.

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:10:39 No.18209805 Report

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>>18209789
Dave’s been phoning it in since the early 90s

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:11:37 No.18209816 Report

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>>18209805
>phoning it in
No, he's just a terrible writer. That's him at his best.

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:12:04 No.18209819 Report

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Very based

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:12:24 No.18209821 Report

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>>18209098
>Killshot
he goes by Swerve now

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 15:15:52 No.18209831 Report

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>>18209277
That part

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:39:55 No.18210837 Report

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No lies from Daddy Dave

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:41:40 No.18210851 Report

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>>18209098
This is actually illogically retarded to think more people watch a 3 hr Smackdown on cable than a two hr Raw on Netflix. Dave needs to be hospitalized before he hurts himself or someone he knows

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:45:15 No.18210876 Report

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>>18209795
Dynamite averages less than 3k in attendance in 2025. WWE could do a weekly all women's show and it would sell more tickets than they do

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:45:45 No.18210878 Report

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Dave has to be trolling right now

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:49:06 No.18210898 Report

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>>18210878
Also, Andrew Zherian outright said they aren't doing 500k and Dave spent all of 2023 citing him about AEW's tv deal and now Dave just ignores his comment

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:49:17 No.18210899 Report

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>>18209098
Someone needs to ask Dave why Raw is in the Netflix top 10 shows every single week yet Dynamite has never been Max's top 10 despite less people watching Max overall. Love to see how he deflects and copes over this

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:50:13 No.18210906 Report

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>>18209098
No one watches on MAX.

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:52:20 No.18210919 Report

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>>18209098

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:55:07 No.18210934 Report

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>>18210878
He admits he can only just guess at what the max numbers are since "nobody has any idea what they are" as he often says, yet here he is insisting with certainty that the unknowable Max number is deep in the hundreds of thousands.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:55:15 No.18210935 Report

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>>18210899
Fuck that, someone ask Dave how Max has more live concurrent viewers than Netflix when Max is literally the 2nd lowest active streamer right now
Dave has literally no idea how to do statistics and is just pulling numbers out of his ass.

ONE person reported that 500k number, it was BJ Bethal who is horribly biased if you look at his reporting. Bethal also reported that Sony will make a play for WBD, a claim literally no creditable media journalist has ever backed up and a claim that doesn't make any sense because WBD hasn't even completed their split yet.
Dave is a fucking retard and I hate when he tries to dive into real business and numbers, he also makes an ass out of himself.

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 17:56:41 No.18210943 Report

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Why did Tony stop bragging

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 18:02:05 No.18210975 Report

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>>18210934
Max is likely doing anywhere from 75-150k, likely 100k. Which is a decent addition to the over AEW rating, but Dave can't help himself and keeps claiming they're doing way more than they are.
And it doesn't matter who tells Dave that it doesn't make any sense, he gets passive aggressive and dismissive.
His OWN website's resident "media insider" Andrew Zarian said they aren't doing anywhere close to 500k. Adam Silver has said he doesn't even know what he's doing on Max. WBD themselves said that that the live stream isn't a big component of Max. We know Max isn't that active, so how the fuck are they doing 500k live?

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 19:55:59 No.18211666 Report

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>>18209098
BT mad

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 20:27:24 No.18211830 Report

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>>18211666
Must be a day ending in Y

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 20:30:29 No.18211846 Report

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Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 20:33:30 No.18211862 Report

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>>18210878
Why have "MAX numbers" always been 500k a week, every single week, for months now? No decline on viewership? No gains in viewership? Just this retarded magical "500k" number every single week with zero source or substance?

Dave is a fucking hack. Biggest grifter in wrestling. IWC are marks for not turning on this boomer jew.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 20:36:23 No.18211879 Report

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>poor pigs hogging out in the shadow of the most important wrestling show of the year
love to see it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 22:38:22 No.18212618 Report

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>>18210935
Prove him wrong instead of oinking and squealing in here, faggot.
Oh that's right, you can't PROVE anything. Sit your ass down and hold the L. WE WON.

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