>>5032137AEW is only getting around 5,000 for their ONE(1) weekly TV taping. You can point to WWE figures being similar, but WWE is doing multiple house shows per week in addition to TWO(2) TV tapings.
Over a year, doing 250+ shows and 12+ PLEs shits all over 50 shows and 4 PPVs. And yet if you look at how top-heavy AEW is compared to WWE, it's not hard to see what's going on there.
Either they're paying a HUGE salary to Danielson, Mox, Bucks, Omega, etc, or (almost worse) they're having to fork over a HUGE merchandise cut to those acts. Either way, they're losing out on a lot of potential revenue there and it'd be surprising if these top acts were a net profit.
Kazarian, Scorpio, Deeb, Conti, Matt Lee, Moriarty, these people aren't drawing crowds or moving merch. They're just numbers on a spreadsheet dragging the company down. The more of these indy darlings Tiny hires, the more AEW sinks further into debt.
None of this takes long to research or reason out. You and the other marks just don't have the intelligence or the tenacity to do it, so you just comment "worked" or "reddit spacing" or some other jackoff comment instead.