>>8299480>TNAs highest PPV is like 40,000 less than AEWs lowest.TNA over-saturated its market by having 12 PPVs a year. If TNA stuck to one PPV every quarter, Bound For Glory, Lockdown, Slammiversary and one other one, they would have had comparable numbers, especially if the Internet streaming infrastructure that is currently available to AEW was available to TNA at the time. TNA was selling a good 90,000-110,000s ppvs at its peak, just split across three shows.
>Not to mention AEW dwarfs them in attendance.Their highest numbers are higher than TNA at its peak, but more eyeballs were on TNA every week and TNA also had much better international television.
You also have to factor in that most TNA shows during its heyday, ppvs included were at the Impact Zone, where they weren't allowed to charge admission and the attendance was capped, so it's not really an apples to apples comparison.
When they did leave the the Impact Show for a big show in the pre-Hogan era, they usually did 4,000-6,000 fans, which while not as high as a typical AEW PPV, wasn't bad. I wouldn't say AEW "dwarfs" those numbers, but AEW's PPV attendance is certianlly higher.
I think if you look at it as a TV property, TNA in 2005-2009 or so was much more successful, but if you look at it as a live event, you have to give it to AEW. I think a lot of this is because they were products of a different era. More people had cable when TNA was pulling those numbers and more people are willing to drop money to go out and have a live experience now than 15 years ago, because FOMO has driven live event attendance across to board, especially in the post-covid era.
All that being said, AEW is clearly on the decline right now and I do think pre-Hogan TNA was a better product than current AEW. There have been a few stretches where AEW blew TNA out of the water, but the creative is such a mess right now, it's more of a train wreck than the notoriously messy TNA creative.
