AAA's show in NYC did 60 (sixty) buys

[octopus]

Wow, Meltzer indicating it did roughly 60 buys. Probably why they gave AXS a call.

The PPV numbers were so low you wouldn’t believe them. In more than one market with a high percentage of Hispanics, there were 0 buys, as in not a low number, but zero. Based on actual numbers we have, it would indicate less than 60 buys nationwide and even that may be high because the early market actuals included heavy Hispanic markets. There must have been some iPPV numbers, but our response level was very low.

[eJm]

Sheesh.

I will say I barely saw that show promoted outside of that first press conference and the change of venue announcement but then I'm not the target market.

Attendance seems to have been good, though, so that's a plus.

[chronocross]

Ouch, I must admit I didn't hear anything about here in the NYC area but the venue looked packed from what I saw on twitter.

[Steveweiser]

[timelimitdraw]

When fans are used to seeing events on their Twitch feed, it's hard to convince them to pay cash to watch a glorified house show. AAA doing nearly no publicity did them no favors.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Yikes.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being more than that as with numbers that low even if you get one high outlier market it can jump up a lot.

Even then yikes.

[markymark]

Sept 19, 2019 5:57:48 GMT -5 chronocross said:

Ouch, I must admit I didn't hear anything about here in the NYC area but the venue looked packed from what I saw on twitter.

It was packed.

Around 3500 people at least.

Show was rarely promoted and went vs WWE Clash of the Champions.

No wonder the replay will be on AXS, seemed that Anthem(Impact) helping AAA again. 

[bob]

f***ing ouch

[Deleted]

how many buys does it take to break even on PPV?

[James Fabiano]

Better/worse than the Bodyguards vs. Bandits?

[The 1Watcher Experience]

Not surprising. The show was promoted locally and it drew nicely but it wasn’t advertised well in terms of being on PPV. Wrestling fans in the know are probably saving their money for AEW PPVs at this point.

[Big Chungus]

Why pay for it when you’ll see 80% of it on Botchamania?

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

It was on PPV nationally, but nobody ever promoted that fact. Fite TV was promoted for streaming somewhat, probably more by web sites that covered the show than anything the promotion did. The ultimate was Cain Velasquez, who came on Ariel Helwani’s show to promote the event, wearing his El Toro mask, telling people they could watch the show on Twitch, which it wasn’t available on.

Yeah, I’d say a complete swing and a miss on the promotion

[Deleted]

First I thought 60,000 and was in awe, but this is so much better! Hilarious. I don't know, doesn't wrestlers have at least family who could chip in to not make the buyrate look so bad...  e: I want to hear Konnan's reaction to these news.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Jesus Christ. I almost watched this show. I would have been part of a pretty select group.

[Cyno]

To be honest, I didn't even know it was a PPV event. Thought it was just a special event in NYC, with attendance being quite good there. Only thing I saw mentioning any kind of broadcast was AXS saying they were going to show it.

That was some garbage promotion. Also didn't do themselves any favors by running it against a WWE PPV event.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Sept 19, 2019 9:41:40 GMT -5 @jr1 said:

how many buys does it take to break even on PPV?

More than sixty. 🤑🤑🤑

[4TheGlory]

Luckily it cost 50,000 dollars to order the PPV, so they made a killing

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Sept 20, 2019 4:20:56 GMT -5 4TheGlory said:

Luckily it cost 50,000 dollars to order the PPV, so they made a killing

A down payment on a house or a AAA PPV? Decisions, decisions.

[Mozenrath]

In addition to bad promotion, even when AAA has stuff people are willing to see, and they do have stuff that is worthwhile, it does them no favors that AAA has never had a smooth PPV that I am aware of. It's always riddled with production problems, and fans know that and are less apt to pay for a glitchy mess.