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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 29, 2021 9:17:58 GMT -5
Still don't see how this couldn't be a huge surprise that could shock everyone when Christian was in the WWE Royal Rumble a month ago and everyone was absolutely under the impression he was under some sort of WWE deal to continue working there after the fact Say what you want about the stature of Christian as a performer, but people saying it either wasn't a surprise or enough of one when the guy competed in WWE a month before he showed up on AEW is absolutely one of the shockers of the last few years that WWE would just let him walk like that, but still put him on a major PPV and last till the final four of the Rumble anyway. Him simply debuting would have been shocking. The announcement and press interviews before had a lot of people correctly predicting it was Christian.
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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 29, 2021 9:21:57 GMT -5
TK already has the base locked he should be trying to grow the audience now. I call BS when people say Wrestling is a niche product. It isn't historically a niche product (look at the boom periods of the 1980s and the Monday Night Wars) rather it has become a niche product due largely to the actions of one man Vince once he monopolized the industry. These same people loved Shaq and were disappointed Show did not make a cameo during that segment. I as a diehard fan had no problem with Shaq either and enjoyed him. Again, I disagree with the premise that "TK has the base locked." There is no such thing. It's a new company and they could all disappear tomorrow. Fans are loyal to the product because the product tries to be loyal to the fans. It's a company that loves professional wrestling, from top to the bottom, and is trying to make the fans happy. The second they start ignoring that, they will lose their fans. This happens to TV shows, comic books, musicians. You have to ALWAYS and FOREVER care about your base fans, they can be gone overnight. It's not a niche product. Again, AEW does amazing in ratings, finishing sometimes number 2 in Males 18-49. That's out of 200 shows on cable. That's a mainstream product. They're not getting more mainstream by being #1, they're already there. I think this thing about "growing" the audience, as if AEW is finishing #150 in cable ratings, when it is a top 10 show, is ignoring their numbers. They're doing PPV numbers unseen since the 90s. When there were live audiences, they were doing numbers unseen since the 90s. The best way to "grow" the audience is when the world opens up again, they can tour, and friends take other friends to shows. Or Shaq has a match, or they do some cross promotion with some other Warners' property, like DC comics or NBA on TNT. I think anyone who thinks signing CM Punk will help them "grow", or Brock Lesnar, really doesn't understand what makes a business popular and what doesn't. Signing veterans with name recognition who are beloved backstage is a good thing, signing assholes who only care about a paycheck because they have a "name" is a recipe for disaster. You don’t hear a lot of negative stories about Lesnar and Punk in relation to their backstage relationships with wrestlers, except they may be a little curmudgeonly. I think they could bring AEW to a “new level.” Not that it’s necessary for them to go to that level, but I don’t think it would destroy the company to bring in a big star like that.
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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 29, 2021 9:22:25 GMT -5
TK already has the base locked he should be trying to grow the audience now. I call BS when people say Wrestling is a niche product. It isn't historically a niche product (look at the boom periods of the 1980s and the Monday Night Wars) rather it has become a niche product due largely to the actions of one man Vince once he monopolized the industry. These same people loved Shaq and were disappointed Show did not make a cameo during that segment. I as a diehard fan had no problem with Shaq either and enjoyed him. Again, I disagree with the premise that "TK has the base locked." There is no such thing. It's a new company and they could all disappear tomorrow. Fans are loyal to the product because the product tries to be loyal to the fans. It's a company that loves professional wrestling, from top to the bottom, and is trying to make the fans happy. The second they start ignoring that, they will lose their fans. This happens to TV shows, comic books, musicians. You have to ALWAYS and FOREVER care about your base fans, they can be gone overnight. It's not a niche product. Again, AEW does amazing in ratings, finishing sometimes number 2 in Males 18-49. That's out of 200 shows on cable. That's a mainstream product. They're not getting more mainstream by being #1, they're already there. I think this thing about "growing" the audience, as if AEW is finishing #150 in cable ratings, when it is a top 10 show, is ignoring their numbers. They're doing PPV numbers unseen since the 90s. When there were live audiences, they were doing numbers unseen since the 90s. The best way to "grow" the audience is when the world opens up again, they can tour, and friends take other friends to shows. Or Shaq has a match, or they do some cross promotion with some other Warners' property, like DC comics or NBA on TNT. I think anyone who thinks signing CM Punk will help them "grow", or Brock Lesnar, really doesn't understand what makes a business popular and what doesn't. Signing veterans with name recognition who are beloved backstage is a good thing, signing assholes who only care about a paycheck because they have a "name" is a recipe for disaster. You don’t hear a lot of negative stories about Lesnar and Punk in relation to their backstage relationships with wrestlers, except Punk may be a little curmudgeonly. I think they could bring AEW to a “new level.” Not that it’s necessary for them to go to that level, but I don’t think it would destroy the company to bring in a big star like that.
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