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Post by jm on May 4, 2023 18:56:15 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. Provide actual proof for these two assertions please.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on May 4, 2023 18:56:22 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. They're literally handing AEW Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights across Turner networks. They'll have a bunch of content on MAX in like...a month. Like, say what you want about the product. I'm not watching it as much, I can't lie, but I think it's kind of insane to assume that he's papering it to some crazy degree when it's clear UK fans just don't get a lot of live wrestling. Also - if you've got a toy deal, a video game on the way and fat TV deals, you're a little more than fledgling. GCW's fledgling. AEW's got international TV deals. Are we seriously doing this? Yeesh.
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Post by bob on May 4, 2023 18:58:11 GMT -5
well...
I was concerned Wembley Stadium might be too big for AEW ... guess I was wrong
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Post by Zombie Mod on May 4, 2023 19:02:43 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. it's highly unlikely AEW are giving tickets away, this is their what first ppv event outside of North America? it was always going to do stupid numbers ticket wise. WWE do short tours a couple of times a year in this market and had their first UK based ppv in years and did well ticket sales wise. it wont just be UK based fans buying tickets for this show as it's cheaper to get to London for European based wrestling fans to get to than the US is (you're looking at double/triple the price due to travel, tickets, hotels and so on.) which also plays into ticket sales doing stupidly well. honestly you misjudge the lack of big name wrestling being in the UK, which has not been helped by WWE hoovering up talent for the failed nxt:uk experiment & the speaking out revelations setting back the entire UK wrestling scene (rightly so in the later case.) massively.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on May 4, 2023 19:08:55 GMT -5
there was an NXT UK???!!!??!?!?
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Post by Jindrak Mark on May 4, 2023 19:23:21 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. 2000 WCW had a very successful UK tour at a time when the company was falling apart. Hardly any of the top stars worked the tour and I shit you not they headlined a house show in Manchester with the Harris Boys v the Mamalukes and drew over 16,000, more than any PPV or Nitro that year. Summerslam 92 came at a time when the steroid scandal was in full swing and business in the US was on the downswing yet it was an iconic and highly successful event. Hell, even TNA would draw good numbers in the UK. Look up their all-time highest attendances and half of the list is UK house shows. The UK is starved for major mainstream US wrestling events. They always draw great so I don't get why you'd doubt these numbers.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on May 4, 2023 19:39:05 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. im full of aluminum foil and microplastics
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Post by khali on May 4, 2023 21:16:29 GMT -5
That person isn’t going to reply again to anyone, it’s not worth engaging.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on May 4, 2023 21:26:00 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. Hahahaaaa…. Oh. Wait. You’re serious. Well then….let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Post by KME on May 4, 2023 21:32:19 GMT -5
Only ever see that dude talking about ratings, that whole post reads like the sort of shit you read on Twitter from guys who breathe through their mouth.
The inability to see how a show at f***ing Wembley in a country that have never had AEW live and get virtually no big events ever isn't the same as random Dynamite ratings in America, where you can simply watch it the next day, is mind boggling. They did a million for a show headlined by Evil Uno and Mox, there's clearly no great reason for what ratings they get half the time. Doubting of the sales here as genuine is such tedious, conspiracy theory bollocks, All In has regularly trended above big football news here in the UK, the buzz has been massive and the sign ups by Eddie Hearn's boxing metrics indicated sales would be huge, but I suppose the sign ups were faked too and the people talking about it on Social Media aren't real people either. Jesus Christ.
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on May 4, 2023 21:34:07 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. Hahahaaaa…. Oh. Wait. You’re serious. Well then….let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He’s not even remotely serious. He just took a wrong turn on the way to scjerk and ended up here.
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Post by SneakMan on May 4, 2023 21:46:00 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. Mods, any chance you can ban this doofus, at least from the AEW section? Dude is clearly a troll with way too much time on his hands.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on May 4, 2023 22:47:16 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. Mods, any chance you can ban this doofus, at least from the AEW section? Dude is clearly a troll with way too much time on his hands. co-signed
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 5, 2023 1:00:16 GMT -5
TK is definitely papering this show to boost the numbers. And since it's a private company he doesn't have to admit it. No way a fledgling company getting 770K viewers sells that many tickets. Rubes are eating it up though. And UK ticket sales won't help WBD's offer get any higher, especially when they've lost 200K viewers since the last deal was signed. Mods, any chance you can ban this doofus, at least from the AEW section? Dude is clearly a troll with way too much time on his hands. (alright I didn't... and it was more than 35 minutes ago but it seemed like too good a chance to use that image...) Anyway please continue speaking about All In and Wembley and all that...
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 5, 2023 1:31:31 GMT -5
Mods, any chance you can ban this doofus, at least from the AEW section? Dude is clearly a troll with way too much time on his hands. (alright I didn't... and it was more than 35 minutes ago but it seemed like too good a chance to use that image...) Anyway please continue speaking about All In and Wembley and all that... Thanks Ozymodias I'm just really happy for Tony and all the wrestlers and producers who put in all the effort for this. It's not been perfect but generally AEW has been put together well,they deserve to have a gamble like this pay off.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on May 5, 2023 1:50:30 GMT -5
Regardless of troll guy's numbers and the obsessive weirdness in it, there's something interesting in these numbers as they relate to what AEW's US television ratings get. Obviously the people who live watch AEW on cable directly aren't the whole of the audience for AEW even domestically. Nielsen's system isn't even that perfect a representation; it's a small sample size amplified up to the scale of the television watching population. It's sloppy and not wholly accurate in ways you can say decisively is even the exact amount of people watching the show live on television. But one way or another, American wrestling ratings are the privileged metric for these discussions. Kind of for reasonable reasons beyond them being codified with the MNW, because domestic TV rights are still the biggest factors driving these promotions, and the American market is still the primary market these promotions exist in. But it can make you blind to the much broader scope of what wrestling' looks like further out on the global scale.
Because stuff like this happens and really gives you a sense of how much broader stuff can be. How much bigger the world is and how much bigger wrestling demand is. Tens of thousands of European fans rushing to this huge show with no card announced because they're so hungry for wrestling and so hungry for AEW. It would be equally stupid and insane to say that WWE had only two million fans because that's what the ratings thread said Smackdown got this week. Wrestling is global and it's doing really well for itself, and stuff like this is a great show of why wrestling is doing pretty okay for itself at a high level. I think it's pretty fitting and special that they broguht back the All In branding for this show, because it definitely feels like just as big a statement as the original was.
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Post by lucaslawless on May 5, 2023 2:59:13 GMT -5
Just checked, 2000+ in the general queue. 2000+ is the most the count goes up to so who knows actually how many.
I wonder what sales will do today. 60k is almost a certainty now!
and with Roman now replacing Drew on the marketing for Money In The Bank.. who knows.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 5, 2023 3:06:35 GMT -5
Well, it's a terrible seat, but I got a seat. It's in the nosebleeds, but facing right towards the stage, which is about as good as that kind of seat gets, and not including fees cost me under £90. Result!
I'm going to All In, baby! Better drop a DM to eJM...
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on May 5, 2023 3:16:59 GMT -5
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 5, 2023 3:33:23 GMT -5
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. This is a major scandal for AEW. They’ve sold 10,000 more tickets than the building is set up for. They must be selling special rafters tickets where you can watch the show with Sting. I would do some dark shit to watch a show with Sting. I'd also do some dark shit to Sting, though, so. That's kinda meaningless.
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