Kalmia
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 6, 2023 11:49:10 GMT -5
We need to see Mr Blobby Vs Orange Cassidy. I hope Tony can get the rights to use him. Blobby and Danhausen need to meet.
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Post by ssdrivin on Apr 6, 2023 11:51:20 GMT -5
We need to see Mr Blobby Vs Orange Cassidy. I hope Tony can get the rights to use him. Blobby's old-school though, I dunno whether he'll appeal to the younger folks... Here he is fighting classic British wrestler Pat Roach: Edit: I take that back, he's kept with the times. Here he is with Scott Hall: Looks like he's still in the biz even now!
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Apr 6, 2023 12:07:02 GMT -5
I’ve been having a think about it being a week before All Out, and I wonder if they could - and this probably sounds very silly, and obviously I don’t know the intricacies of it - just give it away as a freebie on TV.
It would be a huge gamble, but then this entire show is a huge gamble. This is basically AEW sticking its flag in the ground in Europe, and while they wouldn’t have the PPV revenue, it’s an opportunity to get loads of eyes on a huge show and establish themselves as a major player. They’ve got a bigger potential TV audience than WWE because their TV isn’t behind a paywall, and long term the gains could offset the short term losses if you have thousands of people watching AEW for the first time on a big spangly TV special on ITV1 on the bank holiday, who then carry on watching.
I was having a chat with a friend about this too, and he reckoned that it could perhaps be worth booking DBS Jr. as a callback to Summerslam ‘92. Sticking him in an undercard tag match and in the media stuff for it could maybe draw the attention of the people who are still in thrall to the old stuff.
These are all ideas cooked up during a rainy day of cricket, so take them with a mega pinch of salt.
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Post by dbrussel on Apr 6, 2023 12:15:11 GMT -5
Well, AEW doing a show in Wembley before WWE wasn't in my 2023 Wrestling bingo card...
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 6, 2023 12:27:33 GMT -5
Doing All Out a week after this is a very stupid idea, it needs to be moved to the end of September, early October. Tony needs to be putting on the best card possible, this needs to be treated as AEW's biggest show ever to sell tickets and get this stadium as full as possible. Not holding off top matches from this show just to save them for a PPV a week later. If All Out's just done as an event and not a PPV for say a Dynamite and a Rampage, I think it's doable I think the issue is if they try and do two PPVs this close together and then try and build two big cards for both, when one is being presented as essentially AEW's first Mania level crowd size and arena This is why I'd book All Out as a huge fallout show at least this year if you aren't moving the date, but I assume Khan will talk about this further because it sticks out pretty blatantly
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 6, 2023 12:44:26 GMT -5
We need to see Mr Blobby Vs Orange Cassidy. I hope Tony can get the rights to use him. Blobby's old-school though, I dunno whether he'll appeal to the younger folks... Here he is fighting classic British wrestler Pat Roach: Edit: I take that back, he's kept with the times. Here he is with Scott Hall: Looks like he's still in the biz even now! Didn't Blobby have a wrestling match (or at least get involved in one) a few weeks ago? He might not sell tickets in the younger market but after five seconds of his chaos everyone will know who he is.
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Post by darbus alan on Apr 6, 2023 12:57:41 GMT -5
I really want AEW to strike a deal with Impact (assuming he's still contracted there by the time of this show) to get Scotland's own Joe Hendry for All In.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 6, 2023 12:58:28 GMT -5
I really want AEW to strike a deal with Impact (assuming he's still contracted there by the time of this show) to get Scotland's own Joe Hendry for All In. That theme playing to a potential sea of 80,000 people would be the peak of wrestling tbh
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Post by ssdrivin on Apr 6, 2023 13:40:33 GMT -5
Didn't Blobby have a wrestling match (or at least get involved in one) a few weeks ago? He might not sell tickets in the younger market but after five seconds of his chaos everyone will know who he is. Yeah, that was originally meant to be a joke/excuse to post the Pat Roach clip, 'cos Pat Roach is old-school British wrestling. Then I found more Blobby wrestling clips than I bargained for. 😁
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Post by Rubix Cube Johnny on Apr 6, 2023 13:56:54 GMT -5
It's a big goddamn stadium man.
Can they sell that many tickets?
I'm getting serious Wayne's World 2 vibes here.
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Post by Bo Rida on Apr 6, 2023 13:57:57 GMT -5
Didn't Blobby have a wrestling match (or at least get involved in one) a few weeks ago? He might not sell tickets in the younger market but after five seconds of his chaos everyone will know who he is. Yeah, that was originally meant to be a joke/excuse to post the Pat Roach clip, 'cos Pat Roach is old-school British wrestling. Then I found more Blobby wrestling clips than I bargained for. 😁 I made a thread for him a while back. I'd forgotten that Will Ospreay had already started the fued with him. officialfan.proboards.com/thread/622221/british-wrestling-legend-returns-ring?page=1
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 6, 2023 14:00:39 GMT -5
It's a big goddamn stadium man. Can they sell that many tickets? I'm getting serious Wayne's World 2 vibes here. I think they can get close if not do it if the pricing is right England has not had a big wrestling show in awhile, it's gonna be a wild summer for them with MITB and this
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Post by Deputy Muscle on Apr 6, 2023 14:26:00 GMT -5
We need to see Mr Blobby Vs Orange Cassidy. I hope Tony can get the rights to use him. New boom period
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Post by Viking Hall on Apr 6, 2023 14:50:53 GMT -5
Work booked off, accommodation booked and pre-sale tickets applied for.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 6, 2023 16:48:28 GMT -5
It's a big goddamn stadium man. Can they sell that many tickets? I'm getting serious Wayne's World 2 vibes here. No, but that's probably not what Tony expects anyway. Still could be a great number regardless
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Post by 4TheGlory on Apr 6, 2023 17:33:05 GMT -5
I’d be very pleased with 30k if I was AEW
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Post by Ganon83 on Apr 6, 2023 17:36:00 GMT -5
It would be insanely difficult and probably even impossible, but outside of using WWE guys or something ridiculous like Rock, I think the threebiggest ticket movers on this card would be:
Title vs Title: Mercedes Mone vs Jamie Hayter
Sting retirement match
The Mega Punks (CM Punk & Will Ospreay) vs the Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi)
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 6, 2023 18:02:16 GMT -5
I'd imagine that wrestlers like Mercedes and Ibushi would be up for the show. Even if you don't want to commit to AEW long-term, doing a show the size of Wembley Stadium has to be appealing if a deal can be made. Wembley is bigger than the Tokyo Dome and the vast majority of Wrestlemania venues. If I were AEW, I'd be looking to bring people like that in for, say, a month of TV to build up one angle and a match. Who knows, impress them enough and they might commit to more.
I'd also be on the phone with NJPW to see who can make the trip.
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Post by mattyy on Apr 6, 2023 18:26:09 GMT -5
tbh you don't need a sell out. You just need the visable sections to look good. You can tarp off those upper decks and still look great with 40,000-60,000.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Apr 6, 2023 18:42:55 GMT -5
AEW does about 120k weekly viewers in the UK excluding FITE, excluding Ireland which has a healthy wrestling scene and is defacto domestic for UK sports/travel purposes. So let's factor in people who don't watch every week, people who don't watch AEW but would go to a wrestling event, etc etc. You are probably looking at a pool of a quarter-million within Britain and Ireland alone. Consider that there are deranged fans who will travel transatlantic to see this, and much more sane fans in continental Europe for whom travel to London is essentially the prospect of a short city break. I don't actually think it's ludicrous to suggest a sell-out is quite possible - a gimmicked sell-out a la WWE's penchant for rounding, at the very least.
I mean, NFL sells out in London and I know literally one person who watches that shit. If Khan books Grado he can fill up at least 1/3 of the stadium with scotsmen alone.
edit: actually, a December episode of Dynamite literally did 200k so my estimate probably pretty conservative
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