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[Jmare007]

That tells me they need more Acclaimed/jade etc. on the show and less vanilla cacs

But last week the last match was Jericho/Danielson and it was the peak in the demo

 

[Jmare007]

I don't get how the show with the two semi-final matches in a smaller arena outdraws the show they've been building to for a month with the finals in a tennis stadium

Honestly, last week's ratings made no sense. It had no right to be that high considering the show after All Out was good but didn't have any big cliff hanger or must see stuff.

Like @Larry Legend said, anything over 1 million is good for AEW and being the n°1 cable show in the demo for the day is all that matters to TV networks

 

[Brad Piff]

Alvarez says 58 year old Billy Gunn is the most over guy in the company if that’s true then AEW has a big problem.

 

[Finn Baller]

Honestly, last week's ratings made no sense. It had no right to be that high considering the show after All Out was good but didn't have any big cliff hanger or must see stuff.

Like @Larry Legend said, anything over 1 million is good for AEW and being the n°1 cable show in the demo for the day is all that matters to TV networks

There's some merit to that but considering they only have 4 PPVs a year and try to build up this show as being the best/top Dynamite they do all year, it's still disappointing

I think when you base your promotion on great in-ring matches instead of stories you run the risk of people being a bit jaded in terms of differentiating what matches are truly can't miss

 

[Brad Piff]

Meltzer: “Some people are saying AEW is still failing or dying.. doesn’t seem that way to me. Although there are some legitimate concerns in certain areas.”

 

[Finn Baller]

Meltzer: “Some people are saying AEW is still failing or dying.. doesn’t seem that way to me. Although there are some legitimate concerns in certain areas.”

Maybe the weirdos he argues with on Twitter who have 3 followers are saying it's dying, but I don't see anybody credible using that talking point.

They had a spark when Punk came back and the other guys defected and had a chance to really elevate themselves and instead they had Punk wrestle bums like Daniel Garcia and Evan Bourne and cut promos about how happy he was

 

[Larry]

They had tough competition last night with survivor and the masked singer doing 5 and 3 mil respectively, so still hitting that milly rock is solid to me


I don’t know what kinda colossal number y’all expect them to be bringing in.


Even WWE with their biggest and best efforts only doing slightly over 2 and they’re the big dog in town. Y’all expect AEW to be doing close to the same? Come on now

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Brad Piff]

They had tough competition last night with survivor and the masked singer doing 5 and 3 mil respectively, so still hitting that milly rock is solid to me


I don’t know what kinda colossal number y’all expect them to be bringing in.


Even WWE with their biggest and best efforts only doing slightly over 2 and they’re the big dog in town. Y’all expect AEW to be doing close to the same? Come on now

Survivor and The masked singer bruh.. really? Wrestling heads passed on the biggest Dynamite of the year for survivor and the masked singer? lol ok

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[KingBeez]

They had tough competition last night with survivor and the masked singer doing 5 and 3 mil respectively, so still hitting that milly rock is solid to me


I don’t know what kinda colossal number y’all expect them to be bringing in.


Even WWE with their biggest and best efforts only doing slightly over 2 and they’re the big dog in town. Y’all expect AEW to be doing close to the same? Come on now

Breh the masked singer and survivor doing 5 and 3 mil is not changing the ratings for AEW breh, be real WWE had two Monday night football games on this week simultaneously, and got their lowest ratings since July (1.59, had 1.7 last week). Both games got more than double them viewers (12.8 and 8 mil), that’s a more valid excuse for a dip than AEW.

AEW Grand Slam viewership being down 19% year over year (27% in the target demo), and down 12% from last week (10% in demo), shows that there is a bigger issue at hand that needs addressing. I’m not expecting them to hit WWE numbers in year 3, but I am expecting them to retain or grow their viewers year over year/week over week, especially for a show wildly advertised as this one

Sources: AEW Grand Slam Sees A Dip In Viewership From Previous Week - Wrestling Inc.

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[jeh]

Alvarez says 58 year old Billy Gunn is the most over guy in the company if that’s true then AEW has a big problem.

But all the new champion's last night won clean

But Saray is a game changer

But We got to see a promo battle between Moses Jacob Freidman and the hottest rising star in Wheeler Yuta

But we got Jon Moxley and The Rest on My Laurels I mean don't need a world title cause he's stat padding and "The Heart and Soul" of Wrestling in a title match....and Moxley didn't bleed


But We got fifty cuts of Moses Jacob Freidman sitting in a "full" arena amongst the AEW galaxy

But Trina, but but Fab, but but but Dj Whoo Kid

 

[jeh]

But we got an entertaining competitive match with orange Cassidy vs Pac and a backstage promo between the Gunn club and Ftr

 

[FooFighters]

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Gunn not really over.. that's cap. But Platinum Max is def over.. Jade is over. These are people that can be pushed to the moon