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The DAZN sports streaming service ended its deal with AEW just a year into its three year deal. The service had an option to end the deal after the firsr year and opted to do so back in January. The deal was so under the radar that it wasn't until this week that discussion of the deal ending happened.
In an odd twist, DAZN's own employee Steven Muehlhausen noted that there was no blame on AEW, writing on social media, "DAZN and AEW had a three-year deal with DAZN having the right to drop them after the first year. DAZN exercised the option that ended the deal on New Year’s Eve. The reason DAZN dropped AEW was because except for All In, the PPV numbers were below expectations and not enough people were watching (except for select episodes and the first month of Collision) where AEW was available internationally so DAZN ended the deal early. Want to make PERFECTLY CLEAR, to me it wasn’t AEW fault the deal wasn’t renewed. I ran the wrestling social side for DAZN. AEW bent over backwards when I asked for interviews and liners from talent to promote their major TV shows and PPVs."
AEW had been distributed internationally via TrillerTV (formerly FITE) with a special AEW+ subscription service before the DAZN deal came along. DAZN did very little to actually push the AEW content when they had it. The Triller TV subscription service (which does push AEW's content) is still a viable way for international fans to subscribe to AEW's series if they are seeking to do so.
Triller TV and YouTube as well as PPV.com also distribute AEW PPV events. The 2024 Double or Nothing PPV is available for pre-orders already.
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