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Is AEW Dark/Dark Elevation profitable for AEW? It seems they bring in a lot of local talent for the shows, but adding in established talent, it seems it would be expensive, but I know nothing about Youtube economics.
No, it’s not profitable. Ad money on Youtube and international deals aren’t close to the money that they get for TV rights from WBD. Dark is more about getting reps for the talent in my opinion.
Recently Tony Khan said he hears criticism that Dynamite features too much ROH, but he doesn't believe so because ROH only involves Jericho. Meltzer answered a question about no build to the FTR and the Acclaimed saying there was build up to the match, even though nobody remembers it. Isn't perception reality, especially in wrestling storylines? Instead of making excuses, shouldn't AEW be doing a post mortem after every show about what went right, what was wrong and how to improve the product? You can't please every fan all the time, but if you don't honestly evaluate where you're at, you'll never grow.
Here’s the thing, if Khan and Meltzer think that FTR vs. The Acclaimed was built up, they define the term differently than I do. It was announced, and it makes sense since they are top teams, but to me a build happens over time, not in a moment. Different people feel differently I guess. The thing is, if Tony likes it as is, you won’t get through to him. He has a different view than you and I do.
What do you think happened to Tony Khan’s booking? For the first 3 years AEW was must see television, I could barely get enough of it. Is he simply burned out?
There was a time when his booking was good to me, but nowhere near three years. I think to a lot of people Khan was booking matches with people that they hadn’t seen wrestle each other so it seemed like good booking. Now that he has burned through most of the fresh matches, it seems like retreads.
In recent audios you've talked about how WWE is getting ready to negotiate for new TV deals and have speculated of different things. Let's say they're able to get NBCU to give them the exact same amount of money they're getting now, but they're able to cut the third hour off of Raw. Do you think Wall Street would see it as a positive, in that they're getting more per hour, or a negative as they'd be losing an hour of TV they could be getting paid for and, even though it would be more per hour, they would be making the same amount overall?
Wall Street wants to see revenues rise. They don’t care about the third hour’s effect on the show quality. They care about how much money WWE gets for the programming. As long as that makes WWE more money, that’s what the Street wants to see.
In your opinion, do you think triple threat matches are overdone? Especially if there on a show to kill time and there’s really no advantage of it? Seems like lazy booking.
I do. They are a hard match to book in the first place but when three people have an issue, they make sense. When it’s just to determine two people to wrestle the next week to see who will be a number one contender, it feels like a crutch to me.
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