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I am noticing on WrestleTix that WWE isn’t selling out all of their shows any more. Do you think the high ticket pricing is catching up to them?
I can’t say definitively but it’s definitely something I would be aware of if I were setting the ticket prices. Generally they are priced high, very high. Even when the product is great, as it is now, sometimes people that want to go just can’t afford to buy the tickets. It shouldn’t be too much of an issue if they stay hot but they definitely should keep their eye on it.
I know you're tired of answering questions about Meltzer, so forgive me but I have to ask because this one may take the cake. Did he ACTUALLY go on a message board, read some numbers about AEW's valuation that a fan completely made up, and report these numbers as coming from an internal WBD source? Shouldn't Tony Khan be absolutely livid that Meltzer is spreading this wildly inaccurate misinformation about his company?
Yes, yes he did. Tony probably wouldn’t be upset since the made up memo ridiculously overvalued AEW. If it had undervalued it? Yeah, then Tony should be ticked. The one who really should be upset is Meltzer, at himself. He has gotten so many things wrong lately that anyone who really cared about their work would go the extra yard to try and confirm it. Instead, someone sends him something and says it’s a WBD memo and then he presents it as being a WBD memo without making any effort to verify it. He does this kind of thing so often now that I really don’t even want to talk about him anymore. To me, he has no credibility. Someone asked me a while back if he should retire and I said I didn’t think so. After the damage he has done recently, I now think that he should.
In looking at the card for All In and scratching my head at the "London Ladders" match. Is this the throw more talent on the card cluster$#@! That it looks like? Instead of just booking it to be the 3 teams that have been involved in the buildup, TK adds a 4th wildcard. Why?
Why? Because he is a really, really bad booker and has no idea what he is doing. So, he does things like this!
With 10-12K “no shows” at last All In, does anyone NOT think Tony Khan bought up the Wembley capacity seating to simply have bragging rights about AEW getting the pro wrestling paid attendance record of 80,000 - with the hopes of making his $ back on the secondary market? I seriously doubt that 12.5% to 14% of individual ticket buyers would “no show” an event, as that seems too high a rate for no shows.
I can’t say either way but boy, I sure hope that is just a conspiracy theory with no legs to it. If it were to be true, it would be truly pathetic.
Both WWE and AEW need to do a better job of capitalizing on departing talent. Why doesn't either company do "character finales" with ALL departing talent as they did with Ricochet's and Daniel Garcia's stretcher jobs respectively? Not only do both promotions owe it to their fanbases to close out character arcs and storylines, but why waste a huge opportunity to get over remaining talent that need a push by “ending the current run” of a departing superstar - with a “Loser Leaves Town” match, a brutal beat down, hot swerve angle, surprise squash, or underdog upset - and use the departing star’s cache to get new people over?
I think in some cases, it makes sense to do that, maybe even most cases but with that said, if they do it all the time it becomes predictable. Plus, AEW isn’t exactly tight on their storylines while WWE usually does find a way to write someone out.
Letting Bobby Lashley leave without a finale to wrap his character up seems like a wasted opportunity to give remaining talents a rub. Why not job Lashley out in a losing streak, a squash, an upset, retirement match, or have him taken out viciously by a new vicious heel like Jacob Fatu, or even sacrificing himself honorably to save the Street Profits from a surprise assault - leading to a farewell promo? Not only do you get mileage to get other talent over by beating Lashley, but storylines get satisfying endings and continuity is achieved. Do you agree letting Lashley walk without putting others over and closing story arcs is a giant missed opportunity by HHH?
In this particular case, I wouldn’t have done that. Lashley has done a lot in his career and has earned my respect. He’s 48 years old and probably doesn’t have a lot of time left to wrestle. I wouldn’t have been punitive and jobbed him out. I would have showed him respect and let him leave by just disappearing.
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