AEW Grand Slam Ticket Sales: Best of the Bryan & Vinny Show

It’s The Best of the Bryan & Vinny Show! This week we got reviews of AEW Dynamite, Collision, Rampage along with NXT and Prime Time Wrestling from 1987. What can AEW do to improve ticket sales for Grand Slam? What did CM Punk do in NXT? Who are the AEW World Trios Champions? Did Granny’s segment go off without a hitch? Is After Dark really coming back? We answer some of those questions so check it out!
Editor: Sean Harrell (@EditSean)
Week of September 15, 2024
Special Thanks:
Granny Wrestling Report graphic courtesy of Sam Fines (@realsamfines)
AEW All Out photos courtesy of JJ Williams (@JJWilliamsWON)
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[@empower5228]

What if Nigel McGuiness comes out to the ring and calls out Bryan Danielson, but he's not yet been cleared to wrestle...so instead out comes a returning Samoa Joe 😮😮😮🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱 I mean, to see a totally different ROH Original come out to face him instead would be a massive swerve and not at all disappointing imho! It would be an excellent opportunity for Nigel McGuiness to showcase his capabilities and it would be someone viable that he could beat to go over ahead of a proper match against Bryan Danielson (once he's ready and cleared to wrestle!)

[@keni95851]

So bait and switch

[@thehbk6667]

You choose Jack Perry over CM Punk and this is the result lol

[@TheGinsuMasta]

All these remarks about AEW being dead and yet TNA has been on life support for over a decade 🤦🏻 TNA ratings are dropping after working with WWE, lmao!! WWE has had terrible attendance four times since the 80s and the New Generation was the worst time. They had to do 1,200 sear venues. Wrestling companies go through ups and downs, AEW just needs to get back to what made them so good from '19-late '22 and the grifters to shut the fuck up! Negative comments drive more traffic and hurt the product tremendously. Just look at what happens to video games when they get review bombed, and sometimes over the most minor shit

[@empower5228]

@@TheGinsuMasta this 💯💯💯

[@merk_dat_azz6939]

The game was straight ass and WWE wasn't struggling like AEW was. AEW is just Indy wrestling with a network. AEW is on.life support with no chance of survival. Tony's money is what's keeping the machine running, but eventually the machine dies out

[@David54176]

wcw 2000 >> aew

[@nWo4life]

The new generation era in WWF had stars Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, Bret Hart, Kevin Nash and Owen Hart who were hundreds of times better than the current AEW roster.

[@TheGinsuMasta]

@@nWo4life And yet that was their lowest paid attendance. And the darkest times ever in WWF history. They were close to closing the company.

[@chrispetrelis5013]

HALF OF THIS SHOW IS JUST KNOCKING AEW, TICKET SALES, RATINGS, BABY FACES AND HEELS, AND BRYAN THINKING HE IS THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE. THIS SHOW HAS TURNED INTO A JOKE WITHOUT DAVE. ALL THESE GUYS ARE USELESS BESIDES DAVE. GIVE THE OUTRUNNERS THE BELT BUT THEY HAVE ONLY WON ONE MATCH. MIKE IS AN ABSOLUTE MARK

[@joshwilliams6464]

Found unca dave's alt account.

[@kingslayer2999]

Laaazzzyyy Booking!!!

[@jeremyruh5219]

Tony is going to have to buy tickets to sell it out.

[@thewcw9]

wcw > aew

[@thehbk6667]

Nitro was watched by millions and beat Raw Dynamite was watched by less than 800,000 and competed with WWE's developmental show lol

[@TribalThief]

Company is dead, kept afloat by a billionaire, clueless mark

[@johnbeal6114]

Aew far from dead they going to be fine everybody saying this in 2019 aew is not dead

[@SeeingShadows]

Aint they just sign a new deal with 170 ms?

[@Nostalgia9478]

@@SeeingShadowsNope. Nothing is official. Nothing signed. Just rumors since June of 2023

[@TribalThief]

Means absolutely nothing , Tony can't book, ratings are abysmal and the seats are empty

[@megatinmand5524]

Last dynamite was #2 on prime time television, how abysmal What a bot 😂

[@Max44561]

aew sucks .. pwg on tv

[@Seattle687]

TNA is Better than AEW Good roster, good story, great matches.

[@Victoria1418Victoria]

AEW is better without CM Punk. CM Punk is a cancer. The company is growing and the haters are dancing.

[@benespinosa6725]

AEW collision isn't a good show just cancel it since nobody watches it tony Schiavone isn't a good on commentary it makes collison feel more like WCW saturday night rather than it's own show and that sucks because collison used to be must see TV now it's skippable with random matches with zero story and reasoning behind it other than desperation since the current product isn't good especially since WWE'S product is so hot i forgot rampage still exists hopefully it gets canceled because who watches that especially after smackdown nxt was a great show with cm punk appearing here's what AEW could do to improve ticket sales get rid of the elite storyline and go back to the drawing board with mercedes mone since both of that are clearly not putting butts in seats if they're having trouble with ticket sales.

[@David54176]

WCW saturday night > aew

[@Nostalgia9478]

Still no official announcement of a new Tv deal? Shocker

[@hadhoda12345]

Was it wrong for WWE not to promote Cody at Mania when he debuted and instead having it as a surprise? No, and the pop was awesome although everybody knew Cody was debuting. In the same way, what's wrong with, in storyline, making it seem like Danielson is not official for Grand Slam? We all know he's wrestling there, I don't see this as a reason for the sales drop. Wrestling companies have done such angles before, it's not something new.

[@acuyra]

I would say the difference there is that there was some actual doubt that Cody would debut on WM. From the way Seth tells it, it was pretty much a last minute thing. Also, you only knew it was a possibility if you pay attention to internet rumors, which not every fan does. The AEW thing is them being wishy-washy for no good reason. What purpose does it serve to pretend like you might not do a match you know you’re going to do?

[@alexmonro1711]

Well wrestlemania is gonna sell tickets regardless cause it's wrestlemania.

[@aewbutcher]

wwe sucks wwe fans sucks

[@keni95851]

@@aewbutcher and yet only one company is hemorrhaging fans and money

[@Nostalgia9478]

Put Tna on WBD and they'd draw more than the 650-700 k that Dynamite has been drawing

[@gilbertoarellano8525]

😂 you can’t be serious.

[@Nostalgia9478]

@@gilbertoarellano8525 Why not?

[@nWo4life]

@@gilbertoarellano8525 TNA is better than AEW at the moment

[@gilbertoarellano8525]

@@nWo4life That’s irrelevant, TNA is such a niche brand and has a small audience no one’s checking for it besides the core fanbase. They don’t have the star power to move the needle.

[@RApollos107]

@@nWo4lifeOkay, I’ll humor you. Is TNA the best it’s been in a long time? Yes. Is TNA Impact better than Dynamite on a consistent basis? No. Could TNA pull in 650k viewership? Hell no, they wouldn’t even pull 500k. If not for the partnership they’ve had with WWE they’d have the same interest they have had for the last few years, even if they maintained the current quality of their product they’ve had this year.