AEW Roster FRUSTRATED! Dave Meltzer ADMITS AEW Is LOSING Money? Tony Khan PULLS Talent From Shows!

[@ProWrestleClips]

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[@osu3167]

NBA still around?

[@jaylong4705]

Lmfao Uncle Dave, there were only 5 matches in Saudi Arabia. Aew had like 20 matches and 6 hours. Give me a friggin break

[@Notthewweuniverse]

More women wrestled in Saudi than men. That's wild when you think about it

[@shawnchandler8719]

I was just thinking the same thing. Half the matches were women's matches. A main title, tag titles, and Queen of the Ring. 8 women. The other half. A main title, mid title, and King of the Ring. 7 men.

[@Joesledge13]

Uncle Dave needs some Steiner math to show him the numbers 😂

[@Robby_C]

Facts. I forgot about the pre show.

[@UncomfortableShoes]

I thought a telling moment was the recent MJF’s promo. He just said Vince’s name and the goofs in the crowd shouted “Oh!” the full context wasn’t even explained, but these clowns were ready to clap like trained seals. “Guys! He said the name of the former owner of a company who hasn’t been in charge for two years. You know what to do! OOOOOOOOOOH”

[@BigRiceEnergy]

That Conrad impression was dead on. It made my eye twitch in annoyance. lol.

[@Mistertbones]

Dave Meltzer would defend AEW even if the whole show was nothing but The Elite fondling each other the entire time.

[@Isacc..]

Dave would rate that double 5 stars and mess his pants

[@ziggyszmulewitz7712]

@@Isacc.. Double 7 in the Tokyo Dome!

[@phatboybright]

I do find it interesting people gave WWE so much crap for ruining UK/Indies/Asian markets but AEW gets a pass.

[@ProWrestleClips]

It’s because “fed bad”. 😡

[@eastsidenell]

I promise the flute is the exact same every time

[@samarai82]

I swear it's a more off key each time😂😂😂

[@hurrigame]

I promise it isn't. As a matter of fact, it really IS more off key every time. 😂😂😂

[@SSJ2Phenom]

And it's the Avengers theme!!

[@Christian.J_hXc]

12:25 AEW hasn't even been good for the people in AEW. You flourish when you leave - Cody, punk, jade, lexis King... The product sucks and gets worse

[@vegetalover9297]

facts

[@Keepinspirin]

Correct ☝️☝️☝️☝️

[@neilbiggs1353]

I don't know, think about how much Matt Hardy has had to learn about concussion after-care

[@Christian.J_hXc]

@@neilbiggs1353 how dare you! 🤣 Tony will have you know that's the safest place ever.

[@neilbiggs1353]

@@Christian.J_hXc Tony Khan doesn't know how a neck brace works, I think I'll be fine...

[@jesuszamora6949]

Can we stip pretending that AEW influenced WWE at all? What improved WWE was the initial ouseur of Vince in 2022, his push into a ceremonial role after the sale, and Vince's permanent ousteur next to Rumble. HHH's ascencion would have happened with or without Tony Clown raping the indies and NJPW.

[@fmdof]

wait, did dave forget the womens tag title match? so 6 matches were on k&q otr, 3 of them were womens. 8 women competed vs 7 men competing.

[@MrGCampbell]

In Saudi Arabia of all places

[@452syajowt]

Dave is just over there arguing with himself and no one feels bad 😂

[@452syajowt]

OH OH NOW C'MON ERIC!! 😂😂😂😂 I'll never get tired of this!!

[@jesterr7133]

Piper/Hart is one of my top five favorite matches that I have ever seen. Flair/Savage from WM8 is also another favorite.

[@metalmouth7499]

Buddy Murphy should be known as buddy Ripley

[@alexanderarce3341]

Isn't it true TK turned down WB Discovery 's offer for AEW TV rights?

[@ProWrestleClips]

No , he’s “disappointed with their offers so far”. The window closes in July.

[@exiaR2x78]

The Conrad impression was so good 🤣🤣🤣

[@ProWrestleClips]

Thank you lol

[@bluntamainia444]

I noticed the AEW clip videos from social media has low numbers. Months ago everything was in the thousands now they can only get a couple hundred, that’s a really bad sign

[@ejp99]

WB gets $3.00 for each subscriber bc NBA is with it. They may try to replace it with college football or other tv series.

[@dkupke]

Tony’s dad can fund AEW forever. The end will be if they lose their tv, and that doesn’t seem to be in the cards. For now.

[@LadyTreez420]

Laughing. We Need to get a hold of Shad Khan. Lol 🤣 people should picket the tv stations/ Write platforms to take Aew off air. Would that work? Lol 🤣

[@vonVile]

WBD is broke. Their stock is under $10. AEW would have to air Dynamite for free.

[@Robby_C]

As goofy as Dave’s take is on this whole thing, I still don’t understand why the Internet thinks pro wrestling should have full parity between male and female wrestlers like honestly. There is no legitimate reason why a card needs to be 50-50 men and women. it’s absurd.

[@452syajowt]

Seriously

[@zoomdiepie75]

Breaking news ethan page just debuted in nxt WWE after aew release

[@markfacebook]

Anyone that thinks that AEW is gonna get anywhere close to the high-level advertising that the NBA was bringing needs to remember the Dominoes Incident.

[@Smart-Towel-RG-400]

i think the roh libary is worth 15-20x what the aew is worth

[@Robby_C]

AEW has been a net-negative for Pro-wrestling as a whole, across the board, on every level. Even the “redeeming” aspects of AEW are actually negatives in the grander scheme of things.

[@452syajowt]

Truth

[@maxxdahl6062]

They're going to make it harder for any smaller but competent company to compete or even get television.

[@Robby_C]

@@maxxdahl6062 Its so much worse than that... It's completely shifting the perception of what pro-wrestling is so far in the wrong direction that if they actually tried doing a proper wrestling show their only remaining fan base would reject it. They are so far up their own ass with all the "smart" stuff that they wouldn't know a pro-wrestling show if they saw it. Its not only normalizing bad habits for an entire generation of wrestlers, but its normalizing bad habits for consumers of wrestling... and it goes beyond the core "pro-wrestling fanbase" For all the sht Vince Russo gets for never being able to finish a story, or Vince McMahon gets for 20 years of what ever tf WWE was... Tony has done equally as much, if not more damage as both of them combined in under 5 years.... what makes it worse is that his fan base are convinced they are doing things the right way, and are also the most vocal... so as they are all trying to prove how smart they are, they are making the entire industry look absolutely fcking absurd to anybody who isn't already eyeball deep in "smart marks" sht.

[@Robby_C]

“The nba is a loss leader” … what drugs is this guy on? For real? He really really doesn’t understand how any of this sht works does he?

[@Robby_C]

He clearly hasn’t been paying attention to the playoffs this season. It’s huge af

[@Robby_C]

The only “loss leader” associated with the NBA is my FanDuel account… so many close calls.

[@phatboybright]

To this day whatculture talks about what NXT did to UK promotions and hasn’t been a thing in years. Can’t wait for NXT Europe takes over the market out of spite.

[@ProWrestleClips]

Amen

[@phatboybright]

@@ProWrestleClips AEW takes some of the biggest NJP stars and they get nothing but praise.

[@neilbiggs1353]

"NBA was a loss leader" - A loss leader is something you make a loss on that has other benefits such as bringing more viewers to the channel before and after. It's a strategic decision, it doesn't make it an equivalent to something else that makes a loss without any other benefits. Meltzer is maybe dumber than old Fappyboy at Fightful, but it's a limbo contest more than a high jump...

[@unknownsample4801]

for real though Nia jax just had one of her best matches and that says alot XD

[@Isacc..]

I got a question please if anyone can help. Can anyone tell me which organisations got to gether with dave or wich internationaly recognised wrestling and sports commision gave Mr Meltzer the authorotiy to be overall world wide wrestling standard judge on what makes a perfect 5 star peformance. Or is he just some jurnalist/analyist who does his own hobby ratings judged by his own personal oponion with no match to match standard aplyed the same across every match and actualy they are just for fun...or does any org actualy work and play by them as a quality standard world wide. It just seems weird. I mean wats stopping me and doing my own rateings and putting them up all over social media consistently for numbers of years with the title " world wide wrestling org, offical match ratings and wrestler rankings" and lower down " officialy recognised as thee standard by all the top profesional wrestling orgs word wide. Sanctioned and backed by European Wrestling Comision and sports and standards United States.

[@deyampert3738]

WWE had 3 womens matches and 3 mens matches in front of 40000 Saudi Arabians! AEW has 12 matches in front of 6000 Americans! 😂

[@8BitDeadlift]

Only good thing aew did for wwe was giftwrapping them Cody and Punk

[@jesterr7133]

To me, a match is only good if I care about the outcome and the people involved.

[@Kevinjoseph12344]

To be honest AEW's Women's segments have always been a rating downer and less people seem interested. At the same time like everything in AEW booking is a big problem.

[@Oldschool1943]

Deonna was booked better in Impact era as well.

[@MC-zt3wb]

The best thing about the creation of AEW is seeing Dave embarrass himself on a weekly basis trying to defend AEW. Any credibility he had lol, has been completely deleted.

[@misterelom]

One year of the ROH library (pre-Tony of course) is worth more than the entire AEW library. Give me that first year during the Murphy Rec Center days over most of the crap AEW puts out. AEW is basically PWG with a big budget.

[@jesterr7133]

MLW was putting on great shows before the Cesar Duran stuff started up. The entire feel and presentation changed, and I can't stand it. I was a faithful viewer of MLW, but not anymore. I will occasionally check out a show to see if there is anything I like, but I usually don't make it through the show. There is really no reason to watch now that Hammerstone and Fatu are gone. They were two of the primary things that made the show watchable.

[@thejoshuagriffin3169]

8 women if u count the pre show women's tag team championship match

[@samarai82]

Piper got you to pay to watch him, while nobody pays to watch AEW. Star ratings don't matter or pay.

[@ChrisCash720]

Meltzer bringing up wwe at every turn really makes it look like he's sad he wasn't invited to McMahons gamgbangs 😂

[@452syajowt]

Does Meltzer work for The Onion?

[@shawnkain]

am going to add this to wb tnt can get more ratings form airing anime for less then what they paying for aew

[@LadyTreez420]

Love the flute 🤣🤣🤣 keep it

[@austincayer751]

Agreed 👍💯 😂 🪈

[@LadyTreez420]

@@austincayer751 😁

[@jesterr7133]

In regards to the women, like anything in life, things have to happen in due time. Women's wrestling was completely decimated by the combination of Moolah and the Attitude Era. Women's wrestling essentially started over from scratch about fifteen years ago. We are just now reaching the point where the first generation of serious female wrestlers are becoming trainers. All of the infrastructure around women's wrestling is having to be rebuilt, and that takes time. While there are some great female wrestlers out there, there are not enough at this point in time for every company on Earth to have a women's division. Trying to force it has put a lot of women on tv long before they are ready. That is the issue in AEW. There were not enough big names available to build a division around, and while AEW does have some women who could be stars in the future, most of them are not ready yet, and it makes no sense to put women on tv who are not ready at the expense of male wrestlers that are ready, just to please the internet. Everything has to happen in due time. One day women's wrestling will reach that point, but it is not time yet.

[@phatboybright]

WWE as a whole if you include NXT does better with women but I’m going to be honest every women’s match had real build for double or nothing. Not saying the booking was great but both matches have had over 2 months of build at least. Preshow match for king/queen Ple was more shoehorned. I’ll critique all day but I’m going to be fair too.

[@ProWrestleClips]

Every match in WWE in general has real build, the women’s matches were afterthoughts for AEW , WWE had women wrestle in Saudi for Queen Of The Ring. Levels if you ask me.

[@phatboybright]

@@ProWrestleClips yea in general the division is a afterthought but since Mone with her awkward promos came he’s made an effort. It’s all entertainment I just prefer WWE style. The better AEW gets the better WWE will have to be. Both double or nothing women’s matches had a decent about of promos building them up, not saying they were great but they were there.

[@WickedCool23]

🪈🪈🪈🪈flutes out for Uncle Dave

[@zigga967]

womens wrestling except on rare occasions will ALWAYS be a piss break for me.

[@neilbiggs1353]

AEW made WWE up their game? So much nope! NXT was doing so much better creatively before Vince took an interest. Losing Vince is what made WWE get better, before in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Heck, arguably AEW lead to Vince making a mess of NXT so I'd say the evidence the other way is stronger...

[@mrmr5580]

Dave's trying to lower expectations because he probably knows, AEW is never going to get an improved rights deal, the show is a mess booking wise, and just plain fucking boring

[@TjM1978]

They do not fucking lose money on the NBA

[@Aries73]

Remember the days when the Finals were aired on tape delay? There were some lean times in the NBA before Bird & Magic blew it up.

[@Oldschool1943]

@@Aries73 this ain't the 80s and that was completely different time period when everything was down

[@toenails7089]

6 matches only Dave and 3 of them were Women's matches. Such a shill.

[@joetussing779]

AEW if they get a new contract and it's for less they'll say but we're still on TV, if it's the same amount they'll say, well see, we didn't lose any money, and if it's slightly more, they'll say see we got a raise that's how well we're doing. As for comparing to the NBA. In my opinion WWE would be the NBA, Major League baseball, the NHL, and the national football League. AEW would be the wnba, triple a baseball, AHL, and the UFL. Suck on that fans of AEW! As for the Roddy Piper comments I would say people remember several of his matches from 40-45 years ago. I can guarantee you that 35 years from now no one is going to remember any match from aeW that occurred in the last 5 years.

[@452syajowt]

No. Those are all still legitimate sports. AEW would be slamball, lingerie football, the mighty ducks cartoon and kids using baseball bats on pinatas. As for remembering AEW matches, I watch dynamites live and forget what the card even was by the time I listen to Cornette review it.

[@shawnkain]

am sorry dave your aew has shown to be a expensive dangerous mud show wrestling. even warner brothers might be seeing that

[@ROIDEDCAPS7868]

KAMILLE!!!!

[@Zombiebossthedemongod]

*speaks in Jim Ross* real glass cry me a river

[@Smart-Towel-RG-400]

does dave even know what a loss leader is lol

[@yanluisz]

Ngl yall reaching so hard to cope for WWE and to slander AEW its hilarious. We gonna lie and pretend like the women get like half the card? Or like they get more than 10 mins in ppvs?

[@ProWrestleClips]

How is it cope for WWE? Dave is coping for AEW. Watch NXT, women fill 70% of every show minimum. Also, there were 12 matches on Double Or Nothing only 4 women featured. There were 6 matches on King Of The Ring and 4 women featured IN SAUDI ARABIA lmao. YOU are the one coping and making excuses and reaching.

[@LadyTreez420]

Piper cool beans man lol 🤣 💞🙏 They live Movie 🎥

[@Headbuttin_Imholte]

I still like to watch They Live a couple times a year. It’s definitely one of the better corny af movies.

[@LadyTreez420]

@@Headbuttin_Imholte Yup 😁

[@maxxdahl6062]

Pipers time in the NWA was fire.