Konnan on: TNA selling more tickets than AEW

[@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL]

KONNAN talks about the chances of TNA being sold to WWE kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqvOimh4lLSeidE

[@Jatshariff]

TNA is what we grew up on. The nostalgia is always there! Happy to hear this!

[@supportpatriarchyordietrying]

not without the 6 sided ring

[@louio]

Tna sucks too. I miss wcw

[@jackiejones3296]

You showed literal photographic evidence yet still there will be AEW defenders who deny it.

[@kinglegault]

Quantity does not always mean quality they put on a product that they are proud of stop bashing them because they don't sell out

[@IronTonyStark]

@@kinglegault The general audience isn't as proud of it as they are apparently, in addition to marketing in local cities & towns poorly to non-existent. Calling a spade a spade.

[@d.52555]

“It’s AI!”

[@Mistertbones]

@@kinglegault In business, you need the quantity. Not even coming close to selling out an area means losing money.

[@StreetFighterWWE]

Even so, who cares? Tribalism is too common these days.

[@ojo3-tq4uj]

Joe Hendry, Jordynne Grace, and Hammerstone are all talents who don't look out of place on WWE programming. You see these cool, talented, interesting people and want to see what else they are doing. That is drawing people to TNA. Where they see The Hardys and the former Dolph Ziggler.

[@gimmiebackmybike1831]

Last week Dynamite did a show for 3K people in an arena that holds 25,000 people. I cannot understand why no one else really seems to be talking about this.

[@RunandLift2]

Most don't have the balls to go after Tony. And the ones that do get harassed by the cult

[@thesupervisor3270]

Everybody talking about it, what are u talking about? Cornette, Eric Bishoff, Dutch Mantell, etc. And if your answer is “I don’t listen to them” that’s your fault

[@Keepinspirin]

Exactly ​@@thesupervisor3270

[@gimmiebackmybike1831]

@@thesupervisor3270 it's my fault that I'm not a total mark who listens to every single wrestling podcast?

[@NJTRAF]

@@gimmiebackmybike1831 no, but considering a ton of places repeat and report what is said on those podcasts you could literally google search it and find plenty of articles about the shitty attendances

[@Hunkzilla]

The likes of Brian Cage , Samoa Joe ,Johnny TV and Taya Valkyrie would be better off going back to TNA .

[@CockyBalboa]

They’re all toward the end of their careers, they would probably rather just take Tony’s money.

[@EyeOfTheWatcher]

Creatively yes, but money wise not so much.

[@TheHoboWithAShotgun]

you mean the same samoa joe who had the top title in pro WRESTLING AEW title and had a perfectly fine run he wouldnt get anwyhere else and TNA is a dump but sadly still way ebtter than shithole WWE

[@Mistertbones]

Tony Khan needs to swallow his pride and run smaller venues, but his ego won't allow that.

[@zeromagnum2811]

more like swallow his pride and turn all creative booking and show running over to people that know what they are doing in the business while he sits and watches like the nerd mark he is.

[@MattyIce316]

0:54 Oh how long I've waited to see TNA get back to this state. Brings me back to the mid 2000s.

[@d.52555]

Same man! I’ve been around since 06 and stuck around during the rough times (2015-2017) and it’s feel awesome seeing tna gain momentum

[@JL10196]

People believe in Joe Hendry that’s why.

[@CoolCATs2814]

Joe Hendry has a Dad-bod, yet he doesn't have any kids.

[@OceanbornAngel]

At one time TNA was the #2 Wrestling Brand in the country. It's nice, through positive Business decisions with the WWE to promote their talent that they can reclaim that spot again. AEW should learn a few things from TNA and how to do it right.

[@duckmercy11]

Zero percent chance they become no. 2 again

[@loooooooongstanding2141]

Right now Impact (and NXT for the same reasons) has this really unpredictable aura to it. You have no idea who is going to turn up and where while with AEW it's just the same over and over again.

[@ralph8677]

TNA & NXT are currently the closest any company has come to replicating the excitement of the Monday Night Wars. Genius move by those involved!

[@CoolCATs2814]

@@ralph8677 Would be better if TNA was on more cable stations. Their viewership is dismal.

[@loooooooongstanding2141]

@@ralph8677 it really is great. I mean we all know that it will end with NXT going over but right now, it's making Impact and NXT really fun shows to watch

[@sloanlove1994]

TNA is a great show these days

[@Abel646]

What Channel are you watching it on?

[@tyemimms2184]

Also by Tna working with wwe is bringing them a new audience

[@L.m.CeeTee]

I noticed TNA Tapings have been in front of bigger crowds.

[@Knobslobber11]

Tna back in the day was better than anything aew

[@Abel646]

What’s your favorite all time TNA Match?

[@Knobslobber11]

@@Abel646 Aj Styles vs Samoa Joe vs Christopher Daniels

[@jessewahwah]

Yet ZER WWE goof fans watched TNA? Why not?

[@lilSenDog]

But did people hate watch tna in wrestling all publicity is good publicity when fans shit on you you’re over as a heel the eyes watching give viewership so having people hate watch aew is actually helping them it would be better to not watch it all like the people that never watch or supported tna .

[@dwaynewright9981]

The TNA crowds are more lively. AEW crowds pop for a spot and OC

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

They should do a big TNA event where we would see former TNA guys wrestle like AJ Styles, Bobby Roode, LA Knight, etc...And we could see the Hardys wrestle WWE guys. That would help put butts in the seats. And TNA could be WWE's farm club.

[@philwalsh8975]

It's great to see that AEW marks are finally becoming self-aware and have stopped going to AEW shows. Hopefully attempting something approaching hygiene is next for them.

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

It blows my mind that WBD would consider renewing AEW despite low ratings and low attendance

[@isaiahkayode6526]

I'm pretty they just want Tony's stocks that's all the more reason to keep working with this idiot.

[@jessewahwah]

Dynamite is the ALWAYS the number 2 rated show on the night. Define "low ratings." Go ahead. I'll wait.

[@860phantom7]

Respect to TNA

[@Am0ment0fB]

But guys. Double. Aew doubled their TV rights deal. They win! Sure, the company still marching to complete collapse. But, Aew got Double! The spin from ol' marble mouth Meltzer and Lyin' Alvarez is going to be glorious! Ha.

[@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL]

Apparently it's triple.

[@QAZ-OMEN]

It's still not enough to create a profit, when you take in everything they have spent over the last 5 years and continue to lose with these big arenas they book and don't fill.

[@Am0ment0fB]

@@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL yeah, but didn't the payroll quadruple? Ha.

[@Am0ment0fB]

@@QAZ-OMEN yeah. Tony 🤡 doesn't care about making money. He's got thousands of hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, his daddy does. Ha.

[@Toledeaux]

Marble mouth Meltzer and lyin alvarez?! That’s tremendous

[@reginaldshort8486]

Punk was right

[@supportpatriarchyordietrying]

because he caused it. If I say "This car is damaged" and then I get my baseball bat and damage it, then I was right.

[@reginaldshort8486]

@@supportpatriarchyordietrying they had problems before Punk ask Cody. They had problems in the women’s division ask Jade. They had problems making stars ask Hobbs, Big Bill, Wardlow, Miro, Page & Takeshita. They can’t develop young talent ask Jade Pillman Brock Starks Acclaimed & others.

[@supportpatriarchyordietrying]

@@reginaldshort8486 Cody founded AEW. So if there were problems it was his job to fix these problems.

[@HorrorcoreArtists]

I can't wait until TNA beats aew in the ratings

[@666jamie666]

You know that's going to happen as well. TNA deserve it. Their product is very good recently.

[@michaelmilnermixing]

Technically I feel like they already are lol

[@jessewahwah]

Why?

[@jbrone1965]

If they get on a major network then yes that could happen, not on AXS despite Anthem owning it.

[@michaelmilnermixing]

@@jbrone1965 honestly though, forget the ratings at this point, put them boys on Netflix or hbo max or prime. They got nothing to prove. I think the ratings thing is bout to be dead anyway with WWE moving to Netflix, it don’t even matter no more lol

[@RyanColden]

We Believe! In Joe Hendry

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

AEW likes to pack hours of tapings together, People get exhausted and leave

[@QAZ-OMEN]

Very accurate. Aside from a few ple/ppv's, after 3 hrs, I've got places to go and things to do.

[@dkupke]

That’s a big part of why WWE’s cruiserweight title flopped

[@orlandourena-cordero5645]

TNA is the face of professional wrestling. Loving that TNA is making an impact in the wrestling world 🌎

[@msr187]

I have been watching more tna than aew

[@RyanColden]

We Believe!

[@AmongGangstas]

I hope TNA continues to prosper, including a good ratings bump, even after the eventual day they end their partnership with NXT. I hope they get a GOOD tv deal soon. They deserve it

[@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL]

there's news coming...

[@russellcampbell3500]

Am I the only one happy about this outcome. Now we have at least 4 more years of wacky Khan antics. Above all hes definitely entertaining.

[@shawnwbronx]

811. That’s embarrassing. This is with an unlimited budget.

[@mansion1719]

a few days ago you guys were talking about what Tony Khan's worst booking of all time was. Well, I want to change my answer to Tony Khan's booking of AEW vs TNA. That was so, SO bad. It has potential to be the worst angle ever.

[@ninthlife1745]

Impact is a really great wrestling tv show, I don't think they'll ever do arenas again but right now, i watch Impact all the time when it's on.

[@Hunkzilla]

How I wish Scarlett and Kross would leave WWE and head over to TNA so Scarlett can reprise the Smokeshow.

[@truuflight1142]

There doing an arena for bfg this year

[@RyanColden]

And to think that Tony Khan believes that aew is the second most profitable and second best wrestling promotion around. Haha, keep kicking ass TNA.

[@stephenmonachello6256]

I live by Wilkes Barre. The arena sent a code out on Labor Day were you can get an extra 30 % off the AEW tickets

[@liamfenech6609]

Tony Khan might have the most money out of the three WWE's number one but if this continues will TNA become the number 2 promotion ahead of aew?

[@Rodrigo-y4v]

Nope don't believe this click bait lmao

[@moedog]

Wwe doesn’t sell out and their big , tna staying small and that’s what aew needs to do .

[@RyanColden]

This is what happens when you have a fan run of wrestling promotion,

[@TheMM1215]

ARENA EMPTY WRESTLING 😂

[@dwightdeserne61]

Deal or no deal, AEW is now third SMH.

[@jayjaymontes9172]

TNA did something that AEW hasn’t been able to do ,get over 2 million viewers on tv at one point if I recall I believe TNA’s highest ratings was 4 million viewers in the early 2010’s , AEW highest rated show was there debut show at 1.4 million and that has been it , shows that many wrestling fans never took real interest in watching AEW on a weekly basis.

[@jessewahwah]

And in the Attitude Era Raw used to draw 6-7-8 million viewers. They only draw 1.5 million now so I guess they should go out of business because they've lost 400% of their fans...............

[@mikespell1480]

Tna selling because people are expecting wwe super stars

[@michaelmilnermixing]

Crazy that AEW was using TNA to bury them. WWE made sure to build TNA, and now TNA is bigger than AEW lol

[@jessewahwah]

You think ONE SHOW makes them bigger? God you WWE marks are all so fucking stuid.

[@jessewahwah]

And how many WWE guys were on that TNA show? How many of those fans were WWE fans?

[@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL]

Zero WWE names are advertised for TNA shows.

[@moedog]

Tna selling out with 3 thousand, aew has empty seats with 3 thousand,

[@demond2134]

TNA has a better product than AEW rn

[@tigerbug69]

Except for hardcore and inter gender matches,I prefer TNA style over the other companies.

[@Abel646]

What’s your current favorite storyline on TNA?

[@tigerbug69]

@Abel646 Mike Something and Hammerstone alliance and Josh Alexander's heel turn. The System stuff is cool.. Nemeth vs Moose 2 should be good too.Im conflicted on the Gresham psych sessions and octopus metamorphism thing.

[@demond2134]

@@Abel646 Probably Josh Alexander being jealous of Joe Hendry success.. I was enjoying the Cardona/PCO/SDL stuff too but I think SDL is getting neck surgery irl

[@Hellwolf36]

It helps that TNA has been around longer than AEW, but TNA also had made an agreement on WWE to showcase their talent on NXT. This gave them helpful exposure.

[@Abel646]

Outside of the TNA Slammiversary PPV this past Summer, what other TNA show this year has had a larger crowd than an AEW show?

[@MiguelangelLopez-hm9ig]

At this point, aew is just a tax right off for the khans. I mean, klowns 😅

[@ImportAustralia]

Sure, but are they getting 200 million from a tv contract? Something tells me they aren’t. Ticket sales aren’t how a majority of promotions make their money and haven’t been for a very long time now, it’s just how the business is. Now, could TNA start getting that kind of money from their network? Hey, it’s not impossible. The WWE partnership has been very good for them and it’s doing a lot to push them in the right direction. But I just don’t see them as #2 or anywhere close. Sure, they are selling more tickets right now, I don’t doubt that for a second. But that’s not an important metric anymore. And it hasn’t been in forever. TNA could absolutely bump AEW from the #2 slot. And they are gaining traction. But you’re fooling yourself if you don’t think they have a long way to go.

[@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL]

from what i understand, it's going to be a good time to be part of TNA soon...

[@ezekielportillo8282]

Deadlock pro wrestling reminded me that the fact these two mid carders never got the push because they had terrible gimmicks and Cody Rhodes is right about disco inferno about staying relevant by sucking the balls of the boys backstage in wcw while konan was just boring even in TNA

[@KyyaJoon]

Thats good, ive been gettikh good seats for 40 bucks but i like to sit atop opposed to sitting closer to the ring

[@blackout8777]

aew is trash

[@aarondoty2015]

Not surprising Tony ran off the only person who knew what they're doing in Cody.

[@dcb_75]

It's pretty wild to think more people would rather watch TNA than the supposed #2 company. But who can blame them? AEW has a huge roster and the booking is horrible - TNA has better booking even though they have a much smaller roster. All these great matches mean little when the booking in a mess, people won't come our to suffer through it.

[@squarepickle]

TNA has always been better than AEW.

[@vulcan280]

AEW defenders be like "well we still had more people" and I am like "the # does not matter it is how sold out the building is". I don't want AEW to die but I do hope it falls into irrelevancy

[@kinglegault]

I mean when it comes down to it there is being proud of the product that you put on over the profit there's being true to yourself and then lying to yourself to make money He's putting on a private that he's proud of and that's all that really matters If he's viewing everything as a success it's it's f****** money

[@liamstewart4472]

TNA has been great for so long yet so few people have given it a shot. I think the level of awfulness from AEW was enough to help turn the tide.

[@RyanColden]

Aew's legacy is going to be built on bad stories lines, Shitty wrestling, and the boss that wants to be buddy-buddy with everyone and hug them all, kiss kiss. Warren manager mode now.

[@gulraizbhutta]

Absolutely Right and konan doesn't need therapy

[@it_punkkid7298]

TONY only wants stars 🌟 and CAGE ratings 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@GodLovesYou828]

We can't be stopped cuz we bad boy for Life 💵🙉🙊🤡👍🧢👋🆗

[@DJTaka64]

WWE x AEW X TNA x AAA x JAPAN x CMLL x RING OF HONOR x MLW x NWA wrestling is in good hands! Every wrestler eating & living the wrestling dream

[@MrRyanlennie2005]

So we’re just lying now? 😂 TNA does not sell more tickets than AEW. They’ve had 1 well attended event this year and by well attended I mean it was about the same as an average Dynamite. It was also in Canada and tickets were $10 CAD so they made no money.

[@joetroller514]

Impact isn't even selling that many tickets, it just looks better because they play to smaller venues. Tony Khan can't accept that he's not on WWE's level.

[@CockyBalboa]

Filling a 2000 seat venue is still better than filling 1/10 of a 25000 seat arena though. That’s just crazy.

[@xymoriintus]

Googley eye Joe feeny lol

[@xymoriintus]

He really needs to wear glasses

[@josephfergusonjr1111]

But here is the thing at this point, who cares? TK just got a new deal…

[@sjmob408]

This show really turned into a aew hate podcast

[@Fatheroftearsx]

Also I honestly think that Tony Khan is putting money behind Scott s new maple leaf pro to be competition to try to poach wrestlers from TNA. And it's obvious

[@xymoriintus]

Google betonline controversy and look at all the shit that comes up 😂 wtf are you guys doing advertising this

[@liamstewart4472]

Being paid well is my guess. Yours?

[@moses0686]

The ads are sold in advance and there's probably a contractual obligation to put them in the clips.

[@5Starrr]

TNA isn't selling any tickets they Don't even Tour they've never come to my area😂😂

[@micahjohnsonboxing6409]

Disco is lying, AEW was in Arlington, TX, TNA was in San Antonio. He lies and says they were in same building.

[@hanndonfield91]

Sasha banks is a real draw! Worth all that money, same with okada and ospray

[@coala1980]

Totally amused of how much hatred Konnan and Disco have for AEW and is going beyond Cornets level. I think Tony Khan shutdown a business deal with Konnan or something for this to continue. AEW just sing up a new multi years deal WB and is working on deal with FOX and only think podcast cares is tickets. Wrestling is moving away of house shows and not workable programs Collusion and Rampage will be gone soon.WWE just decided to run just two house shows per month and RAW is down to two hours with pay per views soon to be cut and replaced by Saturday super shows. AEW will cut a lot of dead wood in next one year ,wrestlers,shows ,staff members and expenses will be reduced to minimum similar to WWE ,TNA is in exact same situation but the difference is Anthem is looking to sell the company both AEW and WWE are not interested to buy it except for the library and maybe couple of wrestlers. The main thing people don't understand is as much of 'mark' Tony's family is owning sport franchises and in the end of the day he is not the only one making financial decisions.Khan's family invested huge amount of money in both Jaguars and Fullham the first eight years of ownership but now both sport clubs are just use to milk out fans and the respectful sport organization /NFL and EPL/ in this regard Khan is not different from Vince or Endeavor and this is something Konnan and most of other podcaster don't understand .The time of relaying on old fashioned fans like me is gone ,everything is about the moment and the big event and wrestling now is more popular outside US ,Japan,Mexico and Canada then what was ten years ago...I will be not surprised if both AEW and WWE start moving more shows to EU and UK by next year.

[@FreedomSpeech-f2v]

Everybody hating on AEW is wack 😴 🤧

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

It was like this with TNA as well back in the day. Don't worry AEW will be loved again! lol

[@FreedomSpeech-f2v]

@johnnyskinwalker4095 now yall wwe puppets are sucking off TNA

[@markmann5539]

this is more about how bad AEW is than how good TNA is

[@BIPOCShakur]

The hate continues 😂 They got their new deal, just be happy for them.

[@KeepinIt100OFFICIAL]

Once again: we're not hating on them. I know it's hard for you to understand this.

[@j80282]

😂😂😂😂this is awful

[@TanvirAhmed-ik4gl]

Tony Khan should buy TNA & ditch ROH after merging them together.

[@truuflight1142]

Tk had his chance to buy tna in 2019 but he declined

[@TanvirAhmed-ik4gl]

@@truuflight1142 He still can though