Punk was right about everything.

They won't run smaller venues because Brawl in the Bingo Hall sounds more embarrassing than Anarchy in the Arena

Tony saw that Rock vs Mankind empty arena match and decided that every match should be in an empty arena.

The complete AEW Dark Side Of The Ring is going to have more episodes than M*A*S*H

Had AEW been humble when starting up I don’t think anyone would dunk on them as hard as they do.

I honestly don't think Tony cares about lacking attendance. AEW is an audience of one.

They were giving away AEW tickets for their Winnipeg show at multiple minor league hockey games I attended.

Tony is as delusional when choosing his arenas as he is when booking his shows. Completely in a world of his own.

How pissed would you be as a concession stand worker when the building is 72% empty?

So just exactly how long are we going to call two old guys that can’t cut it YoungBucks *88 likes on a Jim Cornette video my life is set now 🎊

Can't wait for someone to tell Brian what "getting your guts destroyed" means 😂

The moment I saw a legless wrestler and a fat guy pouring oil on himself in the ring on their first PPV, I knew this was DOA

This is solid bedtime 🌙 listening. 😅

Punk was right they are now wrestling in a quarter full arena for Meltzer stars.

AEW is coming near me in June and I didn’t even know that they were coming until yesterday and it was only because someone mentioned it in a facebook group I’m in there has been zero advertising for it if it was Wwe coming they would have been advertising for months AEW just keeps proving to me that they are not a business

For bringing us CM Punk, thank you Tiny Klown

ROH had to shut down right after doing its biggest Supercard of Honor. A little over 6000 people. Most of that talent was absorbed into AEW and they had a great promotional tactic of being the company to take on the big bad WWE. If ROH didn't run out of money we would have a good viable option that wasn't obsessed with complaining about WWE.

When Okada came out with the Young Bucks and Jack Perry on Dynamite this past week you could read his LIPS SAYING "SHIT" after looking around at how little the crowd was

"OSHA? Isn't that Ice Cube's son?"

Ric Flair and family left early to get some pizza and Ric had to use the restroom, but the sign said occupied

At this point, they should run shows at college basketball arenas so that they have the small audience but also make the television production standout. No tarps. And would cost less to book them. From there, they can regroup gradually. Having these large arenas with low attendance is hurting them financially.

Tony should really get rid of two people. Jericho n that old zombie Meltzer! They are completely misguiding him!

I really hate all the AEW hate I really want to see them succeed for the sake of the wrestlers careers. But it’s bad.

It’s so disappointing. AEW should be something better than it is. TNA never got to run on TNT/TBS several nights a week. Tony Kahn has squandered this opportunity because he wants to feed his ego and be a wrestling booker. He’s selfish. He doesn’t really care about making a thriving company to give people a place to work. He thinks he does, but really he’s just in it for his ego. And deep down he’ll say, “It’s my family’s money, my company, I can do what I want,” because he’s selfish. Someone who didn’t have a massive ego would go, “This company is bigger than me. Things are not going well. I need to bring somebody in who can turn this around so it can be thriving and successful.” He’s just like Vince McMahon. Vince wanted the show that he wanted and he slowly strangled it over 2 decades and made wrestling lame.

Can anyone wonder whats its like being a jaguars fan lmao id be embarassed

OMG; Jim almost killed me with the "goesinta" joke. Being from KY myself; I immediately knew what he was referring to.. "He's done all the adding and subtracting and the goesintas. 3 goes into 9, goes into 18, etc....." 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Here at the NOW arena, in suburban Chicago, I took my nephew to AEW day of show and got BOTH tickets for $20. In CHICAGO. The guy who sold them had about 25-30 on him at the time.

*_ON THIS DAY,_* *_I see clearly,_* *_No-one's in my line of sight,_* *_Better seats,_* *_Free tix with ice-cream,_* *_I rate this match with 6 stars out of FIIIIII-IIIIIIVE_*

I went to an AEW event in a 9,000+ capacity venue in July 2021. Every seat was for sale and it was packed. Went to the same venue in January 2024 and literally half the building was closed with security directing everyone to go the other way. That entire side of the seating was covered, and they still couldn’t sell out the other half of the building. I later saw that the 9,000+ capacity venue only had 2,400 people in attendance. I bought tickets last minute for under face value.

Tony actually does look like the headshrunk guy from Beetlejuice 😂😂

The Beetle Juice Thumbnail is fantastic. TK as the shrunken head. 😅😅😅😅

My take is that AEW did not sell 80k tickets at Wembley arena. Nostalgia for summerslam 1992 sold 80k tickets at Wembley arena.

AEW did 3,841 for Collision at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio where WWE did 14,149 for Smackdown and Raw was also sold out

Can we all admit that AEW's been a joke since the very beginning

Long comment for those interested in the real trouble AEW is in at the moment as far as a property. AEW had 1.4 million watching the debut episode of Dynamite, then the next week it dropped 400 thousand viewers. Since then, they haven't really gotten close to that number in the last 5 years. They drew 1.3 million for a Mike Tyson episode and 1.3 for Punk's return. There was never really a Golden Era for viewership, just one-off bumps that immediately go back to the average of about 700,000. The live event attendance is a direct result of the TV show not being all that popular. To put it in perspective, Sunday Night Football (NFL) draws 16-18 million, and the #10 rated show this month draws 9 million. In the last couple of years, WWE RAW is drawing about 1.8 million per episode and Smackdown draws about 2.8 million per episode on average, with peaks at around 3 million. Basically, people don't watch the show if the arena is filled, they fill the arena if they watch the show. That may seem obvious, but I don't think Tony Khan is familiar with how to grow in the space. The narrative that "not as many people watch TV anymore" is true - but there are still over half the population that does still watch TV, and 16 million watch regular season football games while 700,000 watch AEW. The quick analysis is obvious - if people regularly watch wrestling, they watch WWE. If people watch AEW, it's not necessarily for the wrestling, but rather for a special event. For those that don't already know network structure, the network buys a show in hopes to sell enough advertising that they profit greatly from the investment. ESPN just agreed to a $7.8 billion deal with the NCAA over the next 6 years in hopes that they can sell $10 billion in advertising. I've worked in broadcasting, entertainment and journalism for over 25 years - currently work with national radio/streaming sports networks - and AEW's struggles are pretty easy to spec. Viewer retention is the most important data point for most networks, and because there is such a lack of attractive personalities and episodic throughlines in the weekly stories, it just doesn't work as a TV show in its current state. So viewership is all over the place, and that's a tough sell for network media sellers sitting in a room with Pepsi or McDonalds. AEW is better suited toward the UFC model of a major event every 4-8 weeks. Stack the card, promote for 4 weeks, fill the arena, grow the viewership for the next one. It's a long game, but AEW is/was trying to shortcut to the top with an existing powerhouse of a brand already dominating the space. It's bold of Tony to do that, but the success rate is low. AEW's focus is on converting WWE fans to watch more AEW, more regularly. WWE's philosophy continues to be how to draw non-wrestling viewers into watching wrestling.

This is getting like WCW before they brought Hogan in, when Flair and Steamboat were on top. Wrestlers had to go outside the arena and offer strangers free hot dogs and beer if they came in to watch the show. It ended up that homeless people made up most of the "crowd", and they slept through most of the show.

Its very hard to imagine that they wont go out of business. I cannot see them turning it around

It's already bad enough that they have to consistently use ceiling shots and hard cam footage for the past several months when showing wide shots of the crowd. Win, lose, or draw... my biggest concern about Anarchy in the Arena is how empty that arena is gonna look if they're not very, insanely selective about their camera placements or match sturcture.

Tony is insane if he thinks that building that empty arenas and weak TV numbers will translate to a big TV rights deal. He beat WCW’s flame out record.

"I defend ridiculous things online and spend most of my day insulting people for thinking otherwise." - AEW fans

😂 They can’t even get 3,500 fans in most places that they book.

"I won't use his last name because he may have friends...and family."

Tony learned from his old man to circumvent old blackout rules they glad bagged the upper deck seats to not count those seats....They couldn't fill the old stadium now they are going to risk the ppl of Duval County for a new one....then sneaky Khans....

Tony Khan the only billionaire without a brain 😂

Someone told me this and I’ve never gotten over it. But AEW cannibalized its own talent to the point no one cares. Adam Copeland killed Christian Cage’s push, Okada made Eddie Kingston a joke, they chose to buy up imports and push them over MJF and Swerve when they were red hot. As a guy who just got back into wrestling less than a year ago, who the fuck enjoys watching these guys who’s entire gimmicks are “I was a really big deal in another company. And now I’m a badass.” When that’s the gimmick of 12/15 of its big stars. And of the 3 who ain’t, two are the bucks.

The black magic little Tony head from Beetlejuice!

They were in my town on Wednesday last.ony found out tonight!

I’m a data scientist too and these numbers made my fear for my life. 😢

Those numbers are horrendous. There's no positives in that. At some point tony's toy will be sold from under him by dad. Even billionaires realize lost causes.

Tony Khan is less unhinged Herb Abrams.

Now Young Bucks should name their move as Cornette Drive instead of TK drive.

Not Ice Cube son !!! 😂😂😂

Reminds me off a joke. A famous cardiologist dies and a bunch of colleagues attend his funeral. At the end of his service his coffin is wheeled toward a large heart which opens as the coffin is pushed into it and closes around it as it goes through. Suddenly a man starts to laugh. When asks ll when he says “I’m just imagining my funeral. I’m a gynecologist”. Upon hearing this a man faints. When he is revived and asked what happened he simply replies. “I’m a proctologist.”

how do they think they're gonna get a new TV deal

AEW Attendance Figures should be the next line of corny collectibles

"Everything's great. Even with my 'bad' booking, people are still coming to our shows. If people are still coming, then it must be good." - Tony Khan

The snowman is a numbers guy lmao 🤣😂

At least Edge is having fun.

These numbers are wild! Very eye opening, it's kinda sad to think about what AEW is

I was at the Dynamite in Toronto, they had most of that building full, according to cagematch it was 6,700 people. So, if the average is 2,400, that means the the other Dynamites were holding even less for this 6,700 to bring the average up to 2,400.

Did Brian really say OSHA and not HIPPA?

Hey BOK center is "Bank of Oklahoma center" for future reference.

Bro did more research than Dave

That ice cube Osha joke was funny 🤣 😂

I was at the May 1st Dynamite/Rampage at Winnipeg's Canada Life Centre. There weren't many empty seats that night. I'm thinking capacity with floor seats was 9,000. Upper deck tickets were not sold. I'm thinking there might've been 8,500.

The fact that he did that the iteration twice in a row is indeed amazing.

Tony Khan Tony Khan Tony Khan! And cause I can’t help myself “‘my whole life is a dark room one big dark room”

This is just a better funded version of TNA. I'll be interested to see how Tony reacts when he doesn't get that big media rights deal and has to change his spending habits on this company

That whole OSHA/O'SHEA segment was RIDICULOUS

I remember when Raw first came on the air. It was in a small place but looked chaotic. Where was that? Would that kind of production work for AEW?

It wouldn't be OSHA. It would be a HIPPA violation.

I stopped watching WWE in 2010, AEW brought me back to enjoying wrestling again, IF AEW was to stop tomorrow I still wouldn't go back to watching WWE.

“Ya tickled me there” I really hope Brian did that on purpose 🤣

Attendance Elimination Wrestling is doing Great! (DING!)

Hold on, COVID ended for AEW?

Ratings down, attendance down, yet Jim and the internet can't stop talking about AEW. First person that replies to me loves Kenny Omega

At one point AEW was in Chicago every week lol

Nice Johnny Carson reference at the end!

Love the artwork

Is Tony pinhead from the Puppet Master movies? Well done, Travis 👏

Maybe they should start booking at pizza joints with Ric Flair vs the staff as the main event.

Saw a poll on KZfaq from Tap Out Corner that asked which of the 4 would you like to see come to WWE. Out of 230k votes, Aj Lee got 30% of the vote, Jericho 8% Moxley 48%, and MJF 15%. I know it adds up to 101%, just have it down as the poll says.

I don’t think the market fatigue or whatever you call it is an issue as much as it was. it’s that no one is watching aew’s tv, nor do they want to attend aew’s live shows.

BOK center in Tulsa stands for Bank of Oklahoma Center

All these numbers sounds horrible, Wembley this year is going to be abysmal if the numbers tell a 70% drop in ticket sales, they may hit a 30,000 number of sales this year, TK is delusional in trying to repeat the venue for All In this year

aew dynamite is coming to my hometown next week at mechanics Bank arena. The capacity is 10,225 that includes the floor and only 1,134 tickets have been sold.

It's not about what's best for business. It's about what preserves Tony's fantasies.

In reality, I think everyone hoped that AEW would be another resting show to watch other than WWE. No one was hoping it would fail, but the first telling sign was that horrible battle royal when you have a legless man, baby oil man and Pockets etc involved. The fact that Billy Gunn or Tommy Dreamer even bought into that bullshit makes them even dumber.

Thanks Guys

"Clean copper clappers" I understood that reference

They needed to of moved around more and even went on over seas tours to make the american markets have to wait more time in-between before they're back in town.. The only plus note is since the tk attack angle dynamites viewership has increased week by week for the last few weeks but its only slightly.

It must be hard to have two feet in reality when you've been, and are still being told that you're just the best. Numbers and statistics won't be able to bring Tony down to Earth. If the company folds, it won't be his fault in his mind.

You know who also has fun with numbers? ...Tony Kahn. Doesn't matter how low they go, they're GREAT!

Boy George: Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon Tony: Doin' lines of coke in the Coca-Cola Coliseum

Brian is right. Tony had a golden opportunity in the beginning. The market was completely ripe for them to succeed. Tony squandered it and I’m not sure they can ever recover.

Two things. 1st, the BOK center is short for Bank Of Oklahoma. 2nd, they easily could have sold the building out if Sting had even came out and cut a promo. He wasn't on that show even though it was on his retirement tour. A lot of friends felt that was a missed opportunity

Tony khan has switched his entire company heel while making Punk the biggest babyface to ever work for tk

I appreciated the Jack Webb-Johnny Carson reference.

The AEW fans who keep saying nothing is wrong and nothing needs to change are helping cause this.

Really didn't expect this to end with a Carson routine.