"I can't confirm it being finalized but I can't say it's not finalized too" "i know it wasn't finalized yesterday" lol this guy is such a goober. just say you dont know
@Tactics006 Yea, it's not 2000 anymore, tv is different now in 2024. The fact of the matter is Tony threw everything he could to pop a rating and they fail to get 800k.
@killerk3431 Ratings only matter to Aew marks if they can try and brag about it. But on the weeks the ratings are trash. It's "enjoy wrestling" and only losers care about ratings. That will come from the same person 2 weeks apart
Let’s be real here. People watched and stuck around for the MJF and Osprey match. Once Jericho hit the screen, once the young bucks hit the screen, and once they got to the main event with their world champion and Japanese star, they paid millions of dollars too, the entire show took a nose dive.
Dave once blamed a Kendrick Lamar concert. You cant make this shit up. Dave Meltzer thinks there is a wide cross over between AEW and Kendrick Lamar fans. Top notch Journalism right there.
I mean they can do this for the world title at Wembley next year most likely. Maybe that's a "better" match, but it will be tough to not make us bored with Ospreay vs MJF the way it seems they are going to be overly repetitive with this match as they have in the past. They did the 1 hour long match first. That's not exactly a good strategy
Really great first hour. Major props to MJF and Ospreay. Unfortunately, they lost over 140k viewers after the match ended. Outside those two, no one is a draw in AEW
I can't confirm it being finalized but I can't say it's not finalized too. 😂😂😂😂 I needed Dave back in school when I needed to write a 5,000 word essay lol
Hot shotted their closest thing to Hogan vs Goldberg on Nitro for a momentary 100k bump. Dave making a big deal of them going against the RNC on *CNN* and a WNBA player making the all time assist record?! 🤦♂️
@@keni95851 millions of people watched nitro every week for years,even when it was sold to wwe they still were pulling in a couple million people a week.
A match that should have been on a PPV and they put it on a random Dynamite just to pop a small rating 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ This would be like WWE having Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes on Smackdown
@SageVallant everyone in AEW is a part timer. No house shows, they maybe wrestle twice a month, otherwise they sit in catering because creative has nothing for them
Dave is like the professor in college that if you stay awake the whole 2 hours, you have pages full of notes and realize after you review them you didn't learn anything
I've subscribed to Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter since 1990, which Dave has been writing and publishing since 1980. He's known as a great journalist for his writing in WON over that 44 years, not for his public speaking. I've a couple of old friends who talk like that too, conversations with them being similarly painful to listen to.
Also they’ve definitely done long matches like that before on television. Fucking Hangman and Danielson went to an hour long draw for the title like 2 years ago on Dynamite lol
What timeline am I in? When did 700k become a solid rating? Where i come from a million viewers is the bar and that was pathetic compared to the competition. But, this? Ha.
A couple of years ago I watched the Tennessee Volunteers beat the Alabama Crimson Tide in college football.. The fans proceeded to remove a goal post from the ground, marched a couple blocks down the street, and threw it in the river, yet even I haven't seen someone move goal posts as much as AEW fans do.
They got a respectable rating, but my god did they have to throw the kitchen sink at it. They had to basically give away the All In main event to do it. It could really hurt All In. There isn't the buzz for it in the UK this year, and they winged it a bit last year with matches not being announced until really close to the event.
This was one of the coffin nails for WCW. The PPV caliber-esque match between Hogan/Goldberg given away on free television. AEW is following a familiar pattern.
Lol your correct guys it's really weird aew fans, its still crazy to me tony using bots still when he is under investigation by FBI yet aew fans deny it 😂😂😂 you guys on ball thank god not everyone is stupid.thankyou for being smarter than the aew weird fans.
Man the way Dave talks about ratings implies that AEW can do amazing numbers in a world where no other television exists. There’s always going to be something else to watch! If it was a good tv product it wouldn’t be at risk of hemorrhaging viewers every 15 minutes.
AEW doesn't have the loyal fans like WWE. WWE has 1.5 million fans that would watch HHH take a dump in the middle of the ring and chant this is awesome lol
3rd highest rating for Dynamite since Big Business, where Tony debuted a couple new toys. Ever since those signings, Dynamite has had a steady decline. By the way, who's paying the advertisers back when AEW fails to make their ad rates? Is it Tony or WBD?
On X, folks are posting screenshots of AEW Content showing up on HBOMax International, not yet available in the US. So. ummm.. yeah, that deal is already done. They just haven't officially announced it. And when they do, I am cancelling my Triller/AEW Plus membership and getting MAX back.
I don’t usually watch a ton of AEW unless they have something big going on, but I tuned in to 250 because it was a stacked card in theory. MJF/Ospreay was awesome. Stacking a card with stars and matches people wanna see is one good equation for boosting ratings - more good consistent week to week slow build stories is the next step I think.
@@josephcooke4678 yeah and only one of them was any good; but who cares there was only one good match if it was half of the show? I far prefer quality in wrestling to quantity. It's why 3 hour Raw has never been popular.
The deal has to be done because AEW is on max in Europe. They're testing the market right now. This was literally shown yesterday from people in Europe
Thank you, MJF & Ospreay 👏🏻 The two best young prospects in AEW. Serious, talented, professionals with incredible potential. Thanks for nothing, Dumb Bucks and Jeri-tree 👎🏻 Old, over-exposed, veterans abusing their backstage influence to create bad idea after bad idea.
Yep decent rating at the cost of 100-130k PPV buys and millions in revenue for a show where the ratings are likely to drop the following week. Totally worth it.
Kind of where "we're" at??! Idk you were part of the AEW staff/negotiations team. Tell me you aren't totally compromised without telling me you're totally compromised. 🤫🤣
This is not the first time he's done that. I've noticed it probably 5 or 6 times now and I'm always amazed how it's "we" with AEW but never any other company.
Biggest young stars, maybe. Danielson v. Swerve for the World Title can top it at All In and that seems to be where we're headed, and Danielson for the world title is still bigger news. Plus we know the match will be great, they always are. The question is what are we doing with Will and MJF at Wembley. We've got a month to sort that out. It may be that they run it back or add a stipulation so Will can win a title at Wembley. The hour long match suggests they won't just run it back as-is. Like, they are potential top guys, but they are also the midcard right now. They're not the PPV Main Event guys.
It's great for 1 night but the question is do they have to put these kind of matches every Dynamite for a measly 100k bump because this could easily get boring.
I still bet their match at All In will deliver. They can even add a stip to change the dynamic of the match. So overall we got a PPV match for free and we are probably getting a just as good or better match on the actual PPV.
Same for WWE they will never draw the kind of numbers they used to in the late 90's and early 00's, they made sure of that by running wrestling into the ground for 20 years.
@@jonathanellis6097I mean..One company is breaking records and just signed a deal worth Billions with Netflix. The other is hotshotting their 2 biggest stars who can't even draw 800K even with the Big Bangers who wander into the opening minutes of every show. Go figure 😂
@TyWashington-mf6hm I'm not comparing them because there is NO comparison. AEW's sole mission was to be an alternative. Somewhere along the way the mark booker Tony decided that he was in a war and forgot his roots. His tribalism is why people love to shit on their current slump. If they had just stayed in their lane, accepted that they will never be the big one people would have let it slide. And yes I used to love AEW back in 2021 when Punk came back. The MJF feud with Punk, the MJF and Wardlow stuff was brilliant. It all went downhill however. Their refusal to change, Tony's refusal to hand the book over to a real booker is the reason it will only remain a passion project solely funded by TK and nothing more.
@@LordLank-j9n you are definitely comparing them. WWE should be massive they have been around long enough. AEW will of course go through ups and downs and growing pains just like any business. The point was you can't lambast one company for lower viewing figures than they have historically had, while giving the other a free pass. WWE will never again draw the kinds of viewing numbers they did back in the day. The business side is doing well apparently, I'm not at all concerned with that as a simple viewer.
@@kennythetrend3688 Dude, like 5 months ago less than 800k would have been cause for concern. Now they're pulling out all the stops to get whatever rating they can possibly manage, and sub-800k is apparently strong?
790 use to be a bad week for aew ratings a few years ago when they were flirting with 1 million weekly, now 790 is like a great week for them, thats tough
Tony is really a Mark Why have these guys go out and have there Wembly match free on TV. This should have been a 20 minute banger MJF with a hot heel finish to set this up. Now Unless Tony Plans for Wembly to be a 10 hour show. These guys cant fit another 60 minute match on that show.
If AEW uses this good rating to do more 1 hour matches. I will tune out so fast. Wrestling shouldn't regularly be 1 hour matches. They've killed the shtick
Fed fans = "60 minutes of wrestling is too much." While Papa H treats them to 49 minutes of wrestling in an entire 3 hour episode of Raw. Just admit you're not wrestling fans and only tune in for the promos and backstage segments.
@TyWashington-mf6hm Meltzer and his bum chum Alvarez constantly made fun of those 800k TNA numbers. Now they're saying how great $790 is for their company.
@RunandLift2 Don't get annoying about it like commenting on your irrelevant feelings on ratings while the network states regularly how happy they are. Yeah, that's not annoying at all.
Dave doesn’t understand why a Republican leaning news channel badly beat a Democrat leaning news channel in ratings for the Republican convention? Really?!
People that watch CNN don’t really wanna watch the RNC convention Dave… Plus the convention was available on many channels & online so of this would drain CNNs overall would be ratings. AEW shouldn’t be under 1 million but punk is still gone & it will never rebound unfortunately.
Why do folks care about tv ratings and AEW vs WWE? Like just enjoy wrestling for fuck sake. Both companies existing is what's best for the talent. Stop making a wrestling company your whole personality.
Dave is the one who invented ratings talk. Remember cody smashing the throne? AEW and Dave started this talk... remember Jericho saying they'd catch RAW by the end of the year? You can't rewrite history now that they're cold
Look at ol' marble mouth Meltzer's face, when he is discussing the WBD deal. He's so excited that Aew is going to get a much weaker deal, but they'll twist it into a "win" because old ppvs will be on Max. Ha.
Cue the braindead followers of the observer who have no opinion of their own and blindly agree with their masters Alvarez and Meltzer. If you have a different opinion you are a biased hater. I'd rather that than be a part of a hive mind
I imagine the negotiations are going the same way the taxi driver negotiated in don’t mess with zohan Tony: we want $100 million Wbd: no Tony: 50 million Wbd: no Tony: we want another show Wbd: no Tony: how about an extra hour Wbd: no Tony: an extra 5 minutes on Wednesdays Wbd: deal! Dave: yeah this was a fantastic deal for aew
The bots have been so indoctrinated they believe a tv show that never dropped below top 10, is mostly within top 5, and has even sometimes been #1 is gonna get canceled. Its really sad
It’s okay to say you don’t know sometimes Dave 😂
He can’t. He’s a white man over 40
"I can't confirm it being finalized but I can't say it's not finalized too"
"i know it wasn't finalized yesterday"
lol this guy is such a goober. just say you dont know
Sub 800k is strong now?
apparently 1.5 is also considering 4 million use to tune in ....smh
@Tactics006
Yea, it's not 2000 anymore, tv is different now in 2024. The fact of the matter is Tony threw everything he could to pop a rating and they fail to get 800k.
@@Tactics006 1.5 vs 795k. Smackdown gets over 2 million. How about using that number
@killerk3431 Ratings only matter to Aew marks if they can try and brag about it. But on the weeks the ratings are trash. It's "enjoy wrestling" and only losers care about ratings. That will come from the same person 2 weeks apart
@@RunandLift2 Smackdown is on a network, AEW is on cable.
100k bump for a free PPV match 😂
Very good
Let’s be real here. People watched and stuck around for the MJF and Osprey match.
Once Jericho hit the screen, once the young bucks hit the screen, and once they got to the main event with their world champion and Japanese star, they paid millions of dollars too, the entire show took a nose dive.
Now we blaming the WNBA ? Damn man
It’s always something, lol. But yeah, I heard that and chuckled.
Blame everything under the sun. All Excuses Wrestling 😂
Dave once blamed a Kendrick Lamar concert. You cant make this shit up. Dave Meltzer thinks there is a wide cross over between AEW and Kendrick Lamar fans. Top notch Journalism right there.
WNBA is doing a better job of creating stars, cultivating rivalries, and telling week by week stories right now tbh
@@Saddler1944 didn’t he mentioned Black panther wakanda forever for same episode? 😂
People started tuning out once the first match ended.
People who have to work early the next morning go to bed. Welcome to adulthood.
@@simonhhstop it. If you're going to bed at 9, you're a senior citizen. I thought the demo was their audience.
@natebaxter9551 Yeah only senior citizens start work at 6am.
@@simonhh man stop it.
@natebaxter9551 When you lot leave high school you will understand the world much better.
If you consider this to be the biggest Match Aew can deliver the bump is a bit meh.
nerd alert!!
@@TobeyStarburstis it you?
21% is meh? You are stupid 😂
@@TobeyStarburst dont be a dweeb
I mean they can do this for the world title at Wembley next year most likely. Maybe that's a "better" match, but it will be tough to not make us bored with Ospreay vs MJF the way it seems they are going to be overly repetitive with this match as they have in the past. They did the 1 hour long match first. That's not exactly a good strategy
Really great first hour. Major props to MJF and Ospreay. Unfortunately, they lost over 140k viewers after the match ended. Outside those two, no one is a draw in AEW
They aren't draws either, nobody in aew is
@@PaxBisonica89So they're out of business within a year?
MJF is a draw
@@PaxBisonica89stick to playing with Warhammer, kid
@@Kevin-v5g6y not without Big Bang Theory
I can't confirm it being finalized but I can't say it's not finalized too. 😂😂😂😂 I needed Dave back in school when I needed to write a 5,000 word essay lol
There will be at least 500 you know 😂
Hot shotted their closest thing to Hogan vs Goldberg on Nitro for a momentary 100k bump. Dave making a big deal of them going against the RNC on *CNN* and a WNBA player making the all time assist record?! 🤦♂️
Exactly
Imagine Goldberg trying to wrestle a 1 hour match at any point in his career lol
@@SageVallantimagine Ospreay drawing 10s of thousands week after week in his career 😂😂😂
@@SageVallant That's not the point.
@@keni95851 millions of people watched nitro every week for years,even when it was sold to wwe they still were pulling in a couple million people a week.
No complaints about the gymnastics match🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
A match that should have been on a PPV and they put it on a random Dynamite just to pop a small rating 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
This would be like WWE having Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes on Smackdown
No, neither of these guys are part-timers. And Roman has been for over a year now.
@SageVallant everyone in AEW is a part timer. No house shows, they maybe wrestle twice a month, otherwise they sit in catering because creative has nothing for them
MJF and Osprey will be a match for All In as well I imagine.
@@lukewilliams-bukac4540Isn’t MJF facing Daniel Garcia at All In
@@keni95851not sure but they sure catered to the crowd that night
screw your little ppv booking
Dave is like the professor in college that if you stay awake the whole 2 hours, you have pages full of notes and realize after you review them you didn't learn anything
Dave uses 300 words to basically say "I don't know" and people call him some great journalist
I've subscribed to Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter since 1990, which Dave has been writing and publishing since 1980. He's known as a great journalist for his writing in WON over that 44 years, not for his public speaking. I've a couple of old friends who talk like that too, conversations with them being similarly painful to listen to.
So know the WNBA is competition too dave??? The excusess just never end with aew's biggest cheerleader!!!
If these are considered strong ratings than AEW was doing MASSIVE ratings when Punk was around. 😂
Also they’ve definitely done long matches like that before on television. Fucking Hangman and Danielson went to an hour long draw for the title like 2 years ago on Dynamite lol
What timeline am I in?
When did 700k become a solid rating?
Where i come from a million viewers is the bar and that was pathetic compared to the competition. But, this?
Ha.
@@DuckTheHeel not me. I just like goofing on you goofies.
Ha.
@@DuckTheHeel WBD and sponsors care and Tony Khan should care.
Where do you come from that 1 million is the bar and how did you determine this was the benchmark?
If you actually knew anything about tv and numbers you'd have a job and not be a poor wwe fan
Ha.
Strong rating ? 790K with your biggest match on the card ? The first time ever ? The 2 generational talents ? My god
290k more than the target Warner gave them before the last contract. Looks like they will be rewarded 💰
@@simonhh um actually ☝🤓 ahh comment
@@simonhhnot if they can’t keep hitting that number consistently
@@simonhhlike you know
@keni95851 Know more than guys who claimed "They will be out of business within a year." For 5 years in a row 👍
An hour match for the first match of the feud on a random Wednesday with your two biggest stars . Terrible rating .
It's a milestone episode, number 250. Would you rather they do a bunch of backstage skits with retired wrestlers?
@@SageVallant 250 is a random number nobody cares about
A couple of years ago I watched the Tennessee Volunteers beat the Alabama Crimson Tide in college football.. The fans proceeded to remove a goal post from the ground, marched a couple blocks down the street, and threw it in the river, yet even I haven't seen someone move goal posts as much as AEW fans do.
It’s insane how MJF vs Ospreay first time eve did not draw a milly
They aren't draws, it's not that odd
it's almost as if it should've been booked several weeks in advance and build it up for a while so people knew it was even happening...
@@PaxBisonica89 they are draws stop being dumb
They aren't actual draws plus not many people are gonna sit through that indy fest of a match
They got a respectable rating, but my god did they have to throw the kitchen sink at it. They had to basically give away the All In main event to do it.
It could really hurt All In. There isn't the buzz for it in the UK this year, and they winged it a bit last year with matches not being announced until really close to the event.
Agreed. And Wembley is going to look so sad two-thirds empty
795k is not a strong rating. They weren’t even top 5 for the night. Strong rating would have been 950k.
This was one of the coffin nails for WCW. The PPV caliber-esque match between Hogan/Goldberg given away on free television. AEW is following a familiar pattern.
Yeah dave we know you went straight to business an hour long. Looking like randy on the internet camp. Btw you call 850k a strong audience? Mark dave
This was their Goldberg vs Hogan moment and they still couldn't break 800k.
shut up so borede with this ratings obsessed wrestling fans
5 BOTS IN A ROW!!
I counted 7 lmaooooo
This community is a wonderful collective of intellectual curiosity. Surely this is inspiration for millions 😂
@@eastsidenell They just keep coming in 🤣
@@Treznor331 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol your correct guys it's really weird aew fans, its still crazy to me tony using bots still when he is under investigation by FBI yet aew fans deny it 😂😂😂 you guys on ball thank god not everyone is stupid.thankyou for being smarter than the aew weird fans.
Man the way Dave talks about ratings implies that AEW can do amazing numbers in a world where no other television exists. There’s always going to be something else to watch! If it was a good tv product it wouldn’t be at risk of hemorrhaging viewers every 15 minutes.
AEW doesn't have the loyal fans like WWE. WWE has 1.5 million fans that would watch HHH take a dump in the middle of the ring and chant this is awesome lol
Sometimes when you go, it kinda wipes itself. I'm not giving back the paper.
Dave been told.....you can tell.
3rd highest rating for Dynamite since Big Business, where Tony debuted a couple new toys. Ever since those signings, Dynamite has had a steady decline. By the way, who's paying the advertisers back when AEW fails to make their ad rates? Is it Tony or WBD?
On X, folks are posting screenshots of AEW Content showing up on HBOMax International, not yet available in the US. So. ummm.. yeah, that deal is already done. They just haven't officially announced it. And when they do, I am cancelling my Triller/AEW Plus membership and getting MAX back.
Same
I don’t usually watch a ton of AEW unless they have something big going on, but I tuned in to 250 because it was a stacked card in theory. MJF/Ospreay was awesome. Stacking a card with stars and matches people wanna see is one good equation for boosting ratings - more good consistent week to week slow build stories is the next step I think.
A stacked card with only three matches.
@@josephcooke4678 That one match had more wrestling (59 mins) than all of Monday Night RAW (49 mins).
@@josephcooke4678 yeah and only one of them was any good; but who cares there was only one good match if it was half of the show? I far prefer quality in wrestling to quantity. It's why 3 hour Raw has never been popular.
lol Bryan took this one off so he didn’t have to talk about a good thing for AEW 😂
10:31 No they did this before with Bryan Danielson and kept their crowd. TBH I dont want see the same format hour 20 minute matches every show
“Strong.”
That's great! It was worth giving this match on free TV!
Strong?? Man, those goal posts are on flotation devices these days.
The deal has to be done because AEW is on max in Europe. They're testing the market right now. This was literally shown yesterday from people in Europe
AEW been on Max in Europe for awhile now
Thank you, MJF & Ospreay 👏🏻
The two best young prospects in AEW. Serious, talented, professionals with incredible potential.
Thanks for nothing, Dumb Bucks and Jeri-tree 👎🏻
Old, over-exposed, veterans abusing their backstage influence to create bad idea after bad idea.
The viewing figures still didn't even begin with an 8, correct?
But it doesn’t matter because they had great matches!!! /s
@@dynamic283 50iq comment
Still haven’t reach insecurity footage numbers yet.
Yep decent rating at the cost of 100-130k PPV buys and millions in revenue for a show where the ratings are likely to drop the following week. Totally worth it.
Kind of where "we're" at??! Idk you were part of the AEW staff/negotiations team. Tell me you aren't totally compromised without telling me you're totally compromised. 🤫🤣
This is not the first time he's done that. I've noticed it probably 5 or 6 times now and I'm always amazed how it's "we" with AEW but never any other company.
Isn’t Warner 4.1 billion in debt?
21 billion
Ok, so they put on an hour long battle between two of your biggest stars...now what? What would top that match at say All In?
Biggest young stars, maybe. Danielson v. Swerve for the World Title can top it at All In and that seems to be where we're headed, and Danielson for the world title is still bigger news. Plus we know the match will be great, they always are. The question is what are we doing with Will and MJF at Wembley. We've got a month to sort that out. It may be that they run it back or add a stipulation so Will can win a title at Wembley. The hour long match suggests they won't just run it back as-is.
Like, they are potential top guys, but they are also the midcard right now. They're not the PPV Main Event guys.
Yes this is a strong rating because you know if it was sub 600k everyone would be making the Death of AEW tweets 🤣
@@2kjstewart what did you think of the ratings this week
It's great for 1 night but the question is do they have to put these kind of matches every Dynamite for a measly 100k bump because this could easily get boring.
Gave away a PPV main event on free TV between 2 guys who basically did every move they knew.
Anything else mr hater😅
Not used to seeing good wrestling on tv. I can tell
@@megatinmand5524aew has less ppvs a year than wwe, why can't people just enjoy good tv matches?
I still bet their match at All In will deliver. They can even add a stip to change the dynamic of the match. So overall we got a PPV match for free and we are probably getting a just as good or better match on the actual PPV.
What an amazing bargain for people watching.
Sub 800k is now a strong rating LOL 😆😂😂😂😂
The old lows are the new highs. How pathetic.
Same for WWE they will never draw the kind of numbers they used to in the late 90's and early 00's, they made sure of that by running wrestling into the ground for 20 years.
@@jonathanellis6097I mean..One company is breaking records and just signed a deal worth Billions with Netflix. The other is hotshotting their 2 biggest stars who can't even draw 800K even with the Big Bangers who wander into the opening minutes of every show. Go figure 😂
@@jonathanellis6097 bUt wWe😂😂
@TyWashington-mf6hm I'm not comparing them because there is NO comparison. AEW's sole mission was to be an alternative. Somewhere along the way the mark booker Tony decided that he was in a war and forgot his roots. His tribalism is why people love to shit on their current slump. If they had just stayed in their lane, accepted that they will never be the big one people would have let it slide. And yes I used to love AEW back in 2021 when Punk came back. The MJF feud with Punk, the MJF and Wardlow stuff was brilliant. It all went downhill however. Their refusal to change, Tony's refusal to hand the book over to a real booker is the reason it will only remain a passion project solely funded by TK and nothing more.
@@LordLank-j9n you are definitely comparing them. WWE should be massive they have been around long enough. AEW will of course go through ups and downs and growing pains just like any business. The point was you can't lambast one company for lower viewing figures than they have historically had, while giving the other a free pass. WWE will never again draw the kinds of viewing numbers they did back in the day. The business side is doing well apparently, I'm not at all concerned with that as a simple viewer.
Good rating compared to previous ones but still low to what they advertised
Not low for 2024 Television. Like theu said, THEY OUTDREW CNN.
Raw used to get 40 million when they started so what’s your point here lol?
@@kennythetrend3688 Dude, like 5 months ago less than 800k would have been cause for concern. Now they're pulling out all the stops to get whatever rating they can possibly manage, and sub-800k is apparently strong?
@kennythetrend3688 shut up, they had better ratings 3 months ago lmao
@@Llo834 CNN or AEW? 🤨
800k is strong? Oh boy.
790 use to be a bad week for aew ratings a few years ago when they were flirting with 1 million weekly, now 790 is like a great week for them, thats tough
I love what AEW is doing. Don't pay attention to the doomsday sayers. Keep working at your craft. Don't stop! A-E-Dub!
Tony is really a Mark Why have these guys go out and have there Wembly match free on TV. This should have been a 20 minute banger MJF with a hot heel finish to set this up. Now Unless Tony Plans for Wembly to be a 10 hour show. These guys cant fit another 60 minute match on that show.
Doesn't have to be an hour rematch. Tony intentionally booked it to be an hour to see how long they could sustain a bump in viewership.
Aew is less popular now
Why is that other dude even on the show he gets cut off by Dave every time he tries to say something LOL
WNBA and Copa America 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If AEW uses this good rating to do more 1 hour matches. I will tune out so fast. Wrestling shouldn't regularly be 1 hour matches. They've killed the shtick
Dave interrupts this guy also on every statement.
Annoying.
Punk choking out Jungle Boy drew a bigger rating 😂
Far cry from the days of EC3 era TNA drawing a million neilson viewers a week. 😂
Dave: WBD is uhm uhm uhm happy. The more money they make, the uhm uhm you know happier they will be.
Fed fans = "60 minutes of wrestling is too much."
While Papa H treats them to 49 minutes of wrestling in an entire 3 hour episode of Raw. Just admit you're not wrestling fans and only tune in for the promos and backstage segments.
Why cant you just watch both
DEFINITELY
Cry harder
No one cares for matches on weekly shows. It was the marks before, it's the marks now
@@vb2806 OK boomer
AEW hasn’t had a strong rating in a couple years.
Umm, ugh count is 125
Wow 790k viewers.
When TNA was on Spike, their lowest rating was 800k with Aces & Eights and Blubber Ray Dudley as champ
@TyWashington-mf6hm
Meltzer and his bum chum Alvarez constantly made fun of those 800k TNA numbers. Now they're saying how great $790 is for their company.
@TyWashington-mf6hm you mean when wrestling was still kind of relevant?
But but aew is dying and everyone hated that match
? Nah only the storylines are stupid
Osprey/MJF wasn't as great as spooky people walking to the ring in the dark in some fog, but it was ok.
Don't get annoying about it. 795k is still not a good number
@RunandLift2 Don't get annoying about it like commenting on your irrelevant feelings on ratings while the network states regularly how happy they are. Yeah, that's not annoying at all.
Mark
Dave doesn’t understand why a Republican leaning news channel badly beat a Democrat leaning news channel in ratings for the Republican convention?
Really?!
People that watch CNN don’t really wanna watch the RNC convention Dave… Plus the convention was available on many channels & online so of this would drain CNNs overall would be ratings.
AEW shouldn’t be under 1 million but punk is still gone & it will never rebound unfortunately.
A whole bunch of nothin was said.
They are the definition of propaganda
AEW is doing great on dynamite and WWE is boring as f*ck with the bloodline
Omg Dave is blaming WNBA for hardcore wrestling fans aka AEW fans, not watching AEW?! Hardcore wrestling fans don't give a shit about Caitlin Clark 😂😂
But I thought 690k was a good number
Fact they can’t even get near to a million for their A show is embarrassing
Strong? xD
Dave has to be getting paid by aew
I genuinely can’t wait for when WWE is on Netflix and AEW is on MAX so that ratings discourse can be officially dead
What will Tony and Jerifat brag about then?
So when aew hits again 500k it is going to be a other strong rating? Below 800k is strong ratings now. Meltzer the biggest mark and goof of wrestling
everything isn't centered around ratings dave
It absolutely is when they're negotiating for a new TV deal
@@nickmorris9311 he's reading minds, the man can just say he doesn't know
It's easy to say that when your "business" never has to turn a profit
@TyWashington-mf6hm because Tony has said they're not
@@keni95851 yea and i bet you're rolling in the dough huh
Why do folks care about tv ratings and AEW vs WWE? Like just enjoy wrestling for fuck sake. Both companies existing is what's best for the talent. Stop making a wrestling company your whole personality.
Dave is the one who invented ratings talk. Remember cody smashing the throne? AEW and Dave started this talk... remember Jericho saying they'd catch RAW by the end of the year? You can't rewrite history now that they're cold
Because Tony, Dave, Bryan, Jerifat and so many more in AEW can't stfu about them
They started it, now they are at the receiving end.
Look at ol' marble mouth Meltzer's face, when he is discussing the WBD deal. He's so excited that Aew is going to get a much weaker deal, but they'll twist it into a "win" because old ppvs will be on Max.
Ha.
The WNBA is now taking ratings away. What's going to happen when the Olympics start showing ping pong
The new NBA tv deal negotiations are what is holding this up
Aew is back!!!
I told you AEW on fire now.
Dumpster fire is a type of fire
2200 people in a 18K building for the supposed "mega card" is awful business, no matter how you slice it.
YO MELTZER, STOP CHEERLEADING FOR TINY KHAN. THE FANS HAVE SPOKEN, AEW IS TRASH.
He's definitely gonna read this, you tell him!
@@megatinmand5524triggered mark is triggered
The first 30 seconds of this are truly painful
Cue the angry biased haters in the comments that Bryan has said over and over again he doesn’t even look at 🤣 have fun yelling at your phone screen.
Cue the braindead followers of the observer who have no opinion of their own and blindly agree with their masters Alvarez and Meltzer. If you have a different opinion you are a biased hater. I'd rather that than be a part of a hive mind
Everyone just lets Dave interrupt them. Tell him you were making a point and keep talking .
Is that a strong rating? 😂
I imagine the negotiations are going the same way the taxi driver negotiated in don’t mess with zohan
Tony: we want $100 million
Wbd: no
Tony: 50 million
Wbd: no
Tony: we want another show
Wbd: no
Tony: how about an extra hour
Wbd: no
Tony: an extra 5 minutes on Wednesdays
Wbd: deal!
Dave: yeah this was a fantastic deal for aew
But yet aew is popping up on hbo max???
The bots have been so indoctrinated they believe a tv show that never dropped below top 10, is mostly within top 5, and has even sometimes been #1 is gonna get canceled. Its really sad
aew stans get real insecure about aew bots, wstine79 for example
Nice to see WO/F4W finally get a win with this strong AEW rating.