AEW has a 18-49 problem | Wrestling Observer Radio
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discuss AEW's current problem with its 18-49 demographic that's continually shrinking.
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Bryan sounds like a therapist trying to help a patient realize they’re the problem.
Yes. Meltzer sounds like he is missing a screw
"if you take out the 18-49 number they're actually about the same!"
Brother, that's like 95% of your audience.
It’s not which makes the money mark yelling about that number be so pathetic. That demo is only 20% of the audience.
After the playoffs it'll be "it's summer people aren't watching TV", then football season, then the holidays.
Then in the winter "economy is bad only rich people watch AEW"
And repeat
Then the new alcohol store down the alley.
It's hilarious "went against the playoffs" like the NBA doesn't do playoffs every year. Year over year you are down and it definitely hasn't been "over the last few weeks". Uncle Dave needs to stop spinning excuses because then TK grasps at it and nothing changes
Did you all forget it was a leap year? Aew can't compete with that.
Ha.
Remember when the key demo was the only thing that mattered and now it's: "that's the only demo that's dropping so its not a big deal" lol
Yup. They bragged about the demos all year.
Man your comprehension sucks.
Yeah, it's madness.
Remember when you had a life and didn't obsess over something you claim to hate? Yeh me neither
@@Behaving_Golem What did I claim to hate? Since you know me and my life so well, please point out what I said I hated that you also think I'm obsessing over. All I know is when AEW was hot all I ever heard about was the "key demo" and how that was the most important thing and the only number that mattered and now Dave is handwaving it like "oh its just one demo don't worry".
Excuses are running thinner.
If you have that much talent just sitting around and going to waste over shitty cheap looking production, bored mute crowds, deluded owner and terminally online fanbase of 100 something neckbeards. It'll be over soon as the gravy train hits the last station.
The Bucks and Jack Perry are not over.
Except they are? Maybe actually watch the show...
@@doctorx45 that's the point.... Nobody is watching... And apparently nobody is going to the shows... This you know..
@@doctorx45keep convincing yourself lmao.
@@doctorx45 well no!
@@doctorx45 By what metric?
Dave always dancing around the topic instead of just saying “18-49 viewers is declining because they’re telling you Dynamite in its current state is bad television right now.”
He’ll never admit that his favorite wrestlers, “friends”, and style of wrestling isn’t appealing to a wide audience
@@jerrybarry3148 They are appealing to some extent, it's how aew got off the ground in the first place. 90% of the problems in that company stem back to TK's booking and management, both of which are trash.
Dave will never blame The Young Bucks
Meltzer is seriously delusional.
All because the Buckaroos have convinced him that they are his friends.
Same thing they did with Tony Khan.
The Bucks continue to rake in tons of money on contract for jobs that they are not qualified for. All the while killing the company they work for, with their bad ideas, bad acting, and their awful influence which leads to actual big stars wanting to leave AEW.
NEVER!!!
He will never admit that the Bucks are ratings poison. What sane person wants to see those 2.😅
Because they're actually the best part of the show. Dumbasses who don't watch shouldn't comment.
Most AEW fans, myself included.
The World Champion has been booked like a geek since he won the title, "Mega stars" have quickly become "just another guy" (which was always AEW's problem) and theres barely anything connecting the week to week shows. You could skip the next 3 weeks of TV and not lose any story development. Banger matches is fine in a bubble, but you need the thread of continuity to keep fans tuning in week in week out.
1,000%
This is basically what Alvarez is trying to say but Dave constantly shouts him down with “all cable is down” 😂
These ‘banger’ matches also don’t appeal to a mainstream audience - they look too choreographed / fake.
100% this right here
This is Dave's favorite type of wrestling. He'll never admit people dont care for it, it'll be admitting he was wrong.
Dave definitely gets off on telling people him saying ROH couldn’t fill out an arena is the reason this company started in the first place. He thinks he’s the captain and he will go down with his ship
He's so "out of touch"
"People don't care for it," pretty laughable assertation.
@@doctorx45 the ratings and attendance suggest it is hardly setting the world ablaze. Or breaking even for that matter
@@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan8419 Ah yes, YOU certainly know how to fix things. Such smart and original advice.
The issue...is....THE BOOKING.
Laaaazzzzyyyyyy boooookkkkiiinnggg
@@masonteague4039 Like when Cornette booked a mummy? Or booked himself against a Ninja Turtle? Or turned away his audience booking inflammatory racial angles?
@@duckmercy11 none of that has anything to do with what is happening right now in the present, genius. Stop getting your feelings hurt when people criticize AEW. No one is talking about the guy that has the number one wrestling podcast in the world. The topic is AEW.
Dave would never admit it. He gets to hang and talk to his favorite wrestlers and booker/owner.
He won’t ever give them a proper bury they deserve
The bookin could use some work for sure. But this won't get better as long as TK refuses to let someone sniff the book.
Dave "everything is fine" Meltzer as the ratings and attendance numbers fall off a cliff.
Dave got real angry once Bryan talked about Tony's booking. 😂😂😂😂
almost look like he book it instead of Tony😂
The booking is terrible overall that should not be controversial. They have the roster and talent to succeed
@@mattb6616 Not when you have the Bucks & Jungle Whocares at the top (matters little if you have the roster) imho. Midcarders should not be pushed as main eventers.
Dave's so out of touch
@@thedishonestjeffsokol2489the irony being he railed on Cornette for being out of touch
So fun to watch Dave do mental gymnastics trying to justify the fall. Worth the view
Which of the 18 titles is supposed to be the top title again?
The one Justin Bieber had.The Taz belt.
There's not 18 titles,
@@TheSteveTell how many are there ?
the one from a different company in a different country
The insecurity footage killed this company. It’s the finger poke of doom moment.
I never thought of it like that. But you made a great point
They both tried to tiptoe around that. "There is something else going on."
Except it didn't? Like at all?
@@doctorx45 It didn't cause the ratings to crater? LOL thats a nice cope. Sneed harder.
@@doctorx45 it’s going to be in all the fall of aew documentaries. Just wait
AEW is down in viewership on youtube too.
Shhh they don’t talk about that 😂
It's a leap year though. So, you can't look at RUclips viewership and expect it to compete.
Ha.
@@Am0ment0fB People are cord cutting from youtube
They won’t ever bring that up
Basketball highlights are driving it down…
because if you miss a Dynamite and watch one 3 weeks later it doesn't feel you've missed anything
Mainly coz there are some matches etc that are just in a vaccum for that particular episode. It's definitely an issue but wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't all over the shows.
Aew has a stigma. Indy guys who aren't tv calibre or old wwe guys who want a pay out. They are both true and it can't be shaken off
Yea but Edge And Bryan Danielson are doing some of they're best wrestling matches recently
@@rickgiles7955 If Edge and Danielson have the best matches of their career every week, sooner or later they just become other matches. There’s no build to anything regardless of the quality.
You can have good matches. Matches become great by adding build up to it while connecting with the fans, causing them to be invested into it. That’s where booking comes into play.
@@rickgiles7955 Who cares what they are doing? I've seen them for 20 years. I am not that interested in those guys anymore, I don't care what the "quality" of matches are
@@rickgiles7955the matches aren’t great if people aren’t watching them
It's the booking. It's crap...
And yet u continue to watch Wednesday after Wednesday
@@population-_-420shoo man child
Some seem to enjoy it.
@@kev30631A small some.
AEW is building their entire program around a tag team that makes 10%+ of the audience change the channel, a Japanese wrestler that’s still very much an unknown to the vast majority of the American audience, and a small wrestler whose big claim to fame was nearly getting his ass kicked by the guy everyone wanted to tune in to watch weekly. This is a mystery why this isn’t working?
lol. the flaws in the booking should be very obvious and easy to fix, but hey. whatever.
Tremendous.
Jim Cornette was correct from day 1. Mark booking catering to a small niche indie crowd that will diminish over time
Cornette was also one of the ppl who jumped on the AEW bandwagon when the WWE talent wanted releases so they could go there.
@@decepticonxhunter4850 as he's said a million times. he wanted AEW to succeed....he wanted genuine competition and an alternative to WWE that did pro wrestling and not sports entertainment. He's bitterly disappointed at the missed opportunity
It had nothing to do with that. It was them losing Cody Rhodes and then cm punk.
Period . full stop.
Issue is Tony Khan. His embarrassing antics made people not wanna associate themselves with the name AEW.
Part of the reason
Calling wwe the Harvey Weinstein of wrestling when he has ric flair and Chris Jericho employed is the definition of tone deaf. You don’t have the high moral ground anymore Tony
@@zachbrown1988 what has Jericho done
@@random_vat Jericho is an embodiment of a walking stinking big piece of monkey crap. I was Team AEW for Wardlow Hobbs MJF even Takashita instead I get some of the biggest pieces of horse turd in the form of Jericho The Hardys. Add Ric Flair & now Mercedes. Tony turned AEW into what I got away from years ago.
@zachbrown1988 what was Jericho ever charged with? What was the court case?
When AEW was dominating 18-34 several years ago, Dave would only quote that number and say that WWE winning overall viewership didn’t matter because advertisers only look at 18-34. Now he suddenly cares about overall viewership when it argues in favor of AEW🤔
As long as Tony Khan continues to push the overpaid, overexposed, underperforming, & unqualified Young Bucks as main eventers in AEW (let alone real-life company executives with influence)…
this place cannot be taken seriously as a quality wrestling company.
It’s been 4 years already Tony… these guys aren’t it…🤦🏻♂️
Wake Up
Don't forget the former Sasha Banks. Don't leave her
People like Dave don’t understand that they are doing a lot of harm to AEW by never holding them accountable and making excuses for their shortcomings. They are never going to grow or survive if they don’t learn from their mistakes, and they have to know what mistakes they made.
The show being bad is the problem. The minute the Bucks, Omega, Adam Page and Jack Perry got washed by Punk in one way or another and Tony didn’t capitalize on that and make money with it, that was it.
They’re WCW 2.0
This is the same group that let Cody go.
Cmon now.
It’s only a matter of time David
Such a shame, too.
Because there is so much potential in AEW…
Real talent in that company that doesn’t get the chance to properly shine due to faulty ‘leadership’.
And with the money of a billionaire behind it, this should be a true WCW 1996/97.
But Tony Khan keeps backing the wrong horses from Cucamunga to lead. And we are left with this mess of a show 🤦🏻♂️
"Washed by Punk" you e drones are so delusional 😂
Yes Dave the bucks ARE the problem. And maybe having a 50+ year old Copeland come out and beg viewers to watch and say "wrestling is cool" didn't help
He literally left judgement day cause he didn’t want to be involved in supernatural angles only to wind up in a promotion where a sorceress magical mist is turning him evil
@zachbrown1988 lmao yes exactly
Dave is such an AEW ball glazer lol I love AEW but I’m not blind to their struggles. Also I wish AEW AND Dave would stop bringing up WWE in AEW conversations
Screw AEW😒
AEW sucks😒
laughing and crying watching Alvarez desperately trying to teach Dave that the world title in a promotion should be treated as the most important thing on the show for the fans, and that if guys want to get treated seriously as top talent by the fans, they should be at least chasing that title.
People pay money to listen to this guy talk in circles?
That surprises me as well. Dave can't complete a sentence.
Slim pickings. I’d rather listen to him then the dozens of 30 something year old British dudes
@@KM-ye3ij hail the queen lol
I wish dave well. Listening to Jim Cornette verbally eviscerate him most weeks is so entertaining.
Could never be me
"it's the same as WWE "
FORGET WWE😂😂
Has a point need to forget them and focus bc aew is in trouble we can delute ourselves all we want but the facts are the facts
This guy needs help. He can't get
@Terri234 wwe is profitable more and more every year this whole “but wwe” shit don’t matter and dave enabling Tony and his bs ain’t helping aew it’s actually harmful. When wwe was trash everyone held there feet to the fire including dave you gotta hold aew feet to the fire so they can get better
It’s not the young bucks that have consistently chased off viewers for two years. How does anyone take Dave seriously when he says this?
Why does Dave ignore all the stats?
David, listen, the key demo vanishes exactly when the Bucks are on the screen and then come back when they're gone. It's not that nuanced.
I try to support AEW but in recent times it just hasn't been good enough to watch regularly. I'm watching more football, F1 and IndyCar recently
The AEW diehards try to pretend that fans like you and I don't exist, fans who used to like AEW and are moving away from the product.
Nothing really to add but I just wanted say it's nice to come across another IndyCar fan.
I think the problem in AEW is a combination of a bunch of reasons:
1)Cody Rhodes ,their founding member leaving & becoming the biggest babyface in their rival promotion
2)CM Punk leaving
3)5 hours of TV throughout the week(instead of earlier 3 hrs) causing a bit burnout
4) Increase in ticket prices
5) Marketing & Merchandise team being a bit underwhelming
6) Running the same markets and making it less must see and exhausting for that local audience
7) WWE booking & product becoming way better due to Vince McMahon's exit
8) Doing storylines based on niche Twitter audience too much and not even explaining it on TV making non hardcores confused at times
9) Tony Khan having to not only book 3 Aew TV shows,but also Ring Of Honor
10) Introduction of way to many championships
11) Losing the cool factor it had 2 years ago
12) Signing way too many wrestlers on the roster & trying to push many people at the same time
13) Wrestlers vanishing suddenly & coming back, causing the audience to forget about them at times
14)Not following up major storyline angles in a big way
Your writing gospel. I agree with all your points 👍
The booking has sucked for longer than 4 weeks.
The bookings actually been better in the last 4 weeks. I guess they chose the wrong time to bring in the Bucks Khan storyline
@@random_vat the parts of the show that are disconnected from the bucks angles are good. but theyre ratings poison
@@mattb6616 agreed
@@mattb6616 I mean they have made a soup of the Edge Black storyline, horrible booking. Toni in a meaningless feud with Thunder, Deeb. The Bucks thing is good, Swerve thing is catching up. Rest is trash
Boy, Dave better hope those numbers bounce back up to 800k+ after the playoffs are over, or he's gonna look like a bit of a goof for saying the P2+ number is "completely normal" aside from the playoffs. We are about six weeks removed from Bryan telling people "not to panic" over a ~750k number because it wasn't a trend yet.
I don't think AEW are going to "die" any time soon, but boy does it get tiring seeing Meltzer et al. doing these cartwheels every week to say things really aren't that bad actually. Tickets are down, buys for the last PPV were down, ratings are down... even YT views are down. And he never even talks about the fact that all of this is happening in a year in which they signed Okada, Ospreay and the former Sasha Banks to big money contracts to have the exact opposite influence on the numbers.
All due respect… Dave and these guys already look like goofs.
They are barely catching up to all these issues, when loads of people have been pointing them out for years now. When there was STILL a chance to try and fix them before things got to this level.
Once you lose the goodwill of the fans, it’s a lot harder to win them back.
Dave will try to find. Every excuse in the book. To defend AEW ratings.
"Whats changed in the last 4 weeks? The bucks? No no no its not them. Perhaps. No no no theyre not the whole show." Bruh.
All I know is I change the channel when I see them. I feel like most people do
I'm part of the 18-49 demo, but stopped watching for two reasons that could be factors leading to the lower ratings - my free time is increasingly limited and I cancelled cable due to how expensive it is. I would still be watching their TV shows if not for those reasons regardless of the perception of the product.
baby glove excuses, excuses
A VPN plus AEW Plus on FITE TV for $7.99/month. Problem solved.
Do you watch RUclips t clips? Cause those are down too.
Didnt dave say the last 2 years when aew was winning the demo is thats all that matters. Now he basically going back on that
Yes, now it seem to be the exact opposite. What a 🤡.
Typical AEW fan behavior
The booking has done nothing to convince you the show is must see or can’t miss. Everything is inconsequential.
I’m 31, I find myself rolling my eyes more and more at AEW. It feels stale because it’s the same people doing the same thing almost every week and I honestly could care less because I’m not invested in the characters.
How do you talk for almost 18 mins without mentioning that the show is terrible? That’s why they’re hitting record lows in viewership, demo, and attendance.
dave almost shed a tear when bryan started talking about the booking you could hear it in his voice he was offended by the mere suggestion tonys booking hasnt evolved
It’s a terrible show and the Bucks aren’t over
You ain’t lying
Facts ong 💯
Good point
These guys over here acting like WWE wasn't the worst kind of garbage for multiple years.
Lol, OK
Tony khan (Wearing a hot dog suit while booking the NWO if they looked like middle schoolers, his two new male gamechangers as mid-carders, his top female gamechanger to never do the only thing she’s good at and wrestle, and his AEW world champion on an island) - “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
Honestly she has never really been that good in the ring either, she has botches in every match she’s in. Also two of the worst to ever happen when she put all her weight behind a double kick to the base of Paige’s neck breaking her spine and causing temporary paralysis on the entire left side of her body and go blind in her left eye, then her slipping off the rope and shattering her ankle to the point it needed reconstructive surgery and retrieved the recommendation of retirement from her Dr.’s
They blamed the nba playoffs, and then Dave says how nba ratings are down this year.
They will never admit it’s a bad show! And that Bucks angle is not working at all! There’s no real continuity to anything, just random people wrestling randomly. Tony is a horrible booker. Dave just won’t admit it
In fairness, Bryan does take AEW to task when he's with Vinny. He's a completely different guy when he's not constantly interrupted.
@@stacymirba1433 Yeah, Bryan's starting to turn babyface with me again recently after his post-Brawl Out heel turn. He's capable of being honest about at least some of AEW's issues
the bucks angle is such a confused and inconsistent bomb
It's not working because he didn't listen to the online fans that were giving him better ideas fir free
What’s crazy is how much Dave insulted WCW for its shortcomings but looks the other way when AEW is doing the EXACT same thing.
No, they have a Tony Khan problem, a young bucks problem, a Jack Perry problem, an Orange Cassidy problem, a Chris Jericho problem.
When I still watched AEW all those guys made me change the channel immediately
Dave: “this is just one age group”
Also Dave previously when they were doing well in the demo: “this is the only age group that matters”
So Dave’s also going to ignore the empty seats too?
Thier is nothing weird on the ratings drop. The booking is horrific, they are pushing the wrong people. Isn’t it obvious? Dave keeps refusing to believe that. Lol
When are they going to admit that the bucks and Jericho are a turn off? I know they are their “friends” but as “reporters” it’s not that difficult to understand why people are turning off the show and not coming back.
The booking for Swerve has been atrocious since he won the title. The company treats him like a mid-card champion, because he might as well be with the Bucks and Okada taking up screen time.
Young Bucks are a huge problem. Random "dream matches" with no story is a problem. Unknown wrestlers from other promotions wrestling on TV without buildup is a problem. But Tony Khan booking is the main problem
Dream matches for who?
Hmmm... I wonder what happened approximately 4 weeks ago to drive people away from AEW? I'm just completely stumped!
Dave almost admitted to an AEW problem, he was close, but it wouldn’t be a RUclips clip without AEW excuses…it just can’t be an error AEW has made, as in his mind it’s the better wrestling show. So it can do no wrong.
Tony needs to be removed as head booker immediately and they need to give the book to Scott D'amore , and the bucks need to be stripped of their EVP titles and creative control
The fact is,is that the honeymoon stage is over, when they started the fans were dying for something else, they hated Vince and his repetitive cheesey product, and were willing to accept anything being competitive, and now Vince is gone, the WWE is cool again and Tony Khan and also Dave have completely nerded wrestling out so badly that it's starting to catch up
That Freaking Melzer is Full of Sh..
How could he still defend that promotion so much
He’s probably lying to himself as much as he is to everyone else.
I'm probably an anomaly but I'm in that age bracket and I started watching AEW because New Japan was starting to get so stale and I was sick of every match needing to be "epic". Now all the worst guys from NJPW are in AEW (Ospreay, White, Juice, Ibushi, Fletcher) and a lot of them are getting big pushes. I liked the idea that investing your time long-term as an AEW fan meant you would start to get to see their own guys rise to the top. Other than MJF they haven't let that happen -- the fact Moxley has three world title reigns and Darby has zero speaks to this issue. It's hard to fully support a company that is constantly undercutting its own identity.
I saw a guy get flipped by another guy's penis after being carried out by penis druids that was the first time I saw any AEW at a friend's house I knew then it wasn't going to get any better so I've never never bothered to watch it again outside of clips.
Yes, they do have a problem. The booking is terrible, they have no idea how to create a star or get people over, and nobody cares about the bucks or jack perry, it's not that difficult to figure out but these two will keep creating excuses to protect Tony's feelings.
There are no characters or personalities that people can relate to unlike during the WWE attitude era. The problem with the Bucks is that most fans would not be intimidated by them in a real life altercation. Outside of MJF and Toni Storm, nobody is really into character development. The AEW crowd and fanbase doesn't help either.
Dave still finding excuses is honestly embarassing.
Pretty narcissistic to think the Bucks were over enough to suddenly become roughshod top heels. They literally didn't do anything for a couple years, and clearly don't have the size or look to be taken seriously as top heels. And maybe Jungle Boy could take down that hair bun and stop blowing the greatest opportunity he might ever receive in wrestling.
Imo, the fact that the Bucks took it upon themselves to become the top heels is an indictment on the other heel factions for not getting any real heat or doing a good job at making ppl be emotionally invested in their feuds.
I think what's happened is that after two and a half years of repeatedly pointing out the problems with the presentation of the characters and stories, people are finally, really, disconnecting from the product. Repeatedly and stubbornly putting the best match on first, frantic builds the last two weeks before a PPV because they spent months doing nothing, releasing AEW original talent for rentals, having too many belts, featuring non-AEW stars week after week, lack of vignettes to build characters and stories, and most of all, chaotic hot/cold booking, the valid AEW criticisms mostly came from those of us who wanted AEW to succeed. People are probably just deciding that nothing is going to change, and moving on.
The NBA, the NHL, and the new gas station that opened down the street
This is 17 minutes of excuses and coping. Also known as top tier journalism.
“If you ignore the decline, it’s practically the same BRYAAAAN”
Too many wrestlers, too many belts. AEW was more over with a quarter of their roster.
Remember the 4 pillars, remember when the show felt like it had direction cause they booked the whole show around a strong group of 10 wrestlers that you could follow and get invested in?
Now they have a rotating group of like 40 wrestlers that they cycle through and they all wrestle the New Japan style and they're all given 15-20 minutes and none of it matters!
Undisputed Kingdom was at the center of the largest storyline AEW had all last spring, summer, and fall and that stable is barely featured and there's zero continuity to their appearances
Undisputed Kingdom being a top faction fell apart when cole clearly wasn't coming back in ring any time soon,Also they didn't even exist last summer or fall they formed in December.Only 2 of the 4 pillars were stars at the time and that's MJF and Darby,Jack and Sammy were not a their level back then.The show has more direction now than ever when they have monthly PPVs to focus TVs and a third tv show now too with Collision.If you think all AEW wrestlers wrestle strong style idk what to tell you but they don't lol.
@@97ECW so in your mind AEW doesn't have a problem? Cause it reads like you completely missed the point
@@HenrySchecker The only thing out of what you said that's an actual issue is too many championships,The continental and international should be merged and the FTW title should go away after this HOOK/Jericho feud is over.
Yea it’s too many belts! I can’t keep up with it!
The amount of belts is only an issue because it highlights how bad the booking is.
Most AEW fans I knew used to faithfully defend AEW, that was 2 years ago, fast forward today, they told me it's not possible to defend AEW any longer, Tony Khan repeatedly making dumb immature comments every month, The Bucks, Hangman and Jungle Boy's toxic indierific Recida childishness have exposed them as a company impossible to defend.
If THIS platform is speaking badly i.e. TRUTHFULLY about AEW, you KNOW they're in bad shape creatively.
Fonzie really wants to leap over than coke snorting shark.
Dave, how can you be such a hypocrite? For years, you have said that the key demo is what the network is looking at, and now you're saying that if you removed the key demo, they did fine? Man, make it make sense. Tell things how they are. This is why you keep losing credibility. Also, the playoffs excuse is bs at this point. The playoffs happen every year, and their numbers haven’t been this bad before. That's a reflection on their product, not just that there's something better on tv.
9:33 dave sounded like a hound dog 😂😂😂.
TK's decision to air the CM punk footage happened just over 4 weeks ago. I was starting to get tired of the booking, but that decision really soured me on the product. I don't even like CM punk, but that decision just made TK look immature and incompetent, like something a kid would do. I still watch because all my favourite wrestlers happen to be signed there, but I can definitely see myself turning it off soon if things don't pick up. I don't have faith in TK's ability to book anymore. If he is able to sign all the big names he should be able to hire a competent booker.
Crazy how so many people take time out of their way to watch these videos and expose themselves in the comments. It's like people are allergic to listening, learning, growing.
This video gets 2.0 stars!!!!
Could've been 5 but not in Tokyo Dome
Tony Khan is a terrible booker who produces wrestling television that is not appealing to an American viewing audience. Blaming sports playoffs has always been a weak excuse
AEW will never grown beyond its niche audience. That has been proven over five years. The only person to increase merchandise, interest and viewers was fired; while the rest of the circus works once or twice a month and gets checks. AEW is Wrestling Make A Wish for wrestlers.
Didn't Jericho have an entire gimmick based around the demo because of Meltzer saying it was the important part of ratings?
“The Demo God”
AEW has to create interesting stories that keep people watching.
PEOPLE WILL STILL SAY AEW HAS NO STORIES 🤷
@@six6thdisciple AEW has stories, but they don't tell them consistently well. At the moment I like the women's division, but I'm not even sure what I should be expecting on Wednesday. They lack the Steve Austin or DX kinds of characters that bring life to everything (and attract the more juvenile instincts in all of us). There is no sense of imminent danger.
On the other hand, I'm not sure what the Tony Storm story is supposed to be ATM, but I enjoy every moment of it. Willow is killing it on the mic and Mercedes is elevating the show simply with her star power. The Acclaimed's title run was good and had a spark of danger in it, which they still could rekindle. The Elite is like a dollar store Main event Mafia, but not in a bad way. AEW has also been doing more live promos, which adds liveliness to the shows.
I am a terrible writer.
Name 3 interesting stories over the last 4 months.
I hope when I’m 64 I look more like Jim than Dave 🤞
They are saying that because the playoffs are on, that's the reason that the ratings are down.
Its because the product is absolutely shitty. And they think its because of other sports 🤦
Its really unfortunate that the NBA decided to have playoffs this year....
Like they don't face the playoffs last year and the year before. The ratings are down because they arent putting on a good show
Daves face looks like a Halloween sprit store mask😂😂😂
Thanks guys
The big angle in AEW is the Young Bucks. For 2 straight years, basically every Young Bucks segment has cratered in the ratings. But lets not see a correlation here
This is the same guy who said Osprey, Okada, and Sasha were going to draw big. It doesnt matter who you have when the booking and shows are bad. Plain and simple. 2000 Wcw was bad also and they had big names. BOOKING is the common theme here
Dave just can’t admit that the Bucks and Jack Perry just cant draw. He literally seems to spend most of the conversation mumbling out justifications and excuses. What’s the excuse going to be once the playoffs end? “Nobody’s watching because of Summer” “Nobody’s watching because of Football season” “ Nobody’s watching because of the holidays” AEW desperately needs a focused episodic direction.
In words of jim cornette
Lazy booking!!!!
“Aside from 18-34 there’s not even a drop” is wild
As a Brit, why is the 18-49 demo so important? How do they even know the ages of everyone watching?
As an American I always ask the same question how do they know who's actually watching? Is my 23 year old son watching am I watching? They have no way of knowing
Advertisers think that those are the people who spend their money. I guess people who are over 50 don't spend money
Here is a simple explanation of the difference in quality of Booking. Kazuchika Okada, who is being paid 10 times the money and is 10 times the star that Tama Tonga is, seems like a smaller star than Tama Tonga right now. Tama is straight away inserted into a storyline woth KO and Randy, 2 top stars. Okada is looking like a lackey to the Bucks and just doing good matches
Ocody.
I used to like AEW. My two cents, AEW is telling its best story right now, but the Bucks as heels look like rejects from a high school play. If they don’t take their heel persona seriously, it’ll just continue to be a train wreck
If MJF can take over as the heel lead against TK and kick Bucks out of the faction, you have potential
Tony being able to see who are stars is a major issue. From major angles to using indie talent when half your gigantic roster is sitting at home.
The only people who are"sitting at home"for the most part are really people that are injured or out for personal reasons like Hangman right now.Very very few just aren't being booked and those are low card talent.As for Tony being able to see who are stars Okada is a star and presented like one,Swerve is a star and presented like one,Ospreay is a star and presented like one,Mercedes is a star and presented like one,Cope is a star and presented like one,Darby is a star and presented like one,Hangman is a star and presented like one,Willow is a star and presented like one etc.
@@97ECW I don't even mean just the stars, have weaker members of roster lose instead of ppl from outside . And why is Ricky Starks off TV when he said he wasn't injured, have him lose if he's jumping ship at the end of contract. And you could have made a much stronger faction against Tony than Bucks & Perry.
@@Jablonski83Weaker members of the roster lose all the time what role do you think The Righteous,STP,Komander,The Renegades,Iron savages,And DCF have.If you're referring to Tommy Billington losing vs Dax it's clear they were giving him a try out match since thy were in Canada and his families history there.I think with Ricky Tony figures why invest any time into if he's leaving soon which is understandable.Also The Elite aren't a faction that's against Tony they're against the babyfaces of AEW as a whole and they've gotten great heat with this heel EVP role ever since the STING & Darby feud.
@@97ECW cope
1-The match outcomes are predictable, so there’s no tension or drama in them. You always know who will win/lose. 2- Theres no interesting storylines. 3- The Bucks (main heels now) are cringe, and very bad at what they do.
Look at last year's ratings around this time 💀
It's not a 4 week thing Dave