Punk said in the interview that the company wasn’t what it was sold to him. They told him before he joined that they were trying to appeal to a broader audience and wanted his star power. That was part of the reason he joined. After he had been there a few months he realized that’s never what they were about. They didn’t care about increasing revenue, ticket/merch sales and viewership. They only cared about having 5 star matches that appealed to Dave Meltzer. That’s why he said it wasn’t a real business on the Helwani show, and he’s absolutely correct about that.
I am not the world’s biggest punk fan, but I’ll take his side on this, but I will defend him about the “They’re not a real business.” I don’t think it’s fair to say “well if they’re not a real business why did you work there?” there’s been more than once in my life. I went in for a job interview, and the way the company was sold to me was not how the company was run at all. It’s not like he could go hang out at AEW for six months to see if he liked it or not and then signed the contract. If that was the case he probably would’ve never signed. I think what punk meant by them not being a real business is, they’re not a wrestling promotion that is in the business of trying to get wrestlers and wrestling shows over. Yes, they may have made $27 million but when you have to spend $100 million you only got back 27 million for example that’s not making a profit. I don’t know how much they’ve pulled in. I know they’ve brought in millions of dollars but Tony buy his own admission has told us that he has not made the hundred million back that he borrowed from his dad to start the company. Remember when WWE was making talent cut last year and Tony went out there and as always has to watch WWE like a hawk and comment on everything they do, he criticize them for letting people go, and he swore he would never do that. This week he’s done that he let people go because he’s realizing he’s not making the money back he spent more than he’s made. Tony is more interested in these dream matches where it’s just a series of high spots for the sake of doing high spots. Then he is learning wrestling psychology and learning how to grow a company. That’s what I believe he means because punk said himself they’re not really in the business of ratings and sales. Yes sometimes they do a very good house but that’s happening less and less now. When the company started they were doing good simply because they were not WWE. Well, WWE isn’t the same company it was in 2019. They’ve turned a lot of things around, and meanwhile look how many people have defected, and went back to WWE. And instead of just ignoring that and owing up to his mistakes and learning from them, and pushing forward, he’s a emotional with these knee-jerk reactions. A businessman doesn’t sit on the Internet all day looking to see what everyone says about him like this. So I think punk is right in that aspect.
According to Dave Melzer and I don’t believe everything Dave says Dave has his biased, but apparently the situation that made him fear for his life was not shown in that footage, but that footage is out there. Remember, this is according to Dave, but knowing Tony now that this is the footage, everyone thinks that made him scared for his life. He’s being made fun of really bad right now because everyone thinks “this is what scared him?” I wouldn’t be surprised with the emotional knee-jerk reactions that he has is if sometime in the next month, he shows us that footage too 😂
Bro, you let what Punk said and the facts behind them go COMPLETELY over your head. Punk did not tell Perry not to do the glass spot at All In. That was at a taping of Collision a few weeks before Wembley and then at Wembley, Perry went into business for himself calling out Punk on television when he looked into the camera and said, "Real glass! Cry me a river!" As far as the, "It's not a real business" comment; Punk didn't know that when he joined. He thought they were smarter and that a name like him could push them over the edge. He said, more than once in that interview, that it wasn't the business THEY SOLD IT TO HIM AS. Like seriously man, I'm 3 minutes into your video and so far everything you've said wrong based on your opinion of your wrong interpretation of whar Punk said. I wonder what else I'll find by the time I'll get to the end. This is gonna be fun.
It's NOT a legitimate business lol. They're operating at a loss. Tony has said how he spent more than a year's operating costs on licensing one song... How is that good business? They're running because he has money to put into it, but it's not bringing in anything
and none of them can be blamed for AEW's failure WCW and TNA, both previous competitors of WWE all crumbled down and fingers can be pointed to the same 3 people, Bischoff, Russo, and Hogan can't do that with AEW, and it's mind boggling that there's someone even worse than those 3 that currently runs the 2nd biggest promotion in the world right now
Sadly, Tony exposed himself. All he had to do was just ignore the interview. It’s not like Ponk has been on social media three times a week for the past six months, ranting and raving about AEW. He’s pretty much kept quiet about them until he was asked a question in the interview that he answered very calmly. But when you air footage that backs up his story, it really makes you look dumb and pathetic. It’s not like punk lied and said Jack Perry ran back there and started attacking him. He says he was the one that attacked Jack. OK great you use the footage to get 800,000 people to watch your show. If that’s what we’re celebrating that’s really sad that you get 800,000 people to watch your show you needed to air footage of a WWE wrestler beating up one of your guys. 800,000 if that’s what you needed to do to reach 800,000 you don’t deserve a national TV deal. Monday night raw in 1993 back in the day when Monday night raw was in front of 2000 people and WCW Saturday night when it was filmed every Saturday at centerstage in Atlanta with probably around I don’t know 1500 people were getting like three point ones in the ratings sometime. They were getting more than triple the amount of viewers back in the day before the big wrestling Boom of the late 90s .
Punk said in the interview bro that AEW didn't turn out to be what they sold it to him as. AEW was peak 2019-2022 but now their going in that WCW early 2000s territory
Just a few minutes in & this guy said "Their EVPs they should've talked to him" but they decided to cancel not one but two meetings setup by Tony Khan.
To every aew supporters who says its a successful company can you tell me how is aew successful when they are not making any profit? Tony is spending his own money to run the company and there is no profit and there wont be any profit any time soon. Wcw failed because they ran out of money if someone like tony owned wcw it would have survived😅 but thats not success Tony is buying air time to survive 😂😂😂😂 thats not success
Thats not why wcw folded look up ted turner he was worth more than khan. He owned the Atlanta hawks the Atlanta braves sesame street cnn time warner cable etc.
@@killaseason82 tony khan is not ted turner . Ted earned his money so he knew when to cut losses so he didnt want to invest more in wcw but tony khan had daddy’s money so he knows nothing about making or investing money. Bdw even Sahod Khan made his money from patents
@Debajyoti_P the point i was trying to make was wcw didn't go out of business do to lack of money. No matter how much wcw made or loss it was a blip on the company's radar either way. When the merger took place the new powers that be simply didn't want pro wrestling on their network. Nitro was still one of the top rated shows on tv
How about Tony put his owners pants on and be an owner and avert this whole situation. Instead he cowers and double talks and makes up numbers (29% vs 9%). It’s ok though because a smart investor looks at this and sees they’re just living on drama and gimmicks and wouldn’t think of a tv renewals with declining ratings.
Punk said in the interview that the company wasn’t what it was sold to him. They told him before he joined that they were trying to appeal to a broader audience and wanted his star power. That was part of the reason he joined. After he had been there a few months he realized that’s never what they were about. They didn’t care about increasing revenue, ticket/merch sales and viewership. They only cared about having 5 star matches that appealed to Dave Meltzer. That’s why he said it wasn’t a real business on the Helwani show, and he’s absolutely correct about that.
Punk is A Liar .
Ya lost me. I've worked for a lot of companies that run like crap. It's not an effective business
I am not the world’s biggest punk fan, but I’ll take his side on this, but I will defend him about the “They’re not a real business.” I don’t think it’s fair to say “well if they’re not a real business why did you work there?” there’s been more than once in my life. I went in for a job interview, and the way the company was sold to me was not how the company was run at all. It’s not like he could go hang out at AEW for six months to see if he liked it or not and then signed the contract. If that was the case he probably would’ve never signed.
I think what punk meant by them not being a real business is, they’re not a wrestling promotion that is in the business of trying to get wrestlers and wrestling shows over. Yes, they may have made $27 million but when you have to spend $100 million you only got back 27 million for example that’s not making a profit. I don’t know how much they’ve pulled in. I know they’ve brought in millions of dollars but Tony buy his own admission has told us that he has not made the hundred million back that he borrowed from his dad to start the company.
Remember when WWE was making talent cut last year and Tony went out there and as always has to watch WWE like a hawk and comment on everything they do, he criticize them for letting people go, and he swore he would never do that. This week he’s done that he let people go because he’s realizing he’s not making the money back he spent more than he’s made.
Tony is more interested in these dream matches where it’s just a series of high spots for the sake of doing high spots. Then he is learning wrestling psychology and learning how to grow a company. That’s what I believe he means because punk said himself they’re not really in the business of ratings and sales. Yes sometimes they do a very good house but that’s happening less and less now. When the company started they were doing good simply because they were not WWE. Well, WWE isn’t the same company it was in 2019. They’ve turned a lot of things around, and meanwhile look how many people have defected, and went back to WWE.
And instead of just ignoring that and owing up to his mistakes and learning from them, and pushing forward, he’s a emotional with these knee-jerk reactions. A businessman doesn’t sit on the Internet all day looking to see what everyone says about him like this. So I think punk is right in that aspect.
Tony Klown fearing for his life in that thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣
According to Dave Melzer and I don’t believe everything Dave says Dave has his biased, but apparently the situation that made him fear for his life was not shown in that footage, but that footage is out there. Remember, this is according to Dave, but knowing Tony now that this is the footage, everyone thinks that made him scared for his life. He’s being made fun of really bad right now because everyone thinks “this is what scared him?” I wouldn’t be surprised with the emotional knee-jerk reactions that he has is if sometime in the next month, he shows us that footage too 😂
@@bdr113080 Tony Khan s Bully Name Was Cm Punk .
Bro, you let what Punk said and the facts behind them go COMPLETELY over your head. Punk did not tell Perry not to do the glass spot at All In. That was at a taping of Collision a few weeks before Wembley and then at Wembley, Perry went into business for himself calling out Punk on television when he looked into the camera and said, "Real glass! Cry me a river!" As far as the, "It's not a real business" comment; Punk didn't know that when he joined. He thought they were smarter and that a name like him could push them over the edge. He said, more than once in that interview, that it wasn't the business THEY SOLD IT TO HIM AS. Like seriously man, I'm 3 minutes into your video and so far everything you've said wrong based on your opinion of your wrong interpretation of whar Punk said. I wonder what else I'll find by the time I'll get to the end. This is gonna be fun.
It's NOT a legitimate business lol. They're operating at a loss. Tony has said how he spent more than a year's operating costs on licensing one song... How is that good business? They're running because he has money to put into it, but it's not bringing in anything
AEW is somehow worst than Vince Russo’s WCW and Hogan Era TNA
It’s definitely up there!
and none of them can be blamed for AEW's failure
WCW and TNA, both previous competitors of WWE all crumbled down and fingers can be pointed to the same 3 people, Bischoff, Russo, and Hogan
can't do that with AEW, and it's mind boggling that there's someone even worse than those 3 that currently runs the 2nd biggest promotion in the world right now
Sadly, Tony exposed himself. All he had to do was just ignore the interview. It’s not like Ponk has been on social media three times a week for the past six months, ranting and raving about AEW. He’s pretty much kept quiet about them until he was asked a question in the interview that he answered very calmly. But when you air footage that backs up his story, it really makes you look dumb and pathetic. It’s not like punk lied and said Jack Perry ran back there and started attacking him. He says he was the one that attacked Jack. OK great you use the footage to get 800,000 people to watch your show. If that’s what we’re celebrating that’s really sad that you get 800,000 people to watch your show you needed to air footage of a WWE wrestler beating up one of your guys.
800,000 if that’s what you needed to do to reach 800,000 you don’t deserve a national TV deal. Monday night raw in 1993 back in the day when Monday night raw was in front of 2000 people and WCW Saturday night when it was filmed every Saturday at centerstage in Atlanta with probably around I don’t know 1500 people were getting like three point ones in the ratings sometime. They were getting more than triple the amount of viewers back in the day before the big wrestling Boom of the late 90s .
Punk said in the interview bro that AEW didn't turn out to be what they sold it to him as. AEW was peak 2019-2022 but now their going in that WCW early 2000s territory
Just a few minutes in & this guy said "Their EVPs they should've talked to him" but they decided to cancel not one but two meetings setup by Tony Khan.
To every aew supporters who says its a successful company can you tell me how is aew successful when they are not making any profit? Tony is spending his own money to run the company and there is no profit and there wont be any profit any time soon. Wcw failed because they ran out of money if someone like tony owned wcw it would have survived😅 but thats not success
Tony is buying air time to survive 😂😂😂😂 thats not success
Thats not why wcw folded look up ted turner he was worth more than khan. He owned the Atlanta hawks the Atlanta braves sesame street cnn time warner cable etc.
@@killaseason82 tony khan is not ted turner . Ted earned his money so he knew when to cut losses so he didnt want to invest more in wcw but tony khan had daddy’s money so he knows nothing about making or investing money. Bdw even Sahod Khan made his money from patents
@Debajyoti_P the point i was trying to make was wcw didn't go out of business do to lack of money. No matter how much wcw made or loss it was a blip on the company's radar either way. When the merger took place the new powers that be simply didn't want pro wrestling on their network. Nitro was still one of the top rated shows on tv
Mustard can u do like a WWE draft thing since it’s coming up?
I will soon
WCW 2000
How about Tony put his owners pants on and be an owner and avert this whole situation. Instead he cowers and double talks and makes up numbers (29% vs 9%).
It’s ok though because a smart investor looks at this and sees they’re just living on drama and gimmicks and wouldn’t think of a tv renewals with declining ratings.
aew is down terrible