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AEW’s revenue is almost entirely from TV rights too, which is a relatively modern adjustment — at least to the degree where it is so significant. When Dave gloats about AEW’s “success,” bypassing every metric of actual popularity, he knows that he’s being disingenuous and grading on a sliding scale.
AEW stans will reject the idea of comparing ratings retroactively, but have no problem slipping modern TV rights into the discussion to compare AEW to past promotions.
Dave Meltzer and his ilk will also use AEW’s stadiums as talking points, overlooking that the goal was to run markets more reliability and sustainably back in the day. WCW did have some success in bigger venues, but their goal wasn’t to pack one massive building once a year (something AEW struggles to do anyway). They were also selling out their basketball arenas on the same night as the WWF was running theirs.
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