All Elite Wrestling #1: AEW announced TV deal with TNT, partners with B/R Live

[Disclose]

 

[TimeZone]

Just scrolled ahead to next Saturday on my DVR. Double or Nothing is $94.99 CAD, holy crap.

Huh? It's 49.99 here in Nova Scotia.

 

[SeidoN]

£14.95 in UK

ill probably watch it the day after tho. alot more busy these days and cant be staying up that late

 

[Sheppy]

Huh? It's 49.99 here in Nova Scotia.

Could be that they just screwed up on my DVR. I figured it would be $50

 

[Sheppy]

Annnnnnd buried

 

[Disclose]

Could be that they just screwed up on my DVR. I figured it would be $50 View attachment 228119

its because you're paying 44.99 for the "weight in"

 

[SeidoN]

BREAKING: Harry Potter to AEW confirmed

 

[GKJ]

Going to be interesting to think about Adam Cole and Britt Baker in opposite promotions.

 

[KIRK]

It's like 100% gonna be 2 hours, based on reports. Sounds like Tuesday nights.

Smackdown competition . . .

 

[Disclose]

Smackdown competition . . .

FRidays on fox......

 

[KIRK]

FRidays on fox......

Oh hell, I forgot.

 

[Disclose]

Depends on which exact day they debut, they might go once head to head.

But no idea.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Depends on which exact day they debut, they might go once head to head.

But no idea.

I think the cycles all start the same week, so AEW’s first show would be the first week Smackdown begins on Fox on Fridays.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

BREAKING: Harry Potter to AEW confirmed

I didn't even see Radcliffe at first... Saw Tony Khan's glasses and thought it was a joke.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Iove how the drones are dismissing TNT as small time, because one of the two flagships for the NBA is small time compared to the likes of the almighty USA network

God I hope they get to a point where they can drop the hammer on WWE. Make the business interesting again. That's gonna take a long time but I have hope if they're patient, it can happen

 

[M.C.G. 31]

TNT and USA are in the same number of homes in the USA anyways.

 

[GKJ]

There's a reason that USA is willing to shell out billions for WWE. They have nothing else. If they didn't have WWE there's a decent chance they'd go under entirely.

 

[donkshow]

Just scrolled ahead to next Saturday on my DVR. Double or Nothing is $94.99 CAD, holy crap.

that seems problematic.

 

[JackSlater]

WWE fans should only be happy. There is no downside to what looks like possibly some legitimate competition, for wrestling in general and for WWE.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

WWE fans should only be happy. There is no downside to what looks like possibly some legitimate competition, for wrestling in general and for WWE.

A lot of WWE fans arent that bright, unfortunately.

 

[Kimi]

WWE fans should only be happy. There is no downside to what looks like possibly some legitimate competition, for wrestling in general and for WWE.

That's not strictly true.


If AEW isn't good, then it's bad for everyone. You now have even more hours of content to sift to see the guys you like and the overall quality of mainstream wrestling stays poor.

If AEW is good, but doesn't attract viewers, then it's terrible for everyone. It would show that there isn't a market for wrestling that is non-WWE and massively hamper the chance of another potential competitor coming along.

And even without extremes, there are plenty of edge cases where a second show on another channel may end up being a net negative for an individual.

 

[Jussi]

There's a reason that USA is willing to shell out billions for WWE. They have nothing else. If they didn't have WWE there's a decent chance they'd go under entirely.

But they're owned by NBC Universal...

 

[JackSlater]

That's not strictly true.


If AEW isn't good, then it's bad for everyone. You now have even more hours of content to sift to see the guys you like and the overall quality of mainstream wrestling stays poor.

If AEW is good, but doesn't attract viewers, then it's terrible for everyone. It would show that there isn't a market for wrestling that is non-WWE and massively hamper the chance of another potential competitor coming along.

And even without extremes, there are plenty of edge cases where a second show on another channel may end up being a net negative for an individual.

Not really. If the company comes out and fails then it wasn't even competition to begin with and isn't worth considering in this context. If the quality of wrestling stays poor then nothing is lost, and even if the product is bad it will still be easier for people to see the wrestlers that they like than in the current situation. A bad product can also still expose good wrestlers to a wider audience. Even TNA was an overall positive for wrestling in that you could ignore the bad but still watch the good.

If the product is a legitimate competitor it either inspires others to better their product ad they do, or the others die or are marginalized. Nothing wrong there. The problem of it being on another channel is a good problem because, as was seen in the 90s, you have choices to make between different products that you want to see but ultimately you can sample from any company that is worthwhile.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

But they're owned by NBC Universal...

Well you can track most things nowadays back to a conglomerate

They own us all.

But really it’s kinda fun to do. Especially with food. You can usually track anything back food wise to a couple of companies.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

WWE fans should only be happy. There is no downside to what looks like possibly some legitimate competition, for wrestling in general and for WWE.

It's kinda weird observing them on social media, they're like so inside the WWE bubble they're cheering for a company to fail before ever seeing it