Netwoks don't even use Nielsen ratings anymore so why do you? And they literally just had the highest grossing show in Smackdown's 20 year history lol. Summerslam packed in well over 50k with another event going on across the street. lol okay kid.

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he only thing keeping them afloat is brand recognition, TV deals, and Saudi blood money.

Oh yeah thats a huge burn for a company that gets $700 million a year just in US tv/streaming deals. What next? The NFL will shut down if they change the team names and they lose the tv contracts? This is just sad lol.

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Just look at how much of WWE's audience is comprised of people over the age of 50

Oh you mean how they have children all over the place at their live events? Families go to WWE events. Neckbeards go to AESJW events. It's even more glaring when you look at international audiences.

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I would even argue that WWE isn't even a wrestling company any longer. Really, they haven't been a wrestling company since the early 80s, but it's more true today than ever. They bring in and push talent just by virtue of the fact that they are big strong muscle men despite their being green as grass in the ring and having no personality whatsoever at the expense of actual wrestling talent.

They train all their talent in the exact same way to wrestle the same generic WWE style. All the wrestlers sound exactly the same because they're all reading the same scripts written by the same people.

They fill their company with business executives and writers who have no clue about the wrestling business and wear it almost like a badge of honor. Many of their writers probably couldn't even name half the wrestlers on the roster.

Purely as an entertainment product, WWE is more popular than AEW same as the NFL blows away both properties, but AEW is a wrestling product. Maybe as a result AEW will never overtake WWE in total viewership, but if I am a wrestling fan, I am watching AEW. If I am a wrestler, working for AEW seems a hell of a lot more fun than working for WWE.

As an AEW talent, I'm free to get myself over. I don't have my promos written for me that I have to read off a script. I can also go wrestle anywhere I want. Want to go to Japan? Sure. Mexico? Sure. Impact Wrestling? Sure. Can't do that in WWE.

I'm not reading the rest of this hot garbage but WWE has said for two decades they are a sports entertainment company because that's what the business as always been. "Pro" wrestling isn't done by guys doing 20 superkicks and 10 Canadian destroyers in a match. It's not done by very vanilla vanilla midgets who all look and wrestle the EXACT SAME STYLE.

BTW, if AESJW is so great and such a competitor then why do they have to keep signing ex-WWE guys to get cheap pub? Even with doing that, their "A" show STILL doesn't compete despite having no competition on it's night and it's B show has lost over half of its debut audience in less than 2 months.

They continually talk about selling out events, yet they still have hundreds, if not thousands of tickets available the day of events, and then there are twice that many available on the resale market.

It's a joke company run by joke people for a joke audience that simps for a joke product.

They will never be a viable competitor for WWE. Then. Now. Forever.