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Old 03-21-2022, 04:18 PM   #8441
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Originally Posted by XL View Post
I may be wrong here (often am as I’m not subscribed to this one vs. the other nonsense, and I’m not on Twitter) but the guy that posted that is a fan, not affiliated with AEW at all outside of being a fan. So how does the criticism become of AEW not being able to “take a win”?
The whole culture around this is stupid. xrod is right — you could have just told the truth. It’s this need — and it’s shared by fans, the company and commentators like Meltzer — to prop this thing up way more than is honest or reflective of the reality we live in.

It’s pissing in the wind and saying it’s raining. It’s annoying and people are allowed to be annoyed by it. In some cases it can even turn people away from enjoying a product. Who likes it when Jehovah’s Witnesses actually come to the door, right? And it’s harmful to historically accurate discourse. It doesn’t do AEW any favors to pretend that they are overachieving and there’s no work to be done when it comes to repairing the view many people have of wrestling.

AEW doing its record gate is fine. We don’t need the comparisons to promotions that thrived back in the day of actual ticket offices. We don’t need to ignore that AEW’s doing better ratings than it was this time last year largely because NXT is no longer competing with it. We can call 120k global PPV buys in an era where any kid can watch on their tablet what it is without needing to compare to terrestrial PPV you needed to prioritize in your household and throw on the bill.

Everyone and their dog knows this company isn’t going gangbusters. They go wild when AEW approaches Raw in men aged 18-34 — and let’s be honest — advertisers aren’t going wild for the 34 yr old men watching wrestling. But they know exactly what would happen if Raw and Dynamite went head-to-head on a Monday. Yet they still treat it like a head-to-head win.

People are going to lead with their biases and their hopes and their dreams. That’s what it is. But it does get a little annoying when that poisons what is supposed to be something resembling factual reporting around modern events.
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