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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect Still crazy to me that the third hour of Raw will be mercilessly mocked for dipping below 1.6 million, yet AEW can do about half of that on a Wednesday and it is considered a “hot product.”

it should go without saying things are relative. If tna were doing half of AEW's numbers it would be a huge victory for them. Obviously AEW has stagnated. A reckoning will be coming their way when the new tv deal comes up. The Raw specifically is shrinking week over week too though. And the pace is picking up. At some point in the not so distant future AEW and Raw are going to be in spitting distance of one another and not becuase AEW blew up.

And Dynamite is a big part of the problem. WWE has a deep enough roster to somewhat (SOMEWHAT) manage the oversaturation issue but AEW absolutely isnt.

With the WWE at least they tour which keeps some cashflow going to offset the production costs but AEW is just a money pit. It has a host of problems they i dont think it can survive.

But its failure should never be a reason to prop up the wwf. Thats absurd. That would be like comparing Disney to Nikelodeon. They both make kids programming but theyre operating at completely different levels. If disney loses 100 million its a bad year. Id nick does it they go under.

If AEW averages 1mil they can potentially earn more for the network through ad sales. If wwf does they lose money. Its pretty straightforward.