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Why would I make them up? The source of the numbers came from Meltzer so of course they should be immolated, you can do your own searches too, but even back in 2019 you'll find that people fixated on these numbers and were convinced AEW would do 400k and NXT would do 800k - probably the same people who do the "no million" crowd.
It's funny that it's been said I'm making things up, when I'm just going by the best information available. Those were the expectations for the show, the show did better. Even if those ratings are made up, the network seems really happy. To me the problem only exists if one has to start contorting reality into "I hate the show and the ratings are lower than I think they should be therefore it's doing really badly". If people hate AEW then that's up to them, I just have a queue of people here saying "Also it's a failure" when it just isn't. If you hate AEW then that's a bad thing for you, they're doing something you hate and it's working.
TV ratings are low. Wrestling has always been a niche thing, and the ways that it was able to explode in Hulkamania and the Attitude eras just don't exist now. Entertainment is radically different. Do not take it for granted that there's still multiple promotions putting live wrestling on TV. It could have gone away forever. Maybe this is as good as it gets.
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