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But, but, but, but, Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar concert.

😂😂😂

The Discovery Channel put on a big show, Y'all... Too much competition, truly.

Lol

Lol 50 year old fat white geeks who watch aew are watching kendrick lamar concert now lmfaoʻoooooo🤣🤣🤣🤣...wop wop wop wop😂😂

All these people are like THE KENDRICK SHOW. Kendrick wasn't even on stage til after the show was over

Might as well change AEW to *Always Excuses Weekly*

I didn't know Kendrick Lamar had such a crossover audience with AEW.

Also Black Panther 😂

Dave Meltzer being Dave Meltzer.

Sheldon Cooper is the most over person in AEW.

Sheldon Cooper is AEW’s main draw

Real BBT fans all know who the real 4 Pillars of AEW are.

The real four pillars

I'm a Leonard guy

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we will see next week. the rating is a reflection of the previous week. based off this last week's show was not good because people didn't want to watch this week.

but if nobody watches the show the live attendence will aslo go down

Raw ratings suck too does that mean that show is bad ?

A bunch of college kid recruits are outdrawing and honestly outperforming tony khan's real life action figures.

@@ENFORCJW this action figure talk is cringe cornette-cuck stuff. Like HHH and HBK don't treat their workers like action figures lol.

we knooooow, we hear this quote all the time bud

@@ENFORCJW outperforming? in ratings in ring not even close.

​@@lostinmyhead07 such a mark

D.A.M.N.

lmfao!

Well done!!!! ​@@GreyGoose545

Why not? Millennials like Kendrick. People tuned in to see if he would drop more heat on Drake.

Why is that absurd? Kendrick Lamar has been in the game almost 15 years.

And a CONCERT.

Always Excuses Weekly

A soccer game on fox was one of his reasons the hell is that

Thats what he does lol. "C-Span saw a spike in viewership that night"

He seems a politician that have to defend his party at any cost

Dave,Tony,Jack Perry,The Bucks,the entire company. Rent free in all of your heads. Every single second of every single day.

@@muryt12 ...the 5 minutes of the video that I watched but hey you were almost there

@@muryt12 You definitely cried while writing that

​@@RunandLift2You're the one that has been crying in the comments trying to reply to me brother. Obviously an entire company lives in your head completely rent free for absolutely no reason at all too. Sad.

@muryt12 If you don't grow up fast, you're going to be crushed when Aew gets pulled off cable. You just don't understand. It's like you are either really ignorant or really dumb. WWE lives rent-free inside Tony's head. Having a different opinion is not letting a company live rent-free. Only a dumb person would believe that.

I thought that too, but I relistened and he means for the 18-49 demo

ARE YALL WRESTLING JOURNALIST???

@@six6thdisciple no; but neither liars.

​​No. And neither is Dave Meltzer.

​@six6thdisciple the folks commenting here have astronomically more experience in wrestling than Dave. The man is paid to blow Always Excuses Wrestling

99% sure you didn't know he existed till he debuted at NXT. Now time to glaze I guess.

@@muryt12 I did but go off lol.

@@muryt12 You're salty. Obviously people knew who Joe Hendry was. His appearance is blasting on WWE's RU-vid. The crowd exploded and sang his theme.He was a big reason for that good rating. But because he is stating a fact. Hendry did, in fact, outdraw Okada and Ospreay. You wanna act like he didn't know him? Mark behavior. This is that Meltzer bubble effect. So much focus on the wrestling, you lose the plot.

Then why couldn't TNA draw flies with him there? Okada main evented crowds 50x as big as Hendry.

@@duckmercy11 In Japan. Nobody cares in the U.S. NOBODY. Why is that hard to understand. Aew went from 681,000 to 502,000, and you want to talk about Okada in New Japan? That's exactly why Aew is in the shitter. That right there. That's denial at the current facts. NXT 724,000 > Dynamite 502,000

Truth is Dave doesn't care about booking as long as he gets his 5 star matches.

He has a clear bias

Exactly

Because the show was really good, so its surprising because it wasn't remotely a bad show.

​@@lostinmyhead07 Rush vs. MJF??? That's terrible. It's one of the reasons so many people didn't care.

What excuses?

Im usually not that involved to really care about Dave's favouritism but this video shows how crazy he is tryign to brush it off, he even stutters far more than usual tryign to come up with a different excuse every other sentence lol

@@ffffff52 lol the discovery channel and a Kendrick Lamar concert were the reasons for the bad rating. Dave has lost it.

@@SeeingShadowsif you’re gona act like Dave doesn’t make excuse after excuse for every negative thing that’s said about AEW then you’re a bigger idiot than he is

@@rentoptional1524it is hard to compete with Discovery’s “pretty big show”

Yeah and he needs to make it snappy.

Dude, his booking style is the same Ttiple H. Just people like Triple H more cause NXT.

Why do hate aew so much? For no reason

@@PowerPackers90 HHH knows how to build stars. Tony books Orange Cassidy. Name 3 wrestlers that are doing better now than they were before they were in AEW. Swerve.....and....?

​@@rentoptional1524Swerve,Toni Storm,Christian Cage. Want more?

@rentoptional1524 Sweve, MJF, Jack Perry, Orange is over, Darby, Eddie Kingston, etc. Osprey gets the loudest reactions, Toni Storm The aclaimed. Those guys are all over.

I think, he's on the take. Prolly has been since day one. It's is rep to prove the world wrong on that.

​@@yawnytacoI don't think he is. This is his style of wrestling. He doesn't want to admit that it's not gonna draw anyone other than the niche of a Fandom. That would be admitting that everyone he said was "out of touch" was right. He can't let it go because the Money Mark is a subscriber and he is boys with the EVPs

@@danmckinnon137 It doesn't need to be money. Dave just wants to be flattered and AEW gave him something no one else ever would: People in positions of influence within the industry legitimizing what he does. That's all this has ever been.

He can't call out the garage creative, because he would book the same thing if he had a chance. This is the perfect wrestling in his opinion. He would have to revisit his entire wrestling philosophy if he did

Because it was garbage creative while aew is perfect their booing is near perfect

Not to Meltzer. He thought MJF being obliterated by a nobody manlet in a 15 minute match was somehow good! And of course Dave didn't think the same thing when it was an actual grown man (Billy Gunn) doing the same thing to Jay White several months ago.

Pathetic comment. "Can't we just all have a hivemind belief and go back suck Triple H and his short PPV cards off" Can't we just say you're a sycophant? Its even more pathetic because sycophants usually simp for personal benefit. You aren't a wrestling fan.

No, because that would be factually incorrect. The show was great, especially if you don't like dudes running around in shitty costumes pretending to murder people.

@@dsadams17 How is it factually incorrect? What people like is a subjective thing.

⁠@@dsadams17you and the handful of virgins that actually watch this garbage can keep telling yourself that

The same nerds that pop for uncle howdy and his band of puppets dressed in Halloween costumes? So much more realistic…

⁠@@emon8523they can’t even beat the developmental show in the ratings, comparing them to Raw at this time is not practical

@@emon8523 Must hurt daves soul that people would much rather see that then 20 000 flips and super kicks that everyone gets up from cause that is soo much more realistic then people playing dress up .... o wait

@@emon8523that’s stupid too but nobody got hurt for it unlike Edge

@@emon8523you mean the over 2 million people that watched that video of their debut in less than a week? Literally 4 times Dynamites audience?? All those nerds???

EVEN JOE HENDRY DEBUT/CAMEO ON NXT BLEW UP!! 😂😂.. Makes Okada look like Savio Vega

That was a debut? where was the hype video to introduce him to the audience?

@@dsadams17you mean like Okada and Osprey got? Oh wait..

@dsadams17 they didn't need a hype video. Jacob basically showed everything he can do with that debute.

That’s their highest rated episode ever since too 😂😂😂

Shhhh..that's a secret

That’s great

It tells you that it's Friday.

@@nin_tendo6458 the fuck he's doing on Friday

@@Traditionalcut5764 Hiding from his bullshit NXT take that has blown up in his face.

He has Fridays off genius nothing more too it​@@Traditionalcut5764

Dave is always with Garrett on friday.... and I'm not sure if you notice or not but bryan doesn't have discussions with Dave. He just brings up topics and let's him go.

I could not believe he said that. We can see the numbers every single week.

1st segment was higher but you can't use real math with real number.

Math is hard, let's give him a break 😂

I’m sure he said the first segment wasn’t always higher in the 18-49 demo. A way to try and find a positive

Wait until you realize what he says about Russos WCW numbers is also a lie

I believe!

I mean, they love him in London, Paris and Tokyo!

​@@RevengerPhoenix America, Scotland and Canada and Tokyo.

Spell ESPN, ESPN E S N P, ESPN.

2 months? Dude they hit 502,000 this past Wednesday. They could realistically hit 400k in a couple of weeks.

They legit blamed the Little League World Series before lol so that wouldn’t surprise me

And when they don't, will you eat your hat?

@@dsadams17why do you want him to eat his hat? You got your eye on it?? The average AEW fan is an overweight basement dwelling virgin so im guessing you’re asking if he’s going to eat his hat because if not you want it right ??

Idk, AEW has some super good looking female wrestlers. One of the best things about their product

@@kidneystonermusic so Is Unc here lying or what?

@@EmperorPenguinn this is the same guy that said Peyton Royce was hotter in NXT because she looked lighter 😆

Bazingamania

I love when i translate you to English yt says "we are mania" lol​@ENFORCJW

Came here to say a version of this.

the rambling goes on long enough to read a lot before it ends lol

For fucking real

Your brain can't wrap itself around a nuanced conversation huh? Stick to watching underage anime characters. Weeb

Was so waiting for him to make some erroneous connection to swerve as champion 😂

5k in the buidljng

@@edenton1974 it was a 10,000 seat arena and there were 4167 tickets sold. not even 50%. Its okay AEW had the black tarps out on the hard cam side as usual :)

@@ENFORCJW WWE is the biggest wrestling company on the planet and Raw has about 7-8 thousand fans.

@@jessewahwah LOL RAW was sold out with the almost 8,000 fans last week and popped triple the rating of Dynamite despite all of the top stars right now basically being on smackdown lol, not to mention it was AGAINST GAME 5 of the NBA finals lol. Take the L man.

@@jaust9077 Take the L? You say that like you work for the company. Silly WWE stooges. Raw sells out an 8000 seat arena. WOW. They do double the arena sales with a fan base that is 6x what AEW's is. Do the math on that.............. When they start selling out 18,000 seat arenas come talk to me about attendance.

I mean probably but not the kind of big money offers Tony needs to have this thing make money. Ultimately cm punk was right

As they cry about how they don’t want casuals watching anyway. These people are the kind of edgelords that stop watching a good show the second it gets popular

You nailed it.

Dave acknowledged this in the video.

It's funny, and also sad, but yeah. I like, care less about great wrestling matches than I did 5 years ago, because I've kind of grown numb to it because it's all AEW ever does. Like if NJPW's G1 was a year-round thing, no one would care about the G1, you know?

🎯🎯🎯🎯 It's like they don't realise it's a TV soap opera with fighting

If TK just put his pride to the side, quite booking and hired a couple of experienced bookers then we'd all be happy

Remember when Britt Baker was saying that getting Meltzer's stars was 'what it is all about' - the whole promotion was based on wrestling Meltzer wanted. He's definitely responsible, his career is in tatters over AEW.

@@wrestlingpfor real and you compare this with his coverage of WCW in the day when he just outright said the booking is garbage. And now his bias against wwe and for AEW is so glaringly obvious it’s like come on

Also all of cable is down (he says while NXT actually grows in viewers )

​@@zachbrown1988the ol marble mouth fool actually said first it'll be the live attendance sinks then the ratings drop. So, he's literally explaining to us that it's really down and it's because it's shit nobody wants to see. I'm on Long Island and the show is coming up. I'm not going. $24 tickets too. Still not going. For what? To see Mjf vs evil uno guy? I hope Will Ospreay beats swerve clean and Tony alienates another 100k. Ha.

That someone should be Tony Khan but he’s too proud to admit he’s the problem

AEW has killed themselves and NJPW has destroyed their own credibility by getting in bed with them

Could be correcr

It will never be corrected because Tony will never admit that he is wrong. Unfortunately he has an army of hardcore AEW sycophants who defend him so he thinks he is doing well.

Ratings are low, it’s Kendrick Lamar’s fault, one minute to Wapner 😂

Dave Meltzer has years in the business. 5, 6, 7, 8, 100 star matches.

​@@GreyGoose545Dave Meltzer has no experience in the business

They HAVE engaging storylines; it's just not mind-numbingly braindead, paint-by-numbers, explain every step of the way for the viewer, storylines.

@@dsadams17; I’d love to hear what the “engaging” storylines are? Babyface Hero Will Ospreay who is for some reason still in a Heel group led by Don Callis. Who insists Ospreay use a dangerous Tiger Driver ‘91 move that he never even won a match with. And Will is reluctant to do so?

@@dsadams17engaging storylines? Where??

Gas stations are better booked

Memes always point out the truth.

To be fair at least HHH would make sure Ospreay had a good introduction and storyline if he had signed. In AEW he’s a baby face in a heel group who refuses to use a move that’s never won him a match anyway wrestling competitive 20 minute matches against guys who are barely on tv let alone win matches

@@zachbrown1988 HHH wanted to sign hin but tony paid more for far less work for willy

She a good girl tho not gonna lie

Lmao for real the excuses are insane…that video is gold though

Hahaha don't give Dave ideas 😅

😂😂😂😂

HAUK TUAH is ALL ELITE!...make it happen Tony

Implying only black people are fans of Kendrick Lamar.

Joe Biden supporter alert.

@@dsadams17 who

To be fair….debra acts the way she does because ray is the way he is lol

Better than basement dwelling virgin losers, which is what they actually are

It's a one sided war. Aew has 20 minute matches that nobody outside hardcores care about. WWE has world class storytelling and presentation. Since wrestling is scripted, the entertainment aspect is what sells. Tony refuses to try and get casual fans to watch and care. And instead is losing 32% of his fanbase in 1 week

​@@RunandLift2Sorry to brag about it but watching a 3 hour sitcom that includes about 10 minutes of wrestling and 2 hours of last week's replays isn't everyone's cup of tea.

@@muryt12 It's alot more than watching pointless matches. Wrestling is pre determined. Storylines keep people around. Not boring ass matches that mean nothing. Raw + Smackdown draws 4 million a week combined. NXT 724,000. Dynamite had 502,000. And you are actually saying that?

I predict AEW will continue to put on great shows and their fanbase will enjoy them

​@@QualtM"Great shows" 😂

you know

It's like, you know like, like, you know?

ummm and you know... uhhh you know um..

Or whatever.

Here come the fragile Phil marks. You're late this time.

@@muryt12 That's your cope? Phil was the last time a non hardcore cared about Aew

​@@RunandLift2And then what? He got injured for the 8 millionth time,got in 2 fights,and then got fired. For the 4th time. 4th. I hope he goes to TNA some time so he can get fired from there too. Just to add to his marvelous collection. All those Punk marks can go cry me a river.

@@muryt12 Maybe you have been napping. But Punk doesn't need to wrestle to make money for himself, Drew and the company. He's 45. Save it for the ppv's. Not a random episode

"WBD loves AEW" - TK

Yeah instead they should give a world championship title shot to Jinder Mahal right? Then fire him 2 months later of course.

​@@muryt12 The silly Jinder match didn't tank the ratings

@@muryt12 MJF is dead in the water?

@@muryt12maybe proves that MJF isn’t the end all be all. I think dude is average at best

​@@muryt12Jinder doesn't look like a jobber.

his checks were alot lower compared to brian alvarez and many others it's kind of pathetic when he was their biggest shill

Lol aaaaaayooooooo

He's in the middle of the ring cutting a promo

He could have a mic like the other dude but it wouldn't be WRESTLING ENOUGH.

He's practicing for when he meets Tony Khan.

The sun was also out. Weather is to blame obviously

Yea so did the food network

Back in the attitude era Shark Week or one of those other animal documentaries legit beat RAW during the "higher power" angle IIRC. 😂

It was Shark Week, I think.

Might as well be claiming people tuned out to watch BBC Question Time election coverage...

AEW fell off when Cody left, he took their soul away. Punk was only a duct tape that eventually unravelled.

​@@aviwegexa9031well the EVPs threw away their 2 biggest stars and expected that people would stay 😂

How much has Raw lost since Wrestlemania?

@@dsadams17 nowhere even close to the number aew has. according to Dave 200k is because some concert that age group love is performing but to lose 200k in that demo means nobody else aat any age group watch aew lmao but we know aew does on good week .22in key demo so if .22 of there 700k viewers are in that age group that means 200k of 700k is is around .3 somare we to believe aew lost every single man in that range 🤣🤣🤣🤣 now WWE hasn't dropped anywhere close to that

@@dsadams17nowhere near what AEW is losing on a year by year basis. Not to mention those fans always come back too. See, wwe has casual fans like that. AEW only has basement dwelling virgin losers like you

​@@dsadams17😂😂😂😂🤡

He can't admit that writing matches down isn't booking.

But no one watches TV so it wouldn't happen. I think?

That was a good segment, but damn, less than 300k on RU-vid? That's terrible. And this is coming from someone who has been critical of AEW over the last year and a half.

@@harishsubramanian1241 Oh no but according the cult experts, everything is fine as long as everyone is having fun! You know, as they currently have to darken the arenas to obscure the half empty seats that litter that area. We are deep in delusional territory with these fans now as truth stares them in the face. Its as the comic strip with the dog sitting in a burning room says: "Everything is fine".

@@Skowl3883for all of you people that despise this company so much y’all sure have a lot to say about it. Why do you care what happens or who still enjoys it? Do something more important with your life

All Tony khan cares about are dream matches with his favorite wrestlers but forgets any kind of story or buildup. So after the dream match takes place the audience has absolutely no reason to care.

@@emon8523Same applies to Dub sycophants lol. Quit the projection

Paul Levesque loves guys smaller than him so he would love MJF.

@@GreyGoose545 at what price? If MJF is humble enough to accept the large pay cut that he is going to get in WWE with the understanding that he can build a future there then yes. But WWE was never going to offer him more than Tony, and if he leaves AEW because its out of money then its only bidding against TNA

​​@@GreyGoose545 he books guys better too

He is doing his job for stock holders. That’s his concern, saving money and increasing their dtock price. NBA deal would be a net negative as they would pay too much compared what they would get back in AD dollars. Who says he is paying a high price for AEW? At this rate he can probably give them less per year. Tony Khan has no leverage in this negotiation.

@@traviskemp6222 WBD has been bleeding red ink and has botched every single creative decision outside of AEW as well. The fact you think the NBA is a net negative deal when they are the second most lucrative league in the US behind the NFL shows how little you know about business outside wrestling. Zaslav is clearly desperate and his desperation will only compound more financial losses. Dave lacks leverage here because of *his own actions*.

@@ryanfraley7113 it is a net negative. They wouldn’t make money on the deal. NBA wanted to double the rights fees and the price point would keep it at a loss. They, Zaslav and the board, could not justify paying double the rights fees, losing more money and adding to the massive debt they have. With the decline of cable subscribers and decreasing tv ratings with the NBA, cable companies cannot justify spending more money to get broadcast TNT/TVD to get Warner Bros in the green on the deal. If they knew it would make them money they would have jumped at the deal. They went with a sublicensee with ESPN to air college playoff games that will be a net positive even with splitting the revenue. NCAAF is the second most watched league in America and their playoff games generates massive AD revenue and tv ratings. Idk if AEW is worth spending more money on either with these ratings in the tank but at the right price it can be done. Not saying Zaslav is doing a great job or does not deserve criticism, just stating the fact he isn’t interested in anything but making his board and stock holders happy. I’m looking at it with my head, not my heart. What is cable and cable ratings going to look like by the end of that rights deal? Are they regrouping to get that debt taken care of and then be streaming players when the next tv rights are up for NFL, NBA, MLS, MLB? Time will tell. Hopefully you understand my original post better and I will not assume you know nothing about business as you did to me. Although it was an ignorant comment to make, i am not going to question your business background knowledge. I do think it is safe to say that David Zaslav knows more about business than both of us. Guy has been a player in the business of tv for 30 years.

​@@ryanfraley7113showing your ignorance. Saying the NBA is the biggest league next to the NFL is like saying in the UK, the Championship is the biggest league next to the Premier League - the numbers between them are vast and not even remotely comparable. Hell, Lebron is more marketable than the actual NBA lol

@@samrizza8785 Imagine being so filled with cope that you made a point that is irrelevant to my case against WBD management. The NFL is way bigger than everything else but that doesn’t excuse Zaslav letting the NBA walk when it’s the biggest property WBD and Turner currently has.

Well, this is his job.

It's like saying RAW is doing terrible because they're down about 80% from their all time high.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Pac is a million viewer main event. My mom said so.

Dave is so sad and pathetic here.

@@perryco34 actually I don't blame him. I believe Dave is getting paid so he's just doing his job. I don't understand the regular fans that just refuse to acknowledge the obvious.

The ppvs are always top notch so they are doing something right no matter how hard y’all try to hate everything