Jim Cornette on AEW Losing Their International Streaming Deals 

What was the cage side rating? Ha.

Facts.

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Yeah these are big wrestling countries. Albania, Alderney, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Jan Mayen Islands, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Svalbard, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Are you kidding, the goal posts will be moved so fast the goal will need wheels.

Like billionaires have never lost it all. They've never seen any stories over the years of people loaded that just lost it all. Jesus,people are dense.

​@@antonlifer4449Yes they are, but you're being short sighted here yourself if you truly believe the little prince will ever see a day of hardship or destitution in his life. He might squander his allowance but mama and papa won't see him go without.

Someone should remind them. Tony's dad is a billionaire not Tony.

That's the thing though, Tony isn't a billionaire, his father is.

I hate aew but aew can afford to lose money as long as shad kahn is willing to lose money.

If Tony adds Jim Cornette to the mix, his chances drastic go down.

​Tony Khan KNOWS he can't beat Raw, and he's not even gonna try!

They already have Senor Joe, they just need to hire Kurt Angle.

@@wilcee238 McJoe!

You're chances of getting someone to watch AEW is usually 50/50

Not in every country.

Yes in every country that has Netflix currently

​@@universallove7741 Kinda true...

And SmackDown will be on USA, and NXT will be on The CW. AEW? Not so much.

Super oof (´• ω •`) Haha

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@@Antonchigurh00 Trash.

Amazing

Lol

I think it was great week . My Hair is great. I am Happy to have that great talent . The half filled Arena was great. The reactions we're great. The silence was great . The Wrestling was great . The Wallet of my dad is great. The hugs a great . The bucks poop is great . The greatness of aew is great . The PPV will be great . Its great . I will Not answer great critical questions . Thanks for the great question.wembley was great . Meltzers Stars and Balls are great. See you in Wembley. Wembley will be great . Thank you - TK

Are you kidding me he would’ve signed ROH over to punk and given him a check every week to stay away from him

He would've never went to Bret's locker room and just have the Bucks try to "deflate the issue" and Kenny would follow saying "this is a bad idea, how am i doing to not have anyone due tonight?"

LOL! Tony would have let Bret take the WWE belt to Bischoff... he'd be more concerned with his Japanese/Outlaw World.Champs!

lol. This comment made tony fear for his life.

Tony making literally every mistake in the book from WCW to TNA.

He make it worst with WCW+TNA+UWF combined

When WCW was dying they still had more fans and made more money than AEW is now

WCW was still pulling in more ratings than AEW with their 600,000

To be more specific, WCW/TBS was going through a process of being bought or merged with another company, and the new people who owned Turner did Not like wrestling. They refused to pay for what Bischoff wanted to do, to turn the company around, so it went under.

They’re top 3 in the demo! (Regularly gets crushed by re-runs of popular shows)

Don't forget ..the youtube views and thumbs up ratings

Classic🤣

You realise a wrestling show being in the top 30 of any nights ratings would be insane in most countries? Like wrestling is a very obscure thing.

Even if NBA ratings are equal to, or less than AEW, the NBA would still bring in higher ad revenue.

That's just brutal lol

Dam. And wow is...ehhh

That's so sad. WOW is on Sunday mornings at 11 am in my market. They compete with church on TV.

I don’t doubt there are more people watching that than AEW.

@@chrisbutler1668 🤣

He’s the main creative mind so if you hate tony khan creative you kinda hate aew too

AEW fans don’t really help either

@@coryjacobs3253 One may hate certain things about AEW but could still like it as a promotion because of other reasons. or Vice Versa We all have different reasons for having different likes, hates....

​@coryjacobs3253 I think people mean they want a second major promotion in US wrestling once again. Tony had the opportunity to do that but he is making a mess of it.

Yeah, I wish AEW was good, it just isn't. They have some talent, but the booking is just horrible.

In one match that no one say

You jest but in 5 years that will be Tony's cope; _"Who cares? We were _*_never_*_ about being profitable or making money, we were about having the highest rated matches ever conceived!!"_

@@xlixity 🎼music intensifies

Or how Flippy Dickinson vs Mudshow Harry Balls got 44-3/4 stars.

​@darinlunderman8063 hey! That's just as good as 45 stars!

I don't even watch the product cuz I don't wanna watch half the roster.

I can’t even be bothered to FFWD through it anymore.

@@michaelmfwayne That's been my issue from the day AEW launched.

Same mistake with the NWO for WCW, but at a fraction of the contract price (yeah thanks Hogan!)

They could use Jericho to turn Hook into a big star, but they won't.

Wouldn't go that far..

500 buys says otherwise

@@crumpetface7430 apparently that was a typo. It was meant to say 5000.... which is still shit

At this point it might be AAA. TNA had 500 buys and New Japan got sucked up by TK

@@ValiantValium The 5000 was only for traditional cable buys, streaming more than likely adds 40k+. Considering their limited reach with AXS TV, they do quite well on PPV in reality. HTK did something like 78k, for instance.

More entertaining too

There were defined faces and heels, and no Twitter.

Mighty Mouse was far more imposing The Bucks, Kenny, Hangnail, and Pockets, too

You have to remember Mighty Mouse snorted pollen as well it made him stronger❤

That’s just the budget on the washed up clowns he’s overpaying

And Orange Cassidy took Shaggy’s gimmick.

NASCAR Camping World truck races get more viewers, and it's not even close. And that's the *THIRD TIER* of NASCAR, like if WWE created a second NXT to get called up to the real NXT. It's a goddamned joke.

I mean those episodes are classic

@@wilcee238 😂

Scooby Doo is goated. Who doesn't want to watch Scooby?

When it degrades to being hosted in a broken down barn or straight backyard wrestling, that's when you've basically hit the very bottom. But at this rate maybe we'll see AEW get there in the next few years as Tony continues to waste his father's money into it. Personally I wanna see how far it drops, it's that slow moving car crash you can't help but watch.

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At the rate they're going that should be sometime this August or so.

how many people are in that daily center or whatever they call that little place there at now? it looks like 150 at the most

It’ll be 50 people in an NBA arena, Tony will never downsize.

I can’t even tell if he was making a joke 😂

At least you didn’t go over the top rope.

I love when BL really laughs. 💪💥🔥

I'm glad I made it back to the house 5 minutes before he said it.

It's divine comedy his name is COPEland. 😂

Hes basically just doing what Sting did. Make as much money as possible before hanging up the boots for good.

@@MrJjburgess11 respect if he's going for the bag

@@JarlinJamesNDK13 yup. I don't blame him.

He really needs to shut up it's almost like he's fishing for some reason hoping we ask a question of said noise but don't know what it is he wants asked. Really needs to just troop on. Been over a year since his noises began and only once has anyone heard a peep.

he's just high and paranoid 😂

New faction name

@@chuckles9767 TNA is probably paying them.

What the fuck is DAZN? Man, talk about a huge fall from grace. At one point TNA was successful. Successful enough anyway. AEW hasn't managed to come close EXCEPT when they had CM Punk on their roster. Maybe Dixie can give Tony some pointers on what to do with his time after he runs AEW completely into the ground while simultaneously losing millions of dollars of his dad's money. And if Tony wants the male perspective he could always ask Greg Gagne what he did after the AWA went out of business. History is definitely cyclical, that's for sure.

Why should they ever bother canceling something they pay next to nothing for? Pads the content offerings for zilch

@@jamesteegardner2273DAZN is a streaming service that specializes is sports. While it may not be a big deal in America, it’s actually huge overseas.

I wouldn't be surprised if TNA made a resurgence in the next few months or years

which guy ?

@@siddestroyer tony khan🙄

Yep. He puts so much heart and soul in little dudes who are all workrate with no personality and are low midcarders at best. Pockets was interesting until he was overexposed, now I could care less about him, and I never saw the appeal with Danny Pelvic Thrusts neither.

No let's get the facts right. Matt left because he thinks in his deluded mind that he and Jeff should be used as main eventers. Jeff can't be trust and can't really go. Matt struggles to get up from the canvas. If Matt had any value left WWE would of took him back but they didn't.

There were some of these alleged wrestling journalists that were trying to start rumours about Matt going back to the WWE to be part of that new Bo Dallas led Wyatt Family.

Bob and Janice carter had the right idea by cutting off Dixie but even doing that didn't save panda energy so shad has to eventually step in I don't think he is as stupid as the carter's but tony is making mistakes

Well said! 💪💥🔥

Tony's riding the Taylor Swift tour ride for Wembley this year

Last AEW match I liked was a couple weeks ago when Matt Cardona came out and wrestled him. And that's because I like Matt and his action figure stuff.

They're only a young company, just wait until they've been around for 5 ye.....wait what? Ah shit...😢

@@tonyjay6061 Emoji spamming trash.

Ugh that thing is embarrassing they just announced a 3rd season pass....you need 3 of them to get all the roster, it's ridiculous.

@@stingersplashand that roster is the worst thing I’ve ever seen. 2k24 eats it alive

MJF vs. The Devil 2: Electric Boogalo will Restore the feeling.

Sounds an awful lot like liberals, lol.

​@@Lost_n_Found_1Odd. Pretty much everyone of importance in AEW are conservatives.

@@RavenGlenn Not the fan base! Lol

Denying your problems to a great extreme is NEVER a Good thing.

that company has a few ppl who could be big stars by now if the idiot knew how to book and consistently push ppl

What do you mean no star? They just signed Okada, Ospreay and Mone Those are stars. Right?

Great point! Punk was their only real draw as opposed to self proclaimed “star”

exactly, bro got the roster split and a new show added just for him lol

@@hellchrome01not Mone.

Locker room full of Jay Chord's but without the talent and Remy Skye's. Throw in a couple of Peter Valentine's for good measure.

It will be orange Cassidy just sitting there and we have to read captions while his mouth only moves once per seven frames

I'd actually watch that episode. Never bothered with the others.

Can't TK narrate it?

@@bradleysloan37 I think he's too busy scrolling through social media

He can scroll through social media while narrating. If the last few years have taught us nothing else, it's that Tony can clearly multitask.

To be fair, he probably would have anyway.

Because everyone in the DAZN countries is already using Triller to stream AEW. DAZN is HATED worldwide for being a scam app that costs a lot and makes it impossible for people to cancel. I’m not sure why this basic fact isn’t anywhere in this comment section.

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@@Antonchigurh00 Trash.

Thanks guys

Hundreds of thousands buy their PPVs, dontcha know??

There's gonna be a point Daddy Khan says enough is enough. He's got enough problems screwing the Jaguars and his Soccer team over. Enough people are suffering.

and so that Jim doesn't lose views.. this podcast would probably become the AEW of podcasts if Tony left the wrestling business, the views would plummet.. AEW is the heartbeat of this podcast

​@@DynastyIcon The podcast did fine before AEW. Jim does this for extra money, he doesn't need to do a podcast.

@@DynastyIcon yeah I been listening to his podcast say before AEW was a thing. Just his stories alone from back in the day would continue to bring in viewers.

Was the wall scared for its life? Or maybe for its paint?

Tony even with a sledgehammer that I doubt he even has a strength to lift couldn't bust a grape let alone put a hole in a wall with it.

Tony Khan hasn't thrown a punch in his life, be real.

Low T Tony couldn't punch through sugar glass let alone a cheap apartment cutout board wall he'd get a hangnail

And also rated it a 6 star Tokyo dome punch 😂😂😂

You'd lose a buck. They are willing to pay around 75m per year buy Tony wants 250m. But if he doesn't finally nut up and accept his company isn't worth what he thinks it is it will be less than 75m.

@@stingersplash I doubt he'd even get 75. I actually agree with dude man though, eventually Tony will be the one paying the/a network to keep his product on TV.

I'd not be surprised if that was true.

He probably brought Molly Meltzer Magoo who had every Cagematch rating from the last 5 years with him. After hearing Meltzer ramble, any sane person would just say no.

You speak the truth

Yeah, I was excited when AEW first debuted and was excited for guys like Kenny Omega and some of the newer talent I hadn't really heard of or seen from the Indies... I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. I went in with a positive, excited attitude, eager to see what they had to offer. I WANTED to like it. And I was disappointed, and the disappointment grew, and it got stupider and more dipshitty and finally I just gave up and said "fuck this shit" and stopped watching.

@@Rodshark75exactly how I was! I defended it at 1st but you can only do it for so long until you realize how stupid things got fast. I stopped watching after Matt Hardy transported down the arena back in 2020😂

​@@Rodshark75Same story here. I really wanted to liked AEW but too much overhyped Indy talent also didn't liked the style of wrestling and didn't helped to see the worst match ever "the baby oil match" Omega and nakasawa vs pockets and the other guy from the best friends

It started a while ago The new line is that they’re just a little company & 90% of the toxicity is from the big bad fed fans & they don’t know why 😂😂

Bold strategy Kahnton, let's see how it pays off

Is 8 just world titles?

@@rileyk5228 I think so.

Right after the World Dodgeball Tournament.

Just watched the reno bowling tournament on the ocho. A red alien echidna showed up. U never know what will happen on the ocho

I didn't even know they broadcast here

I keep forgetting we can even get ESPN down here - "Sports Package 3 on Foxtel" or whatever. Like anybody's watching any of that

I think it's on ESPN down here.

CM Punk effect

Tv executives are chess players. This is a perfect example.

Two possible reason. Scripted content is more expensive after the strikes and less of it is being produced. So AEW may still be attractove to the networks for supplying new content with a devoted audience. The other reason why they may get a same dollar renewal or a sligjt increase is that on the past several years there has been a massive erosion in the value of the dollar. So Tony may end up getting a better deal than people expect but it actually was a paycut when factoring in inflation. The other possibility is MAX takes in the PPVs into streaming exclusives. Doing to AEW what Peacock and soon Netflix did with WWE.

"This wouldn't happen if Punk didn't attack Jack Perry, that led him to be fired."

How many more times can you blame the guy? He seen through it all. He let us all know which we knew. It's time for the babies to take their medicine.

​@@antonlifer4449Yeah but he collectively r*ped the company and all 200 odd talent they have over there. I am not even the originator of that btw. Someone did actually write a piece suggesting he had stolen the innocence and essence of AEW Translation: I liked my flips and flops. We don't need these money-drawing talents coming over and reading us the rulebook, BORING! More Best Friends pls since I don't have any.

The “stole the innocence” of AEW has to be one of the most pathetic sentences ever written.

@@ButWhatIfItIs saying Punk raped the company is an insult to rape victims everywhere. Ironically enough that’s the only way the fans would ever get to have sex, but even then no one wants them

Gonna be in Germany and Scotland this year too for Bash In Berlin & Clash At The Castle. 😉

@@jaycolt1986 such a smart idea to just do all the B shows outside the states and keep the big 4 for the US markets.

I mean I've never heard of these streaming services 😂

*Belgian Pro League classics from the 90’s

​@mahakalavanilla6263 *or Serie A football from TNT Sports

Just like back in the 1990s. Itv had a 1hr wcw show which was bounced around the schedule. Usually between 1-4am. In fairness that was when itv had one channel. Aew is probably buried on itv2. No one gives a shit.

La Liga is waaaaay more entertaining than AEW

AEW does worse than fishing shows on ITV

Dudes got no ribs left

Stopped watching after seeing 2022's revolution Adam Cole vs Hangman. Never looked back for nothing more than CM Punk and MJF highlights.

I hope that’s a joke!

Im sure this person is joking but satire/parody is harder these days because so many people believe silly things that you genuinely can't tell who's a true believer and who is mocking true believers any more, lol.

And they dont even have Chris Jericho!

I like to now bring up the actual Tony Khan quote. "Ratings are the #1 source of fan feedback." How can they argue with there own lord and savior the billionaires son.

@@Saddler1944 he means the cagematch ratings.

They can’t fathom that the ratings number of 500k is tnt/tbs expected number for ANY new show they signed.. It’s the absolute minimum they expect & ramoage & collision don’t even get that Also it was the friend hire who said that but they also expected growth of that number & after 5 years it continues to contract They also bring up the streaming numbers of 14 million that wb mentioned in their yearly review.. but that was for 6 months.. if you break it down to weekly that’s the 500k minimum expected also But reality doesn’t exist because it’s toys home for broken toys & he’s a billionaire & no company makes money for years … except obviously TikTok, dazn & pretty much every other startup 🤦🏻‍♂️

Penelope Pink >Penelope Ford

Cesaro killed his career. There's no coming back from aew lol

Or Finn Balor, Drew McIntyre, & Seth Rollins weren't ready to retire.

Finn, Drew and Seth are in positions to make money and legacy. They’re also grown adult men. They aren’t jobbing to Manlet-children standing 5’anthill weighing 100 + sponge, with pubes glued to their faces cosplaying as wrestling EVPs. Finn doesn’t want those two on his coat-tails again like with Bullet Club in New Japan Drew would rather make $ with Punk Seth is in a good spot as a Triple H guy, why would he go stooge for two woefully undersized anti draws??

Cesaro should not have gone to that mark company. Sure, he wasn't pushed in WWE when he was better than KO or Sami but at least he was always on tv in front of millions of people. But no, he is a mark for himself and wanted to prove that he was a tough top guy, now he is a nobody. Heck his name in AEW is what, Czro or something, so hard to remember. Why the fuck would you make your ring name something so stupid? I appreciate Vince renaming wrestlers. It increases their awareness and name value. No one will take seriously Roman if he was named Samoi or any any bullshit. Similarly, all these Tonga brothers will never get over in main roaster because their name sucks. Bloodline is dogshit now without Roman

Are you dinging instead of bleeping? lol

@@Lost_n_Found_1 just making fun of Tony Khan’s usual responses and denial of reality, and the way Cornette always dings when Tony overuses the word “great”

@@luisinfant6025 Gotcha. I don't follow it all like that, lol.

It's what about 50-60 million dollars a year right now? I can't see them wanting to pay that kind of money again especially since the ratings have dropped off so much and they haven't sold out an arena for tv in like 80 weeks...

It's dirt cheap and gets the network 750k on a Wed. Aew will sign a new deal with WBD for a large sounding number. Dave will tout it as a massive success. AEW will lose more and more money. It will continue until Tony's allowance/inheritance exhausts itself

To be honest, because cable viewership is abysmal, and WBD doesn't have anything it can air and get the same or better ratings right now. Even 600,000 viewers is still a hit show in a cable time slot. It's pathetic but true. But I wish people would just stop watching it and let the slot go to cartoons or re-runs.

​@@djpaul8705Big bang theory gives them better numbers. They could just put a show/movie they own and get similar numbers

I was going to say the same I recently seen that ANY episode of big bang averages over 800k regardless of day or time.. they could just put on a block of them

"It's great." "Thanks guys."

​@@copenormcbrokelegsproperra2909 🔔

Bad shows with good numbers would have kept AEW afloat

TNA is still on dazn

@@toniklocc where?

That’s the thing the AEW locker room thinks like Tony they can do no wrong once they receive an ounce of criticism they cry to Uncle Dave on the internet and that person giving advice like J R trying to help is called a cancer or is treated as the worst human in the world. The fans, Tony, the locker room all of AEW is too soft for any criticism or being told try doing different things.

JR wasn't a booker in WWE, he was head of talent relations.

@@robertm.3520 I'm pretty sure JR booked their house shows for a good while too, actually.

@@I_feel_a_little_like Booking house shows is just making matches, he wasn't writing the storylines or tv shows.

@@robertm.3520 Fair nuff.

Why was there so many promotions called the UWF? There was the UWF after Mid South, the 3 or 4 iterations of UWF in Japan (or was it UWFI? so confused) and the Herb Abrams' UWF. What the fuck?

Herb was the man atleast he shared his cocaine with his hookers... Tony snorts it all himself

The universe is bigger than the world

Tried to fly before they could walk. I would like if they get back to one show and do it properly