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JWeinCom on 06 September 2021
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Shadow1980 said:
JWeinCom said:

Personally, I find it hard to justify spending 50 bucks on any PPV. I think that's probably the biggest thing AEW would have to change for me to watch. Form a deal with some kind of streaming service to include PPVs in their content. Can't see myself paying 50 bucks for any PPV event, and the days when I had enough friends who all loved wrestling and all had 4 consecutive free hours on a Sunday are long gone. 

I've rarely actually bought a PPV on my own. My first was WrestleMania XX, and then another WrestleMania a few years later (I can't remember which), and now All Out. Those three are it. Every other time I saw a full-priced PPV, it was over at a friend's house where several of us showed up and split the cost of the show and the food. The WWE Network obviated that entirely, obviously. But we did do that again for the very first Double or Nothing a couple of years ago. I never actually saw another AEW PPV until All Out last night. I would have passed, but the card was simply too good to pass up, especially with CM Punk returning. In fact, I may not get another full-priced PPV again for a very long time unless it's a group thing with friends. $50 is a lot of money to spend just to watch a 3-4 hour show on TV by myself, and last night was a very rare exception. Hopefully once AEW gets enough of a backlog of content they release a WWE Network-style service, or do some sort of partnership like what WWE is doing with Peacock.

I was at Mania 20. Fun memories, although somewhat soured by what transpired later on.

I think if AEW wants to be what it is, then it's fine. It's fine to be a niche product for the biggest of wrestling fans who will pay 50 bucks for a show. But even someone like me who is a reasonably big fan but not a huge fan, that's too steep a price. 

It's also not even just about money, but about time. When I watch WWE PPVs I often watch them piecemeal. Some the night of, then maybe some on the way to work, some on the way back, and some at home. I believe if you buy the PPV you just get it the day of? Maybe you can DVR it? It's an archaic delivery system. 

People who want the WCW/WWF days again want AEW to move to Mondays, but that's just not the world we live in anymore. If AEW was going to try to become the number one company, then something like a deal with Netflix would be gamechanging move. Dunno how feasible that is, but that's where the battle would be.