>“I would love to see what their contracts are. I’d love to see what they spend because they keep running these big-ass buildings, which aren’t, you know, cheap, and then there’s nobody in them, so there’s no cost offset for running a 16,000-seat building. You get an offset there, but there’s nothing to take home after that. You know what I mean? So it’s just… I don’t know. They keep digging that hole, and the next thing you know, they’ll be running the Grand Canyon. So how are you making any profits?”>“The report I have here says AEW’s net revenue for 2023 was projected to be around $154 million, up from $100 million in 2024. However, total expenses were estimated at approximately $188 million, resulting in a loss of $34 million before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.>“Those are WCW numbers… yeah, without the Turner Home Entertainment taking their 50% cut. That’s before taxes too. Good old H-Well, I’m not surprised at any of those numbers though. So, $85 million a year on talent… does that count travel? Do they pay for any of their travel, or is this still on the 1099 employees? Are hotels still on the wrestlers? When I went to Turner, I never paid for anything ever, except my food. But so now it’s covered still? Well, if they’re smart enough to… I don’t see why you would go backwards with deals.”>“About the video game deal, I know what it’s like. Rockstar—once you get the engine built, it’s all profit for the company, right? And they’re not going to give you a s***load. I know there are so many people now, but back in the day, there would be maybe 30 guys on the game, and you’d make bank. You’d make, you know, $75K, $100K on royalties from the game. Now, there are so many people on the game, you’re lucky if you make, you know, your money when people have to buy outfits and, you know, additional in-game purchases. So don’t know how AEW can make a profit.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCzAJO8UYAA
>taking their 50% cutLMFAO Nash is a moron
>>16695778Tony would release the books if they were green without a second thought, the fact that he hides them is proof enough that they are in the red.
>>16695778It's not profitable is it
>>16695778>>16695817>>16696144
>>16696199Oddly specific years there
>>16696199>le Meltzerdronie
>trying to hide a Nash threadKWAB
>>16696199If they are so good, release the numbers then
>>16695778AEW is not a business, its purpose is not to make money. AEW is the hobby of a billionaire. Yeah it's losing tens of millions, but to a billionaire it's just like you wasting five dollars a month on some shit you enjoy.
bump
Did the Meltzer profitably breakdown ever get posted anywhere? He references it almost every day on Twitter but I never saw it break containment. The best I could tell, he was taking a public report for their talent expenses for one event and extrapolating that to calculate their annual expenditures.
>>16695778tons of sliding threads, hogcord must want something gone.
>>16696271Which would be fine and even based if Tony didn't send his little gremlin meltzer to constantly harp on their profitability and tony either wasn't a giant self mark sperg or wasn't the central entity of AEW
>>16696199two more weeks!
