How do these dirtsheets know that AEW will be profitable under this deal if they don't have access to their financial records? I still haven't received an answer to this question.
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>>16032117thiose financial projections? dave meltzer made the whole thing up
There are countless e-drones on /pw/ who will be able to write you numerous essays about how and why they know for a stone cold fact that AEW is unprofitable without having access to any of their numbers. You can go and ask them and they'll tell you all about it, they're financial experts.
>>16032117meltzer even got caught reporting on bad financial info like a month ago and still has the balls to pull this shit lmao. you gotta respect the hustle.
>>16032129that's just called common sense. believing that aew is profitable is like believing in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus.
>>16032117They don't know.
>>16032129We can see WWE financials, we know they have a dozen non-wrestling revenue streams, and though they have some people sitting at home, they cut a large amount of talent they're not using. AEW does the opposite, they keep fully-healthy wrestlers under contract while not using them for months at a time (Starks, Penta, Aaron Solo, etc).It's not hard to believe a baseball or basketball team can be profitable even if the arenas/stadiums are only 1/3 full, because the team usually owns/co-owns the stadium and has revenue sharing from the entire league. AEW doesn't own any arenas and doesn't have revenue sharing, so when we see 3000 fans in an arena that WWE draws 15000 in, it will make people wonder. Couple all that with reporting/statements that Tony pays for all flights/hotels/rental cars, including for dozens of people who only sit in catering, and it becomes increasingly difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt.Money talks and bullshit walks. If the prevailing belief among billionaires, financiers, venture capitalists in this country was that it REALLY WAS just that easy for AEW to become a multi-billion dollar profitable company (in just 5 years), that you can just sign whoever and pay whatever you want and some TV network will give you a highly lucrative deal on a silver platter - then TNA would have been sold long ago.Nobody believes it. Not even you believe it.
We know from that tax credit thing they submitted to the state of Nevada that just for one episode of Collision and one ppv (double or nothing) they spent:>$150,000 for talent airfare>$150,000 for broadcast production>$50,000 for catering>$14,000 for cleanup >$7,000 for comms package >$70,000 in airfare for non-talent >$2,000 in ground transportation>$250,000 in hotel expenses>$60,000 for security>$30,000 for LED screens>$75,000 for lighting and rigging >$100,000 for local management services >$10,000 for medical >$400,000 for operations and technical support crew >$15,000 for production consultants >$7,500 for miscellaneous show props >$110,000 for rent>$30,000 for rental cars>$66,000 for rigging and riggers>$700 for robocams and other tech>$40,000 for sound package>$135,000 for stagehands>$10,000 for staging>$50,000 for transportation>$2,000,000 for talentSure every town isn't as expensive to do business in as Vegas and budgets are bigger for PPV but they're running at least two shows in different towns every week 48 weeks a year. And they're not recouping those costs with ticket sales or merch sales since no one is buying tickets or merch anymore
>>16032496All the roaches scattered after you posted this kek
>>16032496Two milly for talent to lose in the ratings to nobodies from a wrestling school, that's grim
>>16032426See, I told you
>>16032426someone posted an actual real rundown of the expense sheet from running dynamite a few weeks ago. it was over $2 million. so its over $100 million a year easily just for dynamite alone
Beatnik investments owns aew. Beatnik lost $70m in black news.https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2022/jul/21/court-approves-sale-of-black-news-channel/
Tiny said he owns all of the voting shares of aew. That would mean he owns beatnik. Which I doubt.
>>16032117AEW is profitable and New Japoo isn't. Simple as. New Japoo is AEW's bitch. Then. Now. Forever.
>>16032117The snowman gave Dave Meltzer a small 1-3% ownership share in AEDUB 5 years ago.
