Bully Ray with a legit question.
i don’t understand how it’s a “HUGE” partnership, isn’t it literally just what NXT and TNA have been doing for months now? except now it’s in writing?
AEW is #2? By what metric. And says whom? Since WCW folded, TNA has always been the #2 promotion. That's just facts. Lucha Undeground was #3.
By what metric?
>>16761081>TNA has always been the #2 promotionB-b-b-b-based
KEK pigcrip already having a melty itt
AEW is where you go if you actually want to make money as a wrestler, they're the number 1 promotion to work for if you wanna get paid. Only smark incels care about ratings, attendance, profits ect
>>16761119This. Money? Aew. Fame, and a career? WWE.
>>16761040>Guy who's paid by WWE pushes WWE rhetoricSuper legitimate guys
If TNA got on a somewhat decent channel yeah.
>>16761125>Fame>WWEKek they havent had a single mainstream star since Cena left. WWE is so bad at making stars they have to take scrap heap shitters like Penta from AEW
>>16761040Why of course. The 500 people that watch their show each week and the 250 they get in the building of course poise TNA to be the second place promotion. That's why WWE is partnering with them to exchange talent between TNA and Raw and Sma--huh? What's that? It's only between TNA and WWE's developmental? That's an odd way to treat the second top promotion. This is the stupidest take and I hate that I've even allowed myself to put this much thought into a reply to it
>>16761040Is TNA even its own separate promotion now in this case? If anything this would just meld it together as an extension of WWE like ROH is to AEW
>>16761136Look at Jade, they actually ruin your ability to become famous. She had a path to shows/movies before they fucked her aura up.
>>16761166They are basically an NXT expansion at this point.
>>16761166TNA is canadian and not for sale
>>16761081Nice.
>>16761040that's gonna work redditors into a seethe kek
>>16761040Why would this give them the number 2 spot? They're as distant to AEW as AEW is to WWE
I predict AEW and TNA will be equal in the ratings sometime next year.
>>16761146>It's only between TNA and WWE's developmental?NXT has the #2 rated wrestling show on TV every single week, only behind Smackdown, I don't know what you're smoking.
>>16761388because bully is a wwe bootlicker trying to farm engagement by shitting on aew
>>16761557How is he shitting on AEW? He's just saying they're facing some issues as every company invariably does, and this new announcement could help put TNA into a very favorable position.
>>16761592
Bully is based as fuck.
>>16761592Because it’s an absolutely ridiculous question that he’s posing knowing all the WWE fans will respond to cause they hate AEW. Just like all previous “partnerships”, WWE will eventually buy TNA. In the meantime WWE will continue sending them some NXT jobbers while they poach TNA’s biggest stars. They are nowhere close to being the #2 wrestling company.
>>16761040the partnership alone isn't going to get TNA back to #2. i think for TNA to realistically dethrone AEW and get back to where it was, it needs to be on a real tv channel.impact is by far the most popular show on AXS but it still gets no more than like 50k viewers and that's REALLY generous. that's terrible. how does that network even stay afloat? they need to can the whole network and get TNA on an actual channel that people actually have.the deal might actually end up hurting TNA's chances of getting back there because it does somewhat position the promotion as an official feeder to WWE. it's just developmental now, any stars they might be building will jump ship to the fed even earlier than they would have been able to before.
>>16761644In Canada they are sportsnet.
>>16761612No, you're just reaching. You're hypersensitive about AEW and its current position in the wrestling landscape and I don't blame you for being that way. That's causing you to see bogeymen in places where they maybe don't exist. Fine speech regardless.
>>16761663i'm not canadian but i've heard from canadians that that's somewhat of a big deal, big name network there. and if that's true then that's great, a great first step, but it's just canada - they need to secure something better in the american market.
>>16761040gotta love the bubster
>>16761081>By what metric.valuation>And says whom?anyone with eyes? it's just worth more money and draws more than TNA, which is not much of an achievement in 2025. forbes placed it as the third most valuable combat sports promotion, behind UFC and WWE, so second most valuable wrestling promotionhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/justinteitelbaum/2024/04/18/the-most-valuable-combat-sports-promotions-2024/
>>16761193>she had a path to shows/movies
>>16761685You would be right if Bully didn’t have a history of this.
>>16761551If they're so excited about all of these TNA names why wouldn't they use them on Netflix? Why wouldn't they use them on Smackdown? Surely they view them as the same caliber of stars as their own talent right?
>>16761773You know what? I'm feeling charitable so I'll give you a concession here
>>16761765>Piggies backpedaling at record speeds pver how big of a star they claimed Jade would be able to become with the ""WWE machine"" behind her
>>16761551>NXT has the #2 rated wrestling show on TV every single week, only behind SmackdownAEWxirs………
>>16761795>pverHow did that even happen? Kek. I'll leave it
>>16761792Thanks. Good chat buddy.
>>16761612>Poaching is only okay when AEW does it because Tony can’t technically buy NJPW
>>16761785Dawg, it's still TNA. Plus the press release clearly says they'll be used across a broad range of WWE programming. Guaranteed we'll see things like TNA people padding out the Rumble this year.
>>16761814Who said that? You seem to be creating arguments in your head.
>>16761119>Caring how well the wrestlers are paidFucking mong lmao
>>16761799>Today you've learned about free commercial broadcast television networks versus cable networksRemember how Smackdown was getting 2 and sometimes even 3 milly on Fox and then it moved off of free tv and over to USA and dropped by an entire milly? The inverse is true as well with NXT moving from USA to the CW. Not out to argue the quality of the shows or which promotion you like and which you don't. I watch both WWE and AEW so I really couldn't give two shits less. But the reality of it is being on free tv does a lot of heavy lifting for viewer numbers. Because of course it does
More people saw the TNA Women's champ on tv then anyone on the entire AEW roster. Hahahaha.
>>16761818>Guaranteed we'll see things like TNA people padding out the Rumble this year.Los Matadores padded out the Rumble in previous years. The Prime Time Players padded out the Rumble in previous years. Michael Cole and Pat McAfee padded out the Royal Rumble in previous years. This isn't the crowning achievement you think it is>it's still TNAYou could've stopped there. None of this news means anything. The agreement was already in place. They already had TNA names in prior year's Rumbles. They still view them as nothing more than a place to pluck talent from when they see someone they want. They're still only going to send the bottom barrel of their own talent over to them in exchangeMoving on
>>16761853>thenlmfao
>>16761853And yet even with Dwayne the Rock Johnson promoted they couldn't pull 800k. In fact they even lied about their numbers to try and make it seem closer kek
>>16761872You're skewed in your argument though, you're only trying to see it through a lens of your own headcanon. Things have worked out great for TNA so far and seemingly it's only going to get better and better for them.
>>16761040I don't think TNA will ever be the #2 promotion as long as AEW is alive. The highest buy rate for a PPV in TNA's prime doesn't even come close to some of AEW's PPV numbers
>>16762067Kind of crazy how few people watch the wrestling PPVs.
>>16761040ahahahhahaa sure it does Bully
>>1676206760k? Isn't AEWs smallest number somewhere around 60k?
>>16762236The lowest PPV buy rate for AEW was Full Gear 2019 with 80k buys. These days they typically average around 130k per PPV
>>16762259To be fair, AEW's numbers are buoyed a little because they include people that watch via iPPVs online, which wasn't an option during TNA's peak. You either shilled out $60 to your cable provider for the PPV or you didn't see the show. There was no cheaper option to pay $8/month to watch on TrillerTV or whatever.
>>16762323>There was no cheaper option to pay $8/month to watch on TrillerTV or whatever.AEW doesnt have that though. Even if you buy it via VPN from other countries its still like 30 bucks
