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Andrew Zarian: "I feel confident to say that AEW will be on Max in 2024 and AEW will expand its PPV Schedule to 12 a year." (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This quote was taken from the Mat Men podcast. Here's a Link to Zarian's tweet

How do you feel about 12 PPV's a year?

NOTE: I've changed the title and the linked tweet to more accurately reflect Zarian's words. For clarity, the title prior to my edit was:

Andrew Zarian: "This is not a prediction, I feel confident to say that MAX will be the home of AEW in 2024. And I feel confident to say they will run 12 PPVs a year on there"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly; don't like it. 4 was great because it made the events seem special.

WWE has like 12 events a year and they're hard to keep up with and they largely don't mean anything between an event each month and 7-10 hours of tv a week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is worded oddly, and it is a prediction... by using the words I feel, he's making a prediction...

Now let's get to the lines themselves... "MAX will be the home of AEW in 2024"... does that mean they are leaving TV? I doubt they mean it that way but it can be read as if AEW programming will be on MAX only. I assume because of the line about 12 PPVs a year, maybe they mean the PPV programming will be on MAX.

Then there's the "I feel confident..." line about PPVs. And, I think 12 PPVs actually would fit Tony Khan's booking style better, I mean we just had back to back to back special shows, with two more coming in a matter of weeks. I feel like we never know the matches on the card until just before the card anyway. I would even test the waters at keeping them on PPV at the high price to see if people would pay it, thousands of people paid WWF and WCW monthly back in the day.

But, I am fairly certain they mean 12 PPVs on MAX starting in 2024, and I could live with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree on the wording. I was going to post it similarly to how it was posted elsewhere (the 'bad place' post makes it sound like a fact as opposed to a "confident prediction") but I felt like this was more accurate.

On PPV's: I'd much rather 12 PPV's over 4 PPV's and a bunch of meaningless "Battle of the belts" specials. But of course, price and all that matters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just want to point out that we're technically already at 10 with the addition of WrestleDream.

The original 4: Double or Nothing, Revolution, Full Gear, All Out
Forbidden Door
3 RoH PPVs: Supercard, Death Before Dishonor, Final Battle (You can argue these don't count, but they're still Tony Khan joints.)
All In
WrestleDream

There hasn't been "just 4 or 5" for a couple years now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not saying I want 12 a year, just that we're a lot closer to 12 than some might think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On the one hand: People aren't gonna want to spend more money on shows.

On the other hand: AEW already puts on a lot of special episodes that could rightly be PPV's and it could also help getting more work for people on shows, get more storylines, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Please, because Sling sucks now