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Apparently a Kidd Bandit fan vandalized a Charli XCX billboard and has taken responsibility, but I think he's just claiming it for attention since Bandit supports it.
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Tism the Return II said:
If I had infinite dollars I too could keep my favorite twig-like guys doing backflips off each other and it wouldn't be impressive. It'd say a lot more about whoever's funding my retarded antics than my product.
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you can argue that, and I got my issues with the product as well, but it is still a profitable business that can sell out ppvs, holds a consistent audience, and is overall well ran outside of wrestling drama. WWF was in a way worse spot in the early 90's than AEW ever was i'd argue.
 
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profitable business that can sell out ppvs, holds a consistent audience, and is overall well ran outside of wrestling drama.
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There's no way to verify that. The numbers that can be verified for the company are almost always negative, shrinking. AEW does have a consistent audience and that information can be verified but even then the trend for said consistent audience is downwards, stabilizing somewhere around 650k. AEW isn't going to fold next week but much like watching DSP over the years it's a depressing bleeding out process full of muddied numbers.
 
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Tism the Return II said:
There's no way to verify that. The numbers that can be verified for the company are almost always negative, shrinking. AEW does have a consistent audience and that information can be verified but even then the trend for said consistent audience is downwards, stabilizing somewhere around 650k. AEW isn't going to fold next week but much like watching DSP over the years it's a depressing bleeding out process full of muddied numbers.
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Tony Khan is rich enough to fund AEW infinitely so I guess you're just going to have to stay mad over it for a long time.
 
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Tism the Return II said:
There's no way to verify that. The numbers that can be verified for the company are almost always negative, shrinking. AEW does have a consistent audience and that information can be verified but even then the trend for said consistent audience is downwards, stabilizing somewhere around 650k. AEW isn't going to fold next week but much like watching DSP over the years it's a depressing bleeding out process full of muddied numbers.
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Speaking of shrinking viewer numbers:

 
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Stardom show was fucking great. Amazing crowd. First time seeing live wrestling since 2012 and I forgot how amazing it is.

Mina Shirakawa is ungodly over. She's also otherworldly beautiful in person. I'm not even trying to be creepy when I say that, they should pay that bitch to stand behind velvet ropes at the Louvre and allow people to just study what an objectively perfect human looks like.

Sorry about the blogposting, but /pw/ being down is killing me. I'll shut up if you want me to.
 
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Kermit the Frog said:
AEW will go on as long as Tony Khan is alive. Even if AEW didn't get a renewed TV deal and had to stream every show on YouTube for free, he'd still keep it going. Just do what most wrestling fans do and ignore it.
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AEW is in an interesting position where Tony Khan is both their greatest blessing and most terrible curse. A blessing because he has enough money to keep AEW solvent for a long time even if it doesn’t turn a profit, and a curse because he’s Tony Khan and insists on being the booker despite being terrible at it and letting the inmates run the asylum. If AEW didn’t have Khan it’d be a crapshoot if the business would even last 2 years and even then they’d need someone very talented at the wrestling business to replace him.
 
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The funniest thing about the IWC the last couple of days aside from their meltdown over Roman being a Trump supporter is the AEW fans suddenly being concerned about the state of New Japan. They didn't give a fuck when Tony was taking their titles and poaching their top stars for years. Now that there's a rumor WWE might be doing something with New Japan? Time to panic!

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FreeToast said:
Thoughts on JCW? I think they stream episodes of Lunacy today at around 6 or 7.
Someone on /pw/ was shilling for them and Ive only seen about 2 episodes and thought they were alright.
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I've seen a couple of their shows, one was a very early tape with a lot of weird meta stuff, like one backstage promo was two guys bitching about how ICP was making them job to their buddy and a dead guy, also a match with, like, Abdullah and Shieky Baby or somebody similarly huge and old, and ICP just shits all over the match. it was kinda fun
also I saw the livestream of their Legends and Icons show, that was a thing they held at Gathering one year, basically a riff on the Legends Of Wrestling ppv, with a shitload of old guys of various skill, main event was NAO vs Outsiders, X-Pac as the ref I think, there was a lot of issues with the show because of the ferry to get to the island, so it didn't start until like 2am, so you had Bob Backlund working his ass off at like three in the morning for a bunch of screaming methheads
pretty fun, Mick Foley finding out what a shitshow he's calling as it's happening and just rolling with it is fun too
 
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