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”

  • JelloBrains
    3•1 year ago

    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.

    • TellumSiegeOP
      2•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.