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”

  • @ItsWizardTime
    3•1 year ago

    I love the idea of them being on Max… the 12 PPVs not so much. I’m already less than thrilled that my friend group was priced out of Grand Slam. We went last year and the same price would push us an entire section back, which considering the ticket prices were more than the prior year and it starts to make sense that you have these buy one get one discount codes now, but with less than a week before the show the pickings are slim.

    I was even offered a Suite for 20 people at $200 each 2 parking passes (so how are all 20 people getting here?) Food and drink not included, that was in July, I got an email this morning asking if I was still interested. I guess they weren’t exactly selling like hot cakes.

    I know AEW isn’t the super scrappy fed they used to be, but there’s a point where you start feeling milked. Same with AEW Fight Forever, it’s a full priced wrestling game in 2023 and months later we can’t even do a 3-4 player ladder match, don’t get me started on the CAW…

    They need to find the balance or we will keep seeing stories about them struggling to sell tickets to their regular shows, adding more PPVs is just going to make me pick and choose which to watch. I wanted to do All Out & All In, but I just picked All Out. Wrestle Dream sounds cool but if it’s not going to tie into story lines I’ll choose their bigger PPV that will tie into their regular shows.

    I only have so much Money and Time, if this happens AEW will be 20 hours of TV plus a PPV a month. That’s not a TV show that’s a full fledged hobby’s worth of time.