- Joined
- Sep 12, 2025
When they first started out they made a lot of mistakes financially, from running arenas too big, to directly trying to compete with WWE, to that god awful video game that costed them a fortune and didn't even work.AEW are pretty clever with their contracts because they'll split peoples pay with NJPW and/or CMLL and let guys take indie bookings so they can offer a little less money up front on their own deals because talent feels like they have other avenues to earn.
That and they are pretty good at scaling their events to different venues. They'll run a 2000 seater that costs them fuck all rather than push for the bigger arenas for anything outside of PPVs. Their production budget is probably fairly small as well because they don't really do a whole lot of fancy shit outside of pyro and i believe WBD covers a good chunk of it anyway.
It's nice to see that Tony found the plot again and is actually acting like a real life businessman.