In addition to trying to turn things around with fans after the promotion has seen a decline in interest across television ratings and live attendance, All Elite Wrestling finds itself in an interesting situation as they must finalize a new media rights deal for television by the end of this year.
The good news is that AEW is aware of the issues and is working to improve things while remaining the world’s second-largest promotion, featuring some of the biggest names in the business.
AEW is getting ready for its Revolution pay-per-view event next month, with top matches confirmed, including Sting’s retirement, AEW World Heavyweight Champion Samoa Joe vs. Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland, AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm vs. Deonna Purrazzo, and AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Roderick Strong.
In the most recent issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer wrote, “A couple of people have noted that the morale has really picked up and is the best in some time, even if the rating this week was universally disappointing for such a loaded show that was promoted as the biggest Dynamite of the year.”
This week’s show had 805,000 viewers and a 0.28 key demo rating.
