Below are a couple of top AEW & WWE news stories of the day.
• During the All Out 2024 media call, Dave Meltzer asked Tony Khan if AEW is going to be the second most profitable wrestling company of all time after the new media rights deal.
Here’s what Khan said:
“I think it is reasonable. Whether those cash flows happen overnight when the new deal kicks in, I can’t say those things for sure yet. There is still a lot to be figured out. I do think the die is cast that AEW is going to be the second most profitable wrestling company, at this point, of all time, which is very impressive for a promotion that is just over 5 years old and has been on television for less than five years.
It’s amazing how quickly we’ve expanded. The expansion of the television product going from two hours a week to five hours a week. Being very excited about what the future holds in our media deal. It’s a really great time for the company.
As getting into the semantics and mechanics of the accounting, and how we’re counting all the dollars, I’m not sure exactly how much money WCW made in 1998, nor am I honestly sure how much Jim Crockett was making in 1986, but over the duration of this deal, I expect, over this multi-year period that we’re about to enter into, that we will be the second most profitable wrestling company in the history of the wrestling business.
It’s a really exciting thing, and it’s also only the beginning. It’s the beginning of a really long journey. It’s been a long journey, but it’s still early in the long journey. We’re really building for the future.”
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• WrestleVotes reported the following today:
“WWE is set to announce a live primetime special on NBC in the next few days. While the location remains unknown, sources say tickets are set to go on sale next Friday.
We’ve heard some internal speculation about a Saturday night in December. This will be WWE’s first primetime NBC special since August 2, 2008.”
