AEW Dynamite drew 687,000 viewers on Wednesday per Wrestlenomics. The telecast was #2 overall (0.22) in P18-49 demo per Programming Insider. This week’s telecast was slightly off from last week’s 716,000 viewers. The telecast started off with the highest rated segment as Chris Jericho faced off against Orange Cassidy. The start of hour number 2 […]
Despite UFC Sphere show, Canelo brings in $17M gate, 650 PPV buys
The Sports Business Journal reports that the Canelo Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga fight which took place on the same night as UFC 306 drew 650K PPV buys and a gate of $17 million. While the $17 million gate at the T-Mobile Arena, did not eclipse the $22 million at The Sphere, it showed that Canelo is still […]
Report: AEW re-signs with WBD
John Ourand of Puck was the first to report that All Elite Wrestling is re-signing with Warner Brother Discovery. The deal should be formally announced sometime in the coming week. The deal is for three years at $170 million with an option for a fourth. The deal does not report on PPVs. Also, there are […]
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WWE cutting live events per Shapiro
Last week, TKO head Mark Shapiro spoke at the 51st Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference. During his talk, he indicated that WWE would be doing less live events in the future. Shapiro indicated that they would be doing less “house shows” which are the untelevised WWE touring events which helped grow […]