UK 90s hit show @GladiatorsTV returned this past January and was a monster hit, averaging 8M viewers across the series on BBC
WCW Monday Nitro was also great family entertainment in the 90s
What can it learn from Gladiators, if revived?
A breakdown of @estheraddley article 🧵
This is a very great point, and reminds me of something unrelated.
When people say they miss WCW or wish it came back, you hear “WCW is back in the form of AEW”
WCW was it’s own thing just like AEW
Completely different products and audiences
I swear people only want #AEW to have an authority figure because they want AEW to be more like the fed. Just "they need more recaps" the PPV's are to long" etc.
You want WWE JR go watch TNA. Let people like me enjoy AEW for what it is
Football is taking its popularity for granted, and it will deserve everything it gets when older fans move on, and younger fans have nothing to fall in love with. The product has never been worse than this, and it’s largely on purpose.
@MikeGilbert311@JCup2013 Don’t do it to me. Don’t have me checking back to your account for the next few weeks hoping you brought WCW and will bring it back
Remember when Jose Mourinho was at a live Raw when Shane McMahon shouted him out in the ring?
Do you ever see Jose there now? Like a lot of fans from that era, Jose lost interest in WWE after the 2000s and went to UFC.
Some didn’t even stick around as long as he did.
. @THEVinceRusso said it best a year ago on his show
If you have such low standards for your entertainment in WWE, do you have the same low standards for other areas of your life?
They put on a poor product and you CHOOSE to sit through it, when it should be so much better!
Agreed!
3 hrs Monday
2 hrs Friday
EVERY WEEK?
The crazy thing about it is Monday on Netflix, where there’s so much better content on there with PROPER stories
ON THE SAME PLATFORM!
Why do people have such low standards for their entertainment?
There’s better things to do!
Fans thought y’all were gonna get grit and attitude into the Netflix era….now having to explain how Gingerbread Man is “attitude era coded”.
Y’all deserve every bit of wack shit that you sit through every week.
I don’t think WWE will ever go out of business, but TKO risks squeezing, rinsing, evaporating any bit of soul (yes that famous word right now) OUT!
The question - who puts it back together again? An ageing Vince? Seven Bucks Productions?
There’s no babyface coming for the save.
Whenever there’s WWE unrest, you always get one person mention lots of wrestling companies, from AEW, to indies saying “there’s so much great wrestling right now, check them out instead”
It’s the same niche. That’s why millions moved to other dramas and entertainment.
Whether this is true or not, one thing to realise is AEW is entering their second window of creators using AEW for “doom bait”
2023-24 - WBD renewal bait
Mid 2026-2027 Extension bait
2025-early 2026 there was zero bait, because the renewal was far away.
Cyclical.
to every journalist and every podcast who interviews tony khan from this day forward:
please ask tony if wbd told him back in august they would not be renewing aew.
wbd told him in august. i confirmed it directly and triple sourced it.
please ask why tony has been acting like nothing is wrong for the last 8 months, and then please ask tony what his actual distribution plan is.
because the only distributor left that will take aew is google/youtube.
the myaew app is not realistic.
the my aewapp is a death sentence in 2026 if youtube doesn’t make an mg deal for aew.
they started building it too late and there is no realistic way to scale it.
also, who is going to sell ads for the platform?
kiswe is not the best. they built the myaew app. they are new to the game.
hold tony’s feet to the fire.
Paramount is not real for aew.
WBD passed back in August.
CW/Roku is now off the table.
Amazon and Fox do not want AEW.
ask Tony why he's been lying to you and to the locker room and to the fans, acting like things are all great with the network?.
i am sure a lot of people would love to hear his answer.
Agreed!
Nothing against AEW, but I see people call out WWE for their gross misdeeds, then tell people to watch Collision
Even people that miss WCW are gaslighted with “You don’t need WCW, because AEW exists” 🥱
It’s perfectly ok to call out WWE, and admit AEW is not for you!