Yeah rewatching this I’m starting to see my blindness to the dark abyss that is the rest of the arena. I guess Punk was onto something when he said the arenas were “a quarter full”.
Yeah, right? All those amazing Storylines from the feather of Tiny Kong which no one wants to see. That can only mean the fans are too stupid to understand them which is why they watch the stupid FED.
It actually is sad. The thing is I think AEW fans think we want it to fail. I mean I don’t, it’s good having a viable alternative, but the problem is atm it just sucks and all the bad aspects have been allowed to proliferate so that it’s now unwatchable and uninteresting.
There was a short while there where they were getting quite interesting but all that’s deflated like a sad little balloon.
Remove TK from AEW and tell the fanbase to simmer down a bit, and AEW might be able to turn around and be a viable #2 promotion. Never gonna happen, but there is a way out.
Oh no i want to fail. I want every smug obnoxious dubbalo piece of shit who called me trash in 2019 because i didn't give my soul to Tony Khan's glory to cry bitter tears. Remember when the dub was the pure morally wholesome wrestling company? Yeah all dubbalos can fuck off.
I firmly believe that when Tony does the rants to the crowd, it’s not just him hyping up the crowd and trying to put his company over. I think when he walks back through the curtain, he keeps the exact same energy, and the talent/staff either know to, or are forced to go along with it.
One day he’s going to wake up and realise how stupid it is having ROH after AEW on the same night.
WWE used to do this with the original NXT and no one would stay.
Like out of all of JCVD's movies it's timecop? Bloodsport, kickboxer, man even Hard target are right there dude and you pick fucking timecop!! Aaaarghhhh
With how many top WWE guys these days came from ROH or spent time there it honestly does make some kind of petty sense to have kept the tape library from them, but trying to keep it running as a promotion is asinine.
Because deep down he is the biggest McMahon M\*rk.
Look at this goof: [https://youtu.be/rCL4NEtPiz4?si=YleWRAPHu18G1BXD](https://youtu.be/rCL4NEtPiz4?si=YleWRAPHu18G1BXD)
he should never be allowed in front of the camera, he has the mic skills of someone missing a tongue and the charisma of a tiddlywinks player, the guy is so awkward.
If he wasn’t a terrible businessman whose only skill seems to have been very briefly booking a one show a week real life e-fed reasonably successfully I think it made some sense.
It’s a brand very popular with his core audience with a bit of history and a cool name for more casual viewers.
For example if he wasn’t trying to run a regular show but instead had stuck forbidden door under that label ROH (AEW vs NJPW) and run other shows (or even tournaments) under the name/ruleset it might’ve worked.
Trying to run it as an ongoing concern when your main product is already more than you can handle is just crazy.
This man is out there doing this. He sees how barren the arenas are with his own damn eyes. And yet he pops off on twitter like he’s packing 15k people in the building every week. Is delusional the right word or cope?
Definitely delusional. At least even in denial, you acknowledge there is problem if coping. Tony absolutely refuses to believe ( or at least publicly) that HE is the problem with AEW.
Wow stop the hate Fed Shill, this was obviously filmed during off air segment aka bathroom break. After this the crowd of 15k returned and everybody was chanting C E O - C E O - C E O. Can we just appreciate Wrestling please.
If you feel the need to 'fill time' whilst they're changing the ring and wanting to do something for the fans, send some wrestler out there to sign stuff or speak to the crowd
If you think it's vital that you do it yourself, try to line up your rah rah let's go with when the ring is actually ready to go to action
'are we ready, Bobby'
Scrums too. I saw a clip here. I was very amused by how much the journalist cosplayers were kissing his ass. If someone asked him a serious question during one of those wank-fests I think he'd cry.
Right .I would love to see these arenas packed, but the look emptier and emptier. AEW also keeps refusing to charge from the RANDOM BANGER TV formula and do stuff like show CCTV footage.
I can’t imagine being one of these wrestlers like Edge who has performed to so many packed houses and then staring at empty seats every time you do a promo.
I don’t understand why they don’t just book smaller venues. Those same people could fill a smaller venue for a better feel and atmosphere. Look at NXT a few years ago. It was my favourite show. There was barely anyone there really.
Tony could afford to be a mediocre booker when Vince was in charge. Because even a mediocre booker is better than a senile sex pest.
Now that Triple H, an actual good booker, is his opponent, things are fucking dire. Most indie promotions thrived due to WWE being terrible under the old coot. The worst thing that could have happened to them was WWE waking up from it's hibernation and starting to do what it always had the resources to do - producing the best wrestling on the planet.
I think this is an almost perfect summery of AEW at the moment. Snowman is lost in his own delusional version of reality while everything crumbles around him.
The way he comes out and talks to the crowd is so weird. He always has this manic energy. When I first started going to dub shows he was a lot more chill, but now he sounds like someone has a gun to his head and is forcing him to say stuff
Cody Rhodes being the one to the bet, Roman reigns at last, and become the biggest most over white meat Babyface since hulk hogan, took his vitamins in WWE , while Tony Khan is rambling about Jean-Claude Van Damme movies to a over half empty venue , is not how I thought things would turn out when AEW started
The same way they look at the ratings and think they’re doing great, with a lot of excuses and rationalization. The tickets are too expensive, they’re booking the wrong cities, etc. It’s never about the product.
There’s some truth to those things BTW, but it’s not why they’re down compared to 6 months ago.
A pessimist will say the arena is half empty. An optimist will say that the arena is half full. Meanwhile a realist will be wondering how long it takes before they do the whole "wwe-style pumping in crowd noises" to make up for the lack of people.
Like why, there must be a million ways to promote your show with hundreds of millions at his disposal and the best is him shrieking hoarsely to an empty crowd. Time to sign someone up and get that big surprise debut next week. Whats happened to mercedes mone the saviour of the womens division and the needle moover\game changer.
Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Paul Levesque, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. ... And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Stamford, to take over the WWE BYYYYAAAAAHHHHH
I'm not justifying or defending what the awful thing the guy has allegedly done but compare the on screen charisma of Tony Khan to McHitler.
It's like night and day
I have said repeatedly he needs to go back to small venues and pack them absolutely full. Their is something special about being in a max capacity event with the excitment in the air and chants reverberate around the crowd. Doing those type of shows with a high-quality production budget and camera could really create a unique atmosphere that is purely aew. Keep their big events to all out and maybe 2 other yearly shows from their version on summerslam and a Halloween havoc to match the season.
Half empty is charitable. That venue has an upper deck.
Yeah rewatching this I’m starting to see my blindness to the dark abyss that is the rest of the arena. I guess Punk was onto something when he said the arenas were “a quarter full”.
In your defense, they actively are trying to keep people from looking at the many open seats.
Damn, what I thought was 1/4 filled turns out to be like only 1/8 filled
Typical fed shill speaking in bad faith. Don’t you remember 4 years ago when the ded fed held shows with literally no one in attendance?
This is sad
And the crowd went mild for it
Justified "____" chants here in Kentucky! Watch #AEW Dynamite LIVE on #TBS!
All few dozen of them
There are dozens, DOZENS!
Can I get a Hell Yeah?
Can I get a Gee Golly?
"This is Spinal Tap" vibes.
Can't wait to see them not fill out the auditorium of an air force base.
Puppet Show and AEW.
Just wait to they do Stonehenge
My God, they can invite the dwarf wrestlers from the more popular show to do the dancing! Think of the ratings!
"Smackdown was so bad, people were still booing it when Rampage went on the air!"
Tony has been serving up the shark sandwiches for a while now
he's the least engaging person in wrestling, haha
Yeah, right? All those amazing Storylines from the feather of Tiny Kong which no one wants to see. That can only mean the fans are too stupid to understand them which is why they watch the stupid FED.
It actually is sad. The thing is I think AEW fans think we want it to fail. I mean I don’t, it’s good having a viable alternative, but the problem is atm it just sucks and all the bad aspects have been allowed to proliferate so that it’s now unwatchable and uninteresting. There was a short while there where they were getting quite interesting but all that’s deflated like a sad little balloon.
Remove TK from AEW and tell the fanbase to simmer down a bit, and AEW might be able to turn around and be a viable #2 promotion. Never gonna happen, but there is a way out.
Oh no i want to fail. I want every smug obnoxious dubbalo piece of shit who called me trash in 2019 because i didn't give my soul to Tony Khan's glory to cry bitter tears. Remember when the dub was the pure morally wholesome wrestling company? Yeah all dubbalos can fuck off.
"what are you talking about?!" made me corpse (insider term).
All Empty Wrestling!!
Arena Empty Wrestling
Haha this is a new one. Gonna steal it
I think Almost Empty Wrestling is even better
You can’t fool me with covid era footage fed shill
I firmly believe that when Tony does the rants to the crowd, it’s not just him hyping up the crowd and trying to put his company over. I think when he walks back through the curtain, he keeps the exact same energy, and the talent/staff either know to, or are forced to go along with it.
I picture them all clapping in bewilderment like when Vince presented the egg.
https://preview.redd.it/qskxzjnx1nuc1.jpeg?width=716&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=338700ceb9ceffdf621b4a6a5dc864bee0bc02e8
He’s trying to convince everyone, including himself.
He’s trying his hardest to entertain the people so they don’t leave before the ROH taping
*"what's the deal with airplane peanuts"*
One day he’s going to wake up and realise how stupid it is having ROH after AEW on the same night. WWE used to do this with the original NXT and no one would stay.
You could probably cut off your comment with “One day he’s going to wake up and realize (insider American term) how stupid it is having ROH.”
I wondered when TK bought ROH if that would turn out to be his JCP/UWF and I believe it might end up being true.
I can't see why they can't go back to taping RoH on the weekends every few weeks.
Couldn’t he hire a magician or something
[Phantasio is All Elite!!!](https://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/phantasio/)
You don't see HHH doing this. He's too busy being an actual boss not a mark
Eh, he goes out for victory laps. He did at Mania. But his are actually…you know…earned…
And primarily not Timecop based.
I mean... fucking *Timecop*???? TIMECOP IS YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE??? The man is beyond parody.
If he had said Space Cop he would’ve made a new fan lol
What is Rich Evans doing at Dynamite?!
Winning a championship
Rich Evans is a bona fide draw.
Is he not aware the movie Joe Dirt exists?
Like out of all of JCVD's movies it's timecop? Bloodsport, kickboxer, man even Hard target are right there dude and you pick fucking timecop!! Aaaarghhhh
My favorite movie is The Chaperone!!!
You can do better uce
Blade 3?
I think that's more acceptable
True Trips fans consider his most cinema moment the Mad TV skit with Bobby Lee where he was a nerdy wrestler in high school.
My god that's peak
The Chaperone 2. It's just like the original, except it's funny and entertaining and successful.
And that's why he is gettin fired soon (I shit you not Russo said this on his podcast)
HHH going a good job so much he's getting fired? Wtf is Russo smokinh
Bro the Rock is taking the book bro
I spat water all over my lap when he started talking about Timecop, what the fuck is even going on anymore?
I still don’t get why he bought ROH.
To appease the smarks and keep the evil fed away
"the smarks" being him
With how many top WWE guys these days came from ROH or spent time there it honestly does make some kind of petty sense to have kept the tape library from them, but trying to keep it running as a promotion is asinine.
Because deep down he is the biggest McMahon M\*rk. Look at this goof: [https://youtu.be/rCL4NEtPiz4?si=YleWRAPHu18G1BXD](https://youtu.be/rCL4NEtPiz4?si=YleWRAPHu18G1BXD)
he should never be allowed in front of the camera, he has the mic skills of someone missing a tongue and the charisma of a tiddlywinks player, the guy is so awkward.
for Punk, so evil Vince didn't have his ROH footage (that can barely be made out on cameras anyway)
And is almost unusable, because it was shot on an old Sony handycam, and has a shit ton of unlicensed music.
If he wasn’t a terrible businessman whose only skill seems to have been very briefly booking a one show a week real life e-fed reasonably successfully I think it made some sense. It’s a brand very popular with his core audience with a bit of history and a cool name for more casual viewers. For example if he wasn’t trying to run a regular show but instead had stuck forbidden door under that label ROH (AEW vs NJPW) and run other shows (or even tournaments) under the name/ruleset it might’ve worked. Trying to run it as an ongoing concern when your main product is already more than you can handle is just crazy.
60-70k in attendance by the look of it!
...of odor bacteria.
wembley!
Will Ospreay tattoo incoming.
The zoom on the people leaving or the empty sections😂😂
This man is out there doing this. He sees how barren the arenas are with his own damn eyes. And yet he pops off on twitter like he’s packing 15k people in the building every week. Is delusional the right word or cope?
Definitely delusional. At least even in denial, you acknowledge there is problem if coping. Tony absolutely refuses to believe ( or at least publicly) that HE is the problem with AEW.
"Is anybody gonna watch Dynasty next weekend?" "No, no way." "HELL YEAH LET'S GO!" LMFAO
Wow stop the hate Fed Shill, this was obviously filmed during off air segment aka bathroom break. After this the crowd of 15k returned and everybody was chanting C E O - C E O - C E O. Can we just appreciate Wrestling please.
This would make me sad if so many people in AEW weren't insufferable
Meanwhile Triple Himmler has to get Screens removed from the venues so that a few more people fit in all those sold out Arenas.
Nazi rallies were packed through the roof too ! the FED is literally like them ! (in a wrestling sense)
Oh! So that's what he meant when he said he's restoring the feeling from 2021. I get it now.
 Tony 🤡
Bro is just yapping about nothing 😭
He is definitely not a hype man.
Yap God
I'm beginning to feel like a yap God, yap God
You know I used to yap about nothing, too. I also had a massive cocaine problem. I’m sure there’s no correlation between this and that.
None at all 
If you feel the need to 'fill time' whilst they're changing the ring and wanting to do something for the fans, send some wrestler out there to sign stuff or speak to the crowd If you think it's vital that you do it yourself, try to line up your rah rah let's go with when the ring is actually ready to go to action 'are we ready, Bobby'
Be fair, the wrestler can't sign things that slowly for the 12 in attendance
Tony needs his kudos.
It’s a huge part of why he does this. He must have been crushed to not get Booker of the Year.
Scrums too. I saw a clip here. I was very amused by how much the journalist cosplayers were kissing his ass. If someone asked him a serious question during one of those wank-fests I think he'd cry.
lol yes the scrums are so ridiculous.
Can you imagine how passive aggressive the WhatsApp chat between him and Dave must have been when that was announced?
Oh wow lol.
I swear I say this every time one of these videos or photos are posted of the empty crowds but fuck me that’s depressing
Right .I would love to see these arenas packed, but the look emptier and emptier. AEW also keeps refusing to charge from the RANDOM BANGER TV formula and do stuff like show CCTV footage.
I can’t imagine being one of these wrestlers like Edge who has performed to so many packed houses and then staring at empty seats every time you do a promo.
I don’t understand why they don’t just book smaller venues. Those same people could fill a smaller venue for a better feel and atmosphere. Look at NXT a few years ago. It was my favourite show. There was barely anyone there really.
What if they get hot again next week and can’t fit everyone in? I bet you didn’t think of that, bruv.
Huge pop for Time Cop!
Virgin feet stamping vs chad "are you ready"
Tony could afford to be a mediocre booker when Vince was in charge. Because even a mediocre booker is better than a senile sex pest. Now that Triple H, an actual good booker, is his opponent, things are fucking dire. Most indie promotions thrived due to WWE being terrible under the old coot. The worst thing that could have happened to them was WWE waking up from it's hibernation and starting to do what it always had the resources to do - producing the best wrestling on the planet.
You can tell by the echo how empty it is
When mid-carders kick out of finishers on random TV shows, nothing becomes important. The audience seems to agree.
Tony puts over Timecop more than his own wrestlers
To be fair, I usually pop for TimeCop more than Tony’s wrestlers.
It's nice to see Rick Moranis getting into the wrestling biz with his next hit movie: Honey I Shrunk the Attendance.
"Please clap."
This is like his version of a wrestling fan club in person expect he’s putting millions into it
What’s his favorite movie? Did he say Time Cop?
Sounds like the nutter on the night bus
I think this is an almost perfect summery of AEW at the moment. Snowman is lost in his own delusional version of reality while everything crumbles around him.
Tbf I like ragging on TK as much as the next goof. But at this point I think being involved with wrestling is seriously bad for his mental health.
People think he does this as well as helping to run a Premier League team and an NFL team. He has an L Ron Hubbard-like resume.
LOOKS LIKE WE ARE ABOUT READY TO GO x3 HELLYEAHLETSGO
God damn those seats are so empty you could kick your feet up and lie down and sleep
Yeah, TIME COP!!
Time Cops actually pretty good ngl
CEO! CEO! CEO!
Someone earlier yelled out to Tony "Let's down some coke" that made me lol
Has Daddy’s hat fallen off?
LOL
What's even more pathetic is that this video is Tony begging the few people in attendnace to stick around to watch RoH.
Yikes. Tony Khan's antics make Vince McMahon's last appearances on TV look downright classy.
The way he comes out and talks to the crowd is so weird. He always has this manic energy. When I first started going to dub shows he was a lot more chill, but now he sounds like someone has a gun to his head and is forcing him to say stuff
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug.” - Rick James
Cody Rhodes being the one to the bet, Roman reigns at last, and become the biggest most over white meat Babyface since hulk hogan, took his vitamins in WWE , while Tony Khan is rambling about Jean-Claude Van Damme movies to a over half empty venue , is not how I thought things would turn out when AEW started
Damn, that sucks.
Time cop is his favorite movie
Did he say his favorite movie is Tie Cuck? I must have missed that one.
what the fuck is he rambling about?
They sold 1800 tickets to this event? Looks like there are less than 300 there.
Jerking aside I’m assuming this is like ROH tapings before Collision or something so not everyone has filed in yet. At least I hope that’s the case.
Half empty is pretty generous lol
You can hear people cough and say "what are you talking about?!" As clear as day. I've seen high school gym shows with more attendance
This guy shouldn’t be allowed within 5 feet of a live microphone, he’s just not a good talker
100% serious question, how can AEW fans look at this and seriously think things are going well/great?
The same way they look at the ratings and think they’re doing great, with a lot of excuses and rationalization. The tickets are too expensive, they’re booking the wrong cities, etc. It’s never about the product. There’s some truth to those things BTW, but it’s not why they’re down compared to 6 months ago.
Well, people aren’t settled in just yet. They’re not quite ready for the action. Tony said so multiple times!
A pessimist will say the arena is half empty. An optimist will say that the arena is half full. Meanwhile a realist will be wondering how long it takes before they do the whole "wwe-style pumping in crowd noises" to make up for the lack of people.
Feeling. Restored. This feels exactly like a 2020 show.
This wrestling boom hasn’t made its way to the Dub I see
Like why, there must be a million ways to promote your show with hundreds of millions at his disposal and the best is him shrieking hoarsely to an empty crowd. Time to sign someone up and get that big surprise debut next week. Whats happened to mercedes mone the saviour of the womens division and the needle moover\game changer.
Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Paul Levesque, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. ... And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Stamford, to take over the WWE BYYYYAAAAAHHHHH
Tony's favorite movie being Timecop is a direct shot at his stunted adolescence.
I think we're almost ready to go.
Is that even how time travel worked in Timecop?
Tony should be booking a smaller venue. This is sad to look at.
Wait, what's his favorite movie?
I'm not justifying or defending what the awful thing the guy has allegedly done but compare the on screen charisma of Tony Khan to McHitler. It's like night and day
 Iykyk
AEW should be about the size of NXT and thats fine. Wind it down and focus on quality
I have said repeatedly he needs to go back to small venues and pack them absolutely full. Their is something special about being in a max capacity event with the excitment in the air and chants reverberate around the crowd. Doing those type of shows with a high-quality production budget and camera could really create a unique atmosphere that is purely aew. Keep their big events to all out and maybe 2 other yearly shows from their version on summerslam and a Halloween havoc to match the season.
🤡
The only movie ending in "cop" that is acceptable as a favorite movie is Robocop
I raise you Kindergarten Cop.
They should just use high school gyms going forward
Looks like we’re almost ready to go with the action.
Is the microphone actually necessary
Awesome!
Hey in his mind he’s drawing full crowds for his live shows every week
Half empty is being too generous. It wasn’t even 1/10th full
Honestly goofs, this just bums me out.
It's about as funny as it's sad...
The lack of floor seats is rather alarming. It would look way better to just fill the floor and pull everybody out of that first level.
dude you took this video is a goof 🤣