Interesting AEW question on pwinsider's Q&A

It's going to come down to how big of a deal TNT thinks AEW is. The game show is a nifty little push and the advertising during the NBA playoffs have helped, but advertising outside of the TNT family of channels is huge.

Also, it comes down to their overall product as well. Currently, they have too many WwE-ish angles and gimmicks. They need to set themselves apart as a true wrestling show that's different than the sh*t driving people away from the other promotion.

I'd say Cody, Moxley, and Jericho are their biggest draws. The next wave is Omega, Hangman, and Darby. We'll have to give it a while though, AEW's only a year old.

I agree that they have to set themselves apart from wwe as much as possible. Also make your storylines as logical as possible. Let’s face it, wrestling will never be 💯 logical which is ok. Keep allowing your wrestlers to cut their own promos. I’m telling you, Rock and Austin would have not gotten as over in today’s wwe over scripted environment.

It most likely will never happen for any of them. You need a huge fan base to make that happen. 700,000 people watching every wed night isn't enough to make anyone a mega star. Those kind of numbers won't get anyone on the cover of a non-wrestling magazine, won't get them on a talk show, won't get them in demand for whatever. It's not a knock against anyone but there isn't anyone with the larger than life personality, no matter how hard Jericho is trying, (ok, that was a knock), to get people outside the now small bubble of wrestling fans to get anyone to care.

The era of the "megastar" is long gone and the "glory" days of tv wrestling went away with it.

Do that every week for a year, then DOUBLE it in another 2 years and then MAYBE you get HALF the star power The OP question is looking for.

As others have said, way to early to be even thinking like that.

Let me know when they get a 4.0 rating and maybe they might be able to do something.  A million people watching isn't going to make anyone there a "mega star".  Not saying it to be mean, I just don't see it ever happening again in any wrestling company.

I guess you guys are friends?

Minus dvr, the last time they did less than 700 grand was 6/24.

Who knows? I never thought Steve Austin and Jean Paul Lavesque from wcw would ever be mega stars.

it's easy to say something just couldn't happen when it's not in the current forecast. is it likely? no. but if you were watching wwf in 1995 you'd think that the business would NEVER return to the heights it did in the 80s. lo and behold, a few years later we'd have a huge boom and the most people watching wrestling in the history of it in terms of specific broadcasts.

having the rick and morty crossover was a good move. the right ufc or celebrities could fit, but not tyson etc.

i believe that wrestling has never really failed when there is a strong product in terms of attracting attention. so as long as aew improves, i see their viewership improving as well. who knows what that ceiling may be.