Tony Khan delivers an attention-grabbing statistic concerning the AEW product and its fanbase.
All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan not too long ago took half in an All Out Media Name. Khan was requested by WrestleZone Managing Editor Invoice Pritchard in regards to the optimistic fan reception all through Wednesday. This began with Swerve Strickland’s video on social media, which fed into the ending of final night time’s AEW Dynamite. Khan had loads to say about how the wrestling fanbase has modified for the higher in recent times.
“Effectively, it’s an excellent query, nice factors,” Tony Khan started. “I believe the response to the conclusion of AEW Dynamite with Hangman Web page and Swerve Strickland to arrange their lights out metal cage match this Saturday, simply 48 hours from now, at AEW All Out has been overwhelmingly optimistic. I believe we’ve had only a unbelievable response from the followers who thought this was an excellent ending to the present.
“If we have been in one other line of labor, individuals could be shocked by this, however in wrestling, I believe individuals noticed it coming indirectly and nonetheless have been blown away by it really, and it was one thing that made lots of sense, and it was a type of nice wrestling concepts and a type of nice wrestling moments.
The avidity of followers is at an all-time excessive
Khan highlighted how the best way individuals watch wrestling has modified over a number of years, and he appreciates the followers’ eagerness to eat extra content material.
“It’s an enormous share of the viewers now that follows these items, in comparison with once I was a child. And it was, frankly, extra of a distinct segment curiosity. There was enormous mainstream curiosity in wrestling that might go up and down cyclically based mostly on what was taking place within the enterprise, however I believe when it comes to what we now have now, it’s a growth time in wrestling. It is a golden age for the game,” he stated. “In so some ways it is a nice time to be in wrestling. And AEW is a big a part of the wrestling dialog taking place as we speak in September 2024 it’s an superior factor.
“Once you take a look at that traditionally, I believe the avidity of wrestling followers is at an all-time excessive. I’ve gotten some statistics that I’m actually impressed by. As I’ve gotten into this media rights deal, I’ve discovered issues about AEW that even I didn’t know which might be so spectacular. Insights that actually rocked me and to look at wrestling fandom change and see how huge AEW is part of it,” Khan continued.
‘It reveals up within the metrics’
Khan stated it’s nice to see individuals service their fandom and eagerness, and it’s additionally actually necessary “to care for the followers that care for us.”
“Do you know that of all the world’s sports activities leagues, the league whose followers spend probably the most cash per thirty days on streaming video of each sports activities league on the market, the league whose fan spends on common, probably the most per thirty days on streaming video? It’s AEW. It’s forward of each different sporting league on this planet.
“I’ve by no means stated AEW is the most important sporting league on this planet, however we’re an enormous sports activities league now. Now we have lots of followers, and we even have the best avidity of followers of any league on this planet, and it continues to point out itself up,” Khan stated. “It reveals up within the metrics, and it reveals up in intangible methods too.”
‘In wrestling, that’s an excellent factor.’
Khan stated he didn’t “examine the decibel meter each 5 seconds” at Wembley Stadium. Nevertheless, seeing (and listening to) all of these nice moments was rewarding.
“And suppose proper now if you see that the followers are following alongside. You may have followers that wish to know what’s coming subsequent, and so they’ll even look on-line. They’ll examine social media, they’ll Google it. They’ll look to information sources to search out out what’s going to occur subsequent in AEW. And in wrestling, that’s an excellent factor. So I take a look at our fan avidity as a very optimistic level for AEW.”
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