No. I get that it's intimate, but it's small. Looking small does not help competing with the WWE. When everything they do is ginormous. It's a losing battle, and I understand. Doesn't change how this screams, "Fine. Here's smaller arenas. Shut up about crowd size."
AEW do not, and have never been, compete with WWE. Was never the goal or the intention. AEW exists to give people another option if they don't like what WWE are doing. I'm glad AEW have downgraded their arenas, it just makes the Pay-Per-Views look bigger and more important
WWE view them as competition, and that's competition. Again, downgrading the arenas makes the product look small. It just does. Doesn't change what's happening, but it doesn't change that the alternative can't sell out an arena unless it's fucking a PPV. Again, it's all dings, that effect AEW.
There is no reasonable human who will be “testing” AEW, turn on the tv, see a building like this packed and loud with good production and say “nah this feels so small compared to WWE I just can’t watch!!” If that’s the case they already weren’t giving it a real shot.
Yeah, and I am not denying it. It just makes the product look small and that cannot be ignored. Big arenas, even if they are half full... are still bigger spaces. Again, I get why they are doing it but it's detrimental to the product, and needs to stop.
I'd rather a small venue where the crowd sound hot and the place is crowded than a large venue where the crowd are lost in a vast space and they have to have dim lighting and set camera angles to hide the fact personally
This is the same arena the NWA was going to run in 2020 for a PPV until the pandemic closed everything down. Drawing 3,000 people here would look pretty full on tv.
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