Reason for AEW’s Recent Cost-Cutting Measures Revealed

AEW has seen lots of growth since its debut back in 2019 but there have been a lot of growing pains throughout and there’s also the fact that they recently introduced a lot of cost-cutting measures. In light of this, the reason for such measures has been revealed.

AEW recently unveiled a collaboration with the city of Arlington, Texas, introducing the Path to All In summer series at the city’s Esports stadium. This weekly series features AEW: Collision, one of AEW’s flagship shows airing every Saturday night on TNT. Commencing on July 20, AEW: Collision will broadcast from the stadium on a weekly basis until August 17.

This series serves as a buildup to AEW’s highly anticipated August event and pay-per-view, All In. As the shows will be taking place at the same venue, it’s a cost-cutting measure and fans found this odd.

According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, a notable observation has been the implementation of cost-cutting measures within AEW. While it’s acknowledged that the talent roster is larger than necessary, recent cuts from a roster standpoint have been deemed sensible. The decision to hold tapings for Collision in Arlington, an experiment involving residential tapings instead of constant touring, is seen as part of this cost-cutting initiative.

On top of that, it’s noted that this approach simplifies operations. As AEW wasn’t generating significant gate revenue on Saturday nights, this experiment is being closely monitored to determine its effectiveness. Some individuals have also mentioned observing cutbacks in production as part of these cost-saving efforts.

“The one thing we’ve noticed is that there has been cost-cutting. Granted, the talent roster is larger than they need and the cuts from a roster standpoint did make sense. But the Arlington tapings for Collision, which is an experiment regarding doing residential instead of constantly touring tapings, is cost cutting. It also simplifies things. And AEW wasn’t doing huge Saturday night gates so this an experiment which is best viewed when it’s over and whether it is best to try and do it more often, or never again. Some have talked of noticing cutbacks in production as well.”

We will have to wait and see whether AEW’s cost-cutting methods will end up helping the company in the long run as the company is still observing and trying out new things even now.

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