AEW has put on some great PPVs and they recently debuted their weekly TV show as well but one thing the company has not started doing yet is holding House Shows.
During his recent interview with DallasNews.com, the company EVP Cody Rhodes talked about a number of things and he also explained why they aren’t doing Live Events.
The American Nightmare explained that one of the benefits of working for AEW as a competitor is that you are working only one day per week:
“One of the benefits of working for All Elite Wrestling – if you’re a competitor – you’re really only working one day a week. The really die-hard, committed, kind of golden circle of our company is always working, and that includes wrestlers – not just management. Their minds always going. But it’s new to wrestling that Tony’s offered this schedule.”
Cody then went on to claim that the Live Event system is antiquated and mentioned how working WWE Live Events was not the same as working big shows and PPVs:
“I think the model of the live-event system, and I’m not trying to knock anybody, is antiquated. The last few years [I was] with WWE, those houses for live events and not TVs were pretty – they were good, they were a couple thousand – but they weren’t the same as the big TV spectacle. It just seems like you’re putting less of an emphasis on your show when you spread yourself out like that.”
