— AEW recently Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service – Max – to their arsenal of ways their fans can watch content and veteran wrestler Chris Jericho thinks it’s a critical step for the company to continue to evolve. Speaking to SI’s The Takedown, Jericho had the following to say about having AEW shows on Max:

“Well, it’s kind of the way, the way of the future. I think cable television as a whole will pretty much go away at some point, because there is so much emphasis on streaming. Just the quality of the picture, the fact you can watch it whenever you want to. All of those things are such a positive. So even though we have such a great relationship with with with Warner Brothers and TNT and TBS, I think it’s very important that we were able to move on to Max.”

— Jericho also spoke of the importance of AEW signing new TV deals with WBD to air Dynamite and Collision on their properties:

The whole business is based on television revenue nowadays. Before it was pay per view and it was live attendance, and it was all that sort of thing, and now it solely rests on the television deal you can get. We’ve had ups and downs as far as ratings and demos go, but we still always do really, really well on cable. If we’re not number one or two, we’re in the top five, and at the very least the top 10, and that’s out of 1000s of shows.”

“So, it’s a very valuable property and I think we all knew that within AEW and anybody Tony surrounds himself with, but there’s a lot of pundits and critics that still to this day don’t see how valuable AEW is and how much it’s growing. The television deal is $185 million a year. I mean, that’s next level. That’s pretty much four times that we were getting. So, I think that there was a sigh of relief, not that we didn’t know we could get it, but just now that it’s locked in, now we can get to work and really concentrate on the things that we need to concentrate on, both to continue upward ascension in some areas and to improve in others.”