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Select Answers: AEW-WBD Deal, PPVs, Max

Added 2024-10-09 17:00:09 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

I have not heard much conversation about the AEW PPV library specifically. Will this be on Max?

I asked about this and got some clarification from WBD, because Kathleen Finch had mentioned the library to Sports Business Journal. It wasn't included in the press release materials, or to Variety when breaking the story. A WBD rep said that Dynamite, Collision, and Rampage libraries would be on Max. Nothing else was expanded upon.

Will AEW fans on the west coast be able to Stream Dynamite live on Max?

The implication I was given is that the west coast will have live streaming capabilities on Max. The live streaming element renders viewership numbers effectively pointless, but also is a much more convenient situation for people outside of the east coast.

Love to you and your family in this awful year, SRS. I am wondering, as someone for whom Bleacher Report worked well for AEW PPVs, why not keep BR as a PPV option until the PPVs became available to buy on Max next year?

The only real information I got about BR was that the service was not being "sunsetted" as originally mentioned by Tony Khan, and that WBD said he misspoke, and the service will continue. However, PPV shows will not be on there. I'm not sure why they aren't continuing until the Max deal, but I know WBD wanted to put heavy effort into converting subscriptions for MAX, and had told me that almost every deal they make now is with MAX in mind.