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[QUOTE="Symphony Steve, post: 3019586, member: 911"]
According to Dave Meltzer, it's a real good deal for AEW. They're getting all their production costs paid, which he estimates to be between $20-30 mill a year.  No other wrestling company gets that, including WWE, whose production costs for TV he estimates at about $100 mill a year. Meaning, to get to the real value of the WWE deals, you have to subtract $100 mill in productions costs from the stated value of the contracts.

AEW will also get an ad revenue guarantee, plus a percentage of ad revenues.

Plus, here's something all true wrestling fans should love. From Dave Meltzer:

"The one thing that is for certain is that there will be no scripting of promos and no teleprompter usage for promos. The idea is to avoid the robotic delivered reading or memorizing of lines that many have complained has taken the soul out of wrestling and created a period where the in-ring work in WWE has never been better but the promos have never been worse."
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