Note On How WBD Viewed AEW Before Skydance Merger

A new report has a bit of context on how Warner Bros. Discovery viewed their deal with AEW before its merger into Skydance. As you know, WBD is now part of the David Ellison-owned Skydance after being acquired by Paramount. Paramount and WBD were merged into the new umbrella company, which is extremely relevant to wrestling fans as WBD is the broadcast partner of AEW.

The latest Fightful Select Answers Q&A had a question about WBD’s thoughts around AEW’s ratings levels, particularly in terms of the amount of competition they’ve been up against. For complete clarity, Sean Ross Sapp noted that they do not know how Skydance feels about the matter as they have not developed contacts at the newly-formed company as of yet.

That said, Sapp said that the Warner Bros. Discovery side was happy with AEW’s ratings numbers as of a couple of months ago and were “touting” them internally. On the AEW side, they are hoping that WBD’s excitement about their numbers carry over to Skydance. However, at this time it is too early to know if that will be the case.

Tony Khan has met with Skydance executives and was reported late last month to have come out of those meetings “extremely happy.”