Select Answers: AEW Mondays?, HBO PPV, Match Types

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.

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Hi Sean, do think there will be any movement/action soon with AEW PPVs on HBO Max now that ESPN/WWE announced their deal?

I would expect some sort of "progress update" in the coming months. They still needed to build the infrastructure for that. With it taking as long as it has, I'm surprised that they even announced it with the rest of the deal, because even then I never heard of a target date. I would expect some news by the end of the year. Hopefully in the next few months. I expect the cost of PPVs will be the same, just with MAX cost deducted.

With WWEs lower than anticipated ratings for RAW, would there be any benefit for AEW to test running Collision on Monday night and try to capture those lapsed cable viewers? I can’t imagine the ratings for Collision being any lower than those on Saturday so might be worth a try.

To be clear first off, I don't know how much I rely on the presented metrics for WWE Raw, and nobody at Netflix has had anything bad to say about it. I would find it very unlikely that AEW tries Monday nights. We've witnessed TNA try that with a lot of household names and they got absolutely crushed. I would like to think AEW learns from history.

You can learn more about that here.

Is there some internal reason that similar style match types have different names and why they are used when they are, for example: Street Fight, No DQ, No Holds Barred and Extreme Rules are all pretty much the same match, I only ask as Becky and Lyra had a no DQ felt more like a Street Fight and Cody and Cena seemed more like a no DQ

They just use whatever they think will be best for whatever the story is. There's no difference in a street fight, No DQ, or Extreme Rules. No Holds Barred is supposed to be one where all moves are legal, not necessarily weapons. That's rarely the case.

In WWE it used to be more straightforward where Hardcore matches were anything goes, falls count anywhere.