AEW: Samoa Joe vs. Chris Jericho Stampede Street Fight Set for 7/10 Dynamite, Jeff Jarrett on AEW’s Current Initiatives to Develop Next Gen Stars, Forbidden Door 2024 PPV Buys

Jul 6, 2024

Samoa Joe vs. Chris Jericho Stampede Street Fight Match Announced for July 10th Dynamite Show

AEW recently announced one new match for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on July 10th at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

This new match announced was a Stampede Street Fight match of Samoa Joe vs. Chris Jericho.

This match was setup following a backstage promo segment involving Joe at Friday’s AEW Rampage show issuing a challenge to Jericho and promising to break, torture, and massacre him the next time they meet again in the ring. Later in the show, this match was confirmed for next week’s Dynamite show.

Who can stop Samoa Joe and his plans for @IAmJericho next week on #AEW Dynamite?

Watch #AEWRampage on TNT!@SamoaJoe pic.twitter.com/7qY235nSjg
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 6, 2024

Current card for July 10th AEW Dynamite show:

2024 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Finals match – Bryan Danielson vs. Hangman Adam Page
2024 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Finals match – Willow Nightingale vs. Mariah May
Stampede Street Fight match – Samoa Joe vs. Chris Jericho
Swerve Strickland returns

Jeff Jarrett Comments on Initiatives AEW Have in Place to Develop Next Generation Stars

A recent episode of the Battleground Podcast featured Jeff Jarrett as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Jarrett’s thoughts about the programs and initiatives AEW currently has in place to develop their next generation of stars for the company.

“You know, when you think about that, you’re talking about the evolution of developing talent. Well, the business continues to evolve. You see our guys, not that Jon Moxley needs reps, but he just went to Japan. You see us working with CMLL. I’m currently going down to AAA in Mexico. Like I just said, the relationships with New Japan Wrestling. Our talent are exposed, the Ring of Honor brand. To take it a step further down from that is the different independents. There’s an independent promotion in Cleveland that I’m currently working with. Guys have their opportunities. When you mirror it, because I think we’ve come from an era of I’ll call it late 90s that when there was really too big and how the business was, you either work for one or the other. Those days are truly in the rearview mirror. So now you kind of look at the opportunities and you kind of look at the music business. It used to be, you know, three, four, maybe five labels in the music industry ran not just Nashville, but New York and L.A. You were on one of the big three, one of the big five. That’s how you got your music break. Those days are gone. So all forms of entertainment, whether it’s music, whether it’s truly comedy, wrestling, it doesn’t really matter. Again, it goes back to what we carry around in our pockets. With the different apps, you can expose yourself to your audience in a major, major way. I think that’s what talent have to have the mindset. I think it all starts doing the ears with talent on how do they want to become successful? emotionally engage with your audience. It drills where I say that often on my podcast, how does the talent grow their fan base? It’s all through emotional connection.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Early Estimates for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024 PPV Buys

AEW reportedly is currently estimated to have generated around 110,000 to 116,000 pay-per-view buys for this past Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024 event in Long Island, New York, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that due to the July 4th holiday week, sales data tracking reports from cable PPV providers for AEW’s Forbidden Door 2024 event is currently expected to be released slower than usual.

Meltzer reported that based on currently known data, Forbidden Door 2024’s cable television buys are currently down 17.1% compared to this past May’s Double or Nothing 2024 based on the same number of days after the event. Meltzer reported that streaming numbers for Forbidden Door 2024 are currently around the same as this past April’s Dynasty event.

Meltzer also reported that one major factor for the current low estimates numbers is due to NJPW not being as strong of a company and the card lineup for this year’s event was not as strong as past Forbidden Door events for the Japanese market.