All Elite Wrestling and Amazon’s Prime Video as we speak introduced a multi-year deal that may see the streaming service carry AEW’s pay-per-view occasions within the US, Canada, and the UK. Their partnership will begin this coming weekend with AEW Revolution, which airs Sunday evening.
Not like Thursday Night time Soccer and different sports activities content material that comes included with a Prime subscription, you’ll nonetheless very a lot must pay for every particular person AEW occasion. (Revolution prices $49.99, should you have been questioning.) This merely simply offers followers one other avenue for the place to look at.
AEW has thus far shunned permitting any streamer to supply its stay, marquee occasions as a part of a base month-to-month subscription. That differs considerably from WWE’s technique, the place as long as you’ve received any tier of Peacock, you possibly can watch premium stay occasions like WrestleMania as they occur at no additional price. WWE additionally introduced its flagship weekly program, Uncooked, to Netflix in January with a lot fanfare after the present spent a long time as a staple of cable TV.
In contrast, AEW has streamed its pay-per-views via a hodgepodge of providers together with Bleacher Report, TrillerTV, YouTube, and now Prime Video along with conventional cable and satellite tv for pc suppliers. Having all of them on Max after the actual fact is handy, however if you wish to catch AEW’s greatest exhibits stay, you’ve nonetheless received to pay for each — at the least for now.