A match winner market was published early yesterday evening with A Block winner - Kota Iushi - a 13/20 favourite. His opposition - Jay White - was 11/10.
I also pointed out that there were 'Match Duration' and Wrestling Observer star ratings markets for the bout.
The line for the 'Match Duration' was set at twenty-seven minutes. The oddsmakers had the 'Over' at EVS while the 'Under' was offered as a 7/10 favourite. As noted in the aforementioned post, I took a gamble on the match lasting longer than twenty-seven.
The star rating line was set at 4.75.
Even though I missed the NJPW markets being taken down, I did find new All Elite Wrestling markets.
The bookmaker has released a match winner market for the Cody .vs. Shawn Spears match that will take place at AEW All Out. As of this morning, both wrestlers are at 17/20.
An Observer star ratings market is also available. The line is 3.75.
Those aren't the only new AEW markets. There is a special that's specific to the AEW TV show debut on TNT.
Customers can bet how many average viewers the debut episode gets on October 2nd. As you'll see in the image below, there are three options - 'Under 0.75 Milion', '0.75 - 1.49 Million' and '1.5 Million Or More'.
I have an opinion about the AEW TV number that should point me to betting on the 'Under'. I don't even know if I want to bet against the company, but I feel there's something glaring that I am aware of that makes me believe - or rather, have an uneducated guess - the debut episode will not go beyond 750,000.
And I'm not even referring to NXT possibly being on FOX Sports to siphon off some of the audience.
Take a look at AEW's social media numbers. It does not paint a pretty picture in my eyes.
The Young Bucks' YouTube followers for the Being The Elite Show have 393,193 followers and 330K on Twitter as of this morning, the AEW YouTube channel has 364, 931 and Twitter followers are at 367K .
You would call a portion of those numbers 'hardcore', but then you have to take a portion away as there's bound to be a percentage that lives outside of the US, so would not be able to watch the show on TNT.
It's important to note that AEW has built its ticket and PPV business from social media, so I personally think that the social media numbers are important here even though, like I said, this is all guesswork on my part.
750,000 seems high, but do I bet against AEW??
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