All Elite Wrestling and Amazon’s Prime Video at this time 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 night time.
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, in the event you have been questioning.) This merely simply offers followers one other avenue for the place to observe.
AEW has to this point shunned permitting any streamer to supply its dwell, 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’ll be able to watch premium dwell occasions like WrestleMania as they occur at no further price. WWE additionally introduced its flagship weekly program, Uncooked, to Netflix in January with a lot fanfare after the present spent many years as a staple of cable TV.
In contrast, AEW has streamed its pay-per-views by way of 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 very fact is handy, however if you wish to catch AEW’s largest reveals dwell, you’ve nonetheless received to pay for each — no less than for now.
