Last thread has well over 10,000 replies. Its body is breaking down like The Undertaker's. Seeing as we might have crossed the threshold into a new era in the business, here's a fresh new thread.
You can have a bunch of worthless stables and not introduce another set of prip belts that no one cares about that takes a majority of your main event talent out of the single and tag team title hunts. [Reply]
I mean, ffs, they current tag team champs are the fucking Gunn brothers. I'm sure they're nice kids and maybe in another couple years they'll be decent, but they're still green as fuck in the ring and show next to no charisma outside of being affiliated with the Acclaimed and Danhausen successfully making Ass Boys a meme. [Reply]
I've watched AEW shows sometimes when I notice they're on and I've got nothing else to do. None of their wrestlers really jump out to me as interesting.
Impact is at least hilarious to watch because the acting is horrible. They've got some guys who are interesting though like Mike Bailey. [Reply]
Peak AEW is the top wrestling content available. It's what makes this current stagnation so fucking frustrating. In already completely apathetic towards WWE. I know what I'm getting and if they pleasantly surprised me so be it. [Reply]
Unfortunately, the creative freedom that makes AEW so good at its peak is also what leads it to the current state of affairs. You're not going to give a bunch of ego driven wrestlers effectively carte blanche to do what they want without heads butting and Khan is just incapable of being the necessary evil to shut that down. So what should've been a tense exchange of words in the office has evolved into giant brawls backstage and legal action. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Unfortunately, the creative freedom that makes AEW so good at its peak is also what leads it to the current state of affairs. You're not going to give a bunch of ego driven wrestlers effectively carte blanche to do what they want without heads butting and Khan is just incapable of being the necessary evil to shut that down. So what should've been a tense exchange of words in the office has evolved into giant brawls backstage and legal action.
AEW is a bunch of vanilla midgets with little charisma.
Their roster is too big. Every segment has like 10 wrestlers just so they can get everyone on TV.
I can't imagine being a kid nowadays and watching AEW and getting hooked on pro wrestling. I got hooked as a kid seeing personalities and costumes like Macho Man, Hogan, Undertaker, Warrior, Sting. Now it's some 5'10 guys you could find at your local gym. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
I've watched AEW shows sometimes when I notice they're on and I've got nothing else to do. None of their wrestlers really jump out to me as interesting.
Impact is at least hilarious to watch because the acting is horrible. They've got some guys who are interesting though like Mike Bailey.
AEW has so many performers they really have zero time to build stories up much and Tony Khan is too busy bumping rails and RL fantasy booking Indy dream matches. [Reply]