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Originally Posted by XL
Then I realised that’s also not quite a 1:1 analogy.
AEW would be the equivalent of a new soap opera launching but with a bunch of already established characters from EastEnders and Coronation Street amongst its cast. Which would probably draw pretty huge if suddenly Gail Platt and Kat Slater were calling each other SLLLLAAAAAAGGGGGG in the middle of the street.
So, I guess this leads me to conclude that AEW is shit, and nobody should get any enjoyment from it.
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I don’t know who those EastEnders characters are, but that’s basically what you have going on. They’re not brand new. They’re building off an existing wrestling climate and have access to top names and a national platform. They just haven’t captured imaginations because they suck.
And look — I’m all for people enjoying what they want. But the idea that AEW is
helping things is a myth. Interest in wrestling continues to hit all-time lows. They’ve soaked up talent so groups like ROH and Impact Wrestling have suffered. WWE is under no threat so they can deliberately be more like the WWE they want to be, which is apparently the big no-no AEW is supposed to be fighting against.
My argument from the start is that AEW is bad for wrestling. Especially long-term. A lot of people take issue with that because they think short-term and just see a bunch of people getting a lot of money and another show and think it’s great. Since AEW has come along, we’ve also seen NXT boosted to cable television, so we’ve now got an extra
five hours of wrestling a week. Eight when AEW runs a PPV.
It’s too much bad wrestling poisoning the well. My only hope is that people become even more nostalgic for good shit through social media, YouTube, streaming services and it just being so far removed that it can make a glorious comeback in a few years time (we could be talking decades though).