>>13550162Not to mention WWE is a pipeline to every other single wrestling fed including AEW. Like it or not it's still the peak of the mountain. Whether you like their style of writing and making shows or matches, any experience and training in WWE and with the people who work there as talent and trainers is highly valuable to the talent and anyone looking to hire ex-WWE talent to enhance their shows. Unless you dumb enough to burn all bridges there, they might even hire you back if they see value and improvement in other places, Bronson Reed for example.
And that's not a total knock on AEW's vets and trainers, sure there's plenty of different views and things to learn from but it is a knock on the structure of AEW in booking and what they offer to talent beyond the intial hyped entrance and few matches before the shuffle starts. Ironically, best place to learn is in the ring but unless you are the bookers flavor of the month or obligatory big name hire, you ain't on the show it seems.
This stems from the Tony's nigh infinite wallet being the problem in that getting the returns for each investment in talent doesn't seem to be a big consideration for him - thus he is less focused on making the talent work for him or get better. Good for those who can lounge on the residuals and guaranteed pays he provides but if AEW would collapse tomorrow, which it probably won't with Shadiqs money, there'd be nothing for the newly unemployed talent to show for their time.
