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AEW 5-ish Year Review: Are We Where We Want to Be?
Following Full Gear this past weekend, it seems AEW is on a significant hot streak in many ways. This is in spite of, while coinciding with a myriad of criticism the brand has received recently. It’s this strange mix of exciting product, and continual calls to review whether the product has been run correctly which has spurred my imagination.
I’ve been thinking a while about, from the perspective of someone who loves the current AEW product, what are things which could improve what we’re watching or be exciting to see on screen. I’ve been waiting for some of the negativity to die down to post though, as I don’t want to be misconstrued in that way.
I’ll be making (I think) 4 posts about what I’ve noticed as a Day 1 AEW watcher, though I’ll be getting the significantly negative points out of the way in this first post as they’re not what I’m significantly interested in talking about.
The posts I’ll make following this will have to do with Alleviating the Friction of Watching the Product, Re-Establishing Brand Identity & Cleaning Presentation, Accolades to Elevate Talent and possibly a fourth post on how these points would work out in the booking of the show.
The overarching theme of my observations will be driven by the fact that AEW has undertaken a massive expansion, and at some point that healthiest thing to do will be to contract a little to provide for product clarity and integrity.
From jump though, it’s worth noting that many of these improvements won’t matter much, or won’t carry the conversation if AEW continues to avoid addressing their Hype Killers. These are the things which rear their head at least every-other week to provide people with ammunition for their bad-faith takes about why the company is bad, or in a couple instances are things which the company deservedly should be called out for.
The Hype Killers:
* The Women’s Division
