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There is a wrestler within AEW who is not all he is cracked up to be, and who is following a formula that, despite giving him exposure, shows just how one-dimensional he can be.
Wrestling has a long history. In that history, the era that stands out most in the collective unconscious is the 90's, the golden age of wrestling. In the 90's they tried to implement a formula to give "realism" to the product, and that was the infamous "worked shoot".
Thus, in the 3 biggest companies we had stories with tinges of reality, morally questionable plots and even real problems among the wrestlers behind the curtain. It was the era of show business, a product of its time and pushed by the peak of trash television.
American society was in a constant state of protest, and anti-corporate sentiment was at its peak, driven by what was being consumed at the time. "Anything goes" was the rule of a market that sought to break them. Then, the 90s ended.
With the new millennium in front of us, the imperative need for wrestling to evolve in its presentation was felt. We needed new faces, new wrestlers and new ways to provoke emotions in the crowd. The "worked shoot" was no longer working.
As technology advanced, the internet became a global tool and wrestling fans started to see what was going on behind the scenes (Yes, kayfabe was dead before the 2000s and people knew who was going "over" and who wasn't).
The "worked shoot" was still in the DNA of wrestling as a way to get the attention of the fans, but little by little, the format was evolving and giving us things quite original for the time, like CM Punk calling Raven a drunk and basing their rivalry on that concept.
With the evolution of the "worked shoot" came the renaissance of the "kayfabe". In the late 2000s, the new kayfabe was breaking kayfabe, and the stories began to take on a more serious and even mature tone. There was an intention for wrestling to give us quality stuff
