>>11617846They hitched their wagon to the entirety of non-WWE wrestling, making everything else look like a joke by association. Anything that isn't the WWE house style is now forever tainted and considered a meme. The average fan's conception of lucha in 2023 is green as goose shit, 20 year old Komander botching a rope walk move. Even the idea of having a TV-14 wrestling show in the modern day has been made embarrassing by Moxley swearing and blading on live TV.
AEW fucked literally everything up and may end up being responsible for the death of non-WWE wrestling as they sucked everything but CMLL, which is propped up by the tourism industry, into their gay vortex.