>>12007074At the start, he was a very enthusiastic mark who did the best he could with the shitters he had. COVID, basically took over their entire first full year as a company so he couldn't actually see what worked and what didn't. I liked when he removed Brandi and Kenny from the Women's Division and just booked pointless PAWG matches instead of the dumb shit they were doing. I think his fault was that he was a bit too much of a fan to stop some of the dumber ideas (Which mainly came from his own EVPS) but overall, he wasn't bad and this led to huge signings like Phil and Bryan. Rampage gets added, and at least for the start is a show to get some other guys on.
His huge mistakes start here. He signed the two biggest guys he can potentially get and fill an alternative void... but he did nothing. He signed Punk with no hot feud for him. He signed Danielson and had him face Kenny once and then never again. Then a couple of months later, Danielson is losing to guys like Garcia which killed his credibility. I don't care if that was their idea, he should've nipped that in the bud and had something... ANYTHING for them coming in. So after a honeymoon period of arenas, it fell flat because... he fucking had nothing for them. It was just, "Oh, here's CM Punk vs Will Hobbs and then cutting a happy to be here promo." While he did eventually give him a program with Kingston and MJF later, with the latter being effective, the damage was kind of done. Tony just kept signing people for no rhyme or reason and then shuffling them for someone else he signed.
He already signed the two biggest guys he could get, this was the moment to pull the trigger, but it's almost like he said, "Nah, we just need Keith Lee, Swerve, Yuta..."
