>>12516487I have started cringing every time I hear the term "great matches". It doesn't mean anything. It's just a weird cope for seeing good talent doing stuff that will lead nowhere. It's like calling something interesting; that doesn't mean anything, it's just a polite way to be nice about something because there's nothing worthwhile to actually say about it because it was just a thing.
The G1, the champions carnival, the Cinderella tournament, even the D-King tournament all have a valuable prize and everyone is involved. All the top stars and all the future prospects. You start positioning young guys as top stars, you set up programmes and it feels important because everyone wants in - from the weird undercard veteran who does wacky shit to the haggard old hosts who barely shows up most of the year to the top main event talent.
This aew tournament is for 3 random belts for no reason, is adding a second geography title for no reason, is set up with tony mumbling about unified titles in a way that made it clear that he doesn't know what unified means. There is no plan here, there's no story. It all feels like it was decided a week beforehand and it's just "great matches" that no one cares about, no one will remember and they don't lead to anything at all. It's just stuff. It's like filler, except aew is just filler so it's not really filler it's just pointless matchups where guys get injured and hurt for the sake of having a completely forgettable match that helped no one and hurt everyone.
