>>12732731They repeated literally every mistake that turned TNA from a challenger brand to a distant secondary promotion. In record time I might add. At least TNA waited until Year 4-5 before they got mass Exfed guys in. Tony had them in from year 2 onwards.
The biggest fuck up, to me at least, is getting all the backstage guys that WWE cast off. They've got Kevin Dunn's protégé running production and now it looks like Diet Coke SDL. They got Jimmy Jacobs writing convoluted angles like RAW from 2015-2019. They got Scotty 2 Hotty producing matches like it's Raw from 2010-2016. Most importantly they abandoned nearly every unique selling point that made them interesting in 2020-2021. Hiring Edge was a maddening decision for anyone that wanted AEW to differentiate itself from WWE.