>>13051289>And what happens to the guys who lose too much in those sports? They stop getting booked.No, they don't. Ngannou just got a Fury fight despite having zero record in boxing, then got the Joshua fight despite coming off a loss. Conor got multiple title or contender matches coming from losses. Stipe has the Jones fight despite coming off a loss. Colby got a title shot despite his only win being a gatekeeper in Masvidal, despite also coming off two losses in title matches prior to that and sitting out for a year. I can go on and on all day, the fact of the matter is both the UFC and boxing are rigged as fuck. Rankings matter but not so much as how much money can a potential fight draw. And that's all it's asked of AEW - the top wrestlers should compete with each other, it doesn't necessarily have to be the number 2 challenger against the champ. Rankings give the basic gist of that.
>And they only fight three or four times a year so that win loss rate actually means something while in AEW there are guys who wrestle two or three times a week so will quickly rack up ridiculously large win loss numbers that dwarf the ones in boxing and mmaAEW's rankings were resetted every year. Not to mention that the actual Dynamite wrestle rarely wrestled, they were a PPV attraction. At its peak in ratings Kenny never really did wrestle that much in Dynamite. He had his promos, segments and other stuff, but very rarely if ever he did 1on1 matches. That's because these shows can be easily filled with segments that advance the story to the PPV. You can also use tag matches so you can always fill up the time.
I remember in WCW and WWE - back in the day wrestling was at its best when the top attractions, Hulk, Shawn, Bret, Sting, etc only wrestled on PPVs. Fuck sake, Sting didn't even have a match in 1997 until Starrcade and he was by far the most over guy of that year.
