>>13365063I dont watch any wrestling every week, havent watched WWE weekly since around 2005 save a brief run in 2008.
I find WWE more tolerable because of this. I dont feel like I have to watch every show every week. I dont feel like I have to read the dirtsheets, watch the Youtube, watch every fucking second of programming, because they actually communicate stories quickly and recap things. AEW has, from day 1, had a "GOOGLE IT KEEP UP YOU FUCKING IDIOT" mentality, the commentary don't help, Excalibur just talks over everybody at top speed prattling about fucking nothing and pronouncing foreign-named moves wrong while thinking hes doing it right, and snarking at anyone who gets sick of his shit. He cannot communicate any stories, he's stuck in his ironic self indulgent 2000s PWG mentality- it was funny for a small scale indy that ran monthly supershow formats, it's terrible for weekly TV.
AEW don't even have much storytelling, yet format and communicate their shows in a way that still makes you feel lost if you miss a couple weeks, because they don't communicate anything and people can go missing randomly.
WWE is corporatised trash, but I can tune in to a WWE PPV having watched nothing since the last one and be fine because they do a much better job with hype vids, commentary, and promo segments, of telling you what the fuck is going on.
I'm not a hardcore anymore, I have too much shit to do. I'm a lapsed fan who loves wrestling, hates most modern offerings, but has neither the time or inclination to devote 6-8 hours a week to watching bad wrestling to keep up properly.
