>>14473766From the start, they debuted within the same week or so that Dynamite debuted and AEW got more interest. Had they debuted a few months or a year earlier, they may have been able to take some of that secondary fan market who wasn't happy with WWE.
Firing Cornette was a monumentally stupid move. Cornette is one of biggest names in the internet wrestling world. He could have been their #1 spokesman and gotten the word out to a few hundred thousand people each week about the show. It would have been such a game changer.
The pandemic hit which wasn't their fault. AEW ended up scooping up some of their talent during it, and of course, took no flak for it while the same people ripped WWE for taking UK talents from the indies.
Having Tyrus as champ was a bad move. It might have gotten their name on TV more, but it ran off most smarks.
They added women's wrestling, crossdressers, intergender wrestling and trannies which lost most of the /pw/ fanbase, including myself.
I also think they focused too much on former stars like Aldis, Murdoch, Masters and Knox over new talent.
I watch the show regularly now. While they still push old school stuff, they have midgets wrestling full sized people, intergender wrestling and crossdressers. They don't do studio shows and just use footage from the last event. The problem is that you end up going weeks without seeing various wrestlers and it makes it hard to care about the storylines. They have a lot of solid heavyweight wrestlers which is the big appeal to me and Pretty Empowered are a great faction.
