>>14566188I appreciate your levelheadedness, but we are going to continue to differ on this because we have a scaling issue.
Shohei Ohtani could have made more money staying in Japan - from 2018 to 2020 he made less than $2,000,000 (!!!) because of how MLB contracts work. But he chose to become a free agent, he chose to come to America and enter the MLB system, and his reward after multiple years of frankly HOF-level play was the richest contract in baseball history.
Am I saying Giulia is the Shohei Ohtani of wrestling, no I'm not. But there is a much bigger upside in WWE compared to AEW, even if the up-front guarantee may be lower. AEW has a track record of paying high prices for free agent but what they don't have is a track record of creating superstars that other promotions are tripping over their dicks to sign in free agency.
Who is the biggest AEW free agent that didn't have a decade plus history in WWE? Jade Cargill? Andrade? The names aren't there. What did several years in AEW do for Sonny Kiss, Matt Hardy, Kazarian, Ethan Page? Nothing. Most of the names are worth far more to AEW than they are to any other promotion while most of AEW's marquee signings wouldn't be making anywhere near as much money without their WWE runs, with Okada and Ospreay being notable (and recent) exceptions. But I digress.
WWE has a much higher ceiling and only a marginally lower floor than AEW. Their social media gets 5-10x more views, documentaries, world tours, celebrity appearances, all of the above. And if it doesn't work out, she can still waltz right into AEW and be a "coup" and a gamechanger, while the reverse (signing with AEW, defecting to WWE for big money) is infinitely less likely.
