>>14848811More or less. No one operates on WWE's level. New Japan tried to start doing so but that was actually killed at Tony's hand when he hired up the guys they were planning on making the centerpieces of their expansion, not Vince's.
I mean, the failure was more New Japan's fault than AEW's -- maybe they should have paid the guys they were counting on a bit more. And pandemic restrictions kicked the living crap out of the company. Still, none of it was Vince or WWE's doing.
