>>16760007Okay; now explain to me why wrestling isn't as popular as it was when it, you know, focused more on telling stories in a match-related context. You know, pre-match, match, and post match.
Wrestling *should* tell stories. But AEW's problem isn't that it's too match-focused -- it's that it tells shitty stories that don't get anyone over. It's not the format, it's literally the booking.
Having 7 or 8 really short matches is a lot better than 4 or 5 drawn out boring ones. They don't need to be PPV quality. But at the end of the day what people really want to see is people pretending to fight, not people talking.
The talking only works as a pretext to the fighting. And slowdripping a bunch of talking over several months to reach a match gets really dull for most people when you could have had some simple in-ring beatdowns during that time instead.
